Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 06:41:36 -0700 From: "Roger B.A. Klorese" <rogerk@unpc.queernet.org> * PLEASE POST * THANK YOU * The Pride Network, eWorld, Out Magazine present a BENEFIT for Digital Queers and Gay Community News a project of The Bromfield St. Educational Foundation Thursday, August 4, 1994 (@Macworld Expo) CLUB CAFE 209 Columbus Avenue (at Berkeley Street) Boston 5-9:30 pm - food and entertainment - cash bar $25 minimum admission 9:30 pm-2 am - dance club with VJ Tom Yazbek (no cover for DQ guests) AND Club Cafe will donate 10% of all dinners and gym fees ALL WEEK LONG to DQ - show your Macworld badge for proof!) starring: Nationally famous hilarity-monger Kate Clinton Urvashi Vaid, author and gay community brain Digital Queers Way Above & Beyond Service Award Heavy hors d'oeuvres and cash bar Smart, fun available Digital Queers from all over About Digital Queers DQ is a national organization of computer technology professionals dedicated to serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community through service, visibility, and professional and social networking. At our last Macworld fundraiser, we raised over $70,000 in cash and $100,000 in donated software, hardware and services for Frameline, a queer media arts organization, which was used to install a new ethernet network of 14 video-capable Quadras, 2 printers, and a server. Since then, DQ has opened an office in San Francisco, incorporated and received its California non-profit status. About Gay Community News and Bromfield Street Educational Foundation Based in Boston, BSEF is a non-profit that sponsors three principal projects: Gay Community News. The first national progressive newsweekly covering the struggle for gay and lesbian freedom. After 19 years, GCN ceased publishing regularly in 1992. Since then, a dedicated team of volunteers has worked to relaunch the paper as a quarterly. With your help, GCN will resume a monthly schedule in 1995. The OutWrite Conference. Founded in 1990, this annual national confab has become the preeminent forum and marketplace for queer literature and writing. The Lesbian and Gay Prisoner's Project . The project seeks to link gay and lesbian prisoners with the wider gay community, and advocates for just treatment for all prisoners, through pen pals, distribution of books and periodicals, and advocacy for queer prisoners and prisoners living with HIV. About This Benefit Party A portion of your contributions to this party will go to finance a new computer system for BSEF. In addition, your contributions will support DQ's projects for 1994, which include: office build-out; hands-on email and computer training at the PFLAG , NLGJA, and NGLTF Creating Change conferences; a beauty makeover for the national office of PFLAG; and creation of a DQ World Wide Web server. HOST COMMITTEE Co-Chairs Tom Rielly - Radius/SuperMac* Karen Wickre - Dakota Territory* Boston David Carney-Harvard Business School John Gordon-GCN, BSEF Polly Laurelchild-Hertig - Lotus Paula Rooney-PC Week Jonathan Rotenberg-Monitor Company Bryan Simmons - Lotus Urvashi Vaid National Elizabeth Birch - Apple Computer Lauren Black - Macworld Magazine Rick Carlton- Radius Andy Cemelli -WordPerfect Ann-Mei Chang - Silicon Graphics* Matt Clark - Macworld Magazine Rob Eckhardt - Macworld Magazine Anita Epler - Ziff-Davis Labs* Steve Christiansen & John Lee - Etch Media Tim Gill - Quark Inc. and the Gill Foundation Stuart Harrison Annie Jenkel - Apple Computer Joanne Kalogeras - Dantz Development* Diane Burns, Barry Owen, Will Whitaker, Cary Collins - Intelligent Newton (IN) Magazine Don MacDonald - Tandem* Greg Marks - The Exploratorium* James A. Martin - Macworld Magazine Elizabeth McLachlan* Hyprgeek John McMullen- Aldus Jamie O'Donnell Don Pickens - Microsoft Jeff Pittelkau - MacUser Magazine David Ring - Cisco Systems and Global Village Andy Reinhardt - Byte Magazine* Gary Rocchio- IDG Research Services Greg Smith- PC World Jim Stephens - Adobe Systems Ben Templin - ZiffNet Randy Ubillos - Adobe Systems Benjamin Waldman - Microsoft *DQ Board Members Reply Card ___I wouldn't miss this fabulous bash! Enclosed is: ___ $25 ____$50 ____$100 ____$250____$500 _____ $1000 $____Other _____ Cash ___Visa ___ MasterCard _______________________________ Exp. Date_____ Please note: Your charge will appear as "GLAAD San Francisco Bay Area Chapter" Signature____________________________________________ Name as Printed:_________________________________ ____So sorry. Miss Otis regrets she's unable to dine today. Here's my donation of $________. _____Hold my name, I'll pay $25 (or more) at the door. Space is extremely limited. We will sell out. Please RSVP today. Contributions of $100 or more will be matched by a challenge grant from The Gill Foundation. DQ estimates the fair market value of this event is $15. Amounts over $15 are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law. DQ is a California non-profit corporation, IRS 501 (c)(3) status pending. I would also like to donate hardware or software. I'll bring it to the Club Cafe. Name_________________________________________ Title_____________________________________________ Company__________________________________________ Mailing address___________________________________________ City State ZIP____________________________________________ Phone (Day)______________________ (Evening)_______________ E-mail address/service____________________________________ Please Respond Via Mail Or Fax By August 1, 1994. Reservations will be held at the door. Mark the date now! Where To RSVP/Query: Luddite: Digital Queers 584 Castro Street #150 San Francisco, CA 94114 Fax: 415/252-6290 Email: Internet: digiqueers@aol.com AOL: digiqueers Eworld: tomrielly or KWickre Applelink: TRIELLY or Wickre MCI Mail: kwickre (431-4554) Vox: 415/252-6282 Bromfield Street Fdn. Wish List: Hardware 4 PowerMac or Quadras Ethernet hubs and/or connectors Color Monitors 1 2-page Mac color display for DTP Keyboards 1 Laser Writer Select 360 1 fax/data modem Software (Mac) 1 nonprofit fund accounting package 4 Microsoft Word or WordPerfect 4 Microsoft Excel 4 Datebook/Touchbase 2 Quark Xpress Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator Aldus Freehand, Persuasion SitComm or Microphone Software Utilities of all kinds 2 Filemaker Pro Books: Mac how-to books Services Volunteers Basic Mac training DTP and Quark Xpress training Excel and Word training Filemaker Pro training Note: Even if you don't see your software, hardware, or books on this list, BRING THEM ANYWAY! DQ can use legal, current copies of many different products for many gay and lesbian nonprofit techno-supplicants. Multiple copies are welcome and will be put to good use.