Color Me Queer - Pride Party

Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 7pm - 3am
@ Duvet
(45 W 21st Street, New York, NY - between 5th and 6th Avenues) Map
$15 before 8pm and $20 after

After the parade enjoy Hip-hop, House and Bollywood with SALGA and ALP @ the luxurious Duvet as DJs Tikka Masala, AK-Right, & Rimarkable give pride the crescendo it deserves!

To get advance tickets please e-mail us at salganyc@hotmail.com

Brooklyn Pride Parade

Come march with the the SALGA contingent in the Brooklyn Pride

June 13th @ 7:30pm - Prospect Park, Brooklyn

The parade route is along 15th St. - starting at Bartel Pritchard Circle on 15th Street and Prospect Park West by the movie theatre and finishes up at Lincoln Place and 7th Avenue in Park Slope.

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.

Manhattan Pride Parade - Jun 28th

Manhattan Pride Parade - Sunday June 28, 2009
Come and march alongside the SALGA Float - live Dhol player and Bollywood music!

Marching with salga at the pride parade!

Volunteering for pride: contact us at salganyc@hotmail.com to volunteer and/or to contribute to the pride festivities in any way!

When All You Have Left Is Your Pride

Look around you. On the train platform, at the bus stop, in the car pool lane: these days someone there is probably faking it, maintaining a job routine without having a job to go to.

Tim Bower

The Wall Street type in suspenders, with his bulging briefcase; the woman in pearls, thumbing her BlackBerry; the builder in his work boots and tool belt — they could all be headed for the same coffee shop, or bar, for the day.

“I have a new client, a laid-off lawyer, who’s commuting in every day — to his Starbucks,” said Robert C. Chope, a professor of counseling at San Francisco State University and president of the employment division of the American Counseling Association. “He gets dressed up, meets with colleagues, networks; he calls it his Western White House. I have encouraged him to keep his routine.”

The fine art of keeping up appearances may seem shallow and deceitful, the very embodiment of denial. But many psychologists beg to differ.
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