Events

Note:  With our official "Gay Into Straight America" journey completed, all of our future events will be posted on our website Stand UP Speak OUT.  Please visit and click on the Events icon.  If you are interested in having us speak or present a workshop, click here to contact us.

Gay Into Straight America will be continuously updating and adding events as we travel throughout the country.  Only upcoming events are listed below; events that have taken place drop off this page.

In addition to specific events, much of our journey will consist of day-to-day interactions, as we travel and create authentic connections with people.  It is called the "attractor factor" and it happens "easily and naturally" as we remain open to attracting those who are wrestling with their understanding about GLBT persons, or those who are wrestling about being a GLBT person and fully accepting their authentic self.

Looking for examples of this attractor factor?  Following are two.

Click here for an example of a person wrestling with their own understanding of GLBT persons.

Click here for an example of a person wrestling with acceptance of living fully as their authentic self.

Sep 20, 2006
GISA concludes year long journey
Libby Manthey
Riverwalk Books, 116 East Woodin; Chelan, Washington, 7 p.m.
(509) 682-8901
riverwalk@nwi.net

On September 20, 2006,  “Gay Into Straight America” will conclude a year-long tour of America at Riverwalk Books in Chelan, Washington.  The evening begins at 7:00 p.m. with travelers Dotti Berry and Roby Sapp.  Local author Lars Clausen will accompany Dotti and Roby and autograph his new book, “Straight Into Gay America: My Unicycle Journey for Equal Rights.”

 

Dotti and Roby’s journey Gay Into Straight America, began September 11, 2005, and is a commitment to creating authentic connections with people who are “wrestling” with their understanding of (GLBT) gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons. Traveling with a small trailer, sharing meals and staying in people's homes, they are open to engaging hearts and minds.  Being inclusive, they also avail themselves to those who hold firm beliefs about LGBT people.  Additionally, they reach out to their own community of gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, questioning and ally persons, who, like some heterosexual persons, often don't have a foundation for understanding transgender and intersex persons.

 

Dotti and Roby state that the 10% of our population who is GLBT affect all 100% of our society.  Every single person they’ve met on this trip has said they know a gay or lesbian, bisexual or transgender person.  Their lively and creative work to increase understanding will be available to all during their visit to Chelan.

 

Roby works as a professional photographer.  Dotti is a relationship coach. The couple live in Blaine Washington.  After a year on the road, Dotti and Roby will finally arrive home the day after their Chelan presentation. 


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