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NEWARK, N.J., April 29, 2011 – NJPAC’s Alternate Routes series returns to Newark for its annual two-day GLBT festival, opening with Work! A Big Ol’ Gay Dance Party, an event that takes place on the stage and under the lights of the Arts Center’s Victoria Theater, featuring a performance by Vogue Evolution from MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew and dancing to house music by Newark’s own DJ Naeem Johnson. Night two heralds the return of the annual audience-pleaser, Out, Loud & Proud V, a night of spoken word focusing on sexuality with performances by international folk poet Alix Olson and Brave Soul Collective. The evening will also feature the premiere of a new work by guest curator and host Pandora Scooter. READ MORE »

Newark, N.J., October 1, 2010 —
Please join the Rutgers Community for a candlelight vigil for Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi, who last week took his own life. At this event, we will discuss the devastating affects of LGBTQ bullying and the tragic loss of LGBTQ Youth to suicide. The event also seeks to provide Rutgers students with a safe space to discuss how Rutgers University and the nation can help stop the injustice LGBTQ individuals face in our society. We hope you will attend, not only to memorialize this devastating loss, but also to engage in a necessary and urgent discussion of what we must do as proud students of Rutgers University to protect our fellow classmates from such despair, and to ensure this tragedy is never again repeated.

FORUM… & CANDLELIGHT VIGIL
Monday, October 4, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Paul Robeson Campus Center
Essex East Lecture Hall (Room 232)
350 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard

NEWARK, N.J., July 6, 2010 – The African American Office of Gay Concerns (AAOGC) is proud to announce that the XVIII International AIDS Conference taking place in Vienna, Austria July 18-23, 2010, has selected the Status Is Everything HIV testing social marketing campaign to take part in the conference poster exhibition on July 19, 2010. The AAOGC poster is titled, “Creating a social marketing campaign targeting African American men who have sex with men (MSM) in Newark, New Jersey, in an effort to increase HIV rapid testing within a high risk population.” AAOGC is the only agency funded by the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, selected to take part in the six-day conference.
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FEMWORKS was also honored with the “Professional Ally Award” Presented by the Newark-Essex Pride Coalition

NEWARK, N.J., June 10, 2010 – FEMWORKS is proud to announce that it has been selected to receive two business awards, “2010 Outstanding Small Business of the Year” presented by the Greater Newark Business Development Consortium, Inc. (GNBDC), and the “Professional Ally Award” presented by Newark Essex Pride Coalition (NEPC).

“FEMWORKS has distinguished itself as a leading-edge social entrepreneurial firm, with a highly valued specialty and triple bottom line focus; community, planet and profit. Tamara Fleming and I have poured years of passion and dedication into making FEMWORKS a sustainable business model that achieves success for its clients and has a positive impact in the local community.” says Kimberlee S. Williams, Principal and Marketing Director of FEMWORKS. READ MORE »

NEWARK, NJ, April 15, 2010 – Clubhouse Music Enterprises and GLT Arts & Entertainment presents Live in Concert Broadway & Recording Artist, Lee Truesdale on Saturday, May 1, 2010 at the Key Club located at 58 Park Place, Newark, NJ. For more information call 973-799-0306. READ MORE »

HIP HOP: OUT, LOUD & PROUD IV, April 9, 2010
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NEWARK IS BURNING: CAKEWALK TO CATWALK, April 10, 2010

Newark, NJ, March 17, 2010 – The New Jersey Performing Arts Center’s (NJPAC) Alternate Routes series brings to Newark a two-day GLBT festival, opening with the return of the annual audience-pleaser, Hip Hop: Out, Loud & Proud IV, a night of spoken word and hip hop focusing on sexuality and performed by artists of all sexual orientations, and Newark is Burning: Cakewalk to Catwalk, an homage to the gender-bending high energy performances and haute couture fashions from the gay “House Ballroom Scene.” READ MORE »

MEDIA ADVISORY

2010 CENSUS TOWN HALL MEETINGS IN NEW JERSEY ENGAGE THE LGBT COMMUNITY

Liberation In Truth Unity Fellowship Church Sponsor ‘March Monday’ Forum to Educate and Motivate a Full Census Count

NEWARK, N.J., March 15, 2010 — The 2010 Census will be explained and discussed in the context of the LGBT community at todays town hall meeting in Newark, New Jersey, hosted by Liberation in Truth Unity Fellowship Church. This event is part of the U.S. Census Bureau’s dedicated outreach program to the LGBT community, and will allow community members the opportunity to have their questions answered by a panel of Census staff, community leaders, local organizers and civic officials. The town hall format promotes an open environment for discussion of specific concerns and reinforces the message that the participation of the LGBT community is vital to ensure that the 2010 Census is complete and accurate. READ MORE »

Newark, N.J., March 3, 2010 - The Rutgers Race & the Law Review is excited to announce the new date for our Symposium, “An Affront on Civil Rights: A Multicultural Perspective on the LGBT Struggle for Equality.” Please join us on Tuesday, March 9th from 5pm – 9 pm for this FREE and open to the public event, in the Baker Trial Courtroom at the Center for Law & Justice, as leading scholars, attorneys, and activists discuss the effects of current laws and social policies on LGBT communities of color.

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Feb. 25 Symposium to Explore How Laws and Social Policies Impact LGBT Communities of Color

Newark, N.J., Feb. 19, 2010 –Prominent scholars, activists, and attorneys will discuss the effects of current laws and social policies on LGBT communities of color at the annual symposium of the Rutgers Race and the Law Review, to be held from 5 – 9 pm on Thursday, February, 25, 2010 at Rutgers School of Law–Newark. The title of the journal’s symposium is “An Affront on Civil Rights: A Multicultural Perspective on the LGBT Struggle for Equality.”

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MEDIA ADVISORY
For February 4, 2010

To Increase HIV Testing Rates in Newark “Status Is Everything” Pioneers New Media, Text Messaging, and Social Media

NEWARK, N.J., Jan. 27, 2010 – On February 4, 2010, during a full day of events, the African American Office of Gay Concerns (AAOGC.org), Mayor Cory A. Booker and the LGBTQ Commission will kick-off “Status Is Everything”, a pioneering, Newark, NJ focused HIV testing social marketing campaign targeting African American men who have sex with men, aged 18-24. This is the first New Jersey public health campaign of its kind to utilize social media and text messaging to provide residents 24-hour instant access to local HIV/STD testing centers – text NJ+YourZipCode (NJ07102) to 36363. 1-866-HIV-CHECK access is provided by the New Jersey HIV/STD hotline.

Status Is Everything Social Media
Twitter – http://bit.ly/69k7mP
Facebook – http://bit.ly/SIEFacebook
YouTube - http://bit.ly/SIEBernard1
Causecast – http://bit.ly/SIECausecast

The multifaceted six month campaign features an interactive website StatusIsEverything.org that promotes seven “friendly reminder” e-cards and six video PSAs of Newark spokespeople; PSAs in movie theaters and on Cablevision Networks; bus wraps, a billboard, and light rail train signs. READ MORE »