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Amelia's has had a resounding good year with both the book group and the Sunday Suppers meeting successfully almost every month. This year we also had Kayaking and Christmas partying. The email list moved to yahoo when Mandy was targeted as a spammer by AOL. Click here to sign up for emails there or just look at the archives where every Amelia's email since inception is available. We are also now working on our Amelia's 25th anniversary celebration. The only disappointment of the year was that very few donations came in, so the Valley News ad was terminated. Rainbow Resources of NH, which keeps a searchable database of GLBTQ community information on the internet, has prepared a down loadable PDF Lifeline guide for the NH and VT queer community. Email Mandy to get your free copy. The NH Supreme Court ruled in November that a woman having an affair with another woman was not guilty of adultery, which her husband had accused her of in their divorce proceedings. NH law defines adultery as one specific sex act and the justices refused to broaden the definition in this case. Dartmouth College has just announced its film series for the winter term and the theme is a gay and lesbian one. Be sure to check out the Dartmouth site as some of these movies are sure to be winners that many of us never saw on the big screen before. |
The Tip Top Café, which was fast becoming the Upper Valley venue of choice for the queer community, has closed its doors. Space in the building is still available for community events, but the Cafe will be sorely missed. The former executive director of Brattleboro [Vt.] Community Television is suing the nonprofit station, alleging that she was fired because she is a lesbian. Robin Chaia Mide, who left the station in July, accuses the station of wrongful termination, breach of good faith and fair dealing, intentional and reckless infliction of emotional distress, discrimination based on sexual orientation, and retaliatory discharge from employment. "In my 15 to 20 years of working in employment law, I have rarely seen a discrimination case this blatant," said Mide's attorney, Norman Watts of Watts Law Firm in Woodstock, Vt. "My client was terminated because of her sexuality." Seacoast NH Outright was recently selected to participate in a national school climate survey conducted by GLSEN, the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network. Preliminary results of the survey indicated that 55.5 percent of the youth responding did not feel safe in their schools because of their sexual orientation.
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