Pride Guide 2006 GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE
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MICHAEL MAHLER
Picnickers gather in front of the Rotary Pavilion for last year's Family Portrait.
Erie Pride Picnic returns to June's second Saturday
by Michael K. Mahler
Erie, Pa.-The Pride Erie Picnic will be held on Saturday, June 10 at Presque Isle State Park. Please note that the picnic has returned to its usual date on the second Saturday in June this year.
The picnic will be held at the nifty Rotary Pavilion, which is close to the three cabins near the Waterworks Beach. The Pride Picnic runs from 1 to 6 pm. Food will be served from 2 to 4 pm, and the family portrait will be taken at 4 pm.
Photos of the site, as well as previous events, are at the Erie Gay News photo blog at www.eriegaynews.com/photoblog. The location has electricity, a small kitchen with a cooler, a larger dining area, restrooms in the same building, and a lovely floating dock nearby.
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Hot dogs, hamburgers and beverages will be provided. Please bring a dish to pass. Paper plates and plastic silverware will be available. Donations are gratefully accepted. Organizers ask that those with online access register before the event www.eriegaynews.com/pride/register.php. Please stop at the check in table when you arrive to either confirm your online registration or fill out the form. Name tags will be available for those who want them, and participants can use first name, full name or screen name if they choose to wear a name tag.
Pride Erie Picnic organizers also ask that guests bring a non-perishable item for the Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Pennsylvania. Donations will be collected at the picnic and brought to the Food Bank.
Volunteers are needed to serve one-hour work shifts in the kitchen area or at the registration table, as well as cleanup. This helps
ease the workload for all.
As always, straight friends and families are most heartily welcome. Feel free to bring children or parents, but parents are responsible for taking care of their kids. (There is playground equipment near the pavilion.)
The festivities will start at 1 pm with games (including the perennial favorite, volleyball). Photographers will be around taking pictures. You can be in photos or not, as you choose. In addition to the photos of folks enjoying the picnic, there will also be an area where folks can have their photos taken for the Erie Gay News Friends and Supporters web page. Again, all photos are optional. We will be including the photos on Erie Gay News' home page and in an upcoming print edition.
Bring lawn chairs, blankets, rollerblades and sunscreen. Volunteers are asked to help with clean up, cooking and set up. If you would like to volunteer, contact Michael Mahler at 814-456-9833 or e-mail info@eriegaynews.com or Brian Skelly at 814-452-6228 or e-mail imcw97@ hotmail.com.
Because of state law, alcohol and sales by outside vendors are not permitted. Please respect this. Those who bring alcohol, or are obviously drunk, will be asked to leave the picnic.
For more info on Presque Isle State Park, go to www.presqueisle.org.
For general info about Erie area, visit either www.goerie.com or www.eriepa.com. And, of course, if you are looking for GLBT resources in the area, look at our resources section at www.eriegaynews.com/ resources.php.
Michael Mahler is the editor of Erie Gay News and one of the organizers of the Pride Erie Picnic.
Hawaiian luau set for Youngstown Pride Center
by Thomas Copeland
Youngstown-The Pride Center of Greater Youngstown aims to promote community development and a sense of security among gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and all questioning people in the Mahoning Valley through social, educational, and support programs and the establishment of a safe place for these programs to take place.
This community center, where GLBT people and their non-gay allies may meet on common ground and without disguise, is organized and operated exclusively to educate and reduce prejudice and discrimination between the GLBT and heterosexual communities and to relieve the effects of such prejudice and discrimination.
The Pride Center of Greater Youngstown operates at the First Unitarian Church of Youngstown, 1105 Elm Street, Youngstown. To contact the Pride Center, e-mail youngstownpride@hotmail.com, call 330747-7433 (74-PRIDE) or go to the new website at http://pride.amercanmetaphysics.org.
Support group meetings are held every Wednesday from 7:30-10 pm. Business meetings are on the first Saturday of the month from 5-7 pm.
The Pride Center of Greater Youngstown's next party will be an Hawaiian luau at the Pride Center on June 24 from 6-10 p.m.
Thomas Copeland is the secretary of the Pride Center of Greater Youngstown.
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