April Meeting Features City Councilwoman, Mary Jo Hudson
PFLAG (Parents, Friends and Families of Lesbians and Gays) Columbus is pleased to announce that the featured presenter for the Sunday, April 17th Monthly Meeting is Columbus City Council Member, Mary Jo Hudson. This event will begin at 2:00PM at the First Unitarian Universalist Church located at 93 W. Weisheimer Rd.
All community members are encouraged to attend this gathering and hear from Columbus’s newest City Council Member, Mary Jo Hudson. Please join us to learn more about her service to the Central Ohio community, the important issues she is tackling at City Hall, and her campaign for election to Columbus City Council in November.
Mary Jo has been practicing law for 15 years in Columbus, working with small and large businesses to create new products and services. Mary Jo’s resume includes volunteer stints with a number of area nonprofit organizations, including the United Way; the Center for New Directions; the Human Rights Campaign; and the Women’s Fund of Central Ohio, which provides grants that benefit women and girls. Mary Jo is a longtime glbt human rights activist and a champion of many causes important to glbt families and their loved ones.
May Meeting Screens “The Gay Agenda” with Discussion led by Beacon Fellowship Columbus
PFLAG (Parents, Friends and Families of Lesbians and Gays) Columbus is pleased to announce that the featured presenter for the May 22nd Monthly Meeting is Perry Sloan with Beacon Fellowship Columbus. This Meeting will also include a screening of “The Gay Agenda,” an anti-gay film produced in 1992 by religious conservatives. This event will begin at 2:00PM at the First Unitarian Universalist Church located at 93 W. Weisheimer Rd.
Beacon Fellowship Columbus (BFC) uses this video as part of a presentation that explores the so called “religious right” and their efforts to deny gays and lesbians basic civil rights. The film presents a distorted and dishonest look at gays and lesbians, all in an effort to promote a mythology that they call “the gay agenda”. Many churches and right-wing groups still use the video and the info in it to demonize gays and lesbians. In fact, the video was distributed to every member of the Ohio Legislature during last year’s debate over the Ohio Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). “I saw this video recently and was outraged,” stated Peg Allemang, PFLAG Columbus Advocacy Chair. Following the film, a discussion will be led by Perry Sloan and all community members are invited to participate.
For more information on BFC programs, contact Perry Sloan at 614-302-4948 or email Beaconohio@aol.com
PFLAG promotes the health and well being of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender persons, their families, and friends through: support, to cope with an adverse society; education, to enlighten an ill-informed public; and advocacy, to end discrimination and to secure equal civil rights. PFLAG meetings are informal, free, and open to anyone interested in the exchange of experiences, seeking education and/or support.
