LGBTQ health care, LGBTQ risk behaviors and risk reduction, tobacco prevention, harm reduction, promoting a range of gender identity and sexual orientation, dismantling the binary gender system, gender chaos, safety, love, fighting homophobia, transphobia and heterosexism, youth empowerment, safe restrooms, safe schools, GLSEN, PFLAG.
Music
athens boys choir, le tigre, butchies, the gossip, katastrophe, bitch and animal, team dresch, gooselove & antarra, ashleigh flynn, emBROWNLOWe, bikini kill, tribe 8, sleater-kinney, the indigo girls, fugazi, doria roberts, sarah dougher, t-rexxa, pom pom meltdown, caught in candy, basic, nicky click, the faint, belle and sebastian, the evens, green day, fact or fiction, tegan and sara, george michael, leslie & the lys, dixie chicks, junior senior, scream club
Movies
but i'm a cheerleader, get real, transamerica, beautiful thing, D.E.B.S., go fish, hedwig & the angry inch, the incredible true story of 2 girls in love
Critical Media Questions... think about it:
Who smokes in the movie? How is smoking connected to their gender expression or to their expression of their sexuality and/or sexual orientation? How is smoking connected with being LGBTQ in the movie? What messages about smoking in general (among your friends, in other media, promoted by tobacco companies, etc.) does the portrayal of smoking in this movie recreate? What is the overall message about smoking this movie promotes? What would be other low risk ways for the actor/s to portray the emotions or motives connected with their smoking in this movie?
About me:
Breathe Free provides education and advocacy around LGBTQ tobacco use with the understanding that we are all (tobacco users and non-users) impacted by tobacco use and by being targeted by the tobacco industry. Our goals are: to work in coalition with other groups toward smokefree bars, clubs and other gathering places for LGBTQ folks; to promote safe and smoke free places for LGBTQ people to socialize and connect with each other; and to advocate that LGBTQ events and organizations not accept funding from tobacco companies.
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For more information and to see our newsletters, please go to www.smyrc.org and click on breathe free.
Who I'd like to meet: People interested in working on issues including: LGBTQ tobacco prevention, LGBTQ access to healthcare, LGBTQ risk behaviors and risk reduction. Folks who identify as: LGBTQQIAP and anything in between, LGBTQ youth and advocates, trans advocates, allies, planners of LGBTQ events, LGBTQ bar owners in Oregon who want to go 100% smokefree.
Do you want to help with LGBTQ tobacco prevention in Oregon? We're looking for folks interested in: speaking out in the communities and to the media, conducting research, providing community education, developing workshop materials, doing outreach at local LGBTQ events, helping to put up our new posters, supporting efforts to pass a comprehensive smoking ban in Oregon, promoting LGBTQ health!
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I just wanted to stop in and say hello and thank you for your continued friendship and support in bringing about awareness to the harmful effects of tobacco abuse.
Respectfully Yours,
James Freedom Village MySpace Bringing Awareness to Tobacco Abuse
SMYRC is turning TEN years old!!!! We're going to celebrate for * 36 HOURS *straight*(ha!)!!!! For a full line-up of the events, check out our page!! We Hope that EVERYONE, all ages, will come to the aawwwwsssoommeee SMYRC Showcase, Saturday May 10th from 8-10pm
as usual, all SMYRC events are drug-free, alcohol-free, and smoke-free :)
Thanks Breathe Free! What great work you do... As a musician, all non-smoking campaigns that can exist the better...Thanks for having "Sex Change Hospital" on your prestigious site Later! Lisa I. RoadBot ("SCH" Episode 4)
THIS IS A MUST ATTEND EVENT… WANT TO BE RECOGNIZED ON A NATIONAL LEVEL FOR BEING FIERCE & FABULOUS
JOIN US FOR: Fierce and Fabulous A Smoke-Free Youth Mini-Ball, Open Mic and Poetry Slam Tuesday, October 23, 2007, 8:00 – 11:00 PM InterMedia Arts 2822 Lyndale Ave South Minneapolis, MN 55408 Come One & Come All! Bring Your Performance Pieces, Drag Attire & Other Fierceness to the open youth event. This event is free & open to all ages, but performers must be 24-years-old or younger. Category Prizes 1st Place $150; 2nd Place $100; 3rd Place $50.
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO SIGN UP CONTACT: MNQUEERSTHEAIR@GMAIL.COM
Want to win some money for SMYRC? Pride Foundation has launched its Raffle With a Twist and they will be giving away $7,500 to nonprofit organizations. Here is how you can increase the odds of SMYRC winning.
It's super easy and $7500 can do amazing things for queer youth in portland. Over the summer go to the website, to enter the raffle (it’s free) and name SMYRC as your favorite nonprofit.
The more SMYRC is named, the more likely it is that we will win one of the prizes. Please send this out to anyone who wants to support SMYRC! Deadline is September 7th, 2007.
Hope you are having a fantastic summer.
"E" E.dominguez@co.multnomah.or.us Youth Program Aide 421 SW Oak St, Suite 200 Portland, OR 97204 503.933.0024
Hey, happy belated Kick Butts Day!
So excited to be on the youth committee. :) Here is a piece from a longer essay that was published in Pinned Down by Pronouns on tobacco and the LGTB community:
"I need this community. The world need this community and all the ways we bend, push, question, smash, alchemize, mock, subvert, and challenge gender conformity. All the ways we find words both as writers making are and people trying to name our experience in the face of a dominant culture that would sooner squash us than give up the safety and familiarity it achieves by pretending the distinction between male and female is simple. We need to speak. In order to speak we need to breathe....
