QYTF

Queer Youth Task Force of Santa Cruz County

 
Queer Youth Updates
81 Queer Youth & Allies Attend Youth Empowerment Summit in SF! Print

The Queer Youth Task Force worked with students from seven Gay-Straight Alliance student clubs and their advisors, administrators from Santa Cruz City Schools (Eileen Brown) and Pajaro Valley Unified School District (Murry Schekman) and community member Mike Dively to send 81 students from Santa Cruz County to the Youth Empowerment Summit (YES) in San Francisco on December 10th via two chartered buses. Read more in the Santa Cruz Sentinel.

 
Dine Out for Queer Youth at Saturn Café Print
Wednesday, October 19th
10am-3am (yes, 3am Thursday morning)
Saturn Café, 145 Laurel Street

Another way to celebrate Queer History Month during the month of October -- Help raise needed funds for queer youth programs in Santa Cruz County! Benefiting:
  • Queer Youth Task Force, which produces the annual Queer Youth Leadership Awards, and works with local organizations with their Safe Schools Project and Transgender Teen Project.
  • STRANGE, which runs a weekly youth support group at Inner Light Ministries and a bi-monthly activist youth group at the Diversity Center.
  • Gay/Straight Alliance's (GSA's) in local schools. Several GSA's, such as the Harbor High School GSA, are leading efforts for safer schools schools.
It’s simple…print & bring the Saturn-Queer Youth flyer. Grab some friends. Have a great meal at Saturn. Give your server the flyer and Saturn will give us 10% of your total bill. There will also be a raffle for wonderful prizes!

Mark your calendars today!  Pass it on!
 
Rainbow Ceremony, June 9 @ 4:00 PM Print
Queer Youth Updates: Rainbow Ceremony - Thursday, June 9 @ 4:00 PM

Dear LGBTIQ & Ally Youth Community,   
 
It is very meaningful to our queer/ally graduates to see you--fellow students, faculty, staff, alumni, friends--in the audience and at the reception honoring both their scholarship and accomplishments as out, proud queer/allied students! Please join themThursday at 4 pm on the beautiful grounds of the Women's Center for the 13th annual Rainbow Ceremony.
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Pride Santa Cruz, June 5 RAIN OR SHINE! Print

Queer Youth Updates: Pride Santa Cruz

1. 37th Annual Santa Cruz Pride PARADE, Sunday, June 5
2. 37th Annual Santa Cruz Pride FESTIVAL, Sunday, June 5
3. Volunteer for Pride Santa Cruz!
4. Pride Letter from The Diversity Center Board President

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Queer Youth Updates: May 21: Harvey Milk Day + Rainbow Ceremony + more... Print

Queer Youth Updates: May 21: Harvey Milk Day + Rainbow Ceremony + more...

1. Harvey Milk Day, May 22
2. Resource: New Website for Harvey Milk Day Curriculum
3. 6th Annual Human Rights Contest
4. Stop Bullying. Let's Pass Seth's Law
5. Bookshop Santa Cruz & Saturn Cafe, June 1
6. 19th Annual Santa Cruz Dyke Trans March, June 4
7. 37th Annual Santa Cruz Pride, June 5
8. Rainbow Ceremony, June 9
9. Free Movie for GSA's: Coming Out In The 1950s
10. Gender Spectrum Family Conference 2011, Berkeley, July 29
11. News: Uplifting Transgender Teen Front Page Article, Tulsa
12. YouTube: Supporting the freedom to love in Singapore

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