Center Activities for March 2007
Ski with other 7 Rivers LGBT Resource Center People
Brandon is organizing a skiing day On March 10, 2007. His message to you is below.
For those of you who haven't gone skiing yet this season, you'll want to join us at Granite Peak in Wausau on March 10. They are 100% open, 700 foot vertical with a good solid base. Lift tickets are $52 (if you buy from their website) and they are open from 9am-9pm. If you just want to ski at night (4pm-9pm), tickets are $28. Let me know if you are interested, and I hope to see you all there!
Brandon Hayes: brandonshayes@yahoo.com
Help Create La Crosse Pride 2007
Volunteers are wanted for the fun and important job of organizing Pride 2007. Meet with the committee at the 7 Rivers LGBT Resource Center, 303 Pearl Street, at 7:15 pm on both March 12 and 26. Everyone is welcome to help!
For upcoming meeting dates, check the Center website calendar
LGBT Movie Night at the Pearl Street Theatre, i.e. The 7 Rivers LGBT Resource Center.
Mark your calendars for our Resource Center's monthly "Movie Night" being held on the 1st Saturday of March, April and May 2007. We will be showing lgbt movies at our Center, 303 Pearl Street.
We're providing popcorn but feel free to bring other snacks and a non-alcoholic beverage. $5.00 suggested donation to the Center.
March 3, 2007
The Broken Hearts Club: a Romantic Comedy (2000)
The lives of a group of gay friends in West Hollywood revolve around the Broken Hearts, a restaurant run by the fatherly Jack (John Mahoney) and the softball team he sponsors. The friends (Dean Cain, Zach Braff, Andrew Keegan) rely on each other for conversation and camaraderie as they search for love and mourn their many losses. Directed by Greg Berlanti, 96 minutes
April 7, 2007
Desert Hearts (1985)
Uptight literature professor Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver) heads to Reno, Nevada in 1959 for a quickie divorce. While staying with Frances Parker (Audra Lindley) at her ranch to establish residency, Bell meets Parker’s adopted daughter (Patricia Charbonneau), a casino worker 10 years her junior. Bell finds herself increasingly drawn to the open and self-assured lesbian, and their developing intimacy releases buried emotions Bell has never explored. Directed by Donna Deitch, 91 minutes
May 5, 2007
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Two sheepherders – Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar (Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger) – meet and fall in love while working together near Wyoming’s Brokeback Mountain in 1963. Over the next 20 years, their lives take different courses: Jack becomes a rodeo cowboy while Ennis remains a ranch hand. Screenwriter Larry McMurtry’s adaptation of a short story by E. Annie Proulx. Directed by Ang Lee, 134 minutes
Ongoing Center Activities
Weekly Activities
Coulee Region LGBT Group for Adults
We have recently formed a group for persons over age 20 to connect with others in the LGBT community. We look forward to engaging in a variety of activities, from potlucks to topical discussions, to camping. Our primary purpose is to provide a safe space where people can meet and pursue activities that they find meaningful. The group meets every week, and welcomes anyone that is LGBT, questioning their identity, or is an ally. We currently meet on Tuesday’s at 6:00 pm, at the Center on 303 Pearl St. If you have any questions or would like to be added to the group’s listserv, please call Connie at (608) 784-0452.
GALAXY
GALAXY, a YWCA sponsored program for lgbt youth, meets every Thursday at 6:00 pm at the Center.
Monthly Activities
Gender Queer/Transgender Gathering at the Center:
Do you identify as gender queer? How about Transgender? Do you ever feel like you don’t fit in because of your gender identity or expression? Then come to a monthly discussion group at the 7 Rivers LGBT Resource Center. The group meets on the first Wednesday of the month at 7:00. For more information contact: vanroose.kath@uwlax.edu. For upcoming meeting dates, check the Center website calendar
Genderqueer – A gender variant person whose gender identity is neither male nor female, is between or beyond genders, or is some combination of genders. This person may want to challenge gender stereotypes and the gender binary system.
Transgender – A person who lives as a member of a gender other than that expected based on anatomical sex.
Women's Book Group:
The women's books group changed its schedule and will read Eleanor Roosevelt volume I by Blanche Wisen Cook, for March. The discussion will take place at 4:30 on Sunday, March 25, 2007. See the 7 Rivers LGBT Resource Center website calendar for more details: website calendar