Gay In Augusta

The Unitarian Universalist Church has long been an LGBT ally, but this Sunday a local church is leaving no doubt that there are indeed allies in the CSRA. On Sunday, October 11th (National Coming Out Day), the Unitarian Universalist Church of Augusta will focus their church service on the importance of this day.

“Come Out, Come Out Whoever You Are” The Reverend Margaret L. Beard

October 11th is “National Coming Out Day” which is an internationally-observed civil awareness day for coming out and discussion about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues. Find out more about the history of this day, the national and local situation and why “fullness of being” and full equality are religious issues.

Service is at 11:00am

For directions and contact information, visit uuaugusta.org.

I stumbled upon this little gem tonight in the Aiken Standard (link):

This is a TalkBack against the Savannah River Site. Y’all won’t print it, but right as you go into Aiken barricade, there is a big sign Come Celebrate National Gay Pride Day with Us. Is the Savannah River Site taking taxpayers’ money and paying for a gay pride celebration? Gives you a serious case of road rage to go in the barricade to work and this sign glaring you in the face. I challenge you to take a picture of this and put it in the a paper and run a survey and ask the employees that have helped to build this country’s security and defense system about it being a slap in their face. Challenge you, Aiken Standard. We’ll see if you print it.

Help me answer this question…what exactly is a slap in the face? It appears to me to be an example of freedom – in speech and expression. Wasn’t our country’s defense system created to defend this very freedom? Or perhaps our defense system only exists to protect this one dear reader’s freedom of speech and everyone else should just shut up. Yep. I think that’s it.

The next meeting of the Coalition for Augusta Pride will be Thursday, May 21st, 2009 at 7 PM at The Filling Station bar on Gordon Highway. There will be lots of updates at this meeting, so be sure to pass the word on to anyone who may be interested.

Photo courtesy H4NUM4N via Flickr

The Coalition for Augusta Pride will meet at 7 PM at The Filling Station bar on Gordon Highway on Thursday April 2nd. The purpose of this meeting is to begin an organizational process to develop Pride programs in the CSRA, including but not limited to a summer Pride event in Augusta. Please pass on this information to your GLBT and straight ally groups such as GLOBES at SRS, Lambda groups at MCG and Augusta and others in your circle of influence. We look forward to seeing you there!

Coalition for Augusta Pride

Photo courtesy Philippe Leroyer via Flickr