Hedwig and the Angry Inch

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Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown PA with PRIDE PICNIC at Knoebels Grove will feature a FREE SCREENING of the rock musical film HEDWIG and the ANGRY INCH as part of the college’s DIVERSITY FILM FESTIVAL on Monday April 13th 2015. The film screening will lead by an introduction and then discussion by Dr. Colin Helb, Asst. Professor of Communication.

HEDWIG follows the story of a transgender person who wants to be a rock star. Great music and costumes along with truths about finding ones “other half” will inspire. The film stars Hedwig creator John Cameron Mitchell who is currently starring…

HEDWIG follows the story of a transgender person who wants to be a rock star. Great music and costumes along with truths about finding ones “other half” will inspire. The film stars Hedwig creator John Cameron Mitchell who is currently starring on Broadway in the musical production of the film. 

The film screening is FREE and starts at 7 PM. The film will be shown In the Gibble Auditorium on the Elizabethtown College Campus in Elizabethtown PA.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT Mike Escobar at 717-572-9111

Make your voice heard!

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Important information about Kutztown! A lot of people need your help. Here's why ~ 
Except for about 30 some cities including the City of Reading, towns, counties, and various municipalities in PA it is legal to discriminate against anyone who is LGBTQ. Including Kutztown. LGBTQ people can be discriminated by being denied housing, employment (fired or not hired), and public accommodation and services.

A group of Kutztown Students are trying to end discrimination making Kutztown more LGBTQ friendly. They are tying to get the Town Council to listen to them. They are proposing a non discrimination ordinance based on the Doylestown model. 
They are getting no where. The town council keeps giving them the big brush off with excuses as to why they won't even listen to the proposal. Frustrated, the students at Kutztown reached out to Equality Pennsylvania.

EQ PA reached out to me, along with some others. I am reaching out to you. Here's how you can ensure nondiscrimination in Kutztown.

1. Please, contact the Town Council at Kutztown. Tell them you want to see an Equal Nondiscrimination Ordinance in Kutztown protecting all people from discrimination, including LGBTQ people.

2. Please, send this off to people you know. Get them involved so their voices are heard as well. Perhaps you know religious leaders, or business leaders and shop owners in Kutztown. Perhaps, someone who lives or works in Kutztown. Their voice needs to be heard.

3. Please attend a meeting and make our presence known.
March 10 at 7:30 p.m.
The Public Safety Committee 
Borough Building
45 Railroad St.
Kutztown, PA 19530

Please help end legal discrimination in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania needs people like you.

Thank You,

The Rev. Barbara K. Peronteau (Barb is a member of Reading Pride Celebration)

The Spectrum is looking for volunteers

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Planned Parenthood Keystone sponsors The Spectrum, a program for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, asexual and allied youth (LGBTQA ages 14 to 21.

The Spectrum meets every Wednesday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at 48 South 4th St., Reading, PA. 

Interested in making a positive change in the life of a young person in our community? Please contact Amber at spectrum@planitpa.org

Companies/Organizations Can Be On Our Resource Page

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You can still participate in the Initiative for Diversity Equality now by going here: http://www.readingpridecelebration.org/resources/.

 Read the Statement on Diversity and if you agree, provide us with the information and we will link with your site and make sure you receive a static cling sticker for your door or window to signify that your establishment welcomes all and employees are treated  equally.

Only the business/organization leaders can sign up. Thanks to all those who have already participated by signing the statement.



Reading Pride Celebration President appointed as Commissioner on the Human Relations Commission

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Reading PA – Richard L. Spangler, President of Reading Pride Celebration was appointed by Mayor Vaughn Spencer of the City of Reading and approved by City Council (7-0) on November 24th as Commissioner on the Human Relations Commission.He was sworn in on December 9th in City Hall by City Clerk Linda Kelleher.

Comm’r Spangler will be seated on the Commission on January 14th, 2015.

“I hope that an openly gay presence on the Commission will help to reflect the cultural make-up of the City while allowing furtherance of justice over discrimination.”

