This is Part 1 of our 2 part Meet The Board series. Brynn and Anthony spend a little time interviewing newly elected officers of the Blind LGBT Pride International Board.
Are you interested in joining our organization. Our new website is finally up and running. Join us by visiting http://bpi.gay/join
Blind Pride in association with Making Gay History present this third in our series of conversations. BPI ally and force to be reckoned with, Debbie Grubb, and Anthony Corona, will present the life and work of Bayard and what we can learn from this incredibly fascinating Advocator, agent of Non-violent protest and the marks on the annals of history that leaves us all.
For 60 years, Rustin fought for peace and equal rights — demonstrating, organizing and protesting in the United States and around the world. 'Strategic Nonviolence' In the summer of 1963, he was the main organizer of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. On Aug. 28, speaker after speaker roused a crowd of 250,000, including the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., with his seminal "I Have A Dream" speech.
Rustin had less than two months to organize what was the largest demonstration the country had ever seen. "As we follow this form of mass action and strategic nonviolence," he said, "we will not only put pressure on the government, but we will put pressure on other groups which ought by their nature to be allied with us.” From his study of Mahatma Gandhi’s Soul Force to the march to his storied effect on the LGBTQ plus community Bayard has so much to teach us. Join us and share your thoughts on how our differences unite us and how we can take the lessons of Bayard and incorporate them in our advocacy going forward.
Come join us for part 2 of our fascinating conversation with Amy Simon and Dr. David Rosen of LGBT Senior Housing and Care as we delve into the topic of aging within the LGBT community. They work with long term care providers, providing training to ensure that the facilities are welcoming and affirming to LGBT residents. ** ** **We discuss: **
** ** In addition, we talk about the fact that nobody is only ever one thing, i.e., blind, older, or gay. In fact, we are all many things. We belong to different categories, but we are all human and worthy of respect and compassion. ** ** ** Intersectionality is a bad word to some, but it is our reality. We discuss ways to chip away at the mindset that you can only focus on one area of your identity. ** ** ** We cover issues such as LGBT seniors who have been out their whole lives having to make the decision to go back into the closet due to the likelihood of homophobia and mistreatment within a communal living environment. ** ** LGBT Senior Housing and Care offers training to providers to ensure that senior housing communities give their LGBT residents care that is appropriate to their needs, including legal issues, adult day care, recreation, home care, Alzheimer’s, and many other areas.
Questions and/or comments about Pride Connection or BPI can be sent to: [email protected]
We look forward to your feedback
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Come join us for a fascinating conversation with Amy Simon and Dr. David Rosen of LGBT Senior Housing and Care as we delve into the topic of aging within the LGBT community. They work with long term care providers, providing training to ensure that the facilities are welcoming and affirming to LGBT residents. ** ** **We discuss: **
** ** In addition, we talk about the fact that nobody is only ever one thing, i.e., blind, older, or gay. In fact, we are all many things. We belong to different categories, but we are all human and worthy of respect and compassion. ** ** ** Intersectionality is a bad word to some, but it is our reality. We discuss ways to chip away at the mindset that you can only focus on one area of your identity. ** ** ** We cover issues such as LGBT seniors who have been out their whole lives having to make the decision to go back into the closet due to the likelihood of homophobia and mistreatment within a communal living environment. ** ** LGBT Senior Housing and Care offers training to providers to ensure that senior housing communities give their LGBT residents care that is appropriate to their needs, including legal issues, adult day care, recreation, home care, Alzheimer’s, and many other areas.
Questions and/or comments about Pride Connection or BPI can be sent to: [email protected]
We look forward to your feedback
To join BPI or support our important work please visit:
BPI partnering with Eric Marcus of Making Gay History and Miss Debbie Grubb present the first of 4 informative sessions.
Hosted by Gabriel Lopez Kafati (current BPI president and ACB Board member) this session will focus on major voices of LGBTQ advocacy; what made them stand out, working within and out of the systems and how they inspired over 50 years of strident advocacy. Lessons of Advocacy from the LGBTQ Community. Our guest for this presentation is Eric Marcus, moderator of the podcast, Making Gay History. He will share with us his insights and experiences from the front lines from when and where it all began. We will hear the voices of many of the pioneers of the movement from his archives.
