We invite you to celebrate with us by reflecting on the proclamation above at our 6th Annual Interfaith Service and Fellowship.
Saturday, July 11, 2015
7:00 PM
First Unitarian Universalist Church of Berks County
416 Franklin Street
Reading PA 19602
Participating Faith Communities from the following Traditions: Native American, Buddhism, Judaism and Christianity.
ALL community members and ALL allies from anywhere are welcome and strongly encouraged to join us. The press WILL be there! Bring your flags and your best signs to celebrate!
We will be gathering on the Reading side of the Penn Street bridge tonight at 5:30pm. Please make sure to not block the sidewalk for anybody else who needs to use the sidewalk.
Some street parking is available, but there is plenty of safe parking in the garage behind the IMAX theater.
And if you can't make it, we still want to see you celebrate! Tag us in your photos at home, work, or wherever you're celebrating marriage equality! Use the tags #DecisionDay and #RPC!
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Reading Pride Celebration (RPC) is proud to support LGBT community health, and is proud that our pride festival will be designated as smoke free this year! This is made possible thanks to a grant that our friends at Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center received from the PA Department of Health to raise awareness about the effects of tobacco on the LGBT Community.
Also as part of that grant, Bradbury-Sullivan Center is conducting a survey of LGBT-identified people in the Greater Lehigh Valley. We encourage our supporters to participate! It takes about 10-minutes, and results will be used to determine the need for future LGBT health programs in our region: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BradSullNeedsAssess
A Sponsor of RPC 2015:
Richard Spangler, President
Reading Pride Celebration
*PLEASE NOTE*
THE ACTUAL DATE OF THIS EVENT IS TO BE DETERMINED. IT WILL ONLY OCCUR ON THE EVENING THAT THE SUPREME COURT RULES FROM 5:30PM UNTIL 7:00PM.
Possible dates of the event:
-Thursday, June 25, 2015
-Friday, June 26th, 2015
-Monday, June 29th, 2015
-We anticipate additional days will be added and will post here as they are.
Join Reading Pride Celebration as we come together on the day the Supreme Court of the United States officially hands down its decision on whether the 14th Amendment to the Constitution requires states to license marriages between same-sex couples, and whether it requires states to recognize such marriages when licensed by other states.
ALL community members and ALL allies from anywhere are welcome and strongly encouraged to join us upon the announcement that marriage equality is the law of the land on #DecisionDay!
Bring your flags and your best signs to celebrate!
We will be gathering on the Reading side of the Penn Street bridge that evening at 5:30pm. Please make sure to not block the sidewalk for anybody else who needs to use the sidewalk.
Some street parking is available, but there is plenty of safe parking in the garage behind the IMAX theater.
Spread the word! Spread the word! SPREAD THE WORD!
Show up and celebrate LOVE with us! Hope to see you there!
Sign up for text updates for this (and all future) official Reading Pride Celebration event!
To receive messages via text, text "@rpctexts" to 81010.
You can opt-out of messages at anytime by replying, 'unsubscribe @rpctexts'.
Trouble using 81010? Try texting "@rpctexts" to (484) 948-4056 instead.
Standard text message rates apply. All personal information is kept private. Reading Pride Celebration will never see your phone number, nor will you see theirs. (Visit remind.com to learn more about this service.)
Join us for the OFFICIAL Post-Pride Party of Reading Pride Celebrationafter the festival on Sunday July 19, 2015 at the Crowne Plaza Goodnights Lounge in Reading, from 6pm until midnight! This year we will have a drag show with Alexxus Kane, Miss Gay Pennsylvania America 2000, Victoria Robinson Miss Gay Pennsylvania America 2014, and the dancing diva herself, Fauxie DeFauxie De-Glamouré! We will also have a light food menu and drink specials! Cover charge is $5. This is a 21 and over event!
1996 Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award – Best Musical! Winner! 1996 Pulitzer Prize! An inspiring musical about friends and artists struggling with addiction, poverty, AIDS and most of all, love. “What makes Rent so wonderful is not its hipness quotient, but its extraordinary spirit of hopeful defiance and humanity.” – The New York Times
It's time, once again, to choose a Queen and/or King of Reading Pride Celebration!
This year, we have moved away from a standard run-of-the-mill pageant and put the decision of our next Miss/Mr. Reading Pride Celebration into the hands of our community. We hope you are as excited as we are to see the new contest format!
Please read all of the enclosed information carefully and return all signed forms and an electronic or paper copy of your valid state ID before May 27th, 2015. When submitting your application, please make sure to include your required information for Round 1. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our Miss/Mr. Reading Pride Celebration liaison, Kim Kalbach, at mustbekimmie@yahoo.com
All submissions for the contest should be sent to the contest coordinator at rpccontest@gmail.com. In addition to electronic submissions, all required submissions may be done by giving physical copies to any Reading Pride Celebration committee member, sent by mail, or dropped off in person at a Reading Pride Celebration general membership or subcommittee meeting. When providing physical copies, please make sure it is on an unscratched CD that is clearly labeled with your contestant name and which round it is for. If mailing your application, it must be sent early enough to be received by June 26th, 2015. Any mailed applications received after this date will be refused.
To mail you application, please send it to:
Reading Pride Celebration
PO Box 15242
Reading, PA 19612
Reading Pride Celebration reserves the right to refuse any application.
Download the application here!
Fundraiser for the LBGTQ+ community in Chester County:
“Join us in June for our inagural Community-Wide “LGBTea Dance” Fundraising event. We are in the process of establishing a non-profit to foster a safe and supportive environment for the LGBTQA community through social fundraising events. Our goal is to partner with organizations, corporations, and current community inititiaves to develop and grow LGBTQA community programs that help our kids, friends, and family members get the support they need right here in Chester County.
This June, we will host an event at Fellowship Hall in Phoenixville. All profits from the night’s event will be used to fund the nonprofit start-up costs and support the GSA (Gender & Sexuality Alliance) Club at our local Phoenixville Area High School. The kids are ecstatic to have community support and have agreed to create the decorations and programs themselves with our assistance.They have decided to use the money raised to fund programs at their school and pay for a field trip to New York to learn more about the LGBTQA history and culture, including a visit to Stonewall.
Join us for a night of fun and dancing!! Enjoy music by DJ Sal, an appetizer and dinner buffet, desserts provided by Marly’s BYOB and Bridge Street Chocolates, FREE goodie bags from local businesses and organizations, silent auctions, 50/50 raffles, and MORE!!
Tickets will go fast, so purchase soon. If you are interested in becoming a corporate sponsor, please contact Rachel Stevenson at lgbteadances@gmail.com for 484-447-0089.
Thank you in advance for ALL of your support. We are blessed to live in such an amazing community and look forward to create this new non-profit right here in town.”
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 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
RSVP on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/events/807962229257109/
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)
Reading Pride Celebration
201 Washington Street, Office #517
Reading, PA 19601
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