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24.06.2003 FundRaiser & Update Intensity Dance is excited to announce "You Go Girl", a kitchen party of Halifaxs sassiest queer talent set to take place on Wednesday, July 16 (8pm) at Cest Si Bon (1717 Barrington St., Halifax) as part of Halifaxs 2003 Pride Week celebration. $5 cover at the door. This event is a fundraiser for Manna For Health, a local charitable organization that works tirelessly to provide food for men, women and children facing serious illness and poverty.
Its going to be a great show! With dance, musical, spoken word and drag performances by such talented local queer artists as dancer/vocalist Leanne Bourgeois, Intensity Dances Artistic Director Ryan Stevens, Mz. NRG 2002 Shania, the shows host Boom Boom Lubalicious, Richard Jessome, Jess Abramson, Natassha N and many more.
I have updated the places page for SPY NightClub and Lounge.
05.06.2003 PRIDE & TATTOOS Well summer is almost upon us and all over the world Pride will be celebrated in a million different ways. I encourage all who haven't been to a parade or movie night or even dance to attend! It is amazing to be in the company of 100-10,000 queer/bi/lesbian/gay/trannie folx. It is empowering and enriching. Halifax residents visit halifaxpride.org
HEY I have added THREE more tattoos to the gallery! I have also awarded another kewl site (never never land) see awards 2003 More on the way Weee!!
14.05.2003 New Rant below! With a quote from Soulforce
I am very pleased to give broken-purple-crayon a funsite award! Please check out the link to snak's site in the winners column! Which reminds me...
11.05.2003 Get out and ride yur bike!
Hey its spring, its muddy time to get down and dirty with nature and your bike. Dont ferget the tuneup and preflight check! New tattoo added to gallery, tX carrie!!
03.04.2003 APRIL 9 DAY of SILENCE
next Wednesday,April 9th 2003. will be the National Day of Silence. Its a protest where u don't not say anything for the silence
that has to be faced by Lesbians, Gay, Biesexual,and
also Transgender people and our Allies. Its a deliberate silence that echoes the silence which is caused by harassment, prejudice and discrimination. So join in the day of silence whydoncha? TX rainbowgirl for the info/update!
23.02.2003!! Big Honkin' update ya! Hey due to a server comprimise I have been unable to update DGC for like 2 months. talk about withdrawl!! TX to all for submissions in the meantime! I have added *5* tattoos and *2* peircings to the gallery lickity split. Look for design changes and url updates.. the url for DGC will be changing!!...CHEERS!!
07.12.2002 More techy bike stuff I have included the story of my recent mtb repair... why dont my gears switch right? What I learnt from it, how I see the world.. a wee slice of me. Read Me .
27.11.2002 tattooos Big TX to Martina, Leslie and Traci for submitting *6* tattoos and piercings to the gallery! Send yurs in, show it off to the world!
I have updated the Halifax Bathroom Project to include a link to www.vday.org
19.11.2002 How will you be observing? Tomorrow is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. This year's observance on November 20 will be held in more than seventy locations in U.S., Canada, the U.K., Chile, Argentina, Spain, Italy and France.
03.11.2002 I added a bunch of Q & A. Feel free to copy the questions and pester your friends with them!
A New site has been awarded by DGC! Pls check out Leslie & Martina's page in the awards area.
20.10.2002 Equal Marriage Advocacy Tour in Atlantic Provinces I was invited to participate in a link exchange with Equal marriage for Same-sex couples. TX Kevin! So in the spirit of equality, solidarity and community building. Check out their site (external link)...cheers DG
22.09.2002 Are you a gal looking to meet new friends to hang-out with? Check out DGC Highly Advised! The Out And About Womyn (OAAW) could be just the social group for you!
If your into queer history why not read about the stonewall riots? Article from 1969. Know your roots eh :)
DG's Rant
.:: Spiritual Thoughts & Soulforce ::.
I was surfing around DGC checking out links and seeing who had updated what on their sites... when I stumbled onto something quite unique. I was reading on the samesexmarriage.ca page about another site called soulforce. So naturally I clicked over to get the details firsthand. (which I encourage you to do too)
I will preface this with the fact that I am not a christian. Nor would I impose my faith or beliefs upon others. I believe faith is a highly personal matter. I am spiritual and do alot of reading and chatting on the different spiritual paths. I do not believe in God. I do not claim to be an expert or anything I just enjoy learning more. My personal beliefs fall in line with Zen. (which is not a spirituality, faith or religion and can be practiced by anyone in any religion)
I encourage you to take a look at the soulforce site and its message. For it is that message of understanding and peaceful resistance that I really related too. I think that people who do practice their faith regularly as well as those who dont, will find something kewl about soulforce as well. If you are of a political activist bent, you may already have heard about them. Either way I have been granted permission to quote from the soulforce site, I hope you find it as interesting and thought provoking as I did.
Cheers- DG
"Seeing Ourselves in a Whole New Way
With all the gains we have made in thirty years of activism since Stonewall, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered Americans are still second-class-citizens in our own country:
- denied the right to live and love openly by the sodomy laws
- denied the estimated 1,047 rights and protections that go with marriage
- denied the right to serve proudly in the military without fear and harassment
- denied the right (in most states) to nondiscrimination in employment and housing
- denied the right (our adversary's current goal) to adopt or provide foster care for children, even to retain custody of our own birth children
- denied the right (in most churches) to full membership, ordination or marriage
- denied the right to be a boy scout or a boy scout leader
- denied the right to be included in national hate crime legislation, even though we are among the primary victims of a still-growing siege of violence across the nation.
As a result, we are ten times more likely to suffer from alcohol and/or drug addiction.
Our young people are seven times more likely than their peers to commit or attempt suicide.
And the 50,000 letters we've received from people who have read my autobiography, Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian In America, indicate that most of our sisters and brothers still live in closets of loneliness, self-hatred, guilt, and fear.
We are grateful for the progress we have made and deeply indebted to those who have led the way. But we still have a long road to travel.
Step 1 on the journey to soulforce begins when we experience the suffering but refuse to let it cripple our soul.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people often believe the untruth that they are inferior, sick and sinful, unloved by God. Real freedom begins not in the courts or the Congress. Real freedom begins in your head when you believe the truth about yourself. For many of us it means seeing ourselves in a whole new way.
Let these six Soulforce truths help set you free
Six Soulforce Beliefs About Myself
- I am a child of a loving Creator, a daughter or a son of the Soulforce at the center of the universe.*
- I am loved by my Creator exactly as I am. My sexual orientation is not a sickness to be healed nor a sin to be forgiven. My sexual orientation is a gift from my Creator to be accepted, celebrated, and lived with integrity.**
- I am not an accident. I have a purpose. I was shaped by my Creator to love God and to assist in God's eternal struggle to win justice for all Her children who suffer injustice.
- I will not discover my purpose nor realize my power (my own soulforce) until I join my Creator in doing justice (making things fair for all.)
- When I join my Creator in doing justice, my own life will be renewed, empowered, and made more meaningful.
- In serving others, it is as much my moral obligation to refuse to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good.
Can you affirm this Soulforce?"
My last rant was on propaganda and from before opperation iraqui freedom
The rant before that was on cycling...
