Sydney Star Observer January 28 LETTERS We were extremely pleased to see your leading story in this week's Star. Your continued support for reconciliation is welcomed by us. We would like to take this opportunity to announce through you that we will be organising our first Black Queen's Ball. The date is yet to be set. This will follow our anniversary event on February 26, the night before Mardi Gras. We have been extremely pleased with the sucess of our events but we do need support from the wider community. What we've tried to do is something really basic for aboriginal gay people, organise a space where we can simply get together. No surveys or studies, just a disco and ocaasionally some drag shows and lots of black faces. We've had around 100 people every time, mainly through word-of-mouth. The next Corroborree is at The Imperial (downstairs) from 9pm January 29, followed by the tenth anniversary Corroboree on February 26 (Mardi Gras eve). BlackOUT would also like to be able to organise some day time socials during the summer if we can. The Ball will be a large party for Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Aboriginal people and our friends and lovers with entertainment from aboriginal people. It will be fabulous. BlackOUT is appealing to the community for practical support in organising the Ball. So far we have have raised some money through gold coin donations and we recently recieved a cheque for $500 which is the remaining money from the organisers of last year's Queer for Reconciliation float in the Mardi Gras. However, despite writing to 370 agencies and organisations we haven't had much concrete support. We have recieved some support which we are grateful for, especially from PRIDE, and we would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has helped and participated. However from our perspective there are many thousands of dollars being spent on surveys - worthwhile though they are - we would like to see some support going in at the grassroots. Anyone wanting to help BlackOUT can contact us at PO Box 57, Darlinghurst 2010 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Our website is http://blackout.queer.org.au G. Lee, T. Creighton, P.Canning ------------------------------------------------------- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use."
