PRIDE IS COMING! January 29-31, 2009 --The PRIDE Film Festival – it’s your claim to flame! Don't miss Bloomington’s Annual PRIDE Film Festival, a celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities standing out and coming together. Held at Bloomington's historic Buskirk-Chumley Theater, the festival features full-length and short films from all over the world, live performance, discussions with scholars and filmmakers, and an unbelievably fabulous Saturday night dance party. http://buskirkchumley.org/PRIDE.htm

The weekend of Jan. 29–31, 2008 will see a new tradition for GLBTAA in the form of a Homecoming. On tap for the weekend is not only Bloomington’s PRIDE Film Festival, but other events such as a Kinsey Institute gallery walk which will happen Friday night, along with a cocktail reception Saturday afternoon with our annual silent auction. A block of rooms in the Hilton Garden Inn will be reserved for our get together.

We hope to see you there!

For more information, contact glbtaa@indiana.edu.

Any men interested in joining the chorus are invited to attend this open house and rehearsal at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Bloomington, corner of Fee Lane and SR 45/46 Bypass. The Quarryland Men's Chorus seeks to provide a positive performance-based community for gay and bisexual men and their allies in south-central Indiana. For more information, please visit www.quarryland.org.

Indiana University's Residential Programs & Services, the Community Educator Program, and IU's GLBT Office and GLBT Alumni Association are jointly sponsoring a program entitled "Remember Who Made You."

PRIDE IS COMING! January 29-31, 2009 --The PRIDE Film Festival – it’s your claim to flame! Don't miss Bloomington’s Annual PRIDE Film Festival, a celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities standing out and coming together. Held at Bloomington's historic Buskirk-Chumley Theater, the festival features full-length and short films from all over the world, live performance, discussions with scholars and filmmakers, and an unbelievably fabulous Saturday night dance party. http://buskirkchumley.org/PRIDE.htm

Free screening of the movie "Trevor," (Indiana University/Purdue University-Columbus, Learning Center, Custer-Nugent Lecture Hall). Followed by complimentary pizza from ZwanzigZ Pizza and a discussion (6-7 p.m.), facilitated by Chelsea Road, outreach coordinator for IU GLBT Student Support Services office. For more information, contact IUPUC Alumni Association at 812-314-8632 or alumni@iupuc.edu.

Sponsored by IUPUC Alumni Association, Inclusive Community Coalition, and Columbus Gay/Straight Alliance.

PRIDE IS COMING! January 29-31, 2009 --The PRIDE Film Festival – it’s your claim to flame! Don't miss Bloomington’s Annual PRIDE Film Festival, a celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities standing out and coming together. Held at Bloomington's historic Buskirk-Chumley Theater, the festival features full-length and short films from all over the world, live performance, discussions with scholars and filmmakers, and an unbelievably fabulous Saturday night dance party. http://buskirkchumley.org/PRIDE.htm

Be sure to tune to -- *bloomingOUT!* -- Your Midwest Queer Connection -Indiana's Out, Loud and Proud weekly radio show dedicated to LGBTIQ life, every Thursday from 6 to 7pm! Expect to hear the latest in local, national and international queer news headlines as well as our community calendar updates that keep listeners in the know about current events and activities. For program details, please visit www.wfhb/bloomingout/upcoming.htm
WFHB 91.3 and 98.1FM on the radio dial or 100.7FM in Nashville, 106.3FM in Ellettsville.
For and by the queer community, impacting *ALL* of us.
Your hosts are Helen Harrell and Victor Kinzer.

Transformations
SUPPORT GROUP FOR TRANSGENDER, GENDER QUEER, INTERSEX & TWO-SPIRIT

We are a support group offering a safe environment to learn about the gender spectrum and a space to gain support and resources from others. Transformations is open to transgender, transsexual, intersex, gender-queer, Two-Spirit individuals and their allies. Not open to observers. All email and calls are completely confidential.

When: Thursday, January 31, 2008
Where: Rachel’s Café
300 E. 3rd Street
Time: 6pm-8pm
What: Coffee, Tea, & Pastries
Cash Only (for now)

Gay Men's Group meets at First Presbyterian Church, Room 27, 221 E. 6th Street, Bloomington.

Closed meeting (only for those with a desire to stop drinking). Wheelchair-accessible, non-smoking.

For more information, call 330-3978 or 334-8191; outside Bloomington 1-800-589-8153. On the Web: www.bloomington.in.us/~aa

Bring or meet new and old GLBT friends and allies. At the Bloomington Bagel Company, 113 N. Dunn, downtown Bloomington. Sponsored by IU GLBT Student Support Services and Bloomington Bagel Company. For more information, e-mail Ryne Shadday at rshadday@indiana.edu

Co-sponsored this month by Crossroads and Quarryland Men's Chorus.

