TranscendTranscendTranscend is a new group for FTMs and SOFFAs in the Tampa area. If there's anyone interested in attending please contact me for more info or check out our wer site at http://www.geocities.com/transcendfl/homepage.html.
TRANSFORM: The
Transgender Health Project of Miami-Dade Transgender Transsexual Drag Queen Draq King
Crossdresser MtF FtM Transman Transwoman
Gender Queer Two Spirit Third Gender Gender Bender
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T-Groups are by, for, and about transgender people and are fun, free, gatherings that bring transgender people together to hang out and talk about the issues that are important to them. All trans-people are welcome. T-Groups meet the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month.
For more information, contact Naomi at 305-532-1033 or by email Naomi@sobeaids.org.
Compass, New England's largest FTM support group
We meet in Boston on the First Thursday of the month. Also, pretty soon there will be a New England BBQ for gender groups and a free book signing by the author of the recently published FTM book called Phallus Palace. His name is Dean Kotula. The Date is September 7th from 1-4pm at IFGE, the Internation Foundation for Gender Educaiton. In Waltham MA. www.ifge.org
Smith College 98 Green St Box 7555 Northampton, MA 01063-1000Leatherboy group formingAny leatherboys/bois/boyz of any gender, age (over 18), appearance or sexual orientation are welcome to attend meetings of New England Boys of Leather / aka NEAL (New England Alliance of Leatherboys).
For further information contact oslboy2001@aol.com
Meetings held at a private home in Arlington
MA (next to Cambridge)
Please RSVP to oslboy2001@aol.com for directions.
Facilitator:
Kip Davidson
Ocean State Leatherboy 2001
Fenway Launches Bisexual Health Program(Boston, MA) Fenway Community Health (Fenway) announces the launch of a new bisexual health program called BiHealth, aimed at providing HIV/STD prevention and education to address the health concerns of those who have sex with men and women. Funded by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, BiHealth is the first and only program of its kind in the Commonwealth, and is one of the few publicly-funded HIV prevention programs for bisexuals in the country.
Fenway's BiHealth program targets bisexuals, as well as those who have sex with men and women but do not identify as bisexual, including men, women, and transgendered people. BiHealth seeks to be a resource in greater Boston which supports healthy living. People who have bisexual behavior often do not receive the HIV prevention and education they need because of invisibility or biphobia (the fear and/or hatred of bisexuals). BiHealth will provide information and education both locally and nationally. In addition, the program will offer telephone and in-person counseling, support groups, and community events.
For more information about the new BiHealth
program at Fenway, please call Marshall Miller at 617-927-6032 or
email
mmiller@fenwayhealth.org.
Gender Identity ProjectThe GIP is the Gender Identity Project at The LGBT Community Services Center.) Starting February 4th, every Tuesday evening from 7:30-9:00,
I'll be co - facilitating a discussion/support group for masculine-identified, genderqueer folks, and I wanted to invite any and everyone to join.
Below, I've pasted the group description, so if you're interested in this or any other group at the GIP (and there's an FTM group, too), don't hesitate to email me with questions, or to contact the GIP to register at 212.620.7310.
The GIP asks that you pre-register and if you come to the first meeting and enjoy it, that you commit to attend at least 8 of the 12 sessions. I hope to see some of you there! Also, please forward this information to anyone you know who might be interested.
Best,
Stacey
Gender-Queer: A 12-week group for those assigned female at birth who are now challenging, exploring, questioning or reconfiguring that birth assignment and who identify as Trans, Gender Outlaw, Drag King, Boi, Trans-Butch, and so forth.
Trans*-MenThe New York City Gender Identity Project presents Trans*-Men, a 10-week group for those who identify as new male, FTM, MTM, trans-man, boy-dyke, or someone of masculine identity...please note this group is open to all individuals identified as female at birth who have a masculine and/or male gender identity.
To register or for information, call (212) 620-7310
Wednesdays at the LGBT Center, 208 West 13th St., Oct. 9-Dec. 11 2002 7:30 pm-9pm
All GIP groups and services are free of charge and confidential. The Trans*-Men's group requires an intake interview prior to participation. Contact the Center's Dept. of Mental Health & Social Services for further information.
Please forward this announcement, thanks!
The DC Area Transmasculine
Society (DCATS) is a social and support group for individuals on the
transmasculine spectrum (including but not limited to FtM's, butches,
stonebutches, boychicks, drag kings, intersexuals, transmen,
genderqueers, etc.) and their significant others, friends, family,
and allies (SOFFAs). We meet the second Sunday of the month at 1432 U
Street NW, Washington DC.
Please call 202.939.1537 or email DCTransmen@hotmail.com with inquiries. To subscribe to the DCATS discussion list send an email to: dctransmasculine-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
Men's Spiritual
RetreatIt will be in June 2004 (Tentatively June but may change depending on the schedule of the medicine woman) and will be held in a beautiful rural location in West Virgina at a retreat center called "Claymont." (for more info, visit their website at www.claymont.org)
I will be planning a weekend of serenity, self-reflection, spirituality and sharing. It is a retreat strictly for transmen. Sorry, no soffas--unless also a Transman--it is for: Transitioned men, guys who are in the process of transitioning, those who INTEND to transition in the future or those who cannot transition but who identify as men. There will be limited enrollment of 40 attendees. It is not for butches, third gendered, trannyboys who do not identify as men...you get the picture. It's for men. If you have issues with this....then this is DEFINITELY not the retreat for you but hey, feel free to coordinate your own. I felt there wasn't a place like this for guys like me, so I'm creating it.
The weekend costs (Friday night through Sunday evening) will include programming, housing & 3 meals a day. As a part of the "cleansing" process, the meals are vegetarian--but trust me, as a devout carnivore, it was absolutely delicious. I went back for thirds. The cost is still being determined/negotiated--$250 is my estimate. This includes your housing, meals and registration.
Programming is still being arranged--there is only one session given at a time, and attendees are encouraged to participate to faciliate bonding as a group and mutual sharing. Most sessions are group discussions to share with one another our experiences in a peaceful and joyful environment, free of the stresses of the outside world. No computers. no phones. no drama. no worries. There will be at least two special sessions: a spiritual workshop on scars led by Lakota Haisie- Buffalo Woman Comes Running, and a healing sweatlodge. I have been to both of these before and it is a fascinating and deeply spiritual experience.
If you are interested or know of men who might be interested, please have them contact me directly at terrysapp@hotmail.com If there are at least 20 men interested, I will reserve the facility.
Terry S