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TGLBTCC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Any Chamber member may submit a BRIEF item to webmaster@tucsonglbtchamber.org, and the item will be posted here for 30 days. Items will be considered from non-members if they represent value to the TGLBTCC as a whole or the GLBT community. Links to web pages conserve space here and are appreciated. Another important communication resource in the Tucson GLBT community is Wingspan's E-news. To subscribe, send a blank email to: List-Add@wingspan.org. E-news will be sent to the membership on the 1st and 15th of each month. Members may submit information to be included by emailing: info@tucsonglbtchamber.org All submissions will be reviewed to ensure they are timely and of interest to our membership. The deadline for submissions is 5 days prior to distribution. MEMBER BENEFITS ADDED
Want to communicate between events? join our Chamber List-Serv by following these simple instructions: To join the mailing list, click here. - The mailing list Name is "Members". - You can send messages to the list only if you have joined and participate in the list. - - Once you have joined, you can send messages to the list by using the address: members@tucsonglbtchamber.org. Catch Shelly Fishman, MBA, CFP® on the John C. Scott show, every Monday at 4:30 PM
publishes Inside Tucson Business, a weekly local business newspaper. They would like to offer free trial subscription cards to Tucson GLBT Chamber members. If this offer is of interest to you, please do not hesitate to contact Laura Horvath, Circulation Manager, Territorial Newspapers, 520-295-4220. Beowulf Alley Theatre is offering an Online Discount code for members of the Chamber to purchase Main Stage Production tickets at a 25% discount on the General Price. The code is: TGLBTCC10 and is only valid when purchasing on our website at www.beowulfalley.org through our ticket purchasing page. The link is http://www.beowulfalley.org/html/tickets.html to purchase tickets and our merchants services are PayPal and Google. On the last page of the checkout, there is a place to enter a discount code and that is where you would enter TGLBTCC10. TIHAN Take this opportunity to increase compassion and awareness in your faith community. You can hold an educational session on the facts of HIV/AIDS, hear from our wonderful CarePartners living with HIV/AIDS, or learn about TIHAN volunteer opportunities. Contact your faith community's liaison to TIHAN or Natalie Brown, Director of Education and Community Relations, at natalie@tihan.org or 299-6647. We wish for many things - that everyone is accepted and loved, that no one is alone or hungry, that we find an end to AIDS, and so much more. AND we also wish for very practical things to help make lives better. Take a look at the list of items below. We're betting that you, your business, or your congregation has one of these (or the ability to purchase and donate them)!Make a wish come true and support TIHAN in our work of changing lives. Items may be dropped off at the TIHAN office, or call us for more information. Thank you!
Beowulf Alley Theatre Company a 501 (c)(3) organization, is committed to enriching the community and enhancing appreciation of the arts through the production of innovative, invigorating theatre and theatrical education with the highest standards for acting and production. Equal and fair treatment will be provided to all participants regardless of race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, familial status and/or marital status. Founded on the basis of dialogues with local theatre artists who wanted a permanent home to practice their craft, its intimate 95-seat theatre provides a facility that meets professional standards where performing artists, educators, and technicians can present their skills. Because Beowulf Alley engages a talent and volunteer pool that calls Tucson "home" for its productions, the Theatre is committed to helping grow a new generation of Tucson talent with its programs including education for adults and youth, late night theatre to experiment with and gain experience, readers theatre for playwrights' unpublished works, lunchtime theatre to bring art to the workday and screenings of independent film artists. And true to its roots, the Theatre maintains ongoing dialogues with the community, including Dialogues with theatergoers after the first Sunday matinee performance of each of its main stage plays, at Readers' Theatre nights, and other presentations, providing an opportunity for theatergoers to discuss the plays with the director and artists. Writers who cover the Tucson arts scene say the Theatre provides its audiences with "the best total package"-plays, performances and productions that are high in artistic and technical quality. Beowulf Alley has received critical acclaim, including two Mac Awards and nine MAC nominations. The company has presented over 350 performances to Tucson audiences since 2002 and has served hundreds of theatre artists. The theater also provides performance and rehearsal space for other Tucson theater companies. For more information, log on to www.beowulfalley.org. Beowulf Alley Theater Company thanks the National Endowment for the Arts, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the Tucson Pima Arts Council, the Janet S. Brunel Residuary Trust, and our business sponsors for their support. Institute for LGBT Studies Receives