Pride Reception!

Come to SALGA’s annual Pride Reception for the community as well as out-of-towners! This year, it will be at the very trendy, very hip Le Royale.

Don’t miss DJ Rekha who will be spinning beats all night long!

Where: Le Royale 21 7th Ave. South
When: Saturday June 27th at 9pm
Cover: $5 before 11pm, $10 after; $5 for students all night

Dyke March and Pre-March Brunch

Saturday, June 27th

Brunch - 1:30pm @ Dhaba (108 Lexington Ave. between 27th and 28th street)
March - 5pm @ Bryant Park (42nd St. and 5th Ave.)

Come march with SALGA dykes on June 27th. March starts at 5 p.m. sharp at Bryant Park. Please arrive by 4:45 at the latest. We will meet on the steps at Bryant Park. Bring posters, noisemakers, hula hoops.

Please also join us for a delicious $9.95 lunch at Dhaba (108 Lexington Ave between 27th and 28th Street) starting at 1:30 p.m. Please be prompt as the restaurant closes at 3pm. RSVPs are greatly appreciated. We look forward to seeing you!

The Dyke March was started in 1993 by the Lesbian Avengers in Washington, D.C. Dyke Marches now take place all over the world. The Dyke March is a protest march not a parade. We march in solidarity with all lesbians: those who are out and those who cannot be out, those who are loud and those who have been silenced. We will march until every lesbian in every corner of the world can raise her head high and be proud.

South Asian GLBT group honors families of LBT women

Khush Klatch | by Yusef Najafi in Metro Weekly (Washington DC) | Published on April 9, 2009
Link to article

There are few who could claim to have explored the relationships between GLBT South Asians and their parents as deeply as Sonali Gulati. As a documentary filmmaker, Gulati has spent much of the past five years doing just that for a film she hopes to finish later this year, Out & About.

With that theme in mind, Gulati has helped to organize an April 11 event for KhushDC, the metro area’s ‘’social, support and political group” for GLBT South Asians, of which she is a board member. ”Loving Ties: Honoring South Asian Queer Women’s Families” will be an evening of conversation, dinner and honoring parents who have supported their lesbian, bisexual and transgender daughters, commemorating March as Women’s History Month.
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Let’s talk about sex, and rights, Pakistan

A new magazine aims to spark a debate about sexuality in the Muslim country.

Andrew Buncombe reports from Lahore
Friday, 3 April
SOURCE:  The Independent

Pakistan’s first magazine about sexuality, Chay, is just three issues old yet already it is creating ripples within this conservative, buttoned-down and overwhelmingly Muslim society. And if those behind the new publication, currently only available online, fulfil their dream of producing a print edition, then those ripples may even turn to waves.

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