Queer Youth Pride Dance Party

Calling all GLBT2SQQQ teens and their friends… Here’s a Pride Week event just for you! Join us in celebrating our queer community with a DJ dance party, button-making, snacks, drinks, and complimentary bus tickets.

Friday, July 8th, 2011
7 pm to 12 midnight
Norway House
1110 Hillside Avenue
Coast Salish Territory

Venue is all one level (including large single-use washroom with handrails), accessed from compacted-gravel parking lot via long wooden ramp.

Youth Age 18 and Under Only, Please!

FREE

Click here to see the event page on Facebook

Please, no drugs or alcohol. Intoxicated people will be asked to leave.

See you there!

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Please note that this is a public event and while Homospun has done its best to check out volunteers, provide security, and prevent people with drugs/alcohol from entering, we ask that you exercise the same caution regarding your personal safety that you would use at any similar public event. Also, please see our Safer Spaces Guidelines regarding community expectations: http://homospun.wordpress.com/about/safer-spaces-guidelines/

If you have any questions or concerns, please email us at homospun@gmail.com or call 250-661-6818.

Stonewall was a RIOT TOO!

Homospun Collective Events presents our second annual dance party to celebrate queer resistance: Stonewall was a RIOT TOO!

Friday, July 1st, 2011
8 pm to 12 midnight

Norway House
1110 Hillside Avenue
Coast Salish Territory

Venue is all one level (including large single-use washroom with handrails), accessed from compacted-gravel parking lot via long wooden ramp.

This event is 19+: Please bring ID.
$5-10 sliding scale (no one turned away for lack of funds)

Click here to see then event page on Facebook

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Pride is about more than just a party.
Pride is about more than just the right to marry and adopt and blend into the mainstream.
Pride is about more than just laws protecting queers from discrimination.

Pride is about having the courage, strength, and awareness to challenge all forms of oppression in our daily lives, and to stand in solidarity with the diverse individuals that make up the “queer community.”

Pride means challenging each other and others to “riot” in all sorts of ways: When we come together against the transphobia that pervades many GLBT spaces. When we acknowledge the fatphobia, the fear of people with disabilities, and the silence around mental health issues that destroys our ability to connect with one another. When we truly question what it means to live our lives on this colonized land.

Stonewall was a riot that changed history in North America, leading to many of the laws aimed to protect our “rights” and a change in the general public’s “acceptance” and support of queers. What are we doing to change history now?

We dance to remember those that came before us, those that stand beside us and the future generations to come!

Please join us in honouring our continued struggle.

SEE YOU THERE!!!