A new 6-week Yoga Class begins on Saturday, September 11, 2010 at the Stonewall Columbus Center on High, 1160 N. High Street. The class meets each Saturday at 11:00 am upstairs in Studio One. $30 per person, $25 for Center Members.

This six week course is suitable for those who have never done yoga before to those who have some experience. It will introduce body awareness, basic yoga poses and their components, breath work and relaxation techniques. Students will discover newly developed strength, flexibility and mind/body awareness at their own level in a relaxed, lighthearted atmosphere. This class is most appropriate for those who can easily get up and down from the floor.

REGISTER ONLINE HERE

Questions? Call 614-299-7764 or email info@stonewallcolumbus.org

Basic and Intermediate Drum Workshops
Sunday August 29 and September 5 from 3-5pm at the Center on High

Instructor: B. Wahru Cleveland

Register for September 5th Class

Wahru will cover djembe’ and ashiko basic and intermediate techniques, hand positions for base, tone, slap, how to play the heartbeat bass drum (dun drum), timing, playing with balance, feeling the rhythm, how to play together, 4/4 and 6/8 drum beats, bell patterns, and finding a beat that fits when jamming. Though the focus is Afrocentric, participants will experience rhythm patterns that may be used in facilitated and freestyle circle drumming.

Participants are asked to register since class size is limited. Payments will only be taken at the class.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER ONLINE

Another 6-week Ballroom Dancing Class begins on Thursday, September 9, 2010 at the Stonewall Columbus Center on High, 1160 N. High Street.

The Beginners class will meet at 6:30 pm and the Intermediate class will meet at 7:30 pm.

$30 per person, $50 per couple. Give the gift of dance! Buy this 6-week class for a unique gift!

Questions? Email info@stonewallcolumbus.org or call 614-299-7764.

Synergy Media Ltd. In association with M.D. Science Lab and Swiss Navy present “Temptation” on Saturday, August 21st at the Lifestyle Communities Pavilion. Enjoy DJ Alyson Calagna, Josh Karmin, Benjamin Bradley, Roman Heart and Todd Sanfield.

Tickets: General $15, VIP $50. Buy early – tickets and VIP passes are limited!

VIP pass holders receive Express entry into the event, VIP only area, Gift bag valued at over $125.

Portion of the proceeds as well as 20% of all VIP pass sales benefit Stonewall Columbus.

Get your tickets and more info at www.temptevents.com

We are looking for Stonewall Columbus and Columbus Pride photos, video, printed materials, and memorabilia from the last 30 years to showcase our 30th anniversary in 2011.

In 1981 four young activists, frustrated with the discrimination that permeated central Ohio, staged a march to draw attention to the issues that face our lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. That demonstration inspired others and by September 23rd of that year Craig Huffman, Val Thogmartin, Keith McKnight and Craig Covey created the articles of incorporation of a newly formed organization that would help people in the community. It was called Stonewall Union. At a meeting on July 14, 1983 Susan Pyle was elected president and Cindie Cyrus was elected secretary of the board of trustees and a nonprofit organization was born.

Now here we are, Stonewall Columbus, thirty years later. We owe a debt of gratitude to those individuals who stood up and did something when most people were afraid to take the chance. In 2011, Stonewall Columbus celebrates thirty years of service to central Ohio. Our marketing team has created a logo to commemorate this historic milestone. We are hoping that all of you have fond memories of Stonewall Columbus and have saved some of the memorabilia from past Prides and other special events. If so, please send them to John Herman. We are working on gathering materials that will be on display at our Pride celebration next June. This will be our 30th Pride as well and we realize that it may seem far away but gathering things from three decades takes time so please join us for this nostalgic year.

Send your Stonewall Columbus or Columbus Pride photos and video here

Email it to info@stonewallcolumbus.org with History in the subject line.

or Mail to:

Stonewall Columbus
Attn: History Materials
1160 North High Street
Columbus, OH 43201

Any questions? Email info@stonewallcolumbus.org or call 614-930-2264.

The Celebration continues for Stonewall Members and Friends as CAPA and ETC Co-Present the Hit Off-Broadway Musical Comedy BOY MEETS BOY !

Book by Bill Solly and Donald Ward, Music and Lyrics by Bill Solly

Directed by Mark Phillips Schwamberger

July 14 – 24

Studio One, Riffe Center, 77 S. High Street, Columbus, OH

Special Offer!
Call the CAPA Ticket Office at 614-469-0939
and receive a 20% PRIDE Discount
off the Adult ticket price
for any performance July 15 – 24.

Just mention the promo code PRIDE

Performance Schedule:

Wednesday, July 14, 8 pm (Preview Performance all tickets are $10.00)

Thursday, July 15, 8 pm

Friday, July 16, 8 pm

Saturday, July 17, 8 pm

Sunday, July 18, 2 pm

Wednesday, July 21, 8 pm

Thursday, July 22, 8 pm

Friday, July 23, 8 pm

Saturday, July 24, 8 pm

Tickets are $25 for adults and $20 for students and seniors at the Ohio Theatre Ticket Office, www.capa.com, all Ticketmaster outlets, www.ticketmaster.com.

