August 2015

Ben Patrick Johnson, famous voice-over actor and LGBTQ activist will be the featured speaker at Bakersfield PFLAG’s September meeting.  Johnson will speak Thursday, September 3, 2015, at the First Congregational Church of Bakersfield, UCC, 5 Real Road (at Stockdale Highway).  The PFLAG meeting begins at 7pm.  Facebook event page here.

On Thursday, August 20, 2015, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner signed legislation making that state the fifth jurisdiction to ban “converstion therapy” for LGBT minors (others are California, Oregon, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C.).  The law, which goes into effect January 1, 2016, prevents licensed therapists from trying to change the sexual orientation of a person

PFLAG Tulare Kings Counties will screen the comedy “Geography Club” at it’s August meeting, on Sunday the 16th.   From the Internet Movie Data Base: “GEOGRAPHY CLUB” is based on Brent Hartinger’s best-selling critically acclaimed novel: “What am I looking for?” asks 16-year old Russell Middlebrook of himself as he heads off on his newest