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Workin’ with our new dedicated partners 94.5 PST,
Princeton's Pride Parade will be even more fabulous & more importantly even more meaningful. 
Stay tuned, true believers, but in the meanwhile, please clear the entire weekend of 20 June as our Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice intends to create with our shared communities an extraordinary entire weekend of Pride!

Join us for a Social Event for LGBTQIA+ youth where you can meet others & socialize in a safe space to hang out. Youth (ages 10-18) of all identities, including allies, are welcome.

Snacks will be provided.

Parents/Guardians are welcome to use the library facilities during the event.

RSVP Here:
lgbtqacceptanceproject.eventbrite.com

Your hosts are Kat and Samantha. They have been Girl Scouts in Lawrence, Ewing, Trenton, NJ for 9 years & are in eighth grade.

The Acceptance Project is part of their Silver Award project.

We hope to see you there!

Not In Our Town Princeton along with the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice will be hosting a special screening of the film JUSTICE ON TRIAL.

Two civil rights attorneys sue the U.S. Department of Justice for reparations and damages done to African Americans, while bringing back time-traveler witnesses, including Harriet Tubman, Medgar Evers, and Emmett Till, to testify. The evidence is then given to a mixed-cultural jury to deliberate. The film stars Dorien Wilson, Todd Bridges, Alicia Robinson Cooper, Chad Lawson Cooper and David Arquilla.

The film will be followed by a discussion and Q&A with filmmaker Dr. Chad Lawson Cooper and his father, Justice Lubbie Harper, Jr, and Connecticut Super Attorney John Gesmonde.

Not in Our Town Princeton, a 501c3 nonprofit organization, is an interracial, interfaith social action group united to advance the cause of racial justice.
The Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice is a non-profit community activist center, educational enclave, & safe-space for our LGBTQIA kids, intersectional families, & all marginalized people, connecting our disparate communities, both locally & nationally.
BRCSJ HQ is located physically on 21 Wiggins St. in Princeton, NJ, & virtually at www.rustincenter.org.

It's time to Dance, Princeton, Dance!

Grab your sweetheart’s hand and skip on over to our February dance party, where DJ ModCon02 will be spinning songs of LOVE!

Get your arts & crafts groove on at our valentine craft table and remember, as Saint Valentine said, “life ain’t worth livin’ without some love!”

Thank you to our fabulous party sponsors:
Princeton Record Exchange
Olives Princeton
Small World Coffee
Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice
the bent spoon

Partake in a pilgrimage to the Sourland Mountains
& come visit this award-winning craft distillery as they offer percentage of their sales this evening to benefit the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice!
America’s Farm Distillery of the Year
Sourland Mountain Spirits is located in delightful Hopewell, NJ on 130 Hopewell Rocky Hill Road (parking lot is behind the Brick Farm Tavern on Route 518).
Lifting Spirits since 2015, the distillery will be an open & affirming space this evening as we welcome all our LGBTQIA friends & allies at this special event celebrating the BRCSJ, a non-profit community activist center, educational enclave, & dedicated safe-space for all our beautifully diverse folks...
Come join us & imbibe in a both a tasty & meaningful way indeed!

"Local, sustainable & meaningful"~
Those principles are the foundation of Sourland Mountain Spirits, transforming Ray Disch’s (co-founder, Triumph Brewing) entrepreneurial spirit into singular, quality craft spirits.

Join the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice & Coalition for Peace Action, along with Indivisible Cranbury & Muslims for Peace, Inc. for an emergency rally against the dangerous escalation of conflict with Iran.
Let us amplify our desire for peace together at Hinds Plaza next to Princeton Public Library at noon on Saturday 11 January with confirmed speakers thus far:
- Dr. Zia Man, physicist & Co-Director of Princeton University's Program on Science & Global Security
- Richard Moody, former fighter pilot
- Rev. Robert Moore, Executive Director of CFPA
- Robt Seda-Schreiber, BRCSJ Chief Activist
- New Jersey Assemblyman Andrew Zwicker
- Music from Sharleen Leahey

Jump around! Gather your friends & get ready to let your hair down! The Arts Council of Princeton’s Solley Theater will transform into andance party! Boring Friday nights? As if!!


