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FORGE Gender Group
2003-08-20
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FORGE (For Ourselves: Reworking Gender Expression), a national education, advocacy and support umbrella organization supporting FTM+s (female-to-male transsexuals and transgenderists, and others who were assigned female at birth but who now have some level of masculine identification) and SOFFAs (Significant Others, Family, Friends and Allies), is announcing their social support meeting/events calendar for September through December 2003.
They meet at Milwaukee's LGBT Community Center, 315 Court St., Milwaukee. E-mail: info@forge-forward.org; or see Web site www.forge-forward.org . |
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