Jaye Westermann Named To TransHaven’s Staff

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Jaye Westermann Named To TransHaven’s Staff

10/30/2011
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TransHaven is pleased to announce that Jaye Westermann of Saint Louis, Missouri has been named Project Coordinator. Jaye will be reporting as staff personnel and has accepted the volunteer and uncompensated position.

Jaye is a graduate of Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville and is employed by Planned Parenthood as a Clinical Instructor, Jaye identifies as Intersex and GenderQueer. Among Jaye’s primary duties will be to represent us in advocacy’s reflecting the Intersex and GenderQueer Communities and represent TransHaven as our laison to those Communities. We welcome Jaye to our Team, who will share in reflection of our diverse outreach to the entire Community.

TransHaven: Advocates for Trans Equality, the Homeless / Shelterless, the Disabled, Anti-Violence initiatives, and cross-sectional advocacy’s for all that are LGBTIQA

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Court rules transgender Illinoisans can update their birth certificates without genital surgery.

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Court rules transgender Illinoisans can update their birth certificates without genital surgery.

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THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT -- A ruling from a Cook County (IL) Circuit Court judge has made it easier to obtain a gender change on one's birth certificate, but it is far from being certain for ever...

Contest carries extra weight for local choir

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Contest carries extra weight for local choir

Via St. Louis Post Dispatch

ST. LOUIS • The sound was good. Really good. But choir director Jerry Smith wanted to try something different.

He moved the altos away from the sopranos to the opposite side of the risers, sandwiching the tenors and basses.

Smith seemed to like the change. So did the choir members.

"Let's record it this time," Smith said.

The balance and blend of sound needed to be as close to perfect as possible for the choir of Metropolitan Community Church of Greater St. Louis. Winning a contest that would designate the group as the best gospel choir in the country is on the line. And with it comes additional pressure: being the first choir at the national level representing a predominately gay and lesbian congregation.

The choir won regionals last month in St. Louis. It will perform for the national title Friday night at Staples Center in Los Angeles.





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23 Oct. 2011 -- ST. LOUIS -- Soloist Adria Nichol Webb (center) leads the choir at the Metropolitan Community Church of Greater St. Louis during Sunday morning services at the church in St. Louis Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. The choir recently qualified to represent the St. Louis region at the national gospel choir competition "How Sweet The Sound" at the Staples Center in Los Angeles Oct. 28. Photo by Sid Hastings for the Post-Dispatch

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