Let’s learn together from their history to teach and awaken in the blindness community how to use our anger balanced with our sense of doing the right for the cause to move us forward from a place, of impotent anger, into a place of positive, unified action toward the end of making our common rights, goals and needs recognized, understood and achieved. Let’s use this history of a group of individuals who risked it all to build a bridge upon which they continue to march into the light and dignity of full inclusion into American society, recognition of their diversity, their freedom of choice and their civil right to equality of opportunity to achieve their own unique visions of the American Dream. . After all, isn’t this what we want? Isn’t this what we have the right to?
Eric will share with us the voices of many who in his words; “Made Good Trouble” and after the presentation we will discuss how what they stood for and accomplished can help us “Make Good Trouble”
This is a slightly edited version of the holiday episode we did in 2022. We will return with a new episode in 2 weeks.
This week several BPI members got together to discuss the unique obstacles we face as blind LGBTQ+ people during the holidays. We discuss everything from dealing with how our families react to our sexuality and gender identity when we get together for the festive season, to overcoming challenges with depression when everyone else seems so jolly. This episode was extremely cathartic to be a part of and we encourage you to write in with your comments at [email protected].
BPI partnering with Eric Marcus of Making Gay History and Miss Debbie Grubb present the first of 4 informative sessions.
Hosted by Gabriel Lopez Kafati (current BPI president and ACB Board member) this session will focus on major voices of LGBTQ advocacy; what made them stand out, working within and out of the systems and how they inspired over 50 years of strident advocacy.
Lessons of Advocacy from the LGBTQ Community. Our guest for this
presentation is Eric Marcus, moderator of the podcast, Making Gay History.
He will share with us his insights and experiences from the front lines from
when and where it all began. We will hear the voices of many of the pioneers
of the movement from his archives.
Let's learn together from their history to teach and awaken in the blindness
community how to use our anger balanced with our sense of doing the right
for the cause to move us forward from a place, of impotent anger, into a
place of positive, unified action toward the end of making our common
rights, goals and needs recognized, understood and achieved. Let's use this
history of a group of individuals who risked it all to build a bridge upon
which they continue to march into the light and dignity of full inclusion
into American society, recognition of their diversity, their freedom of
choice and their civil right to equality of opportunity to achieve their own
unique visions of the American Dream. . After all, isn't this what we want?
Isn't this what we have the right to?
Eric will share with us the voices of many who in his words; “Made Good Trouble” and after the presentation we will discuss how what they stood for and accomplished can help us “Make Good Trouble”
This week's show is a recording of our Candidates Forum from 11/05/2022. Please tune in to hear what our 3 amazing candidates have to say. Leah Gardner is running for President, Anthony Corona is running for Vice President, and Maria Kristic is running for Treasurer. We have an open position of Secretary and we hope to see some nominations from the floor. Be sure to vote via your Electronic Ballot or in person at our business meeting on 11/13/2022.
We're currently preparing for our annual business meeting and election, so we are taking a bit of a hiatus. We will be back in November! Here's a rerun of our 2 Year Anniversary show. Enjoy!
This week on Pride Connection, we interviewed Randy Reed and Destiny DiMattei about AceCon, a virtual conference for people who are asexual. Please join us on ACB Media 1 at 10 PM Eastern every week, or download Pride Connection wherever you get your podcasts. If you have questions for our guests or would like to suggest a show topic idea, please send an e-mail to [email protected].
UK AceCon YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/c/AVENLivestreams
Changeling’s Guide to Discord for Screen Reader Users https://www.starshipchangeling.net/discord/
AceAdvice YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/c/AceDadAdvice
Swank Ivy‘s YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/user/swankivy
The Asexual Visibility & Education Network (AVEN): http://www.asexuality.org
Sounds Fake But Okay Podcast: https://www.soundsfakepod.com/
Jenna DeWitt Twitter Feed: https://twitter.com/jenna_dewitt?s=21&t=dG8gTBeGpps0K7XAgcNTMg
Yasmin Benoit, MSc Twitter Feed: https://twitter.com/theyasminbenoit?s=21&t=dG8gTBeGpps0K7XAgcNTMg
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B09NLPTC4R/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_T3BYA3RYBVJED5AC5V80