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With the three installments in the following program, HROC, Your Community Center launches it's monthly programmatic series. Over the coming months, you can anticipate sessions about adoption, living wills, LGBTQ travel, finances for LGBTQ couples, taking care of our families, etc. If you want to lead one of the sessions, let us know your area of expertise. If you want to see particular programs, please complete our survey found under links. We will do our best to accomodate you. We will work hard to make programs educational, fun, inspirational and uplifting!

An Interpretation of the Moment: A Storyteller's Adventure into Queer American History in 3 Parts.

• The Night Judy Garland Died. Wednesday, September 17, 2008 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM.
  It's okay if you don't know who Judy Garland was, but you need to know her death contributed to the beginning of the modern LGBTQ rights movement in the United States. The one hour story will be told by our humble narrator. He plans to use the vantage point of a ficticious New York City drag queen who was there for it all in June, 1969. Lose, passion, fear and pride should make this a remarkable and memorable session!

• If We All Turned Purple For One Day...Harvey Milk As Visionary, Hero, and Martyr. Thursday, October 16, 2008 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM.
  Many thought Harvey was the great hope of the LGBTQ community. He was the owner of a small camera shop. He was the first openly gay person to be elected to office in a major metropolitan area - San Francisco. He was murdered in City Hall. Some months later, the whole thing was blamed on "soda and twinkies." If you don't know this story, you need to!

• Scarecrow: An Act of Homophobia In Wyoming That Changes The Politics Of The Movement For Social Change.Wednesday, November 19, 2008, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM.
  An upsetting summary of what happened to Matthew Shephard which leads to a broad political discussion about hate crimes legislation in the United States. Why was this singular event a galvanizing force? Why do we STILL lack hate crime legislation which effectively covers bias crimes committed against us as a LGBTQ community? Take your blood pressure medication before you come to this one. We guarentee you will leave angry, hurt and ready to march on Richmond and Washinton, but before you march remember the next day, November 20, 2008 is the Transgender Day of Awareness where the entire LGBTQ community will come together to remember all of the Transgender people who have been murdered like Matthew Shephard because of who and what they were.

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  Special thanks to Don Davis, HROC's presenter for these three programs. Don has been an activist in the LGBTQ community for almost thirty years. He has served on the Board of Directors of dozens of queer-positive organizations including six years on the Board of Directors for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. From his undergraduate days as a history major, Don has been captivated by the study of the history of the LGBTQ community. His interpretations will be often humorous, sometimes controversial, and always passionate.

  According to Don, "To fully appreciate what's going on now with ENDA, hate crime legislation and gay marriage, it's important that we understand where these issues got started and how they've evolved. We owe a lot to the queer people who came before us and it's important that we realize the work we do now is the legacy we will leave to our greater LGBTQ community when we are gone."

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