Thank you to our Party Partners:
Princeton Record Exchange
Small World Coffee
the bent spoon
Olives Princeton
Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice

The Impeach & Remove Rally will takes place on TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17 at 5:30 pm at Hinds Plaza (Witherspoon Street next to Princeton Public Library) in Princeton. We will join Americans taking part in over 400 rallies in all 50 states to demand that the Houses of Congress hold this president accountable for Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress. We will be uniting to ask the House of Representatives to impeach Donald Trump, and the Senate to vote to remove him from office. In this historic moment our voices are critical to let our lawmakers know we believe that in our democracy, Nobody is Above the Law.

Please bring signs, lights and friends, and join us on Tuesday, December 17 at 5:30 PM.

Continue to amplify this message by sharing this registration link to the PRINCETON RALLY with friends & family: https://act.moveon.org/event/impeach-and-remove-attend/125742/?akid=.36806953.bcG5DH

Following the rally, on Saturday, December 21, there will be a Day of Action at the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice, 21 Wiggins Street (off Tulane) in Princeton NJ 08540, from 9 AM to 3 PM. This Open House will offer phone banking, postcard writing, and video statements, with free materials & refreshments. Please plan to attend to make your voice heard! Your local co-sponsoring organizations are: The Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice, Indivisible Cranbury, Lawrence Citizen Activists, STAND Central New Jersey, Indivisible Princeton, Indivisible Monroe, Princeton Community Democratic Organization, and Princeton University Democrats. Take this opportunity to join in making the impeachment vote the start of a new page in American history. Because NOBODY IS ABOVE THE LAW!

Our Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice could not be more thrilled to announce that we are partnering with GMHC & Out Magazine in reviving the iconic GMHC Dance-A-Thon, an all-night open-bar dance party extravaganza ‪on Friday 15 November 15th from 7pm to midnight‬ in New York City!
We are even more proud that BRCSJ Chief Activist Robt Seda-Schreiberhas been named to the Host Committee & we are also brininging in our old friend Mike Hot-Pence to add his hotness to the funky festivities!
All proceeds from this fabulous event benefit GMHC, the world’s first HIV/AIDS non-profit so we hope all y'all will join us on the dance-floor to end AIDS & Live Life.
Visit ‪gmhc.org/danceathon‬ to grab your ticket & join DJ's Lady Bunny, Vito Fun, & Trevor Fox with a special performance by Princess Lockeroooto dance passionately for 5 hours to help end #AIDS.
#GMHCNYC #HIV #DanceAThon #NYC

Join us this evening for a special literary event with noted Jewish author Daniel M. Jaffe.
YELED TOV is a coming-of-age novel about Jake Stein, an observant Jewish teenager struggling to reconcile his traditional reading of Torah with his growing attraction to men. Temptations that begin during his high school senior year become overwhelming once he's a freshman at Princeton University. If Jake gives in to his feelings, will he risk losing God's love?
As per Kirkus Reviews, “Jaffe writes in a polished prose style…locating Jake’s conflict in the particulars of Judaism & Jewish culture, while also presenting a story that will feel relatable to a wide audience…. An empathetic story of faith and desire.”
Daniel M. Jaffe is the author of four gay-Jewish-themed books of fiction: the novels YELED TOV (Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention) & THE LIMITS OF PLEASURE (ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award Finalist); the novel-in-stories, THE GENEALOGY OF UNDERSTANDING (Rainbow Awards Finalist and Honorable Mention); & the short story collection, JEWISH GENTLE AND OTHER STORIES OF GAY-JEWISH LIVING. He also compiled & edited WITH SIGNS AND WONDERS: AN INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY OF JEWISH FABULIST FICTION, & translated the Russian-Israeli novel, HERE COMES THE MESSIAH! by Dina Rubina. Jaffe, who teaches creative writing in the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, holds degrees from Princeton University, Harvard Law School, & Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Alex Counts discusses his book, subtitled “Leadership Lessons from Three Decades of Social Entrepreneurship,” with Princeton author and activist Sam Daley-Harris. Counts founded Grameen Foundation and became its president and CEO to continue his work in microfinance and poverty reduction. Daley-Harris is the author of “Reclaiming Our Democracy: Healing the Break Between People and Government.”

