Wed. March 3rd, 2010

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- Evan read an article about the eleven gay historical figured who deserve the “Milk” treatment. In other words, they deserve a movie to be made about them and their life!! :) I’ll post the eleven names here, and attach a link at the bottom. Read about them if you’re interested or you missed the presentation during the meeting.
1. Montgomery Cliff
2. Diaghilev
3. Walt Whitman
4. Bayard Rustin *
5. Harry Hay
6. Gad Beck
7. Robert Mapplethorpe
8. Leslie Cheung
9. Federico Garcia Lorca
10. Sylvester
11. Larry Kramer
* There’s a documentary made about Bayard Rustin, but he still deserves a movie :)

- The Supreme Court is now allowing gay marriage in Washington DC [the 6th state / region!!]
- We discussed the term “Genderf***,” which is basically someone who “messes” with gender and doesn’t conform to the boundaries set by society.
- We mentioned why the phrase “it’s just a phase” is often believed to be the true image of the gay-community – because some people decide to act “gay till graduation,” or until the time when they go back home.
Random stat: approximately 10% of the world is GLBTQO
- Movie Night is now officially on Friday 3/19/10
- IDEA: bring in a GLBTQO survey and distribute it. This way, we could find out about the overall school feeling on GLBTQO things. Questions would be something like…
• Do you say “that’s so gay?”
• How would you react if someone close to you came out?
- Next meeting: everyone, please bring everyone you can and materials for making posters / banner for movie night.

LINKS:
1. The 11 Historical Figures Worthy of the “Milk” Teratment: [http://www.afterelton.com/movies/2008/2/themilktreatment?page=0%2C0]

Upcoming Events:
- 3/19/10 [Fri.] – GSA Movie Night – “Straightlaced” – NEXT WEEK!!
- 4/16/10 [Fri.] – Day of Silence
- 5/8/10 [Sat.] – Boston YouthPride [possible event?]
- June – Breaking Stereotypes Week [possible event? With MCC?]
- June-ish – GLSEN Conference [possible event?]
- A “Bake Sale” ^__^ [possible event?]