Lambda Alliance Newsletter, 4/27/2009
Dear All,
There are only two days of classes this week, but there’s still a lot to do. This Saturday, join Lambda Alliance and the rest of the 5B for Mosaic: The First Annual Intercultural Ball. Details are below, but it’s going to be a great time and you should all attend. Email MosaicFormal@gmail.com to RSVP. Also this weekend, join QSA at the National Equality Rally, the biggest LGBT rally in our nation’s history!
Finally, please take a few minutes
to take the LGBT Center’s marketing research survey. The
link is <http://www.surveymonkey.com/
and the answers you provide are really important to the future of the Center.
Have a great summer!
Your Lambda Board,
Dennie Zastrow, Chair
Baylee Feore, Vice Chair of Political Affairs
Kyle Lutkewitte, Vice Chair of Internal Affairs
Tyler Ernst, Vice Chair of Finance and Development
Paul Richards, Vice Chair of Communications
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Calendar of Events
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QSA
Questioning Event
Date: 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month
Time: 8:00 p.m.
QSA will be hosting a questioning event every 2nd and 4th Monday of the
month for people who are either in the closet or who have any questions about
sexuality. If you know anyone who'd benefit from this service, please pass on
this information. Location will be sent out to emails anonymously. Please
e-mail: questioning-us@lists.upenn.edu
QSA
Office Hours
Date/Time: Mondays from 10 – 10:50 a.m.
Come hang out with QSA Board members to chat and eat some snacks :)
QSA Dinner and a Movie: DROP DEAD GORGEOUS
Date: Wednesday, April 29
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: LGBT Center
QSA's last general body meeting will be a movie night with FREE
PIZZA to help you relax during Reading Days! Drexel's LGBT group
FUSE will be joining us to make signs for the National Equality Rally! Come
watch Kirsten Dunst and Denise Richards battle for the crown in Drop Dread
Gorgeous, our favorite beauty pageant mock-u-mentary! Good company,
good food, and GREAT inspiration for alternate career paths if exams don't go
well. :)
See you there!
Gay Grillin’ with QSA and
PATH at The National Equality Forum’s BB“Q”
Date: Saturday, May 2
Time: 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Place: The “Gayborhood” – 13th Street b/w Walnut and Locust
QSA is taking our annual
BB"Q" downtown to celebrate with Equality Forum and LGBTQA people
from all over the country! This will be the biggest QUEER block party you've
ever seen!
There will be food, friends, and free stuff!
We will be taking the subway down (some of us may walk down if the weather is
nice), so plan on meeting up at 4:40 P.M at the LGBT Center.
Make sure to bring subway tokens! (or $2 each way)
Mosaic: The First Annual Intercultural Ball
Date: Saturday, May 2
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Location: Woodlands Ballroom of the Inn at Penn
Join the Asian Pacific Student Coalition, Lambda Alliance, Latino Coalition, Penn Consortium of Undergraduate Women, UMOJA, and the United Minorities Council for a fancy time. A $5 ticket will get you a three-course meal, performances from your favorite Penn groups, and a night of dancing. Email MosaicFormal@gmail.com to RSVP. Do it now!
National
Equality Rally
Date: Sunday, May 3
Time: 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Location: Chestnut St. b/w 5th and 6th Streets (Independence Hall)
THIS IS THE BIGGEST LBGT RALLY IN
OUR NATION'S HISTORY!!!!!
COME MARCH FOR LGBT RIGHTS
WITH ORGANIZATIONS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD!
We are going to meet up to at the LGBT Center
at 2:00 P.M. to head down. (If you are already downtown for the other
Equality Forum events, call Anna Aagenes at 
267-614-5567
to find our group.
Once again, this is going to MAKE HISTORY!
RSVP here: http://www.facebook.com/
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What else is new?
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LGBT Center Survey
The LGBT Center at the University of Pennsylvania is trying to find out more about our impact at Penn and in the surrounding community. Take a brief, anonymous and confidential survey to give us your opinion about our current activities and future programs and services. Once you’re done, forward it along to friends, colleagues, and anyone else you know who can help us do the best job possible.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.
This survey is being conducted by The
Nonprofit Center at LaSalle University.
For more information about the survey, please contact
Jason D. Alexander, <jason@capacityforchange.com>.
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