Category: Charity
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Donate to Fight Pancreatic Cancer – Research Walk, June 8 in Brooklyn!
This is a photo of my mom and my aunt, just a few months before she passed away after battling pancreatic cancer in 2008. This coming Sunday, June 8th, my team is walking in the Lustgarten Foundation’s Pancreatic Cancer Research Walk in Brooklyn in an effort to raise the necessary research funding for this terrible…
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Broadway Bares 23: United Strip of America – TOMORROW NIGHT!
Tomorrow night, June 23, 2013, close to 400 people will come together in a celebration of life (and travel) in the 23rd installment of Broadway Bares, the annual burlesque fundraiser for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. With approximately 200 dancers — plus a jumbo-sized crew — this event will hopefully out-raise all other Broadway Bares events…
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Vassar Student Fundraises for The Trevor Project; Soars Past Goal AND Past Westboro Baptist Church’s Hate
In a counter-protest to the Westboro Baptist Church’s plans to picket Vassar College on February 28th, Josh de Leeuw has started a crowd-raising campaign with a goal of donating $4,500 to The Trevor Project, the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth. Already the campaign…
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Schnipper’s Supports Marriage Equality USA!
Just found this on Schnipper’s Facebook page and can’t offer them enough kudos for taking this action! Help us support Marriage Equality. Throughout the month of August, we will donate $1.00 from every purchase of a Schnipper’s Chicken Filet Sandwich to Marriage Equality USA (a non-profit whose mission is to secure legally recognized civil marriage…
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Jim Henson Company Says No Thanks to Chik-fil-A’s Anti-Gay Stance
Kudos to Lisa Henson and the Jim Henson Company for taking a stand against bigotry. On Friday, they posted the following statement on their Facebook page. “The Jim Henson Company has celebrated and embraced diversity and inclusiveness for over fifty years and we have notified Chick-Fil-A that we do not wish to partner with them…
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The Sixth Annual Broadway Beauty Pageant – Meet the Boys!
The Sixth Annual Broadway Beauty Pageant will take place on Monday, March 19, 2012 at 8PM at Symphony Space (2537 Broadway at 95th Street, NYC). If you’ve never been, GO. If you’ve been, GO AGAIN! It’s an incredible night filled with stellar performances and stunning physiques. And, by attending, you are helping out the Ali Forney Center whose mission…
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Second Class Citizens: Documenting the Gay Right Movement
I just signed on to back Ryan James Yezak’s documentary Second Class Citizens, a documentary that follows the evolution of the gay rights movement and the discrimination and violence that the LGBT community has faced over the years. I’m happy to do what little I can to help see this film come to light. Mr. Yezak…
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“Girl Scout” Boycotting Cookies Because of Transgendered Girls
UPDATE: A friend helped me find the following which clarifies the “not a Girl Scout” statement from Ms. Kalina. So the girl in the video IS a Girl Scout. Regardless, she’s an embarrassment to the Scouts and to humanity. “She meant that the transgender child ended up not joining the girl scouts. Remember a few…
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Walking for Pancreatic Cancer Research
This morning I participated in the first annual NYC Pancreatic Cancer Research Walk, part of the Lustgarten Foundation‘s fundraising program in the battle against pancreatic cancer. It was a frigid morning in NYC but the crowd of roughly 1,400 people was eager and ready to go. It seemed that everyone participating had lost or is…
Tommy Karr 