Free Media Advocacy 101 in San Diego

“Tired of being told what to think?  Learn to make people sit up and listen to YOU!”

Free Media Advocacy 101:  Be Active, Be Visible, Be Heard!
Transgender Media Visibility and Allies Workshop
The San Diego Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center
3909 Centre Street
San Diego, CA  92103
Saturday, January 8, 2005
2:00 - 5:30 P.M.
Refreshments and snacks will be served.

Wouldn't it be fabulous if you were the center of attention and in an instant you were famous -- absolutely every eye and camera on your every move?  What would you say?  How would you say it? What would you wear?  What would you do with all the cameras and flashes?

There's no instant glitz and glamour, but they promise to show you how to make everyone, including the media, eat from the palm of your hand with a media makeover.  In return, you will have a wonderful opportunity to be seen in people’s living rooms shaping hearts and minds.

This is a friendly neighborly reminder to attend one afternoon in order to learn the basics or just polish your skills for speaking to the media about issues that are important to transgender communities and our allies. We will focus on the health needs of transgender people as a case study to build our media skills from the ground up.

This will be like a nice conversation with someone you care about, learning how to apply your skills in the world of reporters and news cycles.  With simple techniques and media tools, such as staying on message and practice interviewing, you will learn to be the most effective and engaging spokesperson.

Wow, and all you have to do is attend — for free!

So a gently reminder to set your alarm clocks for Saturday.

Now, I know you could choose to stay home.  But I feel maybe you want to be engaged and be active this year.  Let us help you get a good start this New Year.

Things you will learn:

- Combat anti-LGBT speech

- Learn media skills you can use for life

- Impress your friends with your media savvy...

Make this New Year’s resolution a commitment to be involved and be visible.  This is our generation’s civil rights movement, and let this be one of the first steps in being involved for the New Year!

Please RSVP and let them know if you are going.  Bring a guest...bring your neighbor. Email the organizers at gutierrez@glaad.org or 323.634.2011. You will laugh and learn lots!

See you there!

Eddie


Presenter: Eddie Gutiérrez, Associate Regional Media Director
 

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About the Sponsors

Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of people and events in the media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.

The San Diego Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center’s mission is to enhance and sustain the health and well-being of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and HIV communities by providing activities, programs, and services that create community, empower community members, provide essential resources, advocate for civil and human rights, and embrace, promote and support our cultural diversity.

Transgender Community Coalition seeks to identify the needs of the transgender community, educate itself and others regarding those needs and advocating to make resources a reality.  Our goal is to make sure that transgender voices are heard in our wider community, to help the transgender community find it's place in that wider community, as a group and as individuals, and to act as a platform to help our community create the support network necessary to live healthier, happy lives.

Transgender Equality California is a brand-new state-wide effort to strengthen and increase transgender civil rights through the legislative process. Building on a loose-knit network of activists and allies that formed to help pass the California Gender Non-Discrimination Act of 2003, TEC is being coordinated by staff people from Equality California, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the Transgender Law Center

Transgender Law Center is a civil rights organization advocating for transgender communities. Every day we connect transgender people and their families to technically sound and culturally competent legal services, increase acceptance and enforcement of laws and policies that support California's transgender communities, and work to change laws and systems that fail to incorporate the needs and experiences of transgender people.