Girls Like Us is a confidential peer support group for lesbian, bisexual, and questioning women ages 25 and under. The group provides an opportunity to meet others and to share information and conversation in a confidential and supportive environment. Everyone will have a chance to speak and be heard if they wish. Look out this semester for guest speakers, films, and the opportunity to make new friends!
Email girls@indiana.edu for more information!
Sponsored By GLBT Student Support Services

Be sure to tune to -- *bloomingOUT!* -- Your Midwest Queer Connection -Indiana's Out, Loud and Proud weekly radio show dedicated to LGBTIQ life, every Thursday from 6 to 7pm! Expect to hear the latest in local, national and international queer news headlines as well as our community calendar updates that keep listeners in the know about current events and activities. For program details, please visit www.wfhb/bloomingout/upcoming.htm
WFHB 91.3 and 98.1FM on the radio dial or 100.7FM in Nashville, 106.3FM in Ellettsville.
For and by the queer community, impacting *ALL* of us.
Your hosts are Helen Harrell and Victor Kinzer.

Gay Men's Group meets at First Presbyterian Church, Room 27, 221 E. 6th Street, Bloomington.

Closed meeting (only for those with a desire to stop drinking). Wheelchair-accessible, non-smoking.

For more information, call 330-3978 or 334-8191; outside Bloomington 1-800-589-8153. On the Web: www.bloomington.in.us/~aa

Jim Doud & Glenn Lassiter will host our first gathering of 2008 on Sunday, February 10, in their home at 2322 Rechter Road here in Bloomington. We will begin gathering at 6:00 pm and eat around 6:45.
Please bring your own beverage and one of the following: side dish, salad, dessert or hors d'oeuvre. For directions or additional information, call 339-1804.

Called "boing," each Sunday night at Jake's Nightclub and Bar (419 N. Walnut, Bloomington) features Top 40 remixes for dancing and a drag show with the Babes of Bloomington. Doors open at 8 p.m. for dancing. Show from 10 - 10:45 p.m., followed by dancing until 12:30 a.m. Cover charge: $5.

For more information, contact Jamie Smith at promogirl_jakes@yahoo.com. Aspiring talent should contact Bianca Defy at www.myspace.com/biancadefy

Girls Like Us is a confidential peer support group for lesbian, bisexual, and questioning women ages 25 and under. The group provides an opportunity to meet others and to share information and conversation in a confidential and supportive environment. Everyone will have a chance to speak and be heard if they wish. Look out this semester for guest speakers, films, and the opportunity to make new friends!
Email girls@indiana.edu for more information!
Sponsored By GLBT Student Support Services

Free showing of movie at Collins Coffeehouse, IU-Bloomington campus, followed by Q&A. Part of AIDS Awareness Week/Safe Love 2008 events.

Movie about the personal stories of Hasidic and Orthodox Jews who are gay or lesbian and their struggles to reconcile their faith with their sexualities. An interfaith panel discussion will follow.

At Fine Arts building, Room 102, IU-Bloomington campus.

For more information, contact hillel@indiana.edu.

A talk at La Casa (Latino Cultural Center) on the IU-Bloomington campus, by Dr. Michael Reece from IU Dept. of Applied Health Science and the Center for Sexual Health Promotion.

"Positive Lives: HIV in the 21st Century", panel presentation, Grand Hall, Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, IU-Bloomington campus. Presented by IU Health Center. Co-sponsored by Planned Parenthood of Indiana. For more information, call 855-7338 or Planned Parenthood at 812-336-0219x1600.

Be sure to tune to -- *bloomingOUT!* -- Your Midwest Queer Connection -Indiana's Out, Loud and Proud weekly radio show dedicated to LGBTIQ life, every Thursday from 6 to 7pm! Expect to hear the latest in local, national and international queer news headlines as well as our community calendar updates that keep listeners in the know about current events and activities. For program details, please visit www.wfhb/bloomingout/upcoming.htm
WFHB 91.3 and 98.1FM on the radio dial or 100.7FM in Nashville, 106.3FM in Ellettsville.
For and by the queer community, impacting *ALL* of us.
Your hosts are Helen Harrell and Victor Kinzer.

Transformations
SUPPORT GROUP FOR TRANSGENDER, GENDER QUEER, INTERSEX & TWO-SPIRIT

We are a support group offering a safe environment to learn about the gender spectrum and a space to gain support and resources from others. Transformations is open to transgender, transsexual, intersex, gender-queer, Two-Spirit individuals and their allies. Not open to observers. All email and calls are completely confidential.