To purchase tickets by phone, call (614) 469-0939 or (800) 745-3000

Learn more about this exciting and bold production by clicking here: http://www.evolutiontheatre.org

Stonewall Columbus is pleased to present an evening of arts on Saturday August 7th (Short North Gallery Hop Night) at the Center on High from 6-10pm
ART – Art show coordinated by TransOhio in conjunction with the Transgender & Ally Symposium. Downstairs from 6-10pm
Wine & snacks provided.

LITERATURE – Author appearance and selected readings for “Maybe She’s Right” by Debra Shade. A story about a female sex addict & her adventures. Downstairs from 6-9pm

PERFORMANCE – The Vajazzle Monologues is a “social-comedy” that fuses radical commentary, HIV activism, Ageism, Sexism, and other social biases with a queer perspective that is bound to make you shake your head once or twice, brace yourselves.

Performance upstairs at 7:00pm

Come to Zoombezi Bay for a night of fun and entertainment benefiting Stonewall Columbus!

Zoombezi Bay Private Evening Events! $20.00

5:30pm to 8:00pm – Public access to Zoombezi Bay

6:00pm to 9:00pm – Party at Crocktail Island. Cash Bar.

9:00pm to 11:00pm – Wild Tides Wave Pool Evening Entertainment featuring Music Videos on a screen over the Wave Pool. Cash Bar.

Enjoy the Zoo and Water Park Add Day for Just $10 More!

Buy a $29.99 ticket and get all day admission to the Zoo and Water Park AND to the private evening events!

Get a Private Cabana for the Evening! $300

• Evening Admission for 8
• 8 Drink Tickets
• Private Seating from 9:00pm to 11:00pm
• Wait Service

Buy Evening or All Day Event Tickets
or call (614) 645-3521

Rent a Private Cabana
or Call (614) 930-2262

Event Sponsors: Experience Columbus, Torso, Formation Studio and Outlook Columbus

Questions? Call 614-645-3521 or 1-800-MONKEYS (666-5397)
Zoombezi Bay is located at 4850 West Powell Road, Powell, Ohio 43065
Visit the website at: http://www.zoombezibay.com/

We can’t wait for everyone to experience the week long party that comes with the 5,000 players and fans at the NAGAAA 2010 Gay Softball World Series to be held August 13-21. It’s hard to describe the immensity of the event, but we can promise you that it’s going to be huge for the city and guaranteed to be fun for everyone.
BUT, we can’t pull off this big party without your help! We hope to harness the energy and pride from June to help us show visitors from across the US and Canada what Columbus has to offer.

Here is one way you can be a part of the excitement: Volunteer!
There are 1,200 3-4 hour shifts that need to be filled throughout the week of the world series, August 13-21. Shifts are various times during the days from morning to night and cover a wide range of opportunities. See all the shifts that are currently available and register on the 2010 GSWS Volunteer website at: http://ow.ly/24TKF

While we would love for you to take multiple shifts, covering just one shift will help us tremendously. Contact your friends and schedule to work your shifts together! Sign-up early to be sure to get the opportunity that you want. Please e-mail 2010volunteer@clgsa.net if you have questions about volunteer opportunities.

Get all the details about the NAGAAA World Series here: http://www.gaysoftballworldseries.com

Presented as part of Out Takes, a monthly programming collaboration between GFC and Stonewall Columbus.

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7pm Thursday, July , 2010

Co-director Casper Andreas and Fred M. Caruse offer this music-filled comedy about two young men on the road to accepting who they are. Paul and Eddie have just begun previews for the new Off-Broadway musical “Adam and Steve Just the Way God Made ‘Em.” Their lives strangely mirror the characters they are playing. Paul is looking for the perfect man and Eddie is dealing with how his sexuality and faith can mix. After yet another disastrous dating experience, Paul has an epiphany. He is done dating and just wants to be a slut like the sexy chorus boys that share his dressing room. Eddie has to tell his parents that he’s gay and is starring in a show that calls the bible the “Breeder’s Informational Book of Living Examples”.

Get Tickets Online Here

A new 6-week Yoga Class begins on Saturday, May 22, 2010 at the Stonewall Columbus Center on High, 1160 N. High Street. The class meets each Saturday at 11:00 am upstairs in Studio One. $30 per person, $25 for Center Members.

This six week course is suitable for those who have never done yoga before to those who have some experience. It will introduce body awareness, basic yoga poses and their components, breath work and relaxation techniques. Students will discover newly developed strength, flexibility and mind/body awareness at their own level in a relaxed, lighthearted atmosphere. This class is most appropriate for those who can easily get up and down from the floor.

REGISTER ONLINE HERE

Questions? Call 614-299-7764 or email info@stonewallcolumbus.org

Book Title: “The Shack”

When: Mondays, June 5 – July 12 7-8 PM

Where: Stonewall Columbus Center on High

Did you read this hot topic book when it was all the rage a year or so ago? Did you recently pick it up? OK – are you at least curious about this Oprah favorite? Some call it heresy and others declare it the best theology in regular language they’ve ever read. Read and discuss “The Shack” in this 6- week study with Rev. Margaret Hawk of New Creation MCC. You may buy your own copy, or reserve one through the church office by sending an email to revmhawk@newcreationmcc.org. Each class will meet at 7pm at the Center on High beginning Monday, June 7. (Class participants will decide together whether to meet on July 5 or expand the group by one week in order to take that night off as an extension of the holiday weekend.) For the first session, please read at least the first three chapters so we can start right off with lively conversation.

