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DIVERSITY
NEWS OCTOBER 2007
Welcome to the October Edition of Diversity
News!
This month's articles
include:
LGBT Book Club Pick
Destination Unknown - DB's Travel Hot Spot
Diversity Spotlight - Teaching Diversity through
song
Business Section - FREE webinar for HR staff and
Office Mgrs.
Coupons & Discounts
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your friends and coworkers!
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The
Hot Spot - DB's Travel
Spotlight
Las Vegas has
evolved into the playground for LGBT
visitors with its fantastic resorts,
world-renowned dining, world-class shopping, the
top names in extertainment, hip nightclubs,
spectacular spas and who can forget the best
gambling around!
Planning a commitment
ceremony? Las Vegas even has a Gay Wedding
Chapel.
For LGBT Accommodations check
out:
MGM Mirage
Properties
Bellagio
Circus
Circus
Excalibur
Luxor
MGM Grand Las
Vegas
Mandalay Bay
The Mirage
Monte
Carlo
New York-New York
Treasure
Island
The MGM Mirage corporation now owns
roughly 3/4 of the Las Vegas Strip, and we highly
recommend any of these gorgeous, comfortable, and
often extravagantly themed hotels if you want to
make sure you’re right in the middle of the
action. All ten are “family-friendly” in more ways
than one.
www.mgmmirage.com
According
to a study conducted by the Travel Industry
Association (TIA) Las Vegas ranks as one of the
top ten gay-friendly destinations in the United
States. To plan your Vegas get-away, contact an
LGBT travel expert by clicking on the link
below.
Click here to book now or to
contact a LGBT friendly travel
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Diversity Business
Minute
A deeper look into companies
that are helping our community...
Diversity In Motion - Teaching Diversity
through song and
storytelling.
Diversity
in Motion is a unique storytelling and song
program for adults or children, highlighting the
value of diversity in the world. Diversity in
Motion moves its participants at the level of
heart and soul while facilitating transformation
on this deeper level through the telling of
personal songs and stories. As we break down the
barriers of habitual belief systems- those
comprised of judgment and assumption, we are truly
able to connect with understanding, respect, and
compassion. Let us celebrate the richness that
diversity brings to our world! The fact is- we
can’t survive without it. Vivian Slade, Marquetta
Dupree, and Angela Holley comprise the 3 member
group.
Marquetta Dupree has worked
for the International Black Youth Summit as a
facilitator helping to bring into being their
vision for the community and the world. She has
trained for 10 years in African Dance and has just
finished teaching a year of African Inspired Dance
classes. She spends as much time as she can
singing, dancing, and telling stories while
practicing the art of living in the “present
moment”.
She describes the new program as
follows, "Diversity in motion is a space of
healing that is created through the art of story,
song, and dance. Having love and understanding
will allow peace to run wild in this
world."
Angela Holley is a graduate
of Interplay’s Leadership program, a path of
spontaneously embodying and creating art from life
through playing with song, story, and dance in
solo, partner and group play. She is creator of
the critically acclaimed “Holley’s Country
Follies” and “Wildwood Flowers: The June Carter
Musical” (www.thejunecartermusical.com). Holley is
an award-winning actress/singer who has been in
show business for over 20 years.
Holley
states, "Diversity in Motion moves its
participants at the level of heart and soul
facilitating changes on this deeper level. It
helps us look at the roots or our prejudices and
celebrate the richness our differences bring to
the world through song and story."
Vivian Slade began her career
as a musician in 1998, touring the southern and
eastern US through 2000. As a solo
guitarist/vocalist, she received excellent reviews
and airplay on indie and college radio. Vivian
(who currently lives in Nashville, TN with her
husband, two daughters and large dog) teaches
private voice lessons as well as group sessions on
how to use the voice to bring more joy and
abundance into one’s life. Vivian continues to
perform in Nashville as a jazz vocalist,
independent rock/pop artist and children’s theatre
enthusiast. She has recently begun work on her
third album and is particularly excited about this
newest project, Diversity In Motion.
Slade
states, "I can think of no better way to create
connection and bring healing to our relationships
than through the use of music, story and
dance."
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LGBT Book Club- TOP
PICK
 Perry Moore's
"HERO"
DESCRIPTION
Thom
Creed is used to being on his own. Even as a high
school basketball star, he has to keep his
distance because of his father. Hal Creed had once
been one of the greatest and most beloved
superheroes of The League-until the Wilson Towers
incident. After that Thom's mother disappeared and
his proud father became an outcast.
The
last thing in the world Thom would ever want is to
disappoint his father. So Thom keeps two secrets
from him: First is that he's gay. The second is
that he has the power to heal people. Initially,
Thom had trouble controlling his powers. But with
trail and error he improves, until he gets so good
that he catches the attention of the League and is
asked to join. Even though he knows it would kill
his dad, Thom can't resist. When he joins the
League, he meets a motley crew of other heroes,
including tough-talking Scarlett, who has the
power of fire from growing up near a nuclear power
plant; Typhoid Larry, who makes everyone sick by
touching them, but is actually a really sweet guy;
and wise Ruth, who has the power to see the
future. Together these unlikely heroes become
friends and begin to uncover a plot to kill the
superheroes. Along the way, Thom falls in love,
and discovers the difficult truth about his
parents' past.
This is moving, funny, and
wonderfully original novel shows that things are
not always what they seem, and love can be found
in the unlikeliest of places.
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Diversity Builder's
Business Tip
 Managing Humor in the Workplace -
Webinar for Office Managers and Human Resources
Staff.
On November 8, 2007 from
2:00 p.m. CST to 2:30 p.m. CST -Midsouth
Consulting Group and Diversity Builder, Inc. will
conduct a FREE webinar for Office Managers and
Human Resources Staff.
The webinar will
cover humor as an asset and a liability to the
workplace and will be presented by a prominent
employment attorney and Executive HR
consultant.
For more information on how you
may attentend this free and insightful webinar
email rachel@diversitybuilder.com or call
615-424-2323.
Click here for Diversity Training
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