San Jose gay center warns it may have to close
The interim executive director of a gay community center that serves Silicon Valley says the 28-year-old gathering place will have to close its doors unless he can raise $50,000 by September.
Paul Wysocki sent a newsletter to supporters of the Billy DeFrank LGBT Community Center on Tuesday warning that dried up government funding and declining corporate support had created a hole in the center’s $310,000 budget. The center provides HIV testing, support services for youth and seniors, and career and recreational programs.
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TA Gay Pride parade to swing to the sound of the ‘Wedding March’
The 11th annual Tel Aviv Gay Pride parade this summer will feature an event organizers believe to be the first ever for such an event anywhere in the world and certainly in Israel - two weddings, one of a gay couple and one of a lesbian pair.
A campaign will be launched on the Web site gogay.co.il seeking couples interested in being wed as part of the event to submit their candidacy.
A committee at the city’s gay community center will determine which two couples will participate in the historic event.
“The idea began with the thought that in the framework of the [city’s] centennial celebrations, we wanted to do something substantive and deep to advance the community’s agenda,” said Yaniv Weizman, the adviser to Tel Aviv-Jaffa Mayor Ron Huldai on gay affairs and a Rov Ha’ir city council member.
“The idea is to wed both a gay and lesbian couple on one of the stages during the parade,” he said, adding that the right to marry stands at the top of the gay community’s agenda, particularly as Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu party has raised awareness of civil union rights. See TA Gay Pride parade to swing to the sound of the ‘Wedding March’
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