Stonewall Dems to host conference call

Following our monthly meeting on Thursday, March 27th, Stonewall Democratic Caucus of Arkansas will be participating in a nation-wide conference call. Our meeting is held at Democratic Party Headquarters (1300 West Capitol) and starts at 6pm (guest speaker will be Judge Alice Lightle) and the call will begin at 7pm. Please join us and the details with participating cities are as followed.....

Join leading Democrats from across the country on a nationwide conference call briefing on Thursday, March 27. Learn inside opinions on the state of the race, where pro-equality candidates are positioned to make history and tips on making your way to the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Most importantly, this is your opportunity to learn how Stonewall Democrats is impacting key contests in 2008.

I am excited to announce that Melissa Etheridge and Chelsea Clinton will be joining us this Thursday on our coast-to-coast conference call. Both of our guests will be speaking to our national network of house parties and taking questions from our participants. Chelsea will be joining us to talk about her support of the Hillary Clinton campaign while Melissa will be speaking on her support of the Barack Obama campaign. Other guests include Oklahoma Corporations Commissioner Jim Roth.
You'll get a chance to hear live from Representative Tammy Baldwin, Chelsea Clinton, Commissioner Roth, NSD Executive Director Jon Hoadley and more!

Seal Beach, CA chris4obama@gmail.com
Eureka, CA sonneysong@yahoo.com
Santa Monica, CA drbraundc@gmail.com
Los Angeles, CA rory.lym@gmail.com
Sacramento, CA twanda13@comcast.net
Dallas, TX jgarcia71@aol.com
Houston, TX jgbeam1@yahoo.com
Arlington, TX price-robert@att.net
Lewisville, TX info@stonewalldemocratsofdentoncounty.org
San Antonio, TX 78232 seeyuthere@yahoo.com
Manchester, NH RepBuckley@aol.com
Somersworth, NH Athena1955@comcast.net
Tacoma, WA anita.latch@gmail.com
Lynnwood, WA 98037 Darwin67@msn.com
Las Vegas, NV bjacobs702@juno.com
Rock Springs, WY dawnstorrud@hotmail.com
Washington, DC dsalie@party2win.com
Seven Fields, PA gaylem1957@aol.com
Denver, CO teachercorey@gmail.com
Salt Lake City, UT toddbehr60@yahoo.com
Joplin, MO leemcd@alumni.brown.edu
Oklahoma City, OK jebokmusic@yahoo.com
Edison, NJ babsc@aol.com
Tucson, AZ leskrambeal@yahoo.com
Atlanta, GA jodicobb@bellsouth.net
Little Rock, AR stonewallarkansaspresident@gmail.com
Lafayette, LA stephen@lastonewalldems.org
Fairplay, MD ldeibert@comcast.net--

For more information about the Stonewall Democratic Caucus of Arkansas, please visit our website at www.stonewallarkansas.com

Eureka Springs featured in anti-gay tirade

One of the leading stories in the GLBT press today is a speech made by Oklahoma state representative Sally Kearn (R) in which she described gays as "a bigger threat, even more so than terrorists or Islam,” to the United States. In the audio recording (http://www.victoryfund.org/files/listening.html) she uses Eureka Springs as an example of "gays infiltrating city councils" and taking them over. The Victory Fund did not name Kearn as it did not want to make her a hero for the anti-gay crusaders, but with the insatiable curiousity of web bloggers, she was soon identified. To me, this speech truly underscores the importance of our community supporting candidates of our own and those that value equality. My greatest hope is that the GLBT community will support Eureka Springs (not just in words but in tourism dollars) as well as candidates and groups that are fighting for our inclusion in the political landscape. Make no mistake, the biggots of this world are in positions of influence and power and we must strive to replace them with those who believe that we are all created equal and are deserving of freedom and justice.

Stonewall Elects 2008 Officers

President Joe LaFountaine - stonewallarkansaspresident@gmail.com

Executive VP - Brett Miracle- stonewallarkansasevice@gmail.com

Political VP - Jada Walker- stonewallarkansaspvice@gmail.com

Treasurer - Cindy Kane- stonewallarkansastreasurer@gmail.com

Secretary - Laura Luce - stonewallarkansasinfo@gmail.com

No Capital Pride in 2008

Today we made the official announcement that we would not be having Capital Pride this year. This was a very difficult decision for me, personally, as I have invested so much of my time and focus on Capital Pride. Here is the official announcement

"The board of Little Rock Capital Pride is officially announcing that we will not be producing a Pride event in 2008. Unfortunately, we were unable to get a quorum of members (7) to serve on our board. It was felt that three board members, who all serve in leadership roles in other GLBT groups, would be unable to perform all of the tasks required to plan the event. After the tremendous success of Capital Pride '07, we were quite surprised that more individuals did not join us so that we could build on our successes. It is our hope that the absence of a Pride event will spur the local community into action. We are planning a picnic/barbeque in June so that we can discuss future plans and recruit volunteers for next year. In July, we will hold elections for next year's board and I encourage anyone who is interested to send an e-mail to joe@lrcpride.org to express your willingness to serve. We are optimistic that Pride will return to Little Rock and look forward to the community's support.

Yours in Pride,
Joe LaFountaine, President
Little Rock Capital Pride"