Comm’r Spangler views his appointment as an extension of his role as President of Pride when he advocates for equality for the LGBT Community. The City of Reading has laws that protect people from discrimination in the areas of employment, housing and public accommodation since 1955 and in 2009 an amendment was passed (6-1) adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the law which Spangler helped fight for as President of Pride. His term on the Commission expires on February 14th, 2018.

Linda Stein: The Fluidity of Gender January 15 through March 5, 2015 Exhibit opens Jan. 15, 2105

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Artist and activist Linda Stein, New York City, presents her exhibit The Fluidity of Gender, a collection of sculptures, many wearable, that suggest androgynous armor meant to empower and protect the wearer to help dispel stereotypes based on gender, sexuality, and other marginalized groups.

 

On January  21, 2015 at 7 p.m. presentation by Ms. Stein:

“A Chance to Be Brave, The Courage to Dare,”

a tour-de-force multi-media lecture that includes over 100 hundred video and still images encompassing stark truths and funny anecdotes about masculinity and bigotry, extending from the local to the global. Following the presentation, a reception and performance will be held in the gallery.

 

 

For more information or to arrange group visits, please contact: Marilyn J. Fox, gallery director, phone: 610 396 6140 or email: mjf14@psu.edu

Lady Valor on Friday, February 6 at 7pm

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In Lady Valor: The Kristin Beck Story, former U.S. Navy SEAL Christopher Beck embarks on a new mission as Kristin Beck. Kristin's journey in search of the American ideals that she protected have a whole new meaning as she lives her life truthfully as a transgender woman.


First Unitarian Universalist Church of Berks County at 416 Franklin Street, Reading, PA 19602 (610-372-0928) will be hosting a showing of "Lady Valor" on Friday, February 6 at 7pm, free and open to the community - with a general sharing of reaction/responses to the film afterward.  


Reading Pride Celebration wishes to thank the First Unitarian Universalist Church for the invitation to the community for this showing and conversation of a film dealing with transgender issues, so important to our LGBTA+ Community. 

 

Night OUT! with Reading Pride Celebration

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Join us for our first Night OUT at the Ugly Oyster Drafthaus this Friday, December 5th!  Located at 21 South 5th St in Reading, PA.  Enjoy free parking on the Cherry St Parking lot from 3-6 in designated parking spaces. $2 off drafts - $1 off drinks!  Raw bar specials from 3-6pm Buck a Shuck House Oysters and Oyster Shooters $3.50!  Steamed or raw clams $5/doz.  Steamed shrimp $10/pound.  Mussels, choose your style $8.95.  Snow crab legs $10.95/pound  Hope to see you there!!

Check out Reading Pride Celebration's website or face book page for details and updates on these social events which we will try to schedule at least once a month. A regional establishment will be selected as a social gathering place where we can meet old friends, new friends or just enjoy each others company. 

 

"Reflecting on the Future" Reading Pride Celebration's 5th Annual Interfaith Service

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This year's host place of worship is Grace Alsace United Church of Christ, 2151 Kutztown Road, Reading PA 19605.  Each year we celebrate an interfaith service that supportive places of worship participate in as we reclaim our faith that some of us were denied because of who we are.

Everyone is welcome!



LGBT WEDDING EXPO - Sunday, October 5, 2014 - Bethlehem

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LGBT WEDDING EXPO - the first of its kind in the Lehigh Valley area!

Sunday, October 5, 2014

12PM - 4PM

Blast Furnace Room

Artsquest, Bethlehem, PA



This EXPO is for everyone not just the LGBT community.  The mission is to support both the community and business as well, that are LGBT and LGBT friendly in our Lehigh Valley area.

Registration is also taking place at the event if you are not registered online.  It will be a fun event, raffles, give away, grand prize, free photo booth, A DJ for background music. 

If you have any questions or know a business that may want to participate as a vendor it is not too late yet but the booth space is filling up.

Interested in participating as a vendor?  

It's not too late!  Contact Robert Sandoval at

roberts@lehighvalleychamber.org or 917-660-0605


Check out this website for more info:

http://www.lehighvalleychamber.org/events/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=833018