When: Thursday, January 31, 2008
Where: Rachel’s Café
300 E. 3rd Street
Time: 6pm-8pm
What: Coffee, Tea, & Pastries
Cash Only (for now)

Gay Men's Group meets at First Presbyterian Church, Room 27, 221 E. 6th Street, Bloomington.

Closed meeting (only for those with a desire to stop drinking). Wheelchair-accessible, non-smoking.

For more information, call 330-3978 or 334-8191; outside Bloomington 1-800-589-8153. On the Web: www.bloomington.in.us/~aa

Where: Whittenberger Auditorium in the Indiana Memorial Union, IU-Bloomington campus.

Eve Ensler's play seeks to represent a variety of women's experiences with sex, sexuality and the female body. This is an all-student production. Proceeds donated to Middle Way House (90%) and the international V-Day Campaign (10%).

Admission: $10, or $8 with a student ID.

Sponsored by: Women's Student Association, Feminist Majority Leadership
Alliance, Union Board and Sigma Gamma Rho.

For more information, e-mail idammu@indiana.edu

Where: Whittenberger Auditorium in the Indiana Memorial Union, IU-Bloomington campus.

Eve Ensler's play seeks to represent a variety of women's experiences with sex, sexuality and the female body. This is an all-student production. Proceeds donated to Middle Way House (90%) and the international V-Day Campaign (10%).

Admission: $10, or $8 with a student ID.

Sponsored by: Women's Student Association, Feminist Majority Leadership
Alliance, Union Board and Sigma Gamma Rho.

For more information, e-mail idammu@indiana.edu

It's time for our monthly social event! We'll plan to have a fun night in with board games and movies. This is your chance to bring any games, movies, and snacks you wish to share with the rest of the Crossroads group.

We will be having our night of fun at a member's house. If you wish to
attend, please RSVP as soon as possible so that we can send you the
address to his house. You can simply email us at crossrds@indiana.edu
to RSVP and ask for the address.

Crossroads is a social organization for GLBT graduate, professional, and undergraduates (over 21).

Thanks,
Amy & Eric

Called "boing," each Sunday night at Jake's Nightclub and Bar (419 N. Walnut, Bloomington) features Top 40 remixes for dancing and a drag show with the Babes of Bloomington. Doors open at 8 p.m. for dancing. Show from 10 - 10:45 p.m., followed by dancing until 12:30 a.m. Cover charge: $5.

For more information, contact Jamie Smith at promogirl_jakes@yahoo.com. Aspiring talent should contact Bianca Defy at www.myspace.com/biancadefy

Indiana Equality's "Lobbying Your Legislator 101" Training

9:30-11:30 a.m., Christ Church Cathedral, 125 Monument Circle.
Indiana Equality and Stop The Amendment will provide a two-hour crash course in techniques for constituents to successfully communicate with and educate their State legislators.

COST: $5 (includes training, materials, and continental breakfast).

To register, please visit: http://www.indianaequality.org/view/2008_Lobbytraining.aspx

Topics will include:

The “Marriage Discrimination Amendment”
Process of amending Indiana’s Constitution

Indiana Equality asks all Hoosier supporters of GLBT equality to attend a rally on Presidents' Day in the Indiana Statehouse, North Atrium (200 W. Washington St. Indianapolis) and to participate in "calling out" your representatives afterwards to communicate your views.

Please enter the Statehouse using the Washington Street entrance. Please allow extra time, as you will have to go through security. Also be aware that street parking may be hard to find. The Circle Center Mall garage is only a few blocks away and relatively inexpensive.

At La Casa (Latino Cultural Center), 715 E. 7th St. on the IU-Bloomington campus.

Bi-Chat is a group to provide women and men who are comfortable with, or exploring, their sexuality a peer supported environment to discuss issues unique to being bisexual. Open to all IU students and community members. We meet several times a month to discuss general bisexual topics as well as to provide personal support. We also occasionally meet in informal settings as a means to meet others in the local bisexual community without a specific topic or agenda.

Phone: (812) 855-4252

Girls Like Us is a confidential peer support group for lesbian, bisexual, and questioning women ages 25 and under. The group provides an opportunity to meet others and to share information and conversation in a confidential and supportive environment. Everyone will have a chance to speak and be heard if they wish. Look out this semester for guest speakers, films, and the opportunity to make new friends!
Email girls@indiana.edu for more information!
Sponsored By GLBT Student Support Services

Be sure to tune to -- *bloomingOUT!* -- Your Midwest Queer Connection -Indiana's Out, Loud and Proud weekly radio show dedicated to LGBTIQ life, every Thursday from 6 to 7pm! Expect to hear the latest in local, national and international queer news headlines as well as our community calendar updates that keep listeners in the know about current events and activities. For program details, please visit www.wfhb/bloomingout/upcoming.htm
WFHB 91.3 and 98.1FM on the radio dial or 100.7FM in Nashville, 106.3FM in Ellettsville.
For and by the queer community, impacting *ALL* of us.
Your hosts are Helen Harrell and Victor Kinzer.

