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The Center to Host LGBT Parents Mixer, Workshops

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By Greggory Moore
 | Friday, 10 June 2011 11:01
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2:01pm | According to the results of Proposition 8, 47.55 percent of Long Beach residents do not believe homosexual couples deserve the right to marry. Such public sentiment is a clear indication of the unique challenges faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender parents.

For this reason, on Monday, June 13, The Center in Long Beach is hosting its first-ever LGBT Parents Mixer. Entitled Building a “Modern Family” Tree, the event will (according to The Center's press release) offer a comfortable social setting for LGBT parents — and prospective parents — "to ask questions, find answers, and support one another as we stand proudly as the 'new family dynamic' taking shape in our society. Come connect, embrace, and explore the wonders, challenges, joys, and surprises of being a LGBT parent and family!"

Facilitated by Life Incognito's Rick Clemons, Monday's mixer is the kickoff event to a series of get-togethers / workshops — monthly to begin with, perhaps bimonthly thereafter — that will be both casual and educational.

"It's about socializing, sharing our experiences, talking about our challenges as gay and lesbian parents," says Clemons. "But each time there will also be a learning segment.

"We're dipping our toe in the water with this one, and we'll see where we go with it. … I love being a gay parent myself, and I love connecting with other gay parents — hearing their challenges, sharing their ideas, just really seeing how we can support one another."

The Center is located at 2017 E. Fourth St. For more information, call 562-434-4455, ext. 245, or visit CenterLB.org. For more information on Life Incognito, go to LifeIncognito.com.

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Theo
I bet you that the 47.55 percent are the most rotten half of Long Beach. Try fixing your own house before you try to force your views on others.
Eagle Eye
First off, Greggory Moore, we know that you are a pro-gay activist. I'm just wondering why the LB Post is being used as a platform for that agenda. That's the problem with "News" media today. Instead of being independent and objective, it's nothing more than a political slant.

As for "LGBT" parents? Come on. According to your own logic, you were BORN to be gay. IF you are "born to be gay", then you certainly can't be born to be a parent.

A parent comes from husband and wife. Those born to be a parent, should be parents.

But alas, as usual, you want to have it both ways, and thus your dishonesty is exposed.

So really, who ya foolin?

Eagle Eye
A child needs a mother and a father. If there really aren't enough to go around, then yeah, maybe we can have other kinds of caretakers..... but is that really ideal, and is it really done in the best interests of the children???

Or are these poor innocent children just being USED, as playthings, so that the LGBT community can pose and plot to gain status and push their sub-culture.

Eagle Eye
yeah Theo, anyone who doesn't agree with what you want, must be "rotten".

Thank you for demonstrating the brain level and mindset of the gay community.

Gerald
And thank you Eagle Eye for continuing to expose your ignorance.
Eagle Eye
"ignorance"???

You mean like ignoring your own hypocrisy in order to push a politically correct FAKE culture?

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