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“Mind-Boggling!” Discover a century of American WOW-factor and star quality direct from the circus tent, concert hall, and Broadway stage… all in one fantastic evening! Indulge your curiosities and celebrate your senses as aerialists, acrobats, contortionists, jugglers, illusionists, singers,

dancers and indescribable feats reignite your belief in human potential! Fun for all ages!

Wednesday, June 23 thru Saturday, June 26 at 7:30 pm

Sunday, June 27 at 3:00 pm

The Southern Theatre, 21 East Main Street, Columbus

Phone: (614) 719-6906

Tickets: $22.50, $37.50, $42.50 through Ticketmaster at www.ticketmaster.com or 1-800-745-3000

DISCOUNT CODE: PRIDE

Get more details at www.circurious.com

Please join Equality Ohio for the Lobby Day for Equality 2010 Closing Reception to celebrate what is sure to be a powerful day of personal stories and citizen advocacy in Ohio.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

5:00 -7:00 pm

Hyatt on Capitol Square, Columbus: Judicial Room

Mingle and mix with leaders from Ohio’s pro-equality community, Ohio lawmakers, special guests and other supporters of Equality Ohio. Guests will enjoy light hors d’oeuvres and an open bar.

Proceeds from the Closing Reception will benefit Equality Ohio and our advocacy work to create an Ohio where everyone can feel at home.

Find out more and register for this event here: http://www.equalityohio.org/

Stonewall Columbus is proud to be a Community Partner of this event.

A new 6-week Yoga Class begins on Saturday, May 22, 2010 at the Stonewall Columbus Center on High, 1160 N. High Street. The class meets each Saturday at 11:00 am upstairs in Studio One. $30 per person, $25 for Center Members.

This six week course is suitable for those who have never done yoga before to those who have some experience. It will introduce body awareness, basic yoga poses and their components, breath work and relaxation techniques. Students will discover newly developed strength, flexibility and mind/body awareness at their own level in a relaxed, lighthearted atmosphere. This class is most appropriate for those who can easily get up and down from the floor.

REGISTER ONLINE HERE

Questions? Call 614-299-7764 or email info@stonewallcolumbus.org

Get a jump on Pride Month with Late Night Pride in May.

The month of June is packed full of events for the city’s annual Pride Celebration, so Gateway Film Center gets the party started a little earlier with weekend shows of LGBT cult favorites throughout May.

Late Night Pride offers selections by several icons of queer cinema, plus a special sneak preview of the Pride-friendly photography exhibition coming to OSU Arts Initiative in June.

May 7-9: Hedwig and the Angry Inch

May 14-16: Velvet Goldmine

May 21-23: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

May 28-30: Pecker

Immediately following the screening on Sunday, May 30, Columbus educator and photographer Jonathan Lathram will discuss his June book release and OSU Arts Initiative exhibition – both entitled The “Ladies” of Ohio – Digital Divas – featuring large format photography of Columbus drag performers. All film selections screen Friday and Saturday at midnight, with an early bird Sunday matinee at 1:30 p.m. Tickets for Gateway shows at midnight or after are just $5.

For more info, visit www.gatewayfilmcenter.com

In the Press: (excerpt from Columbus Dispatch, April 17)

A recent article appeared in the Columbus Dispatch discussing President Obama’s directive to extend hospital visitation rights to gay partners and to honor their choices about who may make their health care decisions. Obama’s order, which must be written into rules by the Department of Health and Human Services, seeks to remedy the discrimination that same-sex couples can face when one of them – or one of their children – becomes ill.

Advocates say some hospitals have barred them from intensive-care units, which might permit only family visitors, and haven’t always respected their right to make medical decisions for an ill or injured partner. In Columbus, which has a large gay population, most hospitals are fairly progressive, local gay-rights organizations say. Still, family conflicts can make for terrible snags.

Karla Rothan, Executive Director of Stonewall Columbus, agreed that most doctors and hospitals here are cooperative. But it still isn’t easy.

“Gay and lesbian people go to great lengths to have all their paperwork together,” she said.

Sometimes, Rothan said, if a partner dies and there is an autopsy, they find that the coroner can’t release the body to them because of strict next-of-kin rules.

“There’s about a thousand different rights that we don’t have,” she said, “because we can’t legally marry.”

Read the Columbus Dispatch article in its entirety here

http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/04/17/copy/obamas-directive-is-not-a-cure-all.html?adsec=politics&sid=101

In the Classroom:

Karla Rothan, Executive Director of Stonewall Columbus, speaks to Ohio students about LGBT issues. As it turns out, many of the students have some surprising and challenging ideas of what it means to be an LGBT person. Produced by In the Life TV a PBS show. Also watch their profile on Ohio.

Watch the video here

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