Greetings All
 

As most of you know the Steering Committee has been working diligently to move our newly formed organization into the right direction. All of this hard work has finally paid off and we have made some hard decisions.  The Steering Committee met on Saturday May 17th, and we realized that what was holding us back was a lack of focus; and if we were ever going grow into an organization we really needed a focus, something that people could get behind and work on and more importantly work together to accomplish. We decided that the focus should be trans-gender issues, or more importantly we should work as a community to ensure that the trans-community has the same fair treatment that the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual community have. And since the trans-community has always been there with us and for us we need to now help to make sure that we do not leave them behind.

The Steering Committee does realize that Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals have not reached any level of fair treatment when compared with the larger society.  But we need to realize that as Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals we do have privilege, when compared to our Trans-gendered brothers and sisters, or any one with an ambiguous gender identity. We hope, that by making this our very first priority that we can start to have some hard conversations around this issue and one of the ways that we can help and allow us to move forward is to first realize the privilege we do have as Lesbian Gays Bisexuals.

A G E N D A

June 14, 2008

1:30 PM – 4:30 PM

1.                 Introduction

2.                 Presentation of our working name and tag

a.      Atlanta Faith-Based Alliance

b.     Slogan – One Tribe, One Table

3.                 Presentation of our officers and organizational structure

4.                 Our mission and vision statement

5.                 Proposal to make the trans-gender issue first our focus

6.                 Closing

7.                 Food and Fellowship