First Major Donation James J. Leos (far left) and Clint McCall (standing next to Leos) have donated the first major contribution to the Institute for LGBT Studies at the UA. Andrew Comrie (second from right), the UA's associate vice president for research, and the institute's director, Eithne Luibheid (far right), presented the couple with a certificate marking their induction into the President's Club. Major contributors to the UA are recognized by being inducted into the President's Club. Believing that research is crucial to improving the lives of those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, Clint McCall and James J. Leos have contributed the largest donation thus far to the Institute for LGBT Studies. Coupled for more than eight years, the Arizona natives donated $100,000 in the form of a life insurance policy to the University of Arizona institute shortly after learning that it existed. "It's not so much about creating a different history for those who are LGBT, but in making sure that we are not deleted," said McCall, senior development director for the Sarver Heart Center at the UA. "If not for the research, we all could easily be dropped." The contribution comes at a time when the UA institute is in the process of expanding its research efforts and program offerings. "It's incredible, exciting and affirming," said the institute's director, Eithne Luibheid, who added that other potential donors have since come forward after hearing about the gift from McCall and Leos. "It is affirming to have this kind of support from people who really understand that we have to empirically document the status of LGBT people and communities across a range of measures of well-being, so that we can see where we stand and what priorities have to be addressed next," Luibheid said. "It's not an either-or," she added. "It's a holistic vision about ways to benefit the community as a whole." The decision to make the donation, which comes in the form of unrestricted funds, was "one of the proudest moments in our relationship," McCall said. The two have long contributed to community-based organizations that address the needs of those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and felt that supporting academic research also was crucial. "It is very important to give to our community," said Leos, principal financial adviser and regional director for The Legend Group. Leos, who serves on UA President Robert Shelton's LGBT advisory council, was a member of the first youth support group at Wingspan, Tucson's community resource for LGBT individuals and their allies. While he and McCall continue to support direct services and organizations doing grassroots work, academia also has an important part in documenting and preserving the experiences and histories of LGBT people, he said. "There needs to be an academic emphasis on LGBT needs, and we need to start from statistical research to lend some legitimacy instead of hearsay," Leos said. "Education can bring objectivity about the culture." The UA institute is the only of its kind in Arizona and one of few established research institutes in the nation devoted strictly to the study of issues relevant to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals. Over the years, the institute has initiated collaborative research efforts and projects with departments across campus and organizations off campus. Among the institute's areas of focus are immigration, gender, race, adolescence, socioeconomics, oral history, health, politics and feminism, all within the context of sexuality and sexual orientation. Andrew Comrie, associate vice president for research, said recent efforts have called for the growth and sustainability of the institute, which was originally introduced as a committee in 1993 and formally established in 2007. It is important to elevate the status of the institute also because it is aiding in an area "that will only become a more important area of study," Comrie said. In the last year, members of the UA institute have collaborated in the Arizona LGBT Storytelling Project and initiated a fundraising effort for the Miranda Joseph Lecture Series, an endowed lecture series that will launch with an event on March 4, 2011. The institute also created and launched the Arizona LGBT Research Data website, a primary source for assessments, reports and other documents issued on LGBT issues throughout the state. In the coming year, the institute will continue funding three research clusters - on LGBT youth, oral histories and on subjectivity, sexuality and political culture - and introduce a new group pioneered by UA graduate student Erin Durban and Laura Briggs, associate dean for the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and gender and women's studies associate professor. Durban and Briggs intend for the new research cluster to connect UA graduate students across disciplines working on LGBT research. "There is a wiping out movement, and we have to say 'no' to that," said Luibheid, who is also an associate professor in the UA's gender and women's studies department. "Research is a way of creating history through recording while at the same time creating an agenda for change that brings people together to take action." * Extra Info Recent developments at the UA affecting individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender include: Eithne Luibheid Thomas Buchanan
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