Cal Alumni Pride, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) alumni club of the University of California, Berkeley supports and promotes the interests of the University of California and its alumni, with an emphasis on issues and interests specific to the LGBT community. Click here to find out more about us.

In this issue:

• A Message from the Cal Alumni Pride Board
• LGBT Alumni Clubs Summer Mixer
• Hands Off UC Campaign
• Come “Jobnob”
• Alumni Spotlight – George Takei
• Such a Bittersweet Day
• LGBT Alumni Facts and Trivia

A Message from the Cal Alumni Pride Board

Dear Cal Alumni Pride Member,

We had a great time celebrating our one year anniversary at Pisco Lounge – thanks to all who came out. In this issue you will learn about a proposed constitutional amendment by politicians in Sacramento who want to strip UC of its autonomy and how this proposal could spell disaster for the future of our alma mater.

We’d also like to invite you to a jointly hosted happy hour with San Francisco alumni clubs and a networking happy hour exclusively for Berkeley alumni jobseekers. Lastly, we’d like to introduce you to one of the most well known actors and outspoken opponents of Prop 8 to have attended Cal. As always, please don’t hesitate to send your feedback and suggestions to info@calalumnipride.org.

Go Bears!

Your Cal Alumni Pride Board

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LGBT Alumni Clubs Summer Mixer

The San Francisco LGBT Alumni Clubs jointly present: The LGBT Summer Mixer, Wednesday, August 19th, from 6:00 to 9:00pm at Sugar Lounge. Kick back after work mid-week and come enjoy some cool drinks, good food, and great conversation with fellow alums at Sugar Lounge!

For more details, follow this link.

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Hands Off UC

The California Alumni Association has launched “Hands Off UC,” a campaign to oppose a misguided and over-reaching legislative attack to strip UC of its autonomy under the false guise of reform.

To learn about the legislation and how you can help defeat it, follow this link.

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Come “Jobnob”

Berkeley alumni, come “Jobnob” with cool new startups and other job seekers at an informal networking happy hour. The event is taking place on Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 4:30pm

For complete event detailsfollow this link.

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Alumni Spotlight – George Takei (Mr. Sulu)

George Takei who played Mr. Sulu from the original "Star Trek," was taken from his home at the age of 4 and sent to an internment camp in Arkansas. He later enrolled at UC Berkeley where his successful acting career spanning more than five decades began. Takei recently married his partner of over two decades and has been an outspoken critic of Prop 8.

To learn more about George Takei, follow this link.

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Such a Bittersweet Day: The Marriage Equality Movement in the Wake of Prop 8

Such a Bittersweet Day; The Marriage Equality Movement in the Wake of Prop 8 is a book of photography and oral histories chronicling the marriage equality movement. Photographs in the book are by Cal alumnus Geoffrey King ’04.

To learn more, click here.

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LGBT Alumni Facts and Trivia

What playwright, poet, and author who has a Berkeley co-op named after him once famously said “It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was simply detected.”

For the answer, click here.

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