From http://www.gaycenter.org/projectpushback Project Pushback is a new initiative from the Centers in New York and Los Angeles to reframe the national debate on marriage equality for same-sex couples. Submit your video entry before May 18 and you can win up to $2,500. Check the link for details. This video was created by members of Center Media for a similar contest in 2004.
Terry Boggis, Director of Center Kids, Center Families
Terry Boggis Honored by Family Equality Council
The Center’s Director of the Center’s family program – Center Kids, Center Families, Terry Boggis, will be honored on April 21, 2009 by Family Equality Council, along with Platinum Recording Artist Clay Aiken at Night at the Tavern, Family Equality Council’s annual New York City gala.
This honor coincides with the upcoming 20th Anniversary of Center Kids.
Terry Boggis was one of the founding members of Center Kids in 1988, the year her son was born. She worked as a member of the award-winning program’s volunteer steering committee until 1994, when she was hired as its first paid administrator. Terry has been the full-time director of the Center’s family programming since January 1997. For 20 years, Center Kids has emphasized lobbying, training, testifying, educating and otherwise advocating on behalf of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender families and other “nontraditional” families, in addition to providing a social support network for LGBT parents and their children in the New York City metro region.
Terry has published and contributed to articles on LGBT family issues in The New York Times and other New York City dailies, Out Magazine and other gay media, and she has helped produce, and has also appeared on, news programming for the major networks. Her articles and essays have appeared in Our Right to Love lesbian anthology (Ginny Vida, ed., Simon & Schuster, 1995), the Lesbian and Gay Almanacs (Berkeley Books, 1996), The Lesbian and Gay Book of Love and Marriage (Paula Martinac, 1998), and Homefronts (Jess Wells, ed.,Alyson Books, 2000), among others. Terry has conducted LGBT awareness and anti-bias training and spoken on issues of concern to nontraditional families at the Lesbian and Gay Law Association, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s Creating Change Conference, the Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies (CLAGS), City University of New York/ NYU “Relatively Speaking” conference on LGBT families, at SUNY-Stony Brook, John Jay College, and C.W. Post, and in New York City public and private schools, among other venues. She has taught communications as a member of the adjunct faculty of Pace University.
Terry is also a founding board member and former board co-chair of Queers for Economic Justice.
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