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Are you ready for the LGBT Event of the Year?

RU12? is excited to announce that this year’s Annual Dinner Keynote Speaker will be Dan Savage, an openly gay sex advice columnist, author, media pundit, journalist and newspaper editor (read more below).

The evening will also include volunteer awards, a "fancy hat" runway competition (more info below), a dance party with DJ Precious, a live and silent auction and a lot more time for catching up with old and new friends!

This event will sell out!

If you are a member of RU12?, you qualify for a $50 discount on the purchase of a table for 10 people. This year's dinner will feature a delicious buffet — eat as much or as little as you want! Need more info? Call 802-860-7812 or email the Center for all the details.

The easiest way to get in free is...

VOLUNTEER! The Dinner committee is already underway, but we can always use more help, especially the day and evening of the event. If you are interested in volunteering for this year’s dinner please contact Eliza, eliza@ru12.org or give a call 802-860-7812.

Do you have a flair for fashion?

Design a "Fancy Hat" and win! Walk the runway, strut your stuff, and show off your mad hat skills. Interested in designing a hat? All hats must incorporate a gay icon and something distinctly "Vermont." The hats will be judged by our mock-celebrity judges. A designer can designate themselves or a model to show the hat on the runway, and a "fierce" prize will go to the top pick! Don't bore Nina! Need more info? contact Karen Vastine to register.

More about Dan... 

Dan Savage has been writing "Savage Love," an internationally syndicated sex advice column, for more than ten years. The column originates in The Stranger and runs in The Village Voice, The Chicago Reader, The San Francisco Weekly, and in papers in Los Angeles, Toronto, Hong Kong, Tel Aviv and more than fifty other cities in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Canada. In addition to the column, Dan is the editor of the groundbreaking Seattle alt-weekly, The Stranger. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Salon, Travel and Leisure, Rolling Stone, and on the New York Times Op-Ed pages. Dan has been featured on CNN, "Politically Incorrect," "ABC News," The FOX News Channel, and on NPR's "Fresh Air." He is a regular contributor to NPR's "This American Life."

Savage is also the author of four books: Savage Love, a collection of his advice columns (Plume 1998); The Kid: What Happened When My Boyfriend and I Decided to Get Pregnant (Dutton, 1999), an award-winning memoir about adoption PEN USA West Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction); Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America (Dutton, 2002), which won the Lambda Literary Award for non-fiction; and The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage and My Family (Dutton 2005).

Savage has appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, Colbert Report, ABC's 20/20, MTV, VH1, and other television and cable programs.