Joomla! site syndication http://www.gayvisalia.com 2010-03-16T20:49:27+01:00 http://www.gayvisalia.com http://www.gayvisalia.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2009-03-25T03:57:08+01:00 http://www.gayvisalia.com http://www.gayvisalia.com/content/view/161/2/ Want to make a difference? Sign up as a volunteer! Contact us (http://www.gayvisalia.com/component/option,com_contact/Itemid,3/) for more details. You can also join (mailto:brooke@gayvisalia.com?subject=Email Sign Up) our email list or check out events on the community calendar. Quote of the Week: May your blessings outnumber The shamrocks that grow, And may trouble avoid you Wherever you go. Weekly Green Tip: Choose recycled napkins, paper towels, office paper and other paper products. It's been calculated that Americans toss so much office paper that a year's worth would stretch from Los Angeles to New York and stand 12 feet tall. text/html 2010-03-15T18:07:29+01:00 http://www.gayvisalia.com http://www.gayvisalia.com/content/view/493/2/ Dear Friends and Supporters of The Trevor Project, Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth—and adults—are virtually invisible in the federal government’s eyes. You and I know we exist, but they really do not as no federal health and demographic surveys collect data on sexual orientation or gender identity. Until they do, we’re missing out on research, programming, funding, and advocacy opportunities. Please see the action alert below from our partners at the National Coalition for LGBT Health. Increasing the visibility of our underserved population is a top advocacy priority for The Trevor Project, so I hope that you can take a few minutes to call your representative and ensure the addition of a question about sexual orientation and gender identity onto the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), the federal government's most comprehensive and influential survey. To find out more about our data collection work through the New Beginning Initiative, visit http://www.thetaskforce.org/newadmin/newbeginning_intro.html (http://www.thetaskforce.org/newadmin/newbeginning_intro.html) All my best, and please let me know once you’ve called so I can let our partners know about our impact. DISTRIBUTE WIDELY. text/html 2010-03-15T16:24:58+01:00 http://www.gayvisalia.com http://www.gayvisalia.com/content/view/492/2/ text/html 2010-03-15T11:19:06+01:00 http://www.gayvisalia.com http://www.gayvisalia.com/content/view/491/2/ I just took the pledge with GetEQUAL to demand equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people. Check out this video from 10-year-old Will Phillips and join me in signing the call to action. http://getequal.org (http://getequal.org) text/html 2010-03-09T15:29:36+01:00 http://www.gayvisalia.com http://www.gayvisalia.com/content/view/489/2/