Please join us for our monthly meeting back in a restaurant. Everyone is invited to order dinner and/or drinks during our social and “hot topic” segment from 5:30pm until 6:00pm, after-which we’ll call the meeting to order and continue with our agenda while you enjoy your dinner.
Location:
Los Amigos Restaurant
5088 N Blackstone, Fresno, CA
(on Blackstone Ave just North of Shaw)
Scheduled Speakers: Craig Pulsipher with Equality California
Craig Pulsipher is the Legislative Director for Equality California responsible for leading the organization’s state policy, budget, and administrative advocacy work. Prior to joining Equality California, Craig served as the Associate Director of Government Affairs at APLA Health in Los Angeles where he oversaw statewide HIV and health care policy, legislation, budget, and political strategy. During his time at APLA Health, Craig led a multi-year campaign to reform California’s outdated HIV criminal laws, helped pass groundbreaking legislation to expand access to HIV treatment and PrEP, and spearheaded the formation of a new statewide coalition to end the HIV, STD, viral hepatitis, and overdose epidemics. Craig received graduate degrees in Public Policy and Social Welfare from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Please join us for our monthly meeting back in a restaurant. Everyone is invited to order dinner and/or drinks during our social and “hot topic” segment from 5:30pm until 6:00pm, after-which we’ll call the meeting to order and continue with our agenda while you enjoy your dinner.
5:30 pm: Hot Topic Discussion & Dinner Social
6:00 pm: Call To Order / Agenda
Location:
Los Amigos Restaurant
5088 N Blackstone, Fresno, CA
(on Blackstone Ave just North of Shaw)
Scheduled Speakers: Pat Brown on Gun Violence
Pat Brown is a former Stonewall member. She was a law clerk for the federal judge in Fresno who upheld the Constitutionality of the ten-year assault weapon ban that saved lives after the 1988 school shooting in Stockton. She just retired after 30 years practicing Family Law. She is an elected member of the Fresno Democratic Central Committee. She was the only speaker at the 2018 Women’s March in Fresno in front of a crowd of 3,000 to speak out against gun violence.
We have invited other special guests and hope you can join us at this meeting. Other topics will include the upcoming Fresno Democratic Party’s 10th Annual Fundraiser on 6/3, Tulare County Stonewall Club’s Fundraiser on 5/22, and details about our participation in the Fresno Pride Parade & Festival on 6/3.
If you have additions to the agenda, speaker suggestions, or announcements to be included at the meeting please send them to info@fresnostonewalldemocrats.org.
Please join us for our monthly meeting back in a restaurant. Everyone is invited to order dinner and/or drinks during our social and “hot topic” segment from 5:30pm until 6:00pm, after-which we’ll call the meeting to order and continue with our agenda while you enjoy your dinner.
Location:
Los Amigos Restaurant
5088 N Blackstone, Fresno, CA
(on Blackstone Ave just North of Shaw)
Robin co-founded GetEQUAL, co-directed the National Equality March in 2009, and organized “Meet In The Middle” in 2009, among many other political, professional, and personal accomplishments. GetEQUAL, along with Robin, Lt. Dan Choi, and others risking their lives and careers, helped bring about the demise of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”. Years ago Robin once handcuffed herself to the fence of the whitehouse for the cause, and last year she was invited to, and attended, the signing of the “Respect For Marriage Act” by President Joe Biden at the White House.
Please join us for our monthly meeting back in a restaurant. Everyone is invited to order dinner and/or drinks during our social and “hot topic” segment from 5:30pm until 6:00pm, after-which we’ll call the meeting to order and continue with our agenda while you enjoy your dinner.
5:30 pm: Hot Topic Discussion & Dinner Social
6:00 pm: Call To Order / Agenda
Location:
Los Amigos Restaurant
5088 N Blackstone, Fresno, CA
(on Blackstone Ave just North of Shaw)
Other topics will include discussion of LGBTQ Pride Month and other upcoming events.
If you have additions to the agenda, speaker suggestions, or announcements to be included at the meeting please send them to info@fresnostonewalldemocrats.org.
Please join us for our monthly meeting back in a restaurant. Everyone is encouraged to order dinner and/or drinks during our social and “hot topic” segment from 5:30pm until 6:00pm, afterwhich we’ll call the meeting to order and continue with our agenda while you enjoy your dinner.
