CVUUS Has Pride!

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Look for the many ways we welcome our LGBTQIA+ community here.

June Is Pride Month

June is declared “Pride Month” to commemorate the Stonewall Uprising which began in New York City on June 28, 1969. These historic protests and clashes with police are widely considered the catalyst for the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement marked by Pride Days in June in many towns throughout the country, including Vergennes VT. CVUUS participates in this as well as others in Burlington and Middlebury which pushed out their Pride Day events to the fall in recent years to better include college students.

Annual Big Pride, Little City  Saturday, June 27, 12-4 pm

There is a walk from Vergennes Middle/High School on Monkton Road to City Park. We will have an information table at City Park. We will have a table and chairs and
would like two individuals to serve as hosts representing CVUUS. We ask that you commit to a half-hour shift. See sign-up Fellowship Hall.
Burlington Pride  Sunday, September, 1-5 pm
Carrying our CVUUS banner, we will march in the parade assembling at Burlington UU and enjoy the festive events at Waterfront Park.
5th Annual Middlebury Pride Parade, mid-October, 1-5 pm
CVUUS was well represented in past ones by marching in the parade and having a booth.  Everyone was invited, and many remembered to wear your yellow Side With Love t-shirts. The parade assembles at College Park and goes down Main Street to the Village Green, a short distance away. Would you like to join the CVUUS contingent in the parade? Look for the Champlain Valley UU banner! The booth (exact location not assigned yet) has information about Unitarian Universalism, CVUUS, and our RE program. We offer friendly faces, good conversation, and, of course, free candy. Stop by any time! https://www.middpride.org/
Questions? Contact Liam 802.349.4860 or Mike 802.349.565  

UBU (“You Be You”) & Beloved Community Summer Picnics

UBU is a social/support group for adult members (and allies) of the LGBTQ+ community with a social time from 5:30 to 7 pm and support time 7 to 8:30 pm on Thursday June 4 (in Fellowship Hall) and June 11 (in Fenn Chapel).  It will take off after that for summer at CVUUS, but host Beloved Community summer potluck picnics, 6-8 pm on the Marbleworks lawn, on 3rd Mondays June 15, July 20 and Aug 17 with rain dates on the Tuesdays following each one. Please join us with salads, appetizers, desserts, your garden bounty. Some beverages provided. No need to bring something to attend. Just come. Bring your musical instruments and any games you’d like to share. The group will decide in the Fall what it wants to do. Stay posted!

Sharing Our Offering Plate

Outright VT & Midd Pride are recipients of CVUUS’ share the plate for October matching proceeds generated for Outright VT’s Firetruck Pull where last year CVUUS’ Andrea Sambrook, Laura King and Liam B-G joined in the bodacious revelry on Church St in Burlington on 9/27 for Outright VT. The event raised over $257,000!!