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Audre Lorde Project x 15 years

As many of you know, the Audre Lorde Project is one of the organizations I admire and love the most, and they're celebrating their 15th anniversary this year! Please consider supporting them, and if you're free (and in NYC that night), please join them for their 15th anniversary gala next Thursday. It will be amazing and truly inspiring. Details are below. 

To talk a little more about why I care about ALP… I was honored to serve on ALP's board for several years, and going back further (to the late 90s) as a youth volunteer. They're an organization that has shaped and sustained the queer People of Color community in NYC, from helping form and coordinate the People of Color contingent in the Gay Pride Parade in Manhattan every year to organizing trans & gender non-conforming POCs for economic and social justice (Trans Justice), to building new models of community safety and policing alternatives in the most heavily policed communities of color in Brooklyn (SOS). And theiranalysis on marriage equality from a multi-issue, liberation-for-all standpoint is still spot on and a must-read 12 years later. And they do all their work with a conscientious collective process and great accountability. From JK to Kris and Collette to the many other amazing people I worked with and struggled alongside, ALP has helped school me and true me as the kind of community ally I strive to be today. 

I'm proud to be a major donor of ALP, one of the great community organizing and movement building groups to whom I give, with love. I hope you will consider supporting them, too, on their 15th anniversary. 

ALP Celebrating 15 Years

The ALP Board, Staff, Members and Legacy Committee Proudly Present

The 15th Anniversary Celebration March 15, 2012 7pm-10pm. Doors open 6:30pm at Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012.

To purchase tickets click  HERE  (using our current system you must purchase one ticket at a time) Tickets for the event are sliding scale.  (This site works best in Firefox or Chrome, not fully functional in Internet Explorer.)   ordownload our form to purchase group sales and email completed form to [email protected]

Come out and experience the community celebration projects as we reminisce about the last 15 years with keynote address by Chrystos and performance by the Lavender Light Gospel Choir.

Chrystos is a lecturer, writing teacher, and fine artist.  Author of Not Vanishing, Dream On, In Her I Am, Fugitive Colors Fire Power, Red Rollercoaster, and Wilde Reis. Chrystos' work is in numerous anthologies including This Bridge Called My Back and Reinventing the Enemy's Language.  Read the full bio Here

Lavender Light Gospel Choir is dedicated to keeping alive the black gospel music tradition in an environment supportive to lesbian and gay people, with a special ministry to black lesbians and gays. Through our performances and recordings, we seek to uplift, entertain and educate. We strive to be a visible force in this world, offering strength, peace and hope to our members and to our audiences. Click link for full bio http://www.lavenderlight.com/index.html

Childcare available - email [email protected] to reserve space in childcare. Wheelchair accessible space, ASL interpretation provided. ALP Legacy Committee (as of 2/13/12) Vanessa Agard-Jones, Alex Bell, Lindsey Charles, Cathy Cohen, Loyda Colon, Ejeris Dixon, Glen Francis, Imani Henry, Joo-Hyun Kang, Kevin McGruder, Soniya Munshi, Sabelo Narasimhan, Dawn Philip, Amu Ptah, Lorraine Ramirez, Chandan Reddy, Svati Shah, Robert Vazquez-Pacheco, John Won ALP Board Jonathan Adams, Trishala Deb, Zahara Raine, Omer Shah, Jasbir Puar, Brandon Lacy Campos, Hollis Kam ALP Staff Irma S. Bajar, Collette Carter, Kris Hayashi, Chelsea Johnson-Long, Lolan Sevilla, Mya Laylani Vazquez, Rebecca Wisotsky Phone: [phone] Email: [email protected]