Dear Safe Schools Coalition Members and Friends:

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(1) Voice Up Voice Out: Queer homeless youth tell us how we can be allies (June 1st, Seattle, WA)

(2) OutSpoken LGBT Youth Speakers Bureau Panelist Training (June 4th, Seattle, WA)

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(1) Voice Up Voice Out: Queer homeless youth tell us how we can be allies (June 1st, Seattle, WA)

You can make a difference! Join us on June 1^st Allyship is holding its 4^th Annual Queerly Classed discussion series at Lifelong AIDS Alliance (Annex Room, 1002 E. Seneca) from 6:30pm to 8:30pm. This first discussion is called Voice Up Voice Out: Queer homeless youth tell us how we can be allies.

Speakers include:

Selam Gebrekidan - a LGBTQ youth leader and current resident at Youthcare.

Erica Olsen - a LGBTQ youth leader and former resident at Youthcare.

Fatima Arain -- a radical queer Pakistani femme youth worker that spends her days at Peace for the Streets by Kids from the Streets, a homeless youth agency in Capitol Hill.

Kyle Rapinan - a LGBTQ youth leader, a previous co-chair of the international Safe Schools Coalition, current Commissioner of Seattle's LGBT Commission, UW Q Center trainer, trainer with the NW Network: Seattle Queer Youth Speakers Bureau and formerly homeless youth.

Eileen Corcoran - a formerly homeless, addict and street prostitute who currently is the founder of Rising Above Sexual Exploitation (RASE), a street based outreach and advocacy program that works with homeless youth at risk for sexual exploitation.

Artists include:

Knowmad --  a writer, dancer, creationist, first-generation gender-bender and community nerd. She uses words to make other worlds possible. Knowmad joins us from Powerful Voices.

Effie Stansbery - a spoken word artist and board of Bent Writing Institute. She generally spends her time touching trees, straddling the dorky-hipster line, and confusing children's schemas of gender.  Any conversation regarding social justice, bunnies, the heartbeat of nature, or resource equity is sure to excite me. 

Please join us on June 1st for Voice Up Voice Out, from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm at Lifelong AIDS Alliance, Annex room (1002 E. Seneca).

In solidarity,

Debbie Carlsen

Founder and Board Member

Allyship

PS. If you belong to an organization that cares about ending homelessness, economic justice, immigrant rights and health care please consider sponsoring the 4^th Annual Queerly Classed Discussion Series. Email Debbie at allyship@yahoo.com.

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Come to our new Panelist Training where we train and support LGBT youth ages 14-23 to tell their stories and become paid community educators.  Open to youth 14-23 who identify with lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer communities and/or as allies located in Seattle, Belleview, Kirkland, King County and surrounding areas.  No experience necessary. 

When & Where?

This Saturday June 4^th from 12-4 pm at Cal Anderson Shelter House (1635 11th Ave. Seattle, WA 98122) in Capital Hill.  It€™s the little cottage house looking building right in the middle of Cal Anderson Park. 

To register for the new panelist training go to http://outspokenjune2011.eventbrite.com

Questions?  Contact Charlie at 206-568-7777 or charlie@nwnetwork.org

Shannon Perez-Darby

Youth Services Program Manager

The Northwest Network of Bisexual,

Trans, Lesbian & Gay Survivors of Abuse

P.O. Box 18436 Seattle, WA 98118

(206) 568-7777

(206) 325-2601 fax

(206) 517-9670 tty message

www.nwnetwork.org

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