MARSHAL TRAINING INFORMATION!
Marshals are trained volunteers who work as a team to keep the march safe, organized and energized. The Stonewall march does not have a city permit. We are taking our streets. And we need your help to do it.
Come to the training session if:
- You want to marshal at Stonewall but have not had training
- You have training but want a refresher on the ins and outs of marshalling
- You aren't sure if you want to marshal at Stonewall, and want to check it out
- You can't make it to the march but want to learn these great skills
- You want to mix and mingle with some hot queer folk the night before the Pleasure Palace Women and Trans Bathhouse
STONEWALL marshal training will be held on Tuesday, June 21 @ 6pm at the TRCC/MWAR, 17 Phoebe Street (near Queen/Spadina) Training facilitated by Deb Singh, Monica Meireles and Jess Dobkin. Wheelchair accessible. Snacks are welcome. Questions/RSVP:
jess@jessdobkin.com
And did I mention that marshals get to wear a cool armband?
AWESOME UPDATE!
We have been in meets with the BACK TO OUR ROOTS crew and have decided that STONEWALL TO will be marching from QUEEN’S PARK right to the 519!
The 519 has a great park for picnicking and there are a few other parkettes in the area for spill-over. WIN WIN WIN ALL AROUND!
There will be performances, workshops and DJs at the 519 and loads of other amazing stuff. Check out the line-up here:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=154493137948007.
OUR NEW MEETING POINT: QUEEN’S PARK
START: NOON
END POINT: THE 519 ON CHURCH WHERE WE WILL COLLIDE, COLLABORATE AND CRUISE WITH BACK TO OUR ROOTS!
STAY TUNED FOR DETAILS!
A DAY OF LIBERATION AND CELEBRATION!
JUNE 26, 2011: Celebrate Queer Liberation in all its variances.
When Toronto queers organized Pride events in the '70s and took to the streets in protest of the bathhouse raids in 1981, they did it without permission or funding. What they had was bravery—a bravery that has been diluted and anesthetized by the city, corporations and right wing interest groups. These authorities have since wedged themselves between our queer communities and an event that began because people were fierce enough to stand up to the very powers that are now attempting to control our hard won revolution.
GET INVOLVED:
-POSTERING BRIGADE: help plaster the city with STONEWALL TO posters and stickers.
POSTERING/STICKERING CAPTAIN FOR THE EAST END CAN BE REACHED HERE:
posteringqueen@yahoo.ca.
POSTERING/STICKERING CAPTAIN FOR SPADINA/COLLEGE CAN BE REACHED HERE:
androgynousTy@gmail.com
TO GRAB WEST END POSTERS AND STICKERS:
sasha@nowtoronto.com
-MARSHALLING: help marshal the march. Training on Tuesday, June 21 @ 6:30 AT MWAR/TRCC.
-HOST A SIGN MAKING PARTY
-VOLUNTEER TO BE A HUMAN OR PET MEDIC
TO BE A VOLUNTEER PET MEDIC CONTACT:
temasarick@gmail.com
TO BE A VOLUNTEER HUMAN MEDIC CONTACT:
alison@publicspace.ca
-HELP MAKE BUTTONS, T-SHIRTS, SEW SEQUINS, CREATE SPECTACLES, BAKE COOKIES, WRITE CHANTS AND RANTS
Contact the administrators for details and with your brilliant ideas of how to be involved.
TAKE BACK THE DYKE proved that we don't need money to be proud and visible. We don't need government or corporate funding handed over grudgingly and at the cost of our politics and dignity. The city does not own our voices and our bodies. WE DO. Bravery is required once again. It is a bravery that is in ALL of us who have stood up time and again in the face of brutality, injustice, poverty, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and the commercial co-opting of our lives.
It is the FLAME in FLAMER
It is the HO in SAPPHO
It is the I in PRIDE
AND IT IS THE ALL IN STONEWALL.
JOIN US AND BYOMS (BRING YOUR OWN MISSION STATEMENT)
Here is ours:
We will gather. We will march, roll, stroll and dance. We will scream, sing, chant and chat. We will break stereotypes. We will break the city and corporate stronghold. And then we will meet at the 519 and share loving revolution with BACK TO OUR ROOTS!
