Tiffany Woods & Candidates for SCCCD Board of Trustees Speaking at August Meeting

Guest Speaker: Tiffany Woods, LGBTQ Caucus Co-Chair, regarding Monkeypox

Scheduled Speakers: Candidates for SCCCD Trustee positions

  • Destiny Rodriguez – Area 1
  • Magdalena Gomez – Area 4
  • Robert Fuentes – Area 5
  • Gilbert Felix – Area 5

Club members will vote at the September 13 meeting to select candidates for endorsement. You must be a member FOR 30 DAYS before you can vote on club business or participate in the endorsement process — so join today!

Special Guest Speaker Tiffany Woods at our July Meeting

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Tiffany Woods, Co-Chair of the California Democratic Party’s LGBTQ Caucus will be our speaker at this meeting. [Bio below is snipped from https://www.cdplgbtqcaucus.org]

Tiffany Woods

Tiffany is a wife, mother of three, trans woman, activist, recognized local, state, and national LGBTQ+ leader. She is an Appointed California Democratic Party Delegate by Rep. Barbara Lee, CD-13, (3 terms) and the 1st Trans Woman to be elected a California Democratic Party Caucus Chair as Co-Chair of the LGBTQ Caucus in 2019, and re-elected in 2021. She is a 2021 appointed member of the CDP Credentials Standing Committee. She served as Secretary of the LGBTQ Caucus from 2017-2019. She was selected by Speaker Pro-Tem Toni Atkins as one of eight LGBTQ Californians as a CA LGBTQ Legislative Caucus Pride Honoree in 2020.

An At-Large Hillary Clinton Delegate to the DNC in 2016, she is one of the first three trans delegates to ever attend the Democratic National Convention from California, and a member of the historic first ever DNC Transgender Caucus. In 2017, she became an Emerge CA 2017 and Equality California Leadership Institute Alumna. Tiffany has worked in HIV prevention and Trans Health for 20+ years creating and implementing groundbreaking, innovative, nationally and internationally recognized inclusive health care spaces and programs for transgender and gender nonbinary folx. She currently works at the California Department of Public Health, Office of AIDS, as the first Transgender Health and Community Engagement Specialist.

Response To Statements and Actions Against Friday’s Family Pride Night at Fresno Chaffee Zoo

The Fresno Stonewall Democratic Club, a political club devoted to advancing the equal rights of all people, regardless of sexual orientation, preference, or identity, stands in support of Fresno EOC and the Fresno Chaffee Zoo for holding a Pride Night for LGBTQ+ families and allies.

The attack on the LGBTQ+ community as it celebrates Pride in the month of June with parades, flag raisings and celebrations is an attack on our constitutional rights to seek equality.

The hateful rhetoric and misinformation spread by Bredefeld and his Christian Call to Action seem to forget that he has LGBTQ+ constituents and there are LGBTQ+ Christians and members of their churches. Bredefeld has no right to question members of the LGBTQ+ community on their relationship to God or prayer.

2022 is set to break records for anti-LGBTQ legislation, with hundreds of bills introduced across the USA. The gay community has fought for equality for 53 years, since the “Stonewall Riots”, and we will not be silenced or go back.

If Bredefeld and the pastors were true Christians they would recognize that God created all of us, not just the ones they value.

Marsha Conant
Fresno Stonewall Democrats, President