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Food For Thought will offer two upcoming workshops with attorney Naomi Metz, who focuses on working with the LBGT community. Join us in learning more about estate planning, understanding your rights, and making the best plan for you and your family. Workshop 1: Protect Your Legacy: An Estate Planning Workshop for the LGBT Community Thursday, September 17, 5:30-6:30 pm Topics covered will include How to make a plan How marriage and/or Domestic Partnership affect your estate plans What happens if you don’t make a plan? Workshop 2: What’s Next: What Happens to Your Estate (Everything You Now Own) After You’re […]

Calabash – A Festival of Gourds, Art, and the Garden will happen Sunday, October 4, 2015, 1-5 pm Food For Thought, in collaboration with the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, present the 15th annual Calabash – Sonoma County’s most colorful and inspiring harvest event. Calabash, named Best Fundraiser by readers of the North Bay Bohemian for the last three years, features a silent auction of fine gourd art, along with tours of Food For Thought’s beautiful organic gardens, which will be at their peak. Guests at Calabash enjoy a sumptuous array of fine food and wine from Sonoma County’s bountiful […]

Gov. Jerry Brown is allowing parole for a transgender inmate who is trying to force California to become the first state to pay for sex reassignment surgery. A federal judge in April ordered the state to provide the surgery, which had been scheduled for July. It was delayed after the state appealed. The governor’s office said Friday that Brown was taking no action on the Board of Parole Hearings’ recommendation to release Michelle-Lael Norsworthy, which means her parole will proceed. The decision makes it less likely that the 51-year-old will be able to have surgery funded by the prison before […]

First Hearing and Press Conference in Historic Legal Case Challenging California Prostitution Law Laws Against the Commercial Exchange of Consensual, Adult Sexual Activity Challenged as Violations of Privacy, Free Speech, and Freedom of Association Rights WHERE: Oakland Federal Building& U.S. Courthouse, 1301 Clay Street, Oakland, CA 94612 WHEN: Friday August 7, 2015 Hearing: 9:00 a.m. hearing in Courtroom #5 on the 2nd floor, Judge Jeffrey S. White presiding Press Conference: Following the hearing, members of the Erotic Service Providers Union will hold a press conference outside the Clay Street entrance of the courthouse 15 minutes after the court hears motions […]

Positive Images works with carefully selected adults from the LGBTQ community who are willing to make a commitment to the youth community.The mentor is not an assumed parent replacement; rather, he/she is a role model for the youth and a person the youth can talk to and discuss pertinent issues in their lives. With a lack of visible role models in our gay and lesbian adult community, these youth want an idea of what it is like to be gay, lesbian, or bisexual ten, twenty, thirty, or more years down the road of life. The traditional time commitment for a […]

The Sebastopol Center for the Arts is partnering with the Numina Center for Spirituality & the Arts to present the first Sonoma County Cuban Film Festival on July 24 & 25, 2015. An exciting Festival is planned, featuring five major recent Cuban films, many Cuban short films, and two catered musical events. Director Alfredo Ureta will attend the Festival on Saturday the 25th for the screening of his film “The Mole’s Den (La Guarida del Topo).” Following an early reception for donors and pass holders, the Festival will begin Friday night with a screening of “Chico & Rita” (2010), a […]

  Over the coming two months, the LGBTQI Task Force of the Sonoma County Commission on Human Rights is gathering information through surveys, interviews and group meetings on the state of the LGBTQI community in Sonoma County. Comprised of Commissioners Kevin Jones (2nd District), Christopher Mahurin (3rd District) and Ramon Meraz (5th District), and supported by an Advisory Committee of several dozen community members, the LGBTQI Task Force is enlisting the assistance of people from all segments of the LGBTQI community and the agencies and organizations that serve them. When asked about the need for this survey, Commissioner Jones responded, […]