COLAGE Bay Area

Sign Up for Tell Your Story, Change the World! Oct 31 08

Tell Your Story- Change the World
A three session activity series for youth with LGBTQ parents.

RSVP now for our November session! We'll be recording videos that we will screen at our December session. Email Monica to sign up and we'll send you a disposable camera to photograph your family. You can bring in these photos to enhance your video!

About this series:
As youth with LGBTQ parents we are often asked to explain pt montara lighthouseour families. So whats YOUR story? In this three part monthly series you will:
- Meet other youth and adults who have LGBTQ parents
- Do fun activities with other youth your age each month
- Develop public speaking, media and storytelling skills
- Create a video about your experiences that may be shown on You Tube and other venues
- And much more!

Our next meeting is Sunday, November 23, 2 - 4 pm.
at the Embarcadero YMCA, 169 Steuart Street, San Francisco. The final meeting for this series will be Sunday, December 14th.

To Sign Up or for more information call 415-861-5437 or email Monica.

Help us Stop Proposition 8 Oct 22 08

Action Alert for COLAGErs and our allies in California- Help us Stop Prop 8

There is a secret weapon in this campaign.

It's you - and the power of your personal network, your friends and family.

We have built a fantastic tool for you to spread the word about how unfair and wrong Prop 8 is.

Email everyone you know and care about and get them to help us defeat Prop 8.

It is easy. It is free. And it is crucial to help stop this initiative.

Choose a message that works for you, if prop 8 would directly take away your rights or the rights of someone you care about, if you want to talk about your experience having LGBTQ parent's and what that has been like, or if you just want to make sure that no Californian loses her or his rights.

Once you've emailed your network and started this important conversation, there is always more you can do. We still need to raise more money so our message can reach undecided voters and we need more volunteers across the state as we approach Election Day and ramp up our get out the vote activities.

To win on November 4, everyone needs to know that Prop 8 is a bad idea. Thank you in advance for helping spread the word. If you want to learn more about COLAGE efforts to promote marriage equality in California and beyond, please email us.

COLAGE Bay Area Family Equality Film Event Oct 20 08

COLAGE Bay Area Family Equality Film Event
Sunday, October 26th
3-5 pm

The Variety Preview Room
582 Market Street, Suite 101
Hobart Building, SF

Join COLAGE and our partners, Our Family Coalition, the GSA Network, API Family Pride, Family Equality Council, Frameline, Groundspark and the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project for an afternoon of movies and motivation. We will be screening a diverse line-up of films highlighting the importance of marriage and family equality, giving updates about the marriage equality campaign in CA, and celebrating our rich community.
For more information or to RSVP contact Paulie Milagros Schreck at 415-861-5437 or by email.

Tru Loved Bay Area Premiere Oct 20 08

TRU LOVED premieres in the Bay Area on October 31, 2008 ---
Tru Loved, one of the first films to feature a youth with queer parents as the main character, opens in Berkeley's Elmwood Theatre & San Francisco's Landmark Lumiere on October 31st. Please support this film so that it will open in more cities nationwide.

COLAGE is proud to support TRU LOVED.
About the movie: Sixteen-year-old Tru is uprooted by her lesbian moms from her comfortable gay-friendly home in San Francisco and moved to a conservative, suburban community in Southern California. Tru's only friend is a closeted football player, and even that friendship is jeopardized when she starts the school's first Gay-Straight Alliance.

Advanced Screening - Free tickets available!
There will be an advanced screening of Tru Loved on October 23 at 7:30 pm at Embarcadero Theatre. COLAGE has free tickets! Contact us by 10 am on Wednesday, October 22nd if you would like to attend! Include your first & last name and # of tickets you would like. Maximum 4 per person. Tickets will be given on a first come, first served basis.

Phonebank with COLAGE Oct 6 08

We Need Your Help to Get the Message Out and Protect Marriage Equality in California

COLAGE Bay Area invites you for an evening of community and activism around Prop 8 in California.

We are excited to bring together youth and adults with LGBTQ parents and our familes, friends and allies for a night of phonebanking and fun! Together we will be making calls to undecided voters to have those crucial conversations that will encourage them to vote NO. Plus you'll get to meet other youth and adults with LGBTQ parents and learn more about COLAGE and the Equality for All Campaign.

Tuesday, October 14th
Time: 6-9pm
Location: COLAGE's main office
1550 Bryant St. Suite 830
SF, Ca 94103

food and beverages will be provided.
Please bring your enthusiasm and your cell phone (if you do not have a cell you can use, COLAGE land lines are available)
(Please RSVP soon so we can go ahead and make sure we have an appropriate amount of food and beverages.)

If you have any further questions, want to RSVP or need any other information regarding this event please call 415-861-5437 or email Paulie Milagros Shreck, COLAGE Community Organizing Intern.