Queer Women's Mixer (Nov 2007)

Over 40 women of all ages attened this fun event at Wild Side West in Bernal Heights. Highlights include the Inter-Collegiate Cosmos drink special, $2.00 drafts, and "Get to Know You Bingo." The winner of bingo is pictured holding her balloons and prize! The event takes place first Wednesday of every month.(In January 2007 it will be the second Wednesday of the month).

Women in Music event in Berkeley with the Pacific Center and activelyOUT

The Women's Music Event was FANTASTIC!!!!

If you missed it, Vicki Randle was great. Her songs warmed me, inspired, and brought me back to those times of heartbreak and allowed me to touch on dispare but also to realize how strong a person I am to have come out of some bad relationships scarred but now healed.

Vicki was down to earth singing in front of us. This is her on the right.



She also allowed me revel in the good times of yesterday and today. In her music I cherished my current love. It was fantastic and totally unexpected.



Men, women, singles, couples all showed up for a wonderful evening.

For all the others who were there, please post your comments!

Leslie Feinberg- an activelyOUT member's perspective

I asked one of our members, Jane N. to tell us about the Leslie Feinberg talk which took place at Stanford University

Many staff, professors, current students and alumni turned out to hear transgender activist Leslie Feinberg speak on Wednesday, October 3, at Stanford as part of the Feminist Studies 101 curriculum. The lecture hall was packed. Feinberg vividly recounted the Stonewall Rebellion and how the street youth and patrons of the bar heroically fought back against the police and locked the officers inside the bar. I knew what Stonewall was, but I never really understood how brutal and victorious the incident was for the LGBT people and street youth involved.

Feinberg used the Stonewall Rebellion as a platform to describe how the LGBT movement has been, and needs to be a part of other anti-oppression movements throughout the world. The stories and lectures were captivating, and I, like many others left the event feeling empowered and proud to be a part of the LGBT community and history.

Feinberg’s novel Stone Butch Blues, is a classic in the Queer women’s cannon. Stone Butch Blues is the compelling account of a gender queer person’s coming of age in a working class Butch and Femme community. Feinberg, is currently promoting zer newest book Drag King Dreams.

- Jane N.