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H.O.P.E Inaugural Youth Ball: Honoring Our President-Elect (H.O.P.E.)
(This is not to be confused with the Youth Inaugural Ball which will be hosted by Barack Obama on another date.)________________________________________________________________________
Jermaine Crawford from HBO's "The Wire" is organizing the H.O.P.E. Inaugural Youth Ball in Washington DC on Jan. 17 at 6 pm at Trinity University's Trinity Center. The address for the event is:
125 Michigan Avenue, NE, Washington, DC
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc1xaOQF2G4
Proceeds from the ball will go to the National Network for Youth (NN4y), an organization that helps homeless teens.
The National Network for Youth is committed to ensuring that opportunities for growth and development are available to youth everywhere. The youth NN4y works with face greater odds due to abuse and neglect, homelessness, lack of resources, community prejudice, differing abilities and other life challenges. For that reason, NN4y is working to create a community of agencies, people and resources to champion the needs of the youth of today and the leaders of tomorrow.
HOTEL INFO: The group organizing the ball has made arrangements for a block of hotel rooms in Gaithersburg, Maryland -- not far from DC because lodging is hard to come by during the inauguration period. See contact info below if you'd like to make hotel reservations and to inquire about nightly rates.
According to Jermaine, there will be some very "special" guests at the ball.
You need tickets for this event. For ticket info, go to: www.hopeinauguralball.com
FAQ's:
http://www.hopeinauguralball.com/network.htm
For other info & inquires, email:
info@hopeinauguralball.com
Summary Info:
http://www.myspace.com/punkAlternative
(in the 2nd column under "About me.")
Join the first ONLINE protest for LGBT Equality.
The goal: Educate Americans about what marriage rights mean to LGBT's, for example: tax fairness, hospital visitation, medical decision-making, exemption from estate taxes, immigration, government benefits & more.
Location: **** Attend Online by Changing Your Default Picture to one of those shown at: http://www.equalitymatters.org/
Time and Place: Start Time: Sunday, January 18, 2009 at 12:00am
End Time: Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 11:55pm
Host: Equality Matters; The Online March for Equality | Inauguration Week
Email Contact: info@equalitymatters.org
Background: See "About Me" on my MySpace page:
Matt Mitcham won "Australian Sport Performer of 2008" for his Olympic gold medal & highest-scoring dive in Olympic history. He's proudly openly gay!! He’s proudly monogamous.
He’s also an example of the cause of righteous gay indignation. Articles about Mitcham’s continuously bestowed honors are often laced with slivers of outrage that the diver has yet to tie down a single major sponsor. (Meanwhile, Michael Phelps is buying $1.5 million condos in Baltimore). But could it just be that no one actually cares about competitive diving? Matt Mitcham is surprised that more Olympic athletes aren't openly gay but understands why.