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Bay Area Reporter - July 20, 2006
Cynthia Laird, c.laird@ebar.com
Next week's event features DJs Matt Consola and Sam Storicks, who will be spinning tunes from 9 p.m. until closing at Club Eight, 1151 Folsom Street, between 7th and 8th streets in San Francisco's South of Market District. Admission is $5 before 10 p.m. and $10 afterwards. Proceeds benefit Positive Force.
Future Club Life events are scheduled to take place at the same venue the third Thursday of each month. For more information, visit www.postiveforce-sf.org.
Open house at Hayward gay center
The Lighthouse Community Center in Hayward will mark its sixth anniversary with an open house Saturday, July 22 from 1 to 5 p.m. The center is located at 1217 A Street in downtown Hayward.
The center, which opened in the summer of 2000, provides meeting space as well as social and informational programs for LGBTQ residents in Hayward and surrounding cities in Southern Alameda County.
The open house is also an opportunity for community members to meet members of the board of directors and the center's first director, Patricia Kevena Fili, who was hired in May on a part-time basis of 20 hours per week.
"We want people to know we are there for them," Fili said.
Among Fili's goals are to establish regular hours; she told the Bay Area Reporter a few months ago that she hopes the center can be open at least three days a week for four hours a day. Fili said last week that she is in the process of developing volunteer protocols and is seeking volunteers to help staff the center.
Those interested in volunteering should contact Fili at (510) 872-0568 or e-mail patriciakevenafili@lighthousecommunitycenter.org.
SF Giants' 'Until There's A Cure' game
The San Francisco Giants' 13th annual "Until There's A Cure Day" takes place Sunday, July 23 at AT&T Park. Pre-game ceremonies start at 12:30 p.m. and include members of the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus, volunteers forming a giant red ribbon, and special guest, actress CCH Pounder from the FX series The Shield, who will throw out the ceremonial first pitch. The Giants take on the San Diego Padres at 1:05 p.m. The first 10,000 fans will receive a commemorative pin.
The Giants Community Fund also will award a total of $80,000 to various groups that work on HIV/AIDS research and provide support services. The Until There's A Cure Foundation will have its bracelet available for purchase.
The Giants became the first professional sports team to host an AIDS benefit in 1994, when it teamed up with the Until There's A Cure Foundation. Since then, a total of $1.1 million has been raised for Bay Area organizations and international AIDS research efforts.
Tickets for Sunday's game are still available and can be purchased online at www.sfgiants.com or by calling 1-877-SFGTIX.
Meeting to discuss Halloween
Supervisor Bevan Dufty will convene a community meeting to discuss whether this year's Halloween celebration should take place. The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, July 26 at 6 p.m. in the auditorium at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, located at 19th and Collingwood streets in the Castro.
In recent weeks, Dufty has expressed concerns in light of reports of violence at previous Halloween events and over Pride weekend about whether the city should sponsor the event this year.
Deputy Police Chief David Shinn and Entertainment Commission President Audrey Joseph will be on hand to hear community concerns and provide information on safety measures for this year's event. For more information, contact Rachelle McManus in Dufty's office at (415) 554-6986.
SF man receives scholarship
Castro resident and Golden Gate University Law School student Robert Boucher has received the Michael A. Zamperini/W. Clay Burchell Scholarship, the school announced last week. Boucher, who graduated with the class of 2006, is presently pursuing a legal career representing gay and lesbian clients in the Bay Area. While at Golden Gate, he served as secretary of the university's Queer Law Student Association and helped organize many on-campus programs, including a same-sex marriage debate, events supporting the law school's opposition to the Solomon Amendment, and a seminar on transsexual issues.
Candidates for the $3,200 Zamperini/Burchell scholarship write an essay describing how being gay or lesbian has affected their law school career and the experience of being a gay student at Golden Gate. The scholarship was created in 1993 through an endowment by Zamperini, a law professor at the school, and Burchell, his partner.
AIDS grove seeks remembrances
The National AIDS Memorial Grove's board of directors is seeking personal testimonies, remembrances, and reflections from interested community members to commemorate 25 years of the AIDS epidemic for its World AIDS Day observance in December. The remembrance theme, "AIDS at 25," asks that people identify a single year during this period and explain how the pandemic affected them.
"This could be a recollection of your own or a loved one's experiences in dealing with AIDS, or remembering the wide swath the disease made in those early years when there were no medications," said Jack Porter, co-chair of the grove's 13th annual World AIDS Day observance.
This year's observance will be held Friday, December 1 at the grove, located in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, but board members are putting out the call early; the deadline for submissions is September 15.
Porter said that some of the submitted stories would be selected to be read during the gathering on World AIDS Day, and all will be posted on the grove's Web site, www.aidsmemorial.org.
Submissions may be sent via e-mail to: mystory@aidsmemorial.org or mailed to National AIDS Memorial Grove, 856 Stanyan Street, San Francisco, CA 94117.
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