Jim Nappi, a local Asbury Park attorney, opens the first
Quesdays program to an overflow crowd.
Asbury Park - Over 60 people, some from as far away as Scotch
Plains and Newark, packed Asbury Park's TAKA Japanese Restaurant on
the evening of Tuesday, January 24, 2006, for the inaugural Quesdays
program sponsored by the jersey shore Q spot.
The jersey shore Q spot is a program of the Jersey Shore
Community Center Project (the Project), a New Jersey nonprofit
corporation established to foster the health, well being and pride of
individuals, groups and families within Monmouth and Ocean Counties'
gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) communities. "The
Quesdays program is our regular series of workshops, seminars and
panel discussions meant to engage, educate and inform the GLBT
community about various topics that are of particular interest to us,"
said Joe D'Andrea, the program's organizer and the secretary of the
Project's Board of Trustees.
On Tuesday evening Stephen J. Hyland, an attorney from Princeton,
and Tamlyn Wilbourne, a financial planner from Red Bank, discussed
legal and financial planning issues for GLBT couples and domestic
partners. "By four o'clock Tuesday afternoon 20 people had
pre-registered on our website," said D'Andrea. "We were very
happily surprised when over 60 people showed up."
"And the attendees were both men and women representing
couples from every age bracket," added Jim Nappi, Asbury Park
attorney and Project vice chair who moderated the program.
"Responses like this convince us that our work to establish
the Q spot is well worth the effort."
Refreshments were generously donated by TAKA, Be Green and Asbury
Park Roastery, all of Asbury Park, and Knockout Graphics, also of
Asbury Park, provided graphics and printing services.
D'Andrea indicated that future programs include a February 7th
presentation by local psychiatrist and author, Martin Kantor, who will
discuss his recent book, Together Forever: The Gay Man's Guide to
Lifelong Love, and a March 14th update on HIV Prevention and Outreach
that will be moderated by Project chair and nurse practitioner,
MaryAnn Vitiello, and include presentations by local HIV counselors,
Dennis Rivera, Frank Englebert and Kelvin Roman. "We're hoping to
eventually offer three Quesdays programs a month," said
D'Andrea.
The Q spot's web site is here: http://www.jsqspot.org/
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