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Boulder Pride HAPPY HOUR March 13th 

 

Boulder Pride is setting a up a little get together at The Redfish fish house and brewery(13 th street, Boulder Colorado). It will be from 5-7pm on MARCH 13th there will be live music!! VENUSNV is scheduled to perform. We hope to see you there!

Grief and Loss Support Group LGBTQ Grief and Loss Support Group

Supporting Each Other: Addressing LGBTQ Grief and Loss in Community Learn about the complex issues of loss, death and grief. How loss can impact LGBTs as disenfranchised grief. Disenfranchised grief is what people experience when they incur a loss that is not or cannot be openly acknowledged, publicly mourned, or supported. ..

Open to all LGBTQs who have any form of loss to process

This is an intergenerational support group * Facilitator Led * This will be a closed group after the first session (will run 8 weeks)

When:  March 25, 2008, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Where:  Boulder Pride House, 2132 14th Street, Boulder CO. 80302

RSVP required. Contact elewis@bouldercounty.org or call:  303-441-3583

Light refreshments provided.

This group is presented by the following partner agencies: Boulder County Aging Services, Boulder Pride and HospiceCare of Boulder and Broomfield Counties

The Last Drag:  Boulder Pride offered the first ever Woman only GLBT Culturally Competent Smoking Cessation class in the United States!

Based on "Freedom from Smoking" offered by the American Lung Association, The Last Drag is a smoking cessation class designed for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and HIV-Positive smokers, which started in San Francisco, CA. Due to the high rates of GLBT female smokers in Boulder County as found from an extensive community needs assessment performed last year, Boulder Pride held the first ever woman only Last Drag class for lesbian, bisexual, transgender identified and straight allied women in Boulder County.

This first class, which started in January 2008, consisted of 14 lesbian, bisexual, questioning and straight ally women from Boulder County who came together to quit tobacco.

This free class was funded through a state grant administered through the GLBT Center of Colorado and was run by a professional lesbian counselor.

Boulder Pride hopes to hold another Last Drag class in the future. If you are interested in learning more about Boulder Pride's SmokeFree GLBT program or future Last Drag classes please contact Boulder Pride at 303-499-5777 or email info@boulderpride.org.

For more information about all SmokeFree GLBT tobacco programs in Colorado see www.smokefreeglbt.org

GLBT Tobacco Facts

GLBT people smoke more than any other community in Colorado.

	Tobacco kills more GLBTQ people every year than AIDS, alcohol, car accidents, suicides, illegal drugs, homicides, and fires combined.
	GLBT people are twice more likely to smoke than non-GLBT people
	GLBT youth smoke at an alarming rate, 59% compared to 35% non-GLBT youth (American Journal of Preventative Medicine. Aug. 2001)
	The American Cancer Society estimates that over 30,000 GLBT people die each year of tobacco-related diseases. (This is a conservative estimate because it presumes that GLBT individuals smoke at the same rate as the general population.)

Why do GLBT Individuals Smoke More?

Key Findings on why GLBT individuals smoke from Boulder County Public Health Discussion Group Findings

See the Executive Summary from Boulder County Public Health HERE
See the full report HERE

Resources to help you Quit

See up-to-date information on how to quit for GLBT individuals at the SmokeFree GLBT website:  http://www.smokefreeglbt.org/Q uitNow.html

Background About Smoke Free GLBT

The SmokeFree GLBT program, led and managed by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center of Colorado, is a statewide effort designed to reduce chronic disease and death directly related to tobacco use in the GLBT communities of Colorado. For the first time in the history of the state of Colorado, funds are available to address the high rate of tobacco use in Colorado's GLBT community by providing prevention activities for GLBT youth, cessation education and activities for adults, and social marketing materials to change community norms that support tobacco use. Another goal of the GLBT Smoke Free program is to build capacity and strengthen GLBT organizations across Colorado, providing greater access to information and a stronger queer community statewide. A statewide GLBT Smoke Free Task Force, spearheaded and managed by the GLBT Center of Colorado, has been formed and consists of eight GLBT community organizations across the state of Colorado. All GLBT Task Force members, including Boulder Pride, are currently working to develop GLBT culturally competent programming in their local communities.

For more information about all SmokeFree GLBT tobacco programs in Colorado

see www.smokefreeglbt.org