Sponsored by Mount Vernon High School
Gay/Straight Alliance

February 26 & 27, 2010
Mount Vernon High School
Mount Vernon, WA 98273

FRIDAY:
7-9:30 Film: STRAIGHTLACED: HOW GENDER'S GOT US ALL TIED UP
Post-film discussion led by producer Brittney Shepherd of San Francisco
MVHS Cafeteria

SATURDAY:
10-11 Welcome in Cafeteria, with auction of cakes, plus performance by Leisha Madden (MVHS grad) & GSA Friends
Spoken Word Performance by GSA members

11-12 Lunch and information tables and cake sale

12-1:30 1st WORKSHOP SESSION
Auditorium: Gay History (Gary Atkins, Seattle University professor and author of Gay Seattle, with Carol Guess, poet and WWU professor of GLBT Studies)

Library: Addressing Homophobia in Daily Life (Safe
Schools Coalition)

1:30-2 Cakewalk and auction in cafeteria

2-3:30 2nd WORKSHOP SESSION
Auditorium: Being Religious and Being Gay (panel of gay clergy, led by Seattle First Baptist pastor, Rev. Craig Darling)

Library: Gender Identity (panel led by Elayne Wylie of
Ingersoll Gender Center of Seattle)

3:30-4 Cakewalk and auction in cafeteria

4-5:30 3rd WORKSHOP SESSION
Auditorium: Healthy Relationships/ Healthy Sex (panel of experts from a variety of agencies, led by Skagit Valley College psychology professor, Linda Jordan)

Library: Queer People of Color (UW students Oscar Guerra and Maria Guillen, with Arnold Martin of Seattle
Counseling Service)

5:30-7 Dinner Break

7-9 Entertainment
Chris Riffle, New York singer/ songwriter and MVHS graduate
Diverse Harmony, GLBT youth choir from Seattle

A fabulous Cake Walk/Auction and Sale will go on throughout the day. Many information tables from area agencies and organizations will be available.

Mount Vernon High School, 314 North 9th Street, Mount Vernon, WA 98273

Free and open to the public. Suggested donation of $5 gladly accepted!

Presented by the Mount Vernon High School Gay/Straight Alliance

Sponsors include: Skagit PFLAG www.pflagskagit.org; The Pride Foundation: Doug Exworthy and Kent Poush

Contact information: Cathy Pfahl, MVHS GSA Advisor, 360.428.6100 or cpfahl@mv.k12.wa.us