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Jun 21
The month of June is LGBTQ+ Pride month, with lots of festivities happening around the Bay, and the LightHouse is buzzing with pre-Pride planning! The Community Services Team would like to invite our LGBTQ+ community members, their families, friends and allies to celebrate the intersectionality of LGBTQ+ and blindness at our “Pride Happy Hour & LGBTQ+ Community Conversation” featuring a special panel discussion. Our conversations will center on LGBTQ+ heritage and intersectionality within our community. Get started with the 30% & Growing crew at 5 PM for a special Pride Happy Hour edition of 30% & Growing to mix and mingle before we dialogue and discuss. At 6:30 PM, join us for an engaging evening and discussion about what it means to live at the intersection of multiple marginalized identities. Individuals with multiple marginalized identities are among the most stigmatized and excluded in our society. The stigma faced by our community often leads to poor health and education outcomes, affecting chances for participation in society and further perpetuating violence, abuse, and exploitation. At the LightHouse we are committed to changing this reality and have several programs tackling some of the issues most prevalent in our community. This Community Conversation will bring together disabled LGBTQ+ community members and organizers who identify as blind or visually impaired to consider the current state of disability activism in LGBTQ+ communities. Topics of conversations will include: employment, health, housing, relationships, identity, and the unique needs of our community. Don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity to explore intersectionality and diversity in our community. To RSVP for this event please contact Laura Millar at lmillar@lighthouse-sf.org or 415-694-7345. If you haven’t registered to march in our pan-disability contingent you can sign up here. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/join-us-for-pride-2018-and-be-seen-tickets-36231902596
