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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Event Overload

Windy City Times Letters
2006-09-13
Copyright by The Windy city Times


Event Overload
On Sept. 30, six major organizations will be vying for Chicago’s gay dollars. These are the events scheduled:

— Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure

— Lehman Brothers presents the Lesbian Community Cancer Project’s Fall Brunch

— ACLU of Illinois’ Celebrate the Bill of Rights!

— Chicago House’s Night of the Pharaoh

— Gerber/Hart Library’s Silver Anniversary Gala with Dan Savage

— Project ALMA Fashion Show for the Association of Latin Men in Action.


My partner and I started a Web calendar in June 2001. We noticed that there were many nights with conflicting events while other nights were completely devoid of a worthy cause to support. We thought that by having a public access calendar listing all the GLBT-oriented events in the city, organizations could coordinate their events to give the people of Chicago the opportunity to support more than one organization. Out of that concept, The Pink Agenda ( www.pinkagenda.com ) was born. We have had some success; many organizations do check the calendar and it has helped with the overcrowding somewhat. However, we still get event crowding like on Sept. 30.

As an activist myself, I encourage our GLBT organizations and institutions to take a moment and visit our online Chicago calendar at www.pinkagenda.com/calendar/chicago/ before scheduling their events. I also encourage organizations to try to spread their events over the year and throughout the week. You can post your events yourself, by clicking on the plus sign on the date of your event and filling in the details.


In Pride,

Carlos T Mock, M.D.

Bill Rattan

Chicago


[ Editor’s note: The online edition of Windy City Times, www.windycitymediagroup.com , also posts future events as soon as we receive announcements from organizations, as much as one year in advance. ]

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