Social Outreach Seattle (SOSea)

Please join Social Outreach Seattle (SOSea) Tuesday, October 11, from 6 - 9 p.m. at Neighbours Seattle for the SOSea 4th Annual Gala & Community Awards Ceremony! And check out our amazing community award winners this year: GSBA - Greater Seattle Business Association's Louise Chernin, Root Table Owner Tanya Rachinee, Q13 FOX News Steve Kiggins, CHS Capitol Hill Seattle capitolhillseattle.com, Michael Cagle, The Gay Uncle Time Comedian Jeffrey Robert, Highline College's very own Doris Martinez, Seattle Police Department Officer Nic Abts-Olsen, Immigration Reform advocate and King County Elections Jacque Larrainzar, Gender Justice League Executive Director Danni Askini, and Drag King and LGBTQ Equality Advocate Ceasar Hart! Tickets are just $20 with proceeds benefiting From the Heart, SOSea Self-Defense classes, SOSea anti-bias crime initiatives and much more. Tickets can be purchased at the door on the night of the event or at Brown Paper Tickets. See you there!

KOMO News did a great story on our Active Shooter training last night at Neighbours Seattle! THANK YOU to everyone that showed up. Keep a lookout for our next self-defense class!

http://komonews.com/news/local/hands-on-active-shooter-training-leaves-lasting-impression-on-capitol-hill

Hands-on active shooter training leaves lasting impression on Capitol Hill SEATTLE -- When it comes to surviving an active shooter incident, a group on Capitol Hill is offering hands-on training. It's a unique approach on how to deal with a situation that can leave so many paralyzed by fear, and exposed to being easy targets.Resp

http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2016/5/22/birthday-message-harvey-milk-cleve-jones

A Birthday Message to Harvey Milk, From Cleve Jones On what would have been Harvey Milk's 86th birthday, his former colleague and close friend shares his thoughts on the man and his legacy.

Big thank you to Dr. Collisto Rojas and Creekside Dental Arts for always supporting FROM THE HEART. Donation of 100 toothbrushes.

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Attorney General Loretta Lynch to Respond to North Carolina's HB 2 Lawsuit Attorney General Lynch speaks to reporters about North Carolina's decision to sue the federal government over its HB 2 law, which requires transgender people to use the bathroom that corresponds with…

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In Landmark Decision, Court Rules That Federal Law Protects Trans Students’ Bathroom Access  In a landmark ruling, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals held on Tuesday that federal law bars public schools from denying trans students access to the b ...

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Nominate someone for SOSea's FACES OF SEATTLE PRIDE video project! | Social Outreach Seattle (SOSea) Social Outreach Seattle (SOSea) would like to hear from you! Beginning May 1, SOSea will film 30 of the many different faces of LGBTQ PRIDE in our city to be sh...

After three years, hundreds of hours of filming and interviewing some of the trailblazers in Seattle's LGBTQ community, SOSea's The Legacy Project is entering its final editing stage before a mid-July screening! THANK YOU to everyone that has supported this project so far. We still need a little bit of help though. Please make a donation TODAY and share this post and ask others to donate as well! This documentary is going to be amazing! CHECK OUT THE TRAILER AT THE LINK BELOW:

https://www.gofundme.com/a3w27hm4

Click here to support THE LEGACY PROJECT by Shaun Knittel In May 2013, Shaun Knittel, Associate Editor for Seattle Gay News and founder and president at Social Outreach Seattle (SOSea) in cooperation with Dru Dinero, CEO Visual Affairs and founding SOSea board member, set out to film community members directly involved, for decades, in the fight for LG...

This is a very big deal; tell LGBTQ people that we do not love or have the capacity to love or even that we just don't love as good as straight society and we can take it. After we roll our collective eyes we get on with life. It takes a lot more than that to get us down. But ... when you say, as a federal government or state government that we cannot legally adopt because (fill-in-the-blank with some tired old bigoted statement about who knows what that doesn't make any sense to anyone who doesn't have hate fueling their heart and soul) we get angry. We get organized. We get support. We get lawyers. And, even if it takes years or decades, you had best believe WE GET THOSE RIGHTS! We have more resilience, more reasons to defend our constitutional right to marry, more support than ever before and more than enough lawyers, courts, and all the time in the world that it will take to beat you back, protect our families and ourselves and do the thing that we have been asking for all along: Live our lives with the same rights, responsibilities, and freedoms as heterosexual Americans. And Social Outreach Seattle (SOSea) would like to add this to the argument: THIS TOPIC IS OLD AND TIRED BY NOW. Study after study, report after report, and a sense of morality all point to the fact that there is no real reason (and probably never was one) to keep LGBTQ people from adopting.

Same-Sex Couples Can Now Adopt Children In All 50 States A federal judge ruled Mississippi's ban on same-sex adoption is unconstitutional.