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Spencer Pride Inc. Now Accepting Applications for 2012 Festival
Organizations
interested in participating in the 2012 Spencer Pride Festival can now sign-up
for vendor space and sponsorships using the quick and easy Online
Participation Form, available on SpencerPride.org. This is the third year using this type of
sign-up process online with Google Forms.
Individuals who have completed the form in the past have routinely given
positive feedback about the simplicity of the form and the clarity of the process.
Before
signing up, organizations in Indiana (or the Louisville, KY) area should first
refer to the ‘Local Information Packet.’
This packet provides information about the 2012 Spencer Pride Festival,
which will take place on June 2nd. This packet can be found on the same web page ...
Posted Jan 1, 2012 5:01 PM by Jonathan Balash
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Upcoming Holiday Party to Celebrate a Fabulous Year!
The Spencer Pride annual Holiday Party will take place on Sunday, December 18 at 4pm at the home of Jonathan & Jacob Balash, 2565 Braysville Rd, Spencer. (From State Rd 46, take Main St. south to Braysville Rd., turn left, go to 2565 on the right) We'll be having a pitch-in so bring your favorite holiday snack to share. As our annual tradition, we'll be collecting donations for Positive Link's holiday program, Gifts of Life, and Spencer Presbyterian Church's Mitten Tree. If you can't come to the get-together you can donate on-line by visiting our website and clicking on the donate button. You many specify that the donation is for holiday giving. You ...
Posted Dec 17, 2011 10:05 AM by Jonathan Balash
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Library Displays and LGBT History Month Contest
October is
LGBT History Month and there are many local opportunities to explore that
history. In what has become an annual
tradition for the past several years, Spencer Pride has assembled educational displays that are being
featured at rural public libraries throughout South Central Indiana.
For the first
time, we are also announcing a special
LGBT History Month Contest to coincide with the library displays.
The tradition
of LGBT History Month educational displays began with just one library – the Owen
County Public Library in downtown Spencer.
For two years we were proud to promote the history of gay, lesbian,
bisexual, and transgender persons at that library. Last year, in an effort to expand our rural
outreach, we were able to ...
Posted Oct 13, 2011 8:03 PM by Jonathan Balash
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Bullied Film Screening & Community Dialogue
On Wednesday,
October 5th, 2011, White River Valley PFLAG, in partnership
with the Spencer Presbyterian Church, Spencer Pride Inc., and Middle Way House,
will be hosting a community screening of the film Bullied followed by a community dialogue on the same
subject.
The film screening
and dialogue is a part of a series of local activities scheduled during October
for LGBT History Month. October is also
Bullying Awareness Month.
Bullied: A
Student, a School and a Case that Made History chronicles the powerful story
of a student who stood up to his anti-gay tormentors and filed a federal
lawsuit against his school district. The suit led to a landmark federal court
decision holding that school officials could be ...
Posted Sep 25, 2011 12:31 PM by Jonathan Balash
Spencer Pride, Inc. is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization that seeks to proudly and honestly represent, support, and celebrate the values and diversity of the LGBTQI community and it's allies. We do this by holding the annual Spencer Pride Festival (SPF) each year on the lawn of the Owen County Courthouse in Spencer, just 17 miles west of Bloomington and Indiana University (nestled in the rolling hills of south central Indiana). This mission is also supported by organizing a variety of other educational events focused in rural communities throughout the year. Donations to Spencer Pride, Inc. are deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes.
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