Café Cinema is a program in which participants watch meaning-filled movies, and then discuss them over coffee, tea and snacks. Recently, I participated in a Café Cinema tied in to the July book club selection, The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris.
The experience of reading the book was like getting to know someone you have only just met, and taking a peek at that person’s life through their eyes, or, in some cases, that person’s mind. Reading The Silence of the Lambs was intense. The plot involves an FBI …
I have always been in theatre. I have been an actress and a director. I have done anything and everything on the technical side, but one side I had never conquered was playwriting. I was perfectly happy being a minor actress and a lead technician. Two years ago, I acted in a program called P.U.P Fest, a.k.a Playwrights Under Progress Fest. Five plays are handpicked, cast, rehearsed, and performed by teenagers in grades 9-12. After that experience, I fell in love with P.U.P Fest and swore I would write a …
Dumont leaving YFT
By DAVID TAFFET | Staff Writer
Dallas Voice
Youth director’s experience with LGBT youth makes her a perfect fit for program targeting at-risk students at Eastfield College
On June 10, Judith Dumont announced that her last day at Youth First Texas would be this Friday, June 18. She has been director of youth services at the agency for the past 2 1/2 years.
On the night of her announcement, she assured the youth at the center that said she was not going to suddenly disappear from their lives.
“I’m like herpes,” she …
YFT: making safe space safer
By TAMMYE NASH | Senior Editor (Dallas Voice)
May 20,2010
Agency for LGBTQ youth moves to new, larger location, institutes code of conduct for youth, volunteers
SURFING SAFELY | Sam Wilkes and Judith Dumont show off the kitchen and computer area in the new Youth First Texas center. (Tammye Nash/Dallas Voice)
Everybody needs a safe haven now and then. And few people need it more than LGBT and questioning youth trying to find their own identity and navigate through an often-hostile world.
Providing that much-needed safe …
Good things happen to those who wait. I never quite understood this quote until recently when I received a call with an invitation to meet some of the cast from Rupaul’s Drag Race, Season 2. I’ve always been a faithful fan, but never would I have imagined getting to meet the girls, who had performed at Fort Worth’s Rainbow Lounge the night before, and were in Dallas as guests of couture designer Nicolas Villalba.
As four other youth, Wilford Brown, John McKnight, Steven Richmond, and William Morvant, along with a volunteer …
Celebrate the legacy of Harvey Milk, outspoken activist for the LGBTQ community, while Youth First Texas recognizes some of our own community “angels”. Join us on Sunday May 23rd for a fabulous champagne brunch at Dish, the newest place to eat on Cedar Springs.
Seating is limited so get your tickets today.
As soon as I enter the YFT building I’m plastered with hugs. It’s hard not to feel like a celebrity when everyone greets you with a hug and the words, “Hey, Gorgeous!”
I made special effort to get here, despite working long hours and living in Plano without a car. Today is “Gender Specific Toy Night.”
In Gender Identity Group we were asked to bring a toy that plagued or delighted us during childhood so we could unpack the emotions associated with it. At first I couldn’t focus on anything. Most of …
Our Stories, Our Voices is a blog series written by the youth for other youth about issues they have had to deal with in their lives.
At the end of the day I ask myself, I wonder what it’s like? To be Bisexual or heck even Lesbian. When I say that I’m a straight ally a part of me says but you are totally checking out that chick sitting on the couch wondering what her parents would think of you and her together. It’s a very confusing thing/time for me especially …
Washington (CNN) — President Obama has asked the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a rule that would prevent hospitals from denying visitation privileges to gay and lesbian partners.
The president’s Thursday memo said, “There are few moments in our lives that call for greater compassion and companionship than when a loved one is admitted to the hospital. … Yet every day, all across America, patients are denied the kindnesses and caring of a loved one at their sides.”
Gay and lesbian Americans are “uniquely affected” by relatives-only policies …
04.16.10 is the National Day of Silence, and this year we are organizing a Flash Mob for the first time ever!
On the National Day of Silence, hundreds of thousands of students from all over the country take a vow of silence to bring attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment in their schools. Each year the event has grown, and now hundreds of thousands of students participate to encourage schools and classmates to address the problem of anti-LGBT behavior. Founded in 1996, the Day of Silence has …
