Q&A Update

Hello all! Please join us at our next meeting on Monday, November 23rd at 4pm in the Make-up Room. We will plan out the rest of the semester. And keep working on those pieces so you have a draft by December 1st. Thanks!

Meghan

It's official...

The conservatives eked out a victory with 53 percent of the vote. Gay marriage is not, I repeat, not legal in Maine.

Just in case you were living under a rock for the past 24 hours or so.

:'(

Articles & Organizations of Interest (links provided)

Articles and Organizations of Interest (links provided)

Lawrence King Murder in NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/23/us/23oxnard.html

Protect Maine Equality Website:

http://www.protectmaineequality.org/

NY Times Article on Broadened Hate Crimes Law (Oct. 2009):

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/us/politics/23hate.html

Human Rights Campaign Website:

http://www.hrc.org/

Matthew Shepard Story/Laramie Project 10 Years Later from NPR:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113663235

Gay, Lesbian, & Straight Education Network:

http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/home/index.html

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force:

http://www.thetaskforce.org/

A running list of ideas for Q&A scenes

Thank to everyone who attended today's meeting! Some of the ideas generated at Monday November 2nd's meeting include:

gay student in Catholic school

straight pride parade

gay agenda

life before and after Tuesday's vote

satire of position that gays were the cause of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina

closeted knitter (knitter metaphor for being gay)

Flag Day misunderstanding (Fag Day)

straight man who considers it a compliment to be thought gay

gays as a solution to overpopulation

women accepted in men's clothes/men not accepted in women's clothes

safe sex commercials as intermission material

trans bathroom issues

gay melodrama

Judaism & homosexuality

lesbians and gays in history

spoof of pc/mac commercial in which mac is gay

Please try to bring one of your pieces (even if it is in progress) to our next meeting on Monday, November 16th at 4:00pm. I look forward to seeing you then!

Best wishes,

Meghan