Eighteen people and their families share touching stories about the journey from despair to loss to the joy of being the gender they were meant to be.

When: Wednesday, September 15th at 7pm
Where: Boulder Public Library Auditorium (1000 Canyon Blvd, downtown Boulder)

Open the public and free of charge.

Panel discussion, Q&A, and reception will follow the film.

DVDs will be available for sale.

Co-directed by Gus Spheeris and Carol Christenson
Jean Hodges, Executive Producer

Produced and presented by PFLAG Boulder County with support for this event from the following co-sponsors: the City of Boulder Human Rights Offices, Bent Lens Cinema, and Boulder Pride.

This film was funded by the following: The Open Door Fund, the Colorado Coalition of PFLAG Chapters, Susan Polis Schutz, the Brett Family Foundation, PFLAG Denver, the Boulder Valley Safe Schools Coalition, and Boulder County Safehouse Alliance.

The Transition, by Helen T. Cohn

“Dude You’re a Fag:  Masculinity and Sexuality in Adolescence” by author C.J. Pascoe

If you were disappointed to miss hearing C.J. in February, please come back to continue our excellent discussion about why calling someone a “fag” is so pervasive among teenage boys.   CJ Pascoe’s talk is drawn from her book,  Dude You’re a Fag:  Masculinity and Sexuality in Adolescence, an ethnographic study of teenagers,  examining masculinity, its meaning and social behaviors. She will talk about masculinity as it relates to both gender and sexuality.

For boys creating a masculine identity entails continually repudiating the specter of failed masculinity through invoking a “fag discourse.”   Additionally, boys enact a “compulsive heterosexuality” to prove to themselves and others that they are not fags.  Looking at how homophobic epithets are expressed,  Pascoe documents that ”fag” is not necessarily a static identity attached to a particular (homosexual) boy.  Rather fag talk and fag imitations serve as a discourse with which boys discipline themselves and each other through joking relationships.  The talk will conclude with suggestions for social change and policy reform to combat the homophobia central to adolescent masculinity.  This program is open to the public and is free of charge.

Please Join PFLAG Boulder County and Boulder Pride at the First United Methodist Church as we welcome Brad Clark, the first Executive Director of One Colorado which is a new statewide organization whose mission is to secure and protect equality and opportunity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Coloradans and their families.

Brad is committed to building a strong, statewide grassroots movement to advance a more fair and just Colorado! He will share the results of the Statewide Needs Assessment of LGBT Coloradans that was completed this past year.

Brad comes to Colorado from Iowa, where he served as Campaign Director of One Iowa. In Iowa, Brad built a coalition of nearly 100 allied organizations representing more than 200,000 Iowans and built a grassroots infrastructure of more than 12,500 members and 33,000 identified supporters. Brad’s accomplishments include a successful safe schools campaign, as well as leading One Iowa’s marriage equality campaign.

This free community event provides a wonderful opportunity to meet other LGBT and Allied people in Boulder County who are interested in creating social change. For more information, contact Ken Thurow, president, PFLAG Boulder County (kdthurow@aol.com) or Cathy Busha (cathy@boulderpride.org) of Boulder Pride.