OFFICIAL RSVP LINK: https://actionnetwork.org/events/new-jersey-natonal-period-day-rally/

On October 19, 2019, we will rally for NATIONAL PERIOD DAY -- elevating the issue of period poverty and demanding real change to making period products more accessible for all and ending the #TamponTax. This is an inclusive rally! Whether you menstruate or not, EVERYONE is welcome. Bring all your family and friends! Bring posters! Wear red!

It’s 2019, and yet, 1 in 4 women struggle to afford period products due to a lack of income. In the first city-wide study on period poverty, it was found that 46% of low-income women had to choose between a meal and period products. Because of the period stigma that makes menstruation a taboo topic, we don’t often think about what it’s like for a homeless or low-income menstruator to get their period, and don’t have open conversations about period health or solutions to period poverty.

We believe that it is a fundamental human right to be able to discover and reach your full potential, regardless of a natural need – and what could be more natural than menstruation? Simply put -- MENSTRUAL HYGIENE IS A RIGHT, NOT A PRIVILEGE. We are the Menstrual Movement -- fighting for equitable access to menstrual hygiene, and breaking down the stigma surrounding periods. This fight is on ALL OF US, and we must TAKE ACTION NOW. Unlike most poverty-related issues, this one is solvable.

We call for clean and healthy period products to be freely accessible in schools, shelters, and prisons, and also stand in solidarity with the 34 US states who still have a sales tax on period products considering them non-essential items.

PLEASE SHARE! There are rallies being hosted all across the US in honor of PERIOD DAY!

We especially need ORGANIZERS from marginalized communities, so please email our national team policy@period.org or niyunb@gmail.com if you’re interested in getting more involved!

The current co-hosts of the New Jersey Period Day Rally are:
YWCA Princeton
Princeton Period Project
Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice

The Week Without Violence is an annual YWCA initiative to raise awareness about gender-based violence. According to YWCA USA, Gender-based violence is recognized as a spectrum of violence, including but not limited to, intimate partner violence, sexual assault, trafficking, and harassment.

#WWV19 is from October 14th - October 18th. YWCA's across the country will have a large social media presence throughout the week, as will we. Join YWCA Princeton , Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice, and Womanspace, Inc., as we walk the talk!

We'll start out at YWCA Princeton at 12:00 pm and walk to Tigers Park with signs, and bring the issue of gender-based violence to the attention of the community! Then, we'll walk back to YWCA Princeton at 1:00 pm to meet with our co-hosts as they table in the YWCA Princeton lobby and provide information about how we can help end gender-based violence through donating, volunteering, and taking action.

Visit https://www.ywcaprinceton.org/support-our-mission/take-action/wwv-2/ for details about the Week Without Violence and email Haley at hgorda@ywcaprinceton.org with any questions!

We are proud to participate in this year’s Welcoming Week celebration with a screening of the brand-new documentary “RAINBOW DAY CAMP” at Princeton Garden Theatre.
In 2015, a summer camp was created in the Bay Area to provide youth questioning their gender identity a safe and fun place to express themselves. This documentary provides insight into to the multilayered lives of the kids, their parents, and their allies.
Followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Horacio Marquínez. Free event.

Gather your friends & get ready to let your hair down!
In celebration of Princeton Welcoming Week,
the Arts Council's Solley Theater will transform into a
Salsa dance party & ALL are welcome!

$5 suggested donation for this celebration of community!

Thank you to our fabulous party partners:
Princeton Record Exchange
Small World Coffee
the bent spoon
Housing Initiatives of Princeton
Princeton Human Services
Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice
Olives Princeton

This film combines documentary and scripted elements while following members of the close-knit former mining community of Bisbee, Arizona, as they commemorate the centennial of the forced deportation of immigrant miners. During the Bisbee Deportation, 1,200 immigrants were violently removed from their homes by a deputized force, shipped to the desert on cattle cars & left to die.

Presented by the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice in collaboration with the Princeton Public Library along with POV, the award-winning independent nonfiction film series on PBS.