Location:
Los Amigos Restaurant
5088 N Blackstone, Fresno, CA
(on Blackstone Ave just North of Shaw)
A Conversation about
“Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death”
Lillian Faderman, author of Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death, will be our guest at a special event held at Richard & Peyton’s fabulous home on March 23, 2023, at 6:00pm. Councilwoman Annalisa Perea will start off the conversations as we all relax and enjoy this intimate talk. There will be some great food and refreshments for all to enjoy throughout the evening.
Lillian Faderman is a professor emeritus at Fresno State where she taught for 40 years, she with her partner Phyllis Irwin started the Women’s Studies Program in 1971. Faderman is a distinguished scholar of LGBTQ2+ and ethnic history and literature. She has received numerous awards for her previous twelve books, three of which Surpassing the Love of Men, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers and The Gay Revolution, have been named by the New York Times as Notable Books of the Year. Her most recent book is WOMAN the American History of an Idea.
Tickets are $30 for Stonewall members, $35 for non-members, and $10 for students. We have VIP tickets for $100 that include a signed copy of her book or you can be a sponsor of the event for $250 or $500.
Please join us for our first meeting back in a restaurant! Everyone is encouraged to order dinner and/or drinks during our social and “hot topic” segment from 5:30pm until 6:00pm, afterwhich we’ll call the meeting to order and continue with our agenda while you enjoy your dinner.
Location:
Los Amigos Restaurant
5088 N Blackstone, Fresno, CA
(on Blackstone Ave just North of Shaw)
Please join us in person or on Zoom for this meeting. The first 30 minutes of the meeting are intended for socializing and discussion of current events or hot topics and then we will call to order at 6:00pm to handle business and continue with our program.
Location: Fresno County Democratic Headquarters (1033 U Street, Fresno, CA 93721)
Scheduled Speakers:
To Be Announced 2/13 (waiting for confirmation)
Reports:
The agenda, last month’s minutes, and other reports are available on our .
You can find ALL of our contact information, website, Zoom info, and social media links at our new Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/fresnostonewall
Join us and our friends and special guests in celebrating the end of a long year. Enjoy some time before the busy winter holidays and help ring in some cheer to kick it off!
At this Tuesday’s meeting we will be voting on officers for our executive board’s new term. After the quick election we have a couple of guest speakers to talk to us about two upcoming events (Love Letter to Fresno’s Queer West and Fresno Rainbow Pride) that the club will be sponsoring, and then we have several other items of importance that will be announced, such as the Stop The Hate Townhall that we’ll be tabling at, and our MARCH 26 Fundraiser with Lillian Faderman that we’ll need some volunteers for!
Please join us for our first meeting of the year, this Tuesday, January 10, at 5:30 pm. The club meets on the second Tuesday every month at 5:30 pm for social and hot topic discussion and then we call the meeting to order at 6:00 pm to handle club business and hear from our scheduled speakers.
This meeting will be held in person at Fresno County Democratic Party Headquarters (1033 U Street, Fresno, CA) or click here to connect by Zoom.
Scheduled Speakers:
Bryan Cauwels on this year’s Fresno Rainbow Pride celebrations, fundraisers, and other related news.
Dr. Kat Fobear on the upcoming Love Letter to Fresno’s Queer West, an event to fundraise for the new LGBTQ+ Minor program at Fresno State.
Reports:
The agenda, last month’s minutes, and other reports are available on our .
You can find ALL of our contact information, website, Zoom info, and social media links at our new Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/fresnostonewall
Please join us for our monthly meeting at Los Amigos Mexican Restaurant. Everyone is invited to order dinner and/or drinks during our social and “hot topic” segment from 5:30pm until 6:00pm, after-which we’ll call the meeting to order and continue with our agenda while you enjoy your dinner. Location: Los Amigos Restaurant 5088 N Blackstone, Fresno, CA (on Blackstone Ave just North of Shaw) Scheduled Speakers: Michael Evans on the Tax Payer Deception Act Meeting Documents: https://bit.ly/fsd-mtgdocs
Please join us for our monthly meeting at Los Amigos Mexican Restaurant. Everyone is invited to order dinner and/or drinks during our social and “hot topic” segment from 5:30pm until 6:00pm, after-which we’ll call the meeting to order and continue with our agenda while you enjoy your dinner. Location: Los Amigos Restaurant 5088 N Blackstone, Fresno, CA (on Blackstone Ave just North of Shaw) Scheduled Speakers: To Be Announced Meeting Documents:
