Upcoming events

1. DE Pride Community Meeting
2. Drag Show at La Boom
3. DE Renaissance Meeting
4. Haven's Drag Show
5. Draggalicious
6. GLBT appreciation at Hanover Presbyterian Church
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Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010

DE Pride Community Meeting
Held on the 1st Thursday of Every Month @ 7:00 PM
at the New Ark United Church of Christ
300 East Main St., Newark, DE

If you can't make the meeting, join us for dinner.
To find us, call 302-563-7946

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Thursday Oct 7, 2010
Drag Show at La Boom

3421 Kirkwood Highway Wilmington DE 19808
$5 before 10:30, $10 after 10:30

Featuring: Dior Douglas, Daria, Jenny Nicole and Paige Turner

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Saturday, Oct 9, 2010
Delaware Renaissance Meeting

Doors open at 8:00 pm and the meeting starts at 8:30 pm at the First Unitarian Church, 730 Halstead Road, in Talleyville.

The entrance is in the rear at the Youth Enrichment Center. Our meetings are open to all who seek education about the transgendered community, or support in a safe, secure, nonsexual environment: crossdressers, transvestites, transsexuals, transgenderists, their families and friends, and interested professionals.

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Saturday Oct 9, 2010

Haven's Drag Show
@7:00pm

Come to Haven's biggest event of the year, our annual Drag Show! Co-sponsored by SGA, RSA, SCPAB, HOLA, NEDAC, Greek Council, RSA, and Women's Studies, Haven is bringing in professional drag queens for the performance of the year, and you've never seen anything more fierce or fabulous.

This year will feature host and performer Sahara Davenport, who was a contestant on the reality competition show RuPaul's Drag Race!

Tickets will be sold at the door, $7 with a UD ID and $10 without.

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Sunday Oct 10, 2010.... 8:00pm.

Draggalicious at Theater N

The movie discussed the issues of transgenders acceptance in the society, as well as the public concerns in LGBT community.

Don't miss the World Premiere of "DRAGGILICIOUS" at Theater N in Wilmington, DE on 10/10/2010 @ 8 PM. See you there.

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Sunday Oct 10, 2010
A celebration of LGBT diversity

Hanover Presbyterian--at corners of Baynard Blvd, 18th, and Jefferson--for the 2nd year will devote 4 Sundays to celebrating GLBT Diversity beginning 19 Sept through 10 Oct. Adult Sunday School (11:40 a.m.) will have a different speaker or panel each Sunday, Worship will include music and sermon, and... the series culminates in a concert at 3 p.m., 10 Oct, with the theme "Gay-Straight Alliance" with readers and performers both gay and straight. Performers include Michael Hunter, Angie Robinson, Chris Berg, Brian Gray, myself, Rainbow Chorale, and readers from AIDS Delaware, Just For Youth, PFLAG, Hanover, Delaware Pride will read texts from the musical Get Used To It by Tom Wilson Weinberg...great poems. All are free; please join us!

LGBT Questionnaire

Some of you might remember I sent out about 300 emails featuring the questionnaire below. Now that I'm coming back to the idea, I'd like to share some of your ideas. But first, this is the questionnaire: (also, if you're reading it for the first time and have some opinions, PLEASE email me at delawareglu@gmail.com)....

As a resident of Wilmington, it's important to me to live in a thriving city with a wide variety of fun/relaxing/elegant/outrageous things to do. Most everyone I know would agree, especially my friends in the LGBT community. Wilmington can seem “fun-challenged” at times, or maybe it’s just that the types of activities offered don’t appeal to you personally.

I'm writing you to get your opinions of what could be done differently:

A. What would you recommend changing to improve the evenings in Wilmington?
B. What events would you like to see started?
C. What sort of business/venue would you like to see opened?
D. Are there any establishments you patronize already who aren't specifically LGBT focused but could benefit from a greater sense of tolerance and support between each respective community?
E. What would it take for you, yourself to get out of your house and attend an event?


The primary purpose for the questions is based on the notion that we are a community. But what does that mean? A community is more than one person, one event, or one location. I'm incredibly envious of towns smaller than us that have Pride Parades, “gayborhoods,” rainbow flags on various houses, shops or restaurants and they understand “date night” to have a broad and inclusive meaning. It’s a chicken/egg scenario: we need a community to make these things work; we need these things to work to make us feel like a community. I’d like to see Wilmington be that kind of town, and so I am starting with something that I can impact: our sense of community.

I intend to send this message out to every person I know in hopes of getting excellent feedback from as many minds as possible. Hopefully, your feedback will help the various gay organizations in the state better understand the needs of the people. Consider this a community meeting you can attend online. The goal: To get the LGBT Community thinking about how to be a better community. Currently, there are groups and organizations struggling to kindle something, but many are hitting roadblocks. Again, it seems important to gauge what would excite you enough to show up somewhere, to sign up for something, or to attend an event knowing it's an LGBT oriented event.

If you respond, be genuine. Remember that details are key! Maybe you can suggest ways that you could offer help (advice, donations, talents). If ultimately you're not interested in evening events, are there any services or support groups geared toward the LGBT community that you would like to take advantage of?

If you've gotten this far, thanks for reading and I hope to hear back from you! There is no such thing as a bad response!

Children of Same-sex Parents excel in School

Stanford research finds that children of gay and straight couples do equally well in school. By mining data from the 2000 Census, sociologist Michael Rosenfeld figured out the rates at which kids raised by gay and straight couples repeated a grade during elementary or middle school. He found that children of same-sex parents have essentially the same educational achievement as their peers growing up in heterosexual households.

Stanford University Report

Hey GLEE fans, guess what?!

Hey GLEE fans, guess what?!

Jane Lynch SNL

Just announced: Out actress Jane Lynch will host SNL in October!!!

Proud to be Bisexual

If this article describes you, you may not be alone.


CNN Article

Wilmington Flower Market

Wilmington Flower Market today, Friday, and Saturday...... Check out the artists, the flowers, the amusement rides and look around to see how many people you recognize. Just don't forget your umbrella!

Sunday is Mother's Day, so make sure to find her something nice!

Rehoboth: A Place for All

If you haven't yet seen this article in Delaware Today, please purchase April 2010's issue now:

Delaware Today "Rehoboth: A Place for All"

Chain, chain, chain.....

Check out our new list of links to keep everyone informed of what's happening in Delaware. If you know or run an organization or business and want to be linked to the page, please let us know.