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#12x12: SAVE Dade Launches Voter Engagement Trainings
New laws in the State of Florida have made it next to impossible for organizations like SAVE Dade to register voters. Despite this challenge, we have worked with other community leaders to develop a unique and powerful solution. Please sign up using the link below to join us at our first voter engagement training on September 25 and learn how you can help advance the movement for equality in South Florida by increasing LGBT voter registration.
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Norberto Molina Jr., R.N.
Each month, SAVE Dade invites members of our community to share their stories. Last weekend, we honored our workforce with Labor Day, and today, we would like to share with you the story of Norberto Molina Jr., a registered nurse, and active member of SEIU Local 1991. In 2007, SAVE Dade played an active role in establishing new procedural guidelines for hospitals to provide access and care to LGBT families. Norberto's story sheds light on this important issue from a perspective within Jackson Memorial Hospital.
"In February 2007, Janice Langbehn’s partner of 18 years, Lisa Marie Pond was rushed to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital and claimed she was denied access to her partner until after she died because she was not related.
"Stories can sometimes be misunderstood or, when told over and over, tend to change. When I heard about the case involving Janice Langbehn and her family and the accusations against our hospital, I felt inclined to do more research."
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Brian McNaught: Stepping Outside Our Comfort Zones
The religious parents of a gay man are coming from the Bible Belt to see their gay son get married on Fire Island in a few weeks. I called them in advance to walk them through the ceremony at which I’ll be officiating. They later called their son to say how much they appreciated being prepared for what the event would look and feel like. Their anxiety was lower.
When we leave our comfort zones, as this mom and dad are doing by departing the security of their heterosexual, southern lives to travel north to one of the gay Meccas of the world, two things usually happen to us. We initially feel anxious about the unknown and how we’re going to find our footing, and we realize that we have the opportunity to grow in ways otherwise not possible.
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Florida Together Statewide Conference Coming to Miami September 24
Join Florida Together and more than 80 local LGBT member organizations for the 2011 Conference with some of the most energetic, dynamic, nationally known speakers. Learn how they all take different roads, and find your own road, to our shared destination – full equality for all Americans. Saturday, September 24, FIU Biscayne Bay Campus.
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TransCon: Justice Summit
SAVE Dade is a proud community partner and sponsor of the 2011 TransCon: Justice Summit. This year's conference will focus on aiding legal and professional institutions gain a greater understanding about issues dealing with the Transgender Community concerning institutionalized discrimination, the basics of legal gender transition and the challenges of gaining access to healthcare.
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SAVE Dade’s mission is to promote, protect and defend equality for people in Miami-Dade County who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. Established in 1993, SAVE Dade accomplishes this mission through education initiatives, outreach, grassroots organizing, and advocacy. Starting with the landmark passage of Miami's Human Rights Ordinance in 1998 to recent enactments of domestic partner benefit policies, SAVE continues to lead the fight for LGBT equality in Miami-Dade County through grassroots action focused on civil rights, parental rights, and relationship recognition through political advocacy, community outreach, candidate endorsements.
305-751-SAVE (7283) | 1-800-396-8709 f |
www.savedade.org | savedade@savedade.org
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TransCon: Justice Summit
October 1-2
FIU Biscayne Bay Campus
Celebrate Orgullo
October 1, 12-6PM
Miami Beach
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