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2013 Metro
NY District
Annual Meeting
May 3-4, 2013
Hyatt Morristown, Morristown NJ |
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March for Marriage
Equality |
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Join the March for
Marriage Equality! Meet
at 5:30 pm on May 3 in
the hotel lobby and
proceed to the
Morristown Green. The
Rev. Alison Miller will
give an invocation, and
Gordon Sauer of the Gay
Activist Alliance in
Morris County and
Michael Maher, Field
Manager of Garden State
Equality, will speak
briefly, followed by
Annette Marquis, UUA
LGBTQ and Multicultural
Ministries Program
Manager. Singing by
Olympia’s Daughters. |
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Keynote
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Annette Marquis |
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UUA LGBTQ and Multicultural Ministries
Program Manager |
Annette Marquis serves the UUA as the LGBTQ and Multicultural Ministries
Program Manager. Previously, she served for six-and-a half years as the District
Executive of the Southeast District of the UUA. Since becoming a UU in 1991, she
has been an active lay leader within Unitarian Universalist congregations, the
Heartland District, and the Association at large. She was one of the founding
members of UU Allies for Racial Equity and served as its chair for its first two
years. She is also a founding member of the Living Legacy Pilgrimage, a civil
rights pilgrimage through the South. As a volunteer for UU Trauma Response
Ministry, Annette provided mental health and other disaster relief to victims of
Hurricane Katrina. She is author of
Resistance: A Memoir of Civil Disobedience
in Maricopa County, published by Skinner House Books. Annette lives with her
wife, Wendy, in Richmond VA.About her
keynote address, Annette says: “The Unitarian Universalist Association first
called for ‘an end to all discrimination against homosexuals, homosexuality,
bisexuals, and bisexuality’ in a 1970 General Assembly Resolution. Over forty
years later, our understanding of sexual orientation and gender identity and
expression has widen and deepened to include not only homosexuals and bisexuals
but lesbians, transgender, and queer-identified people. However, we are still
engaged in this struggle. This address will examine and celebrate the progress
we’ve made and will ask the hard questions about where we need to go from here
to assure that LGBTQ people are fully welcomed and included in our congregations
and in our society.” |
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And Special Guest
Jim Key and Tamara Payne-Alex |
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Candidates for UUA
Moderator |
Jim Key and Tamara Payne-Alex are candidates for UUA moderator. Delegates to the 2013 UUA General Assembly will elect one of them
to succeed Gini Courter, who term is ending. The UUA Board of Trustees nominated
Key and Payne-Alex based on applications received by the Moderator Nominator
Committee. The candidates will address the Annual Meeting on Friday evening and
facilitate workshops.
Jim Key helped build his congregation, the UU Fellowship of Beaufort, Beaufort
SC, from the ground up, as an organizing member and later as congregational
president for five years. He has also been president of the Southeast District
of the UUA and has served as chair of the UUA Audit Committee, as a member of
the UUA board task force that proposed a smaller UUA board, and as a member of
the board’s Linkage Working Group.
A lifelong UU, Tamara Payne-Alex has served the association at many levels -- as
a youth and as an adult, in her congregations, her district, and in
denomination-wide posts. She has served as president of her district’s Young
Religious UUs, as co-chair of the Youth Adult Committee, as a member of the
search, religious education, and canvas committees of her congregation, as an
interim religious education coordinator, and as a member of the UUA Board of
Trustees, the UUA Ministerial Fellowship Committee, and the UUA Black Concerns
Working Group. |
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