The "Letter of Greeting" from the State of Georgia's Governor Nathan Deal
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This Day Is For You

2ND ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST HOMOPHOBIA, TRANSPHOBIA AND ISLAMOPHOBIA

In The City of
Atlanta, Georgia

MAY 17, 2011
@
UNITY FELLOWSHIP CHURCH
9 Gammon Ave SE, Atlanta, Ga. 30315
6 to 10pm
Presented by
Radio Program about the LGBTQI
Community
Producer
Betty Couvertier

Sound Provided by
Meak Productions

Sponsors/Supporters
Juxtaposed Center for Transformation
Church Without Walls
The Shiz
Meak Productions
HollaBack Atlanta
GetEqual Georgia
Queer Justice Leaque
-AGenda Benda Justice
Women Healing Women

Proclamations and Resolutions
City of Atlanta
County of Fulton
Georgia House of Representatives

Mistress of Ceremonies
IMANI EVANS

RADIO ANNOUNCEMENT

6pm Meet, Greet and Eat
6:45pm Music
Computer Bar...blogging your stories

6:50pm Welcome
Miko Evans

6:55pm Open Prayer and Remarks
Elder Rev. Antonio Jones
Rev. M. Pendermon

7:05 Reading of
Letter of Greeting
From the State of Georgia's
Governor Nathan Deal
Paul EQuality Schappaugh
GetEqual Georgia

Introduction to Mistress of Ceremonies by Miko Evans

IMANI EVANS

7:10 TO 8PM READING OF PROCLAMATIONS AND RESOLUTIONS

The Honorable City Councilman Alex Wan reads Proclamation from the Atlanta City Council

The Honorable Fulton County Commissioner Joan Garner reads Resol

ution for the County of Fulton

THE HONORABLE HOUSE REPRESENTATIVE KARLA DRENNER PRESENTS RESOLUTION FOR GEORGIA HOUSE FOR THE SECOND YEAR

Live broadcast for the readings of proclamations and resolutions on WRFG 89.3fm

P.D.Battle/Phoenix YZ

is a writer, actress, and performance Poet.

8pm

LILLI LEWIS Musical Interlude

Music being provided by The Shiz

more info @ www.shizrock.com

SPEAKERS

8:30pm

Monica Helms
moved to Georgia 2000, started Transgender American Veterans Association 2003, was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention 2004

JeShawna Wholley

Spelman College Class of 2011 Program of Study: Comparative Women’s S

tudies

Intended Profession: Non-Profit Management

JeShawna Wholley is currently graduating senior at Spelman College studying Com parative Women’s Studies expecting her Bachelor’s of Arts in May 2011.

At Spelman College, JeShawna is the former president of Afrekete, the LGBTQ group, and with her fellow members they engage their campus community in conversations “against injustices and inequalities, ensuring an inclusive climate.” However her involvement does not stop there, JeShawna served as the Project Coordinator for the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance and volunteered her time with Choice USA, coordinating a call-in day for safe sex education; as well as the Feminist M

ajority Foundation, coordinating the national women of color conference at Spelman College. In addition, JeShawna is employeed as an Arcus funded student researcher in the Women’s Research and Resource Center at Spelman College. Her work has not just been noticed by peers and mentors on campus; she has garnered the attention of President Obama which led JeShawna to be invited to the White House to attend the reception in commemoration of the 42nd anniversary of the Stonewall Riot. Most in our communities have been impressed with President Obama’s recognition of our Movement’s efforts; JeShawna has had the great privilege of experiencing this first hand.

Art Izzard Queer Justice League

Tracee McDaniel

.Tracee McDaniel transgender advocate, founder & executive director of Juxtaposed Center for Transformation, Incorporated, currently operating as a 501(c)(3) Tax Exempt advocacy, social services and

consulting organization designed to socially and economically empower transgender and non-gender conforming individuals, with a vision to act as a collective body to provide basic, necessary and fundamental services to the largely diverse and complex transgender community...

Tracee was born and raised in Sumter, South Carolina and in 2007, she became the first Transgender person invited to deliver a keynote speech at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration Marc

h & Rally. Also, she was awarded the Unity Fellowship Community Leadership Award, a Proclamation Declaration from the Atlanta City Council in 2008 in recognition of her service to the community at large in addition to an S1C 2009 Transgender Community Leadership Award.

Supported and encouraged by her spouse of over thirteen years, she no longer chooses to remain content with blending in and living within the shadows of society, and she strongly encourages other trans identified individuals to “Show up, and Participate” in all levels of community advocacy and to educate themselves abou

t the political process in order to ensure that “Our voices are heard, so that our needs are met“.

