Let's join our LGBT brothers and sisters in support of LGBT PRIDE MONTH L-Club's own Marisa Richmond will lead us in a discussion of Pride Month* and will address ongoing Transgender issues both personal and political June 17th, Saturday 6:30 pm SOOO...bring your favorite food/ drink and join us at the home of Keri Cannon for a summer night of new understanding and lots of fun with some of the best L's in the universe! Direction's to Keri's house 8373 Collins Road It's not as difficult as it looks!!!! Travel down highway 100, past Ol Hickory to the new Shopping area, (near the Barn Dinner Theatre and on the way to Loveless) After you pass Publix on the right and Kroger on the left, you will See Ace Hardware on your left ... turn right at the light on to Collins Road. Follow Collins road until it becomes a gravel road. It will fork off to the left. Follow to the top of the hill, until you arrive at Keri's house on your left. PHOTOGRAPHED AT LEGISLATIVE PLAZA BY ERIC ENGLAND. Nashville native Marisa Richmond grew up as part of a politically active family in Bordeaux. (Her mother passed out leaflets for John F. Kennedy.) In 2003, Richmond became the first president of the Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition, and today she volunteers her time lobbying for equal rights for trans people in Tennessee and beyond. Marisa currently teaches in the Department of History and Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Middle Tennessee State University. She has her A.B. from Harvard University, her M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and her Ph.D. from George Washington University, all in U.S. History. Marisa has served many years as the Lobbyist for the Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition, and was recently named to the Metro Human Relations Commission In 2008, she became the first openly transgender person to win an election in Tennessee when she was elected to the Davidson County Democratic Party (DCDP) Executive Committee. She currently serves as a Vice Chair of DCDP. Also in 2008, she became the first African American, transgender person to serve as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention from any state. She served as a Tennessee delegate again in 2012 along with serving as a member of the Steering Committee of Trans United for Obama. *From Library of Congress: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month (LGBT Pride Month) is currently celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan. The Stonewall riots were a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States. In the United States the last Sunday in June was initially celebrated as “Gay Pride Day,” but the actual day was flexible. In major cities across the nation the “day” soon grew to encompass a month-long series of events. Today, celebrations include pride parades, picnics, parties, workshops, symposia and concerts, and LGBT Pride Month events attract millions of participants around the world.

SOOO...bring your favorite food/ drink

and join us at the home of Keri Cannon

for a summer night of new understanding and lots of fun with some of the best L's in the universe!

Direction's to Keri's house

8373 Collins Road

It's not as difficult as it looks!!!!

Travel down highway 100, past Ol Hickory to the new Shopping area, (near the Barn Dinner Theatre and on the way to Loveless)

After you pass Publix on the right and Kroger on the left, you will See Ace Hardware on your left ... turn right at the light on to Collins Road. Follow Collins road until it becomes a gravel road. It will fork off to the left. Follow to the top of the hill, until you arrive at Keri's house on your left.

PHOTOGRAPHED AT LEGISLATIVE PLAZA BY ERIC ENGLAND.

Nashville native Marisa Richmond grew up as part of a politically active family in Bordeaux. (Her mother passed out leaflets for John F. Kennedy.) In 2003, Richmond became the first president of the Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition, and today she volunteers her time lobbying for equal rights for trans people in Tennessee and beyond.

Marisa currently teaches in the Department of History and Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Middle Tennessee State University. She has her A.B. from Harvard University, her M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and her Ph.D. from George Washington University, all in U.S. History.

Marisa has served many years as the Lobbyist for the Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition, and was recently named to the Metro Human Relations Commission

In 2008, she became the first openly transgender person to win an election in Tennessee when she was elected to the Davidson County Democratic Party (DCDP) Executive Committee. She currently serves as a Vice Chair of DCDP. Also in 2008, she became the first African American, transgender person to serve as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention from any state. She served as a Tennessee delegate again in 2012 along with serving as a member of the Steering Committee of Trans United for Obama.

*From Library of Congress:

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month (LGBT Pride Month) is currently celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan. The Stonewall riots were a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States. In the United States the last Sunday in June was initially celebrated as “Gay Pride Day,” but the actual day was flexible. In major cities across the nation the “day” soon grew to encompass a month-long series of events. Today, celebrations include pride parades, picnics, parties, workshops, symposia and concerts, and LGBT Pride Month events attract millions of participants around the world.