STONEWALL MEETINGS
The Las Vegas Southern Nevada Stonewall Democrats meet the FIRST MONDAY of each month, 6:00 pm Social Hour, 7:00 General Membership meeting, at the LGBT CENTER in Commercial Center,953 E. Sahara Ave., Suite B31, Las Vegas. Please see our Events Calendar for details.
The current board of directors are pleased to have the opportunity to serve our community and the Democratic Party in their capacity. A listing of our Executive Board and their e-mail addresses are as follows:
JUDY CORBISIERO --- Chair
judycorbisiero1218@yahoo.com
702-250-2070
CHANDLER LEVRICH --- Vice-Chair
CINDY COX--- Secretary
CHRIS GIUNCHIGLIANI--- Treasurer
OPEN---Communications Chair
JOE RABA---Membership Chair
jabara1@aol.com
702-371-1769 (c)
We are the Southern Nevada (Las Vegas) chapter of National Stonewall Democrats—a grassroots network connecting LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) Democratic activists with over 90 Stonewall chapters throughout the United States. Our club was founded in the summer of 2001 and has been representing the interests and issues important to the LGBT community within the Democratic Party of Nevada since that time. The Southern Nevada Stonewall Democrats is a chartered club of the Clark County Democratic Party. Stonewall Democrats of Southern Nevada has been instumental in organizing a new Stonewall Democratic Caucus which will represent the LGBT community and its issues on the Nevada Democratic Party executive board.
The Stonewall Democrats of Southern Nevada are committed to Democratic voter education and outreach, Democratic party participation, and LGBT activism and community involvement. We educate the Democratic Party on issues of concern to the Las Vegas LGBT community; on civil rights issues, and on the equitable alignment of benefits for our relationships and and our families.
Educate and sensitize the community at large, its Democratic Candidates and office holders to the political needs and issues of importance to the LGBT community;
Enhance the Democratic Party’s message of economic justice and social equality to the LGBT community;
Encourage LGBT Democrats to run for political office at all levels of government.
Promote LGBT participation in the campaigns of Democratic candidates and to all levels of the Democratic Party; and
Elect Democratic candidates to public office by maximizing the Democratic turnout of the LGBT community and its supporters.
The History of STONEWALL --- our Club's namesake
The Stonewall Inn in 1969 and today, designated a "U.S. Historical Site."
Each year in June, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trangendered people celebrate "Gay Pride Month" by marching in parades and holding Pride Festivals throughout the United States and the World. The history of these Gay Pride Celebrations and the birth of the modern Gay Rights Movement began not all that long ago in June of 969 in New York City -- not by a celebration but by a "gay riot" at the Stonewall Inn, a small gay/drag bar in Greenwich Village. But before the riots that changed the world, things were very different for gays and lesbians...
