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NO FORGE MONTHLY MEETING! Instead, we encourage everyone to consider attending the Victory Institute’s LGBTQ Leadership Summit. This day-long, intensive training is designed to grow LGBTQ public service leaders. Summit trainees will participate in discussions on how LGBTQ leaders can successfully and effectively advocate for equality in today’s political climate. Speakers include Rep. JoCasta Zamarripa, former Houston Mayor Annise Parker, Sen. Timothy Carpenter, and other local leaders.  FREE, but RSVP deadline is April 20. Get more information and sign up here: https://victoryinstitute.org/event/milwaukee-lgbtq-leadership-summit/

Smokin' Hot: Tobacco, Pride, McBride Let us know you're attending!  https://www.facebook.com/events/1823029301333796/ 1. Tobacco After finding his passion for community service in AmeriCorps, Anthony Harris, has worked on many different public health issues such as; Financial Awareness, HIV prevention, AODA prevention with Teens, and Smoking Cessation within the LGBT Community.  He is committed to helping people make decisions that will help them live happy healthy lives As one of the coordinators for the City of Milwaukee Tobacco-Free Alliance, Anthony Harris will join us to talk about what smoking looks like in the LGBTQ+ community, where we are as community to address it, and the many projects the City of Milwaukee Tobacco-Free Alliance is doing to improve LGBTQ health.   2. PrideFest But that’s not all!  We will also be discussing FORGE’s PrideFest Health and Wellness activities at this meeting.  Volunteers will be signed up and given t-shirts and passes (if they’re ready by then!). Come help […]

Book discussion: Sarah McBride’s Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality Can you be in your early 20s, transgender, in love, in grief, and still change the world? Sarah McBride’s answer is an emphatic YES! Read this inspirational memoir and then come join us to talk about whether and how it is inspiring you. We’ll even have a special surprise guest!  (Ok, it’ll be a special short video Sarah is making just for us.)   Sarah McBride recorded a special reading and personal narrative prior to the in-person meeting on June 16, 2018.

...A Conversation with Linda Wesp, FNP-C, APNP, AAHIVS   Please join us for a conversation with Linda Wesp, family nurse practitioner from the Greater Milwaukee Center for Health and Wellness, Inc (gmchealth.org) on Sat. July 21st from 2-4PM at the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center (1110 North Market Street, Second Floor, Milwaukee, WI 53202). Linda will share some general info about health and wellness and the latest research about gender affirming hormones, as well as talk about various national and international protocols and guidelines that currently inform trans health care. Linda Wesp FNP-C, APNP is a family nurse practitioner who has worked in community-based health care settings with LGBTQ populations for over 15 years, with a focus on trans health. She currently works at the Greater Milwaukee Center for Health and Wellness, where she provides gender affirming hormones, HIV management, PrEP, and general primary care. Prior to returning to Milwaukee in 2015, she worked at Howard […]

This talk will focus on how the body is viewed through the lens of Chinese medicine. Kellen will explain the concepts of yin, yang, qi and blood, and will describe how those aspects of the body change during different parts of the transition process. Acupuncture and herbal medicine help the body adjust more smoothly to hormones and surgeries, and learning the basics of the foundational theories behind Chinese medicine can increase self-awareness and self-care. Bio: Kellen is a non-binary trans acupuncturist at North Node Clinic - a holistic health clinic they co-own with Ellice Plant. In addition to acupuncture and herbal medicine, they use techniques including moxibustion, cupping, and gua sha. They are passionate about LGBTQI competent health care and are committed to maintaining a practice that is affordable and accessible with a mission of creating anti-racist and anti-classist space.