Previously, living in Los Angeles, California for over fourteen years, Tracee established and managed the Minority Aids Projects’ Transgender Program providing access to HIV/AIDS risk reduction and prevention education resources to the Hollywood transgender community. In addition, her alter ego Destiny (Your Mistress of Il

lusions) has been an international performance artist entertaining on stage for more than 20 years and she’s been featured in several international feature films and popular music videos. Two of the her most memorable highlights and accomplishments as a performance artist was being hand selected by veteran producer Marty Callner to star as back-up singer and stand-in for the original diva, icon Miss Diana Ross in her music video “I Will Survive” Also, she was featured in the Jackson’s “An American Dream“ VH1 Mini Series. Tracee is semi-retired from the stage and has chosen to limit her appearances to exclusive engagements including, HIV/AIDS and Equality fundraisers.

Tracee is currently a Certified Peer Counselor, Certified HIV/AIDS Risk Reduction/Preven

tion Pre & Posttest Counselor and she’s active in various social initiatives and organizations previously serving on the Atlanta Pride Committee Board of Directors, the Human Rights Campaign Diversity Co-Chair in addition to the transgender representative on the Atlanta Police Department TLGBQ Advisory Board and most recently serving on the LGBT 2009 Host Committee for Mayoral Candidate now current Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, and elements of her story have been archived in the U.S Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Museum.

Closing Remarks and Prayer

Rev. Paul Turner of
Church Without Walls

Radio Announcement for IDAHO...

Take a listen...Meak Productions a proud sponsor of IDAHO has done it again...

http://radio.meakproductions.com/commercials/AtlantaIDAHOCommercial2011-1wTag.mp3

Proclamations and Resolutions

It is Official... City of Atlanta will issue proclamation for IDAHO...Fulton County joins the affirmation...with a resolution...Councilman Alex Wan will present for City of Atlanta...and Commission Joan Garner will present for Fulton County...

Hugh Hugh Announcement....

Our Hollaback mothership has agreed to give us some really serious real estate on our global page for IDAHO. In addition to doing a story collecting station (the logistics of which we're working out), we would like to give a king-sized platform to 6 guest bloggers to write about their experiences with harassment and discrimination for being LGB, trans, or Muslim. We are seeking bloggers willing to speak up and out against harassment: 2 gay people, 2 transgendered people, and 1 Muslim (We know a blogger who writes for an anti-Islamophobia website, and she's tentatively signed on already). Basically, we want to give a voice and a space for people to educate on the dangers of homophobia, transphobia, and Islamophobia. We will post these articles/op-eds/blogs on Atlanta's Hollaback as well as on the main site, which has an active readership in ten countries and 25 cities now (with 30 more cities coming soon!).

Do you know a few people that would be willing to have their voice heard around the world? Posting anonymously is absolutely an option for those who do not feel comfortable sharing their real names. Please feel free to pass this email along to your networks. The posts will go live throughout IDAHO week, from Sunday through Friday.

More on Hollaback http://www.facebook.com/ihollaback

New Sponsor for IDAHO 2011

Just got word that Juxtaposed Center for Transformation has signed on as a sponsor for Atlanta's International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Islamophobia 2011...thank you Tracee...and board members of JCT...we are moving forward and we are moving together.

13th Anniversary Church Without Walls Picnic

CHURCH WITHOUT WALLS

Church Without Walls will celebrate the theme of International Day Against Homophobia, Same-Sex Couples, on May 15, 2011. Read the recent article here

2011 IDAHO

2011 International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Islamophobia


May 17, 2011
Unity Fellowship Church
9 Gammon Ave SE
Atlanta, Ga 30315
6 to 10pm

ELDER Antonio Jones, Pastor

Robin McGehee of GetEQUAL interview

Robin McGehee, co-founder of GetEQUAL, offered her insights into the state of the LGBT movement during a July 13, 2010, interview on Alternative Perspectives radio produced by Betty Couvertier.

A lesbian mom turned activist, she discussed her early days in the movement in her home state of California.

Last year, Robin undertook a prominent role as a co-organizer of the National Equality March on Washington, .D.C.

Today, with Kip Williams of GetEQUAL, she leads direct action and sometimes acts of civil disobedience to hold politicians accountable for their broken promises to the LGBT community. To read about GetEQUAL's mission, vision, theory of change and background, click here.

Involved in meetings about the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) currently stalled in the House of Representatives, Robin called in to Alternative Perspectives radio in Atlanta, GA, from Washington, D.C., during a break.

To listen to the podcast of the interview with Robin McGehee, click here.