Gay Men's Group meets at First Presbyterian Church, Room 27, 221 E. 6th Street, Bloomington.

Closed meeting (only for those with a desire to stop drinking). Wheelchair-accessible, non-smoking.

For more information, call 330-3978 or 334-8191; outside Bloomington 1-800-589-8153. On the Web: www.bloomington.in.us/~aa

Due to bad weather, today's mixer for GLBTQI high-school and middle-school youth has been re-scheduled for Friday, Feb. 29, 4-6 p.m., Rhino's All-Ages Music Club, 331 S. Walnut, downtown Bloomington.

Organized by Bloomington Beacon, Bloomington PFLAG, Rhino's, United Students (Bloomington High School North) and PROUD (Bloomington High School South), with the assistance of Bloomington Hospital.

For more information, check www.myspace.com/rhinosallagesclub or contact Tim Pritchett, Rhino's assistant director at rhinosbooking@gmail.com or 812-333-3430.

The Kinsey Institute is pleased to present a lecture by University of Illinois historian Dana Rabin, followed by a gallery tour at 6:30 p.m. Prof. Rabin's lecture takes place in Morrison Hall 007 on the IU-Bloomington campus.

Rabin will discuss her research in a talk titled : “The Sorceress, the Servant, and the Stays: Sexuality, Race, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Britain”

Called "boing," each Sunday night at Jake's Nightclub and Bar (419 N. Walnut, Bloomington) features Top 40 remixes for dancing and a drag show with the Babes of Bloomington. Doors open at 8 p.m. for dancing. Show from 10 - 10:45 p.m., followed by dancing until 12:30 a.m. Cover charge: $5.

For more information, contact Jamie Smith at promogirl_jakes@yahoo.com. Aspiring talent should contact Bianca Defy at www.myspace.com/biancadefy

Usually meets every 4th Monday. Now meeting in the public library Conference Room, in downtown Columbus, Indiana. For more information about the group and individual meetings, visit: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GayStraightAlliance/

Girls Like Us is a confidential peer support group for lesbian, bisexual, and questioning women ages 25 and under. The group provides an opportunity to meet others and to share information and conversation in a confidential and supportive environment. Everyone will have a chance to speak and be heard if they wish. Look out this semester for guest speakers, films, and the opportunity to make new friends!
Email girls@indiana.edu for more information!
Sponsored By GLBT Student Support Services

The second Circle City IN Pride Planning Meeting will be held at the Indy Pride office in the Old Centrum. Everyone who would like to help with this year’s Pride events is welcome and encouraged to attend!

At John Waldron Arts Center, 122 S. Walnut, downtown Bloomington. General admission: $7.

Presented by the IU Department of Gender Studies and Spirit of '68 Promotions.

Be sure to tune to -- *bloomingOUT!* -- Your Midwest Queer Connection -Indiana's Out, Loud and Proud weekly radio show dedicated to LGBTIQ life, every Thursday from 6 to 7pm! Expect to hear the latest in local, national and international queer news headlines as well as our community calendar updates that keep listeners in the know about current events and activities. For program details, please visit www.wfhb/bloomingout/upcoming.htm
WFHB 91.3 and 98.1FM on the radio dial or 100.7FM in Nashville, 106.3FM in Ellettsville.
For and by the queer community, impacting *ALL* of us.
Your hosts are Helen Harrell and Victor Kinzer.

Transformations
SUPPORT GROUP FOR TRANSGENDER, GENDER QUEER, INTERSEX & TWO-SPIRIT

We are a support group offering a safe environment to learn about the gender spectrum and a space to gain support and resources from others. Transformations is open to transgender, transsexual, intersex, gender-queer, Two-Spirit individuals and their allies. Not open to observers. All email and calls are completely confidential.

When: Thursday, January 31, 2008
Where: Rachel’s Café
300 E. 3rd Street
Time: 6pm-8pm
What: Coffee, Tea, & Pastries
Cash Only (for now)

Phone: (812) 855-4252

Pride Membership Mixer (open to everyone) – at Agio, 635 Massachusetts Ave., downtown Indianapolis.

Gay Men's Group meets at First Presbyterian Church, Room 27, 221 E. 6th Street, Bloomington.

Closed meeting (only for those with a desire to stop drinking). Wheelchair-accessible, non-smoking.

For more information, call 330-3978 or 334-8191; outside Bloomington 1-800-589-8153. On the Web: www.bloomington.in.us/~aa