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move to support a constitutional 8f 1:9?th before the Supreme
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rights had ever been advocated cases, one Of them "”0ng Cali-
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a simple mention. He equated gay care e a 0 measure unconsti-
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CONTENTS Page Two
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INSIDE THIS EDITION COMMUNITY CALENDAR
GSA Meeting
Every Tuesday, 7 pm.
Love is in Pride Center
The Air 5
Trans Kentucky
Meeting
Saturday, Feb 2, 6:30 pm.
Pride Center
- GLSO Board Meeting
Enigma: Speak Thursday, Feb 7, 6:30 pm.
u 6 Pride Center
Lexington Gay Geeks Club
Friday, Feb 8, 6:30 pm.
North American KY Bourbon Bears Meeting
Bear Weekend Saturday, Feb 9, 9 pm.
Crossings
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Imperial Court of Kentucky Meeting
Sunday, Feb 10 & 24, 6 pm.
Pride Center
GLSO_ _
Classmeds Pride Festival Planning Meeting
8 Thursday, Feb 28, 7 pm.
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EDITOR GLSO EXECUTIVE
Don Lowe COMMITTEE
The thin-$30 Ndews ti: [published Paul Brown, President
mon y y a'.‘ or .e exmg 0.“ Ginger Moore-Minder, Vice Presi-
Gay and Lesbian Serwces Organi- dent
zation members and community. Karen Taylor, Secretary
The mission of the Lexington Gay Tommy Brodbeck, Treasurer
and Lesbian Services Organization
is to provide support and services GLSO DIRECTORS
to the GLBTQQIA community.

Paul Holland, At Large

The vision of the Lexington Gay
and Lesbian Services Organiza- Don LOWE, At Large
tion is to empower the GLBTQQIA
community through voice. Iggie Pargen, At Large
The Lexington GLSO is founded Cindy Sommer, At Large
upon the core values of fun, in-
clusion, respect, integrity, dignity,
service and competence.
GLSO Pride Center Chad Hundley, Office Manager
389 Waller Avenue ,
Suite 100 Pride Center Hours
Lexington, Ky. 40504 Call Ahead for Appointment
859.253.3233 and Office Hours.
www.g|so.org

"Views expressed in this newsletter are solely those of the contributor and

do not necessarily reflect the views of the GLSO."

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 LOVE IS IN THE promise to never let our Love
AIR“" of this “FAMILY” waiver. We
By Trifiity are committed to doing this
I Contributor out of LOVE for our Commu-
nity, OUR FAMILY. While on
the subject of Love!!!!!Join
I us on February 6th, at Cross-
ings Lexington, at 9:30pm for
the ICK’s annual Gay Valen-
tines Pageant. This year for
a “TWIST” (I had throw in
- at least one!!!) we have add-
ed the Mr. portion.So we will
Crown a new Miss Gay Valen-
tine and Medal our lst Mr Gay
Valentine!!
We will also be hosting the
It takes a special kind of LOVE annual Mardi Gras _Ba|l,_ held
to dedicate yourselves to do- thlS year at Pulse nightlife on
ing charity work. It means Fat_ Tuesday,_ February 12th-
sacrificing tons of personal This event Will feature a spe—
time and countless hours Clal opening production cho-
away from home and loved reographed by HMIH ICP _31
ones.Daryl &I Love this Com- Stephanie \(elour, along With
munity, & we along with the other speCIal performances
member of our Male and Fe- and guests. And you know
male Lines are working very there’s sure to be a few other
hard to provide you with the TWISTS as well.
best show, events, and enter- _
tainment, whilestill working And on Valentines EVE, YOU
toward the main goal of help- can catch Emperor 28 Clay-
ing our Community. ton Burchell and Emperor
30 Fred Worsham as they
Your Love and support is what host: _ Single and Bitter also at
makes the honor of being a CrOSSIth LeXlngfcon. _This is
Monarch worth all the sacrific— a speCIal night With a little bit
es. In our hearts we as a com— 0f fun am:1 I guess a whole lOt
munity know that we must lst of_ cocktails I’m sure as they
help ourselves before we can drink away the fact they are
ask others to help us.Pulling Single and Bitter.
together, raising money for _ _
the ones in our Community As always, anyone that is in-
that are in need, & joining terested in becoming a mem-
1 together as one “FAMILY” is ber of the ICK, or may have
what the Imperial Court of questions, feel free to contact
Kentucky is all about. either Daryl or myself, or any
member of our Board of Di—
I As our Reign continues, we FECtOI’S.
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tengreing partnerships With tRe
' ait community to navigate t e
By ggtygfigf n, at—times rough waters that sepa-
rate us.
That’s all that was needed for the , _
first Project Speak Out training to A-nd wte ll.dde\t/_e lop new metcha
run out of available thirty spots. $53150 gronfilotgyfa‘ifgeépri): £1.
We knew that Central Kentucky is tucky 1
eagelr to support full fairness and '
equa ity for the LGBT community, Our leadership team _ me as ’5
bUt '" four days? chairprerson, Belindad Tarpley as l
, . . Vice-c airperson An rew Tan as
Eggfgiog hungeia fogrggggissdgj secretary, and jonathon Barker
pends on organizations creating as teeasurter _t and 98-" Boarr‘d, are
opportunities for our friends and em e a ou prow mg C ances
f 'l to ste u and work for it to Central Kentuckians to create a
am y p p ' more fair state.
Of course, for one dominant rea- _
son, it’s relatively easy to ri;ise Lex- North American
ington Fairness as a ve ice or
fihis Pgbilizattion.hCraig Cammaclé Bear weakend
as e us or t ree years an .
we’ve seen incredible accom’plish- geciggvposigiggaaowgegfiyaeveznzt
merits. Beyond establishing Proj— to the 24% 2013 We wliJllryhave
ect Speak OUt' he’s Strengthened a fundraiser, durin' the event to
Lexington Fairness’s financial foot— raise mone for ”9e NOH8 Cam-
ing, and developed a message of . _ ty d t f _
community that’s had currency paign a s|rong a voca e or mar
with public, private and religious riage equaity.
institutions m Kentucky. Each regi'fieredhguest‘will|r%ceive
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In 2013, LeXington Fairness plans an even . . _
to build upon the foundation that event btoolélet centa|initr)ig _adver
Craig has laid. We plan to hold Isejmen 5 romf OCtah usm‘essejs
more Project Speak Out trainings $3 csaBionSgrrsr’io or d tenwete en '
in Central Kentucky, and to receive mrgiabeaie om re e a s a WWW'
accreditation of the program for 'C '
educators’ continuing education
liabilities.
We are also formulating methods
to evaluate and improve the ef- :‘
fectiveness of our programming. 1
What’s the point of doing some- ~
thing if it’s not done well? I the GLSO i
We'll host our Fairness Awards
dinner on June 21 at the Down-
town Hilton — where we’ll take a
moment to thank our community's
leaders and allies, and reflect on
Lexington’s progress for fairness
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