Stonewall Young Democrats

Join Stonewall Young Democrats and Stonewall Democratic Club for our summer BBQ!

RSVP to the event through our Facebook Event page here!

For more information, please contact our Community VP Michael Colorge.

Join the California Young Democrats and Stonewall Young Democrats for Special Election Senate District 15 Get Out the Vote (GOTV) this now-Tuesday, June 22nd–you can choose the campaign office closest to you or you can make calls into the district from your very own couch. Help us elect Democrat and former Assemblymember John Laird and bring Democrats in the Legislature within a striking distance of having a 2/3rds Democratic majority!

A Democrat, Laird (along with Mark Leno) was one of the two first gay men to serve in the California legislature. Laird become one of the United States first openly gay mayors in 1983 when he took over the mayoralty of the city of Santa Cruz, CA.

Phonebanking
Want to make calls from your couch? Contact CYD Executive Director Claire Conlon, CConlon@youngdems.org or 916.595.3090 for the online log-in link and GOTV call script. Yes it is that easy! Your phone call may be the only voter contact a voter in SD 15 gets and the race will be close so your call could be the margin of victory.

During the California Young Democrats convention, we were awarded the Outstanding Chapter for 2010! Thank you for those who helped us with everything and we look forward to another outstanding year!

CYD Region 5 Director and DNC member Becca Doten presents to SYD President Chris Braun the 2010 Outstanding Chapter award

Stonewall Young Democrats award for being the California Young Democrats Outstanding Chapter in 2010

Congratulations to Stonewall Young Democrats members Brigham Yen and Vincent Jones on being named to the Advocate’s Forty Under 40.  From the following excerpts of the Advocate, read about how they are impacting our community and then go to the website listed after and read about more amazing people.

Brigham Yen
28 / Pasadena, Calif.
Blogger, real estate agent

Most gay people like to make things pretty. This desire, real estate agent and blogger Brigham Yen explains, is why they often lead the charge in urban renewal, and it’s what fueled his passion to help turn downtown Los Angeles from a no-man’s-land into a 24-hour district. Yen developed a love for cities while growing up in un-urban Utah (yes, Brigham is his real name). After college he moved to Los Angeles, where he became engrossed in the city’s effort to clean up its blighted downtown and expand its transit system. Yen began attending planning meetings for new buildings and subways, made contacts with politicians, and was soon hired by the Downtown Center Business Improvement District as an economic development associate. He was part of an effort to convince residents and businesses to move downtown, including a Wolfgang Puck restaurant and a trendy sneaker store. Now a real estate agent, he leases retail spaces and sells condos in neighboring Pasadena, where he lives with his partner. His enthusiasm for sustainable cities recently led him to launch Pasadena Real Estate With Brigham Yen, a popular blog on the city’s pedestrian-friendly developments.

Vincent Jones
34 / Los Angeles
Senior program officer, Liberty Hill Foundation

Liberty Hill Foundation was founded in 1976 on the premise that there were many organizations dedicated to various social changes, but one thing all those groups needed was cash to reach their goals. Groups seeking grants go through a rigorous application process, which is largely the responsibility of Vincent Jones. Jones has worked on a number of gay initiatives, including a Liberty-funded voter education program to help fight California’s Proposition 8. He also works with Lambda Legal, Camp Courage, and the National Teen Leadership Program, creating initiatives to inspire more African-Americans to get involved in social justice philanthropy. As a young man, “several youth programs helped me hone certain skills, realize my potential, get connected to a positive peer network and to think about things I’ve never thought about before,” Jones says. “If more teens access those types of experiences, we’ll have a better world.”

http://www.advocate.com/Print_Issue/Cover_Stories/Forty_Under_40/

This is a reminder that this Wednesday March 17, 2010 is the cut off for those who want to become new members or to renew their membership with Stonewall Young Democrats for the 2010 Primary endorsements on April 12, 2010. You can join or renew your membership here.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions through email at info@stonewallyoungdems.org.

2010 Census LGBTQ Community Forum in WeHo

Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Location: Plummer Park Rooms 5 & 6
Street: 7377 Santa Monica Boulevard
City/Town: West Hollywood, CA

Join us March 10th at Plummer Park for a Census discussion. Find out how Census data helps the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer community, and why it is crucial that we get our community to mail back the forms. …400 billion dollars and political representation is just a start.

Meet and greet with UCLA Williams Institute and our Community Partners at 6:30pm — Discussion will start promptly at 7pm

“Census data have done more to make LGBT families and their needs visible than any other source of data we have,” said Lee Badgett, Research Director at the Williams Institute at UCLA, one of the country’s leading think tanks on sexual orientation law and public policy.
RSVP on Facebook or LGBT2010Census@gmail.com

The March 2 panel in Beverly Hills features 5 LGBT Rabbis in a great conversation about being out on the pulpit. Visit: http://outonthebimah.eventbrite.com/for tickets ($10). The event is free for students (contact info@stonewallyoungdems.org for the code). There is also a Facebook page about the event.

Join Stonewall Young Democrats for our March General meeting at The Wall Las Memorias to learn about using gene therapy to fight the HIV/AIDS virus. Professor Jerome Zack from the UCLA AIDS Institute will present stem cell gene therapeutic approaches to combat HIV/AIDS.

Location: The Wall Las Memorias
Date and Time: Sunday March 21, 2010 at 5pm
Address: 111 N. Ave 56th Los Angeles, CA 90042

For more information, please email our Community Vice President Michael Colorge at michael.colorge@stonewallyoungdems.org or visit the Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=321832427561&ref=ts

Hi everyone,

This is a reminder that this Friday Feb 26, 2010 is the cut off for those who want to become new members or to renew their membership with Stonewall Young Democrats for the 2010 Primary endorsements. You can join or renew your membership here.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions through email at info@stonewallyoungdems.org.

Senator Curren D. Price, Jr. will convene a hearing of the Joint Committee on the Arts on “The Creative Economy as a Jobs Engine in California” on Friday, February 26th at 9:30 a.m., at the Museum of Design Art & Architecture, 8609 Washington Blvd in Culver City.