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...meet those needs, the gay community, once primarily the domain of single adults, has begun to respond with an array of support services, including potluck dinners, websites and conferences, sponsored by groups like Family Pride Coalition, which focuses on the needs of gay parents, and Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (COLAGE), which is dedicated exclusively to helping the kids. Even gay and lesbian community centers have begun adding family activities: in the past two years, centers in Los Angeles and San Francisco have launched family programs with services like Parent and Me, for parents with newborns...
...OFFICE PARTY Partying like it's 1999? No one else is. One study says firms will spend 15%-75% less this year on holiday affairs, as once lavish fetes are drastically downscaled (example: at Estee Lauder, talk of holding potluck lunches) or money once spent on celebration goes to charity. One sign of revelry in reverse: champagne makers fear holiday sales may be as flat as day-old Cristal...
...offer an egalitarian social venue where members of the Bee and Seneca can finally meet on common ground,” Jennifer W. Trotman ’02 said. More than a plate of a salad was consumed by the group’s 50 members at their first potluck dinner. “God, I am so fat,” opined Trotman?...
...neighbors were not close friends, Cable says, but she delivered Jenkins baked goods on the holidays, they cleaned snow off each other’s sidewalks each winter in an attempt to avoid the inevitable flooding, and they talked at the occasional neighborhood potluck or outside Jenkins’ neat gray house...
...families at the potluck gathering were putting together laundry baskets for the needy. They filled 40 baskets--donated by the Denver Foundation--with clothing, food, soap and lotions, and drove them to shelters and charities. "This is a club nobody wants to join," says Bob Curnow, whose 14-year-old son Steven was killed, "but now we need to be role models, to create something positive out of all that's happened...