Sunday Sept. 26, 2010
Fall Films: A Family is A Family is A Family: A Rosie O'Donnell Celebration
Place: Nyack Library, 59 South Broadway, Nyack NY
Time: 3:00pm
Cost: Free
Info: Kids offer touching, profound and often funny insights about what being a family means to them. Among those featured are: children with two fathers; a girl whose mother and father adopted her in China; three brothers who live with their mother and grandmother; a pair of mothers who are getting married to make one big family; and families with adopted kids and children born through in-vitro fertilization.
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Mon. September 27, 2010 **NO meeting in August!**
Pride Coalition of Rockland County Meeting
Place: VCS, Inc. 77 Main Street, New City, NY 10956
Time: 3:30pm-5:00pm
Cost: Free
Info: The Pride Coalition of Rockland has now been formed!!! Our hope is that meeting together monthly will strengthen Rockland's LGBTQ programs, provide us with collective energy and support and create a think tank for new initiatives.
The Coalition is open and welcoming to all who would like a place at this table. If your organization would like to participate, please join us for this meeting.
Founding Organizations
CANDLE works with youth to prevent substance abuse and violence and runs TRUST, a weekly LGBTQ group.
GLSEN works with educators, policy makers, community leaders and students to address anti-LGBT behavior and bias in school.
VCS Gay Pride Rockland produces the annual Gay Pride Rockland Sunday each June as well as LGBT programming and training throughout the year.
Participating Organizations
ARCS (AIDS Related Community Service)
Clarkstown North Gay Straight Alliance
Clarkstown Town Clerk David Carlucci
Clarkstown Town Supervisor Alex Gromack
Grace Episcopal Church
PFLAG Rockland We, the parents, families and friends of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons, celebrate diversity and envision a society that embraces everyone.
Planned Parenthood a trusted health care provider, an informed educator, a passionate advocate, and a global partner helping similar organizations around the world.
Rockland Community College Gay/Straight Alliance
Rockland County Chapter of NOW (National Organization for Women)
Rockland County Democratic Committee
Rockland County Department of Health ID Program
Rockland County Young Democrats
Rockland Family Shelter a private non-profit grassroots organization, dedicated to serving domestic violence and sexual assault victims and their families.
Saint Thomas Aquinas College Gay/Straight Alliance
Shomer Shalom Network for Jewish Nonviolence
Stony Point Center
Temple Beth Torah: A welcoming congregation in Upper Nyack
The Link a Rockland based social group for women.
The Loft: LGBT Community Center-White Plains, NY
The Nyack Center
TOUCH Together Our Unity Can Heal, Inc. was founded in 1989 by concerned Rockland County residents responding to the needs of our neighbors who are living with and affected by HIV disease.
For more information please contact us at gpr@vcs-inc.org or call 845-634-5729.
Thursday Oct. 21, 2010
A Night of Folk Music and Poetry
Place: Reality Bites, 119South Broadway, Nyack NY
Time: 6:30pm
Cost: $10 Suggested donation at Door
Info: Come listen to local artists share their voices musically and poetically. If you are interested in sharing please contact gpr@vcs-inc.org. We currently have one or two slots open for poets! Reality Bites, proud sponsor, will offer 20% off food and drink the night of this event! For a printable flyer click here.
Sunday Nov. 14, 2010
Fall Films: Prodigal Sons, A film by Kimberly Reed
Place: Nyack Library, 59 South Broadway, Nyack NY
Time: 3:00pm
Cost: Free
Info: Returning home to a small town in Montana for her high school reunion, filmmaker Kimberly Reed hopes for reconciliation with her long estranged adopted brother, Marc. But along the way she uncovers stunning revelations, intense sibling rivalries and unforeseeable twists of plot and gender that force them to face challenges no one could imagine.
Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Best Documentary Jury Prize at NewFest, Special Jury Prizes for Fearless Filmmaking, Florida Film Festival and Bravery in Storytelling at the Nashville Film Festival, Prodigal Sons is a raw and provocative examination of one family’s struggle to come to terms with its past & present.
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 Kym Hampton conducted a Free Basketball Clinic for Children and Teens....
and spoke about her experiences in the Women's National Basketball Association and the NY Liberty team at VCS Gay Pride Rockland Sunday....
- VCS has agreed to sell 60 tickets for any NY Liberty games to be played this season! You chose the game or as many games as you wish.
- VCS has been offered the $32.50 tickets for $25 and the $64.50 tickets for $50. We are passing the entire discount on to you.
Click Here to Purchase your NY Liberty Tickets
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