Ai Pride

Drag show will be held on Saturday April 24, 2010 6:00 PM

2233 W Dunlap Avenue Phoenix, Arizona in room 202.

Admission is $5.00 per person, and contestants enter free.

Food and beverages will also be provided at the event.

If you are interested in participating in the drag show please email us at aipride2@gmail.com. with your name, and a brief description of what you will be doing. If you have music please provide us with a cd, and if you would like extra time to set up the stage.

Winnings include:

Best of Show + $50.00 cash prize

Most Comical + $50.00 cash prize

Best Dressed + $50.00 cash prize

Best Performance + $50.00 cash prize

I recieved an email this week about a young man who was murdered due to hate crimes. I wanted to post this because I am horrified by what I just read.

“19-year-old aspiring fashion artist Jorge Steven López Mercado was found on Friday night decapitated, dismembered, and partially burned. According to authorities, the investigation has shown that it is indeed a hate crime.”

“The police investigator suggested that he deserved what he got because of the ‘type of lifestyle’ he was leading”

see the follow website for more details…

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/18/puerto.rico.gay.teen.slain/index.html

“Sure why can’t they get married? They should suffer like the rest of us!”

Thank you Dolly for your support!

See for yourself

Check out our new page for photos and exciting tails from Pride’s journeys.

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As a fundraising event we are holding a Silly Supper, and we need your recipes. In the Silly Supper we are going to be selling recipe books that include your stories and cultural or favorite recipes. If you would like to have your recipe within this book please include these recipes with stories which should be between 100 to 200 words:

Holiday:

Recipe: This should be something that you or your family have during the holiday.

Story: The story that should accompany this recipe should be a family event, ex. games played, traditions that are in event form.

Bread:

Recipe: Any type of bread that is eaten during the holiday with you or your family.

Story: The story that should accompany this recipe are your future goals.

Culture:

Recipe: This should be a recipe that maybe your mother, or grandmother makes all the time, or maybe something that you remember having during the holidays that is unique to your family.

Story: Describe your culture, or describe the culture of the food that you are writing about.

Dessert:

Recipe: This should be slomething that you are a fan of, and have to have it every holiday season, or it could be something that you are not fond of, but it is still made and eaten during the holidays within your family.

Story: Why is this dessert your favorite?

Please email all of your recipes to aipride2@gmail.com Make sure to include a photo of you, your name and a brief bio of yourself. Also make sure your stories are between 100-200 words in length. We hope to see your name in our books, good luck!

Be ready for vacation, because we are going to the Grand Canyon on Tuesday, October 20, 2009. Why are we going you ask? Becuase AIPX has an institution day and students have no class, it is also a chance for the AIPX Pride Club to bond and become closer. If you would like to join please email aipride2@gmail.com by friday with a first and last name, are you willing to drive, and an emergency contact person. Cost per person is $10, and we will also be packing lunch. We will be leaving from the school on Tuesday at 9:30 AM.

“Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S. 620 (1996), is a United States Supreme Court case dealing with civil rights and state laws. The Court gave its ruling on May 20, 1996 against an amendment to the Colorado state constitution that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action from recognizing homosexual citizens as a Protected class.

On November 3, 1992, Colorado voters, with a vote of 53.4 percent, enacted “Amendment 2″, which read:

Neither the state of Colorado, through any of its branches or departments, nor any of its agencies, political subdivisions, municipalities or school districts, shall enact, adopt or enforce any statute, regulation, ordinance or policy whereby homosexual, lesbian or bisexual orientation, conduct, practices or relationships shall constitute or otherwise be the basis of, or entitle any person or class of persons to have or claim any minority status, quota preferences, protected status or claim of discrimination. This Section of the Constitution shall be in all respects self-executing.

The amendment was drafted and promoted by the organization Colorado for Family Values, and it would have effectively prevented any laws banning discrimination against gays, and thereby nullified gay rights laws that already existed in Aspen, Denver, and Boulder.

An immediate legal challenge was launched by gay rights groups. On January 15, 1993 the groups were granted a temporary injunction from 2nd District Court Judge Jeffrey Bayless preventing Amendment 2 becoming part of the state constitution, on the grounds of its possible unconstitutionality and possible irreparable harm that would be caused by its implementation. The court scheduled a trial to decide the case.

Before the trial could begin, the state appealed to the Colorado Supreme Court. On July 19, 1993, that court upheld the original injunction, on the grounds that Amendment 2 violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, insofar as Amendment 2 denied gays equal rights to normal political processes. Chief Justice Luis Rovera wrote:

Were Amendment 2 in force [...] the sole political avenue by which this class could seek such protection [against discrimination] would be through the constitutional amendment process.

The state Supreme Court demanded that the legislation face “strict scrutiny” and prove that it advanced a “compelling state interest”, and returned the case to the District Court for trial. Judge Bayless found that the amendment failed the test, and ruled it unconstitutional on December 14, 1993.

Colorado appealed to the State Supreme Court, which affirmed the District Court’s decision on October 11, 1994, and appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.”

1.Where did the event take place and when?
1996 Colorado (United States Supreme Court)

2.Who did the event effect?
This event effected all members of the LGBTQ community, and American communities as a whole.

3.What do you think about the event?
I don’t think homosexual individuals need to be part of a protected class, equality is all I’d ask for personally.

4.Do you think the event could have had a better out come if?
I think this outcome is rational. It was a long battle back and forth, with a pleasing end.

5.Is there still an ongoing issue from the event?
There are still many people who are against this, but like with any social issue, there always will be.

Please feel free to comment with your own answers to the above questions, or any opinions on the matter yourself! Also, Google “Romer v. Evans” there is a plethora of information on the case on the internet, some from creditable sources, some not so much. I quoted Wikipedia above, but only because the information matches up with information I found elsewhere, and in a more concise readable manner.

Welcome back to school!
Good luck this quarter &
have a good night!

-Kari Anne >.<

We were all given a contest to create awareness. The first person to post wins a prize and the last person who post gets a pie in there face at the club fair on Tuesday of next week. We have our winner we are just waiting for the one who post last. Either way I know that I maybe the one to get the pie in my face. I am the President and all. The contest was to find something that has happened between 1982 and 2005. I wanted everyone to post important things that has happened in our community. This is something that will build our team and get us ready for the Equality Week.

Not to long ago a tragic scene occurred in Laramie Whyoming. On October 1998 Matthew Shepard Died after he was beaten and left to die on a fence. Why? Because he was gay. Right now I could continue writing about this horrible crime that took place but instead I am going to refer you to the movie The Laramie Project.

I find that Matthew Shepard is a hero a stepping stone to our future. I also find that it is a shame that someone had to die because of his sexuality. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeAxn1vDONg Watch this its a clip from The Laramie Project.

We are the Pride club on campus. We need to provide awareness for the school and community.

http://www.stophate.us/shepard/

http://www.matthewshepard.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Matthews_Place_Home_Page