2012 : EVENT #1

Fist Event: Visit to the Youth Pride

743 Westminster Street Providence, RI 02903
401.421.5626 info@youthprideri.org

1. Describe the event(s) in detail. Your post should be no fewer than 750 word but may be much longer if needed.
* I was welcome for a tour at the Youth Pride building by Saron Vongsavanj, one of the HIV prevention
help educator and staff member. He helps a lot with the tours, organisation, information such as
organizing health education session especially on safe sex; changing condoms in bathrooms so everyone
can have new ones.

* He talked about support group for the everyone, but he specifically said that members are between the age of 13 to 23. He said that they want to offer a safe and welcoming place for everyone. They want them to feel free to express their identity honestly and the support group usually help to break the ice so young can feel better about themselves and with others.

*I asked him if the Youth Pride help their member with school payment, he said they contact people for scholarship opportunities and make them available for the member to see and apply. They have support from around the world and many local companies.

*The events (cooking lesson, HIV programs, YPI DOL,) calendar for the month and the year. Saron said they are very organized in what have to be done and when is it going to be done.

*And they have the food Pantry sponsored mostly by RI food bank. It is a place where people in need can came and take food for a certain amount of time (for a week, or four days, or three days). Saron said that it only by appointment and the keep track of the food donation. It is done one a week and it is done by volunteers (mostly members and students).

2) Make connections to three course readings and themes to help you analyze the events. What does this event have to do with feminism as we have discussed it in class?
*The Youth Pride remind me of the suffrage's fight for the women's right. Now they are fighting for the right for
marriage and the right to be who they are. They have made a major step forward, it least today they have places to
go and feel free to express themselves the way they want. Women today can vote and they opinion matter
immensely during election time, it was not easy to get there and we (women) still have a long way to go the same
way the gays, lesbians, transgender...have.

3) Include pictures and links to at least three external web resources to help explain the meaning of this event.

743 Westminster Street Providence, RI 02903