On Friday July 12, from 7 pm to 9 pm, the greater Princeton community will come together for Lights for Liberty: A Vigil to End Human Detention Camps. The event is being held nationwide to spotlight the inhumane treatment of immigrant families by the current administration.
Beginning at 7 pm, community groups will have tables available to share information, petitions and action items. There will be live music and an art installation on view for the event. Starting at 8 pm local advocates and representatives will speak on the issue of human detention camps in the United States and the impact to our communities. At 9 p.m., around the country and around the world, participants will light candles in a silent vigil for all those held in US detention camps.
The Princeton event will feature prominent activists and local representatives including: Maria Juega, co-founder of the Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Princeton councilwoman Leticia Fraga, Assemblyman Andrew Zwicker, and Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, director of the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton University.
Join Lights for Liberty Princeton in Hinds Plaza , co-hosted by Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice, Princeton Marching Forward, Indivisible Princeton, Indivisible Cranbury, Stand CNJ, Princeton Progressive Action Group (PPAG), and Lawrence Citizen Activists.

Princeton's first-ever Pride Parade!
We invite all to join us
Saturday 22 June
11AM at the Municipal Building at 400 Witherspoon St.
Our LGBTQIA community & their friends, families, & allies will march, dance, roll, & sashay through the historic Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood & end up at a fabulous after-party at the Princeton Family YMCA on Paul Robeson Place.
What better way to walk the walk (both literally & figuratively) of inclusivity & intersectionality than to bring together all of our beautifully diverse communities!
Come celebrate this significant & historic moment~
All are welcome from Princeton, neighboring towns & cities, & from across the state & nationally as well.
Please visit
www.rustincenter.org/pride-parade
to register
as well as to donate, volunteer, or otherwise be of service.
Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice
#PrideParade
#Pride

Queer Pride Dance Party!

Funk out with us the night before Pride Parade- Princeton's Fabulous First Ever!

Special guests include Mike Hot-Pence & Miss Gay NJ Lady Victoria Courtez (aka Victor Manuel Ruiz) who will also be performing a few special numbers during the dance!
Shimmy, shake, & show your pride!
ALL are welcome.
ALL ages.
ALL genders.
ALL our beautifully diverse communities!

Thank you to our fabulous Party Partners:
Arts Council of Princeton
Princeton Record Exchange
Small World Coffee
the bent spoon
Labyrinth Books Princeton
Olives Princeton

A community gathering of women’s empowerment at Hinds Plaza to celebrate the anniversary of Sojourner Truth’s poem “Ain’t I A Woman?”

Women & their friends & allies are welcome to come together to share the words of Sojourner Truth & to further celebrate the courageous women & non-binary individuals of the past who have fought for gender equality. We will continue their legacies in the acknowledgment of this moment & pledge to continue to embolden ourselves & all those allied in the struggle.

Join Princeton Girl Up & the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice in this Sunset Celebration of the past that will inform the present & inspire the future!
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The BRCSJ is proud to partner with acclaimed artist Andre Veloux to bring an art installation to Communiversity in recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

Please join the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice as we continue our inspirational collaboration with Christ Congregation Princeton as part of their "Widening the Welcome"~
Every 1st Sunday of the month, as Pastor Alexis Fuller-Wright welcomes a member from our beautifully diverse communities to share with the congregation to help us all become better allies (& there's a yummy potluck as well!)
This day, River Mariman will be sharing with us.
River is an 18 year old born & raised Princetonite. He has always loved & been a part of this community. He decided to take time off after graduating from high school & rather than going to college, he spends his time working at Small World, making art, writing, reading, amongst many other things. He is also a trans & openly queer man who came out halfway through high school. Since coming out he has always been passionate about advocating for himself & his trans community as much as he could. He hopes to utilize the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice as a catalyst for educating people further & seeing more positive change in favor of the trans community come about in this town, this country, & anywhere we can spread our positivity together.
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Our own Community Outreach Coordinator Carol Watchler along with our Intern Extraordinaire Kelsey Marizale wil be presenting wonderful workshop “LGBTQIA+: What Does It All Mean?!” at this inspirational conference.