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A Common Bond 2008 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Toronto - June 7th and 8th

A COMMON BOND, the support network for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender former and active Jehovah's Witnesses, is pleased to announce the location and date of our 10th International Conference. Read more...

Danish Film on Disfellowshipped JW Girl

Worlds Apart

The Danish film, Worlds Apart to be featured at the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival tells the story of a devout Jehovah's Witness girl who falls for a worldly man and finds herself disfellowshipped and shunned by her family and friends. Does the latter sound familiar? See the film information and synopsis.

For those in the area that can go see the movie, we hope you take this opportunity to enjoy a rare film that speaks directly to our experiences as Jehovah's Witnesses.

Our Site in Portuguese

We announce the launching of our site in Portuguese. We are still looking for volunteers that can help translating the site into French. We have some of it already translated, but we still need volunteers who can help. You don't need to take on the entire site translation.

or those in the area that can go see the movie, we hope you take this opportunity to enjoy a rare film that speaks directly to our experiences as Jehovah's Witnesses.

ACB New York Chapter Announces its New Website

From New York City:

With much anticipation, A Common Bond NYC is pleased to announce our new website including a blog and podcast. Beyond providing information, support and resources at our monthly meetings, our support extends to radio podcasts and blog discussions.

And for the first time ever, ACBnyc.com is available in both English and Español! Please check it out and let us know what you think. A new website at our same address, www.acbnyc.com. Many thanks to Ulises from the Philadelphia Chapter of ACB who spent a lot of time on the design and translation. Thanks Ulises!!!!

Thanks again!
Jesse/acbnyc

ULC

Amazing Response from Our Spanish Readers

As soon as we launched our site in Spanish, we started receiving lots of emails from the Spanish-speaking community. We have received emails from Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Greece (yes, in Spanish), and many other countries. The stories and experiences that we receive are incredible (in a good way, of course). Of course, we also receive hate male from some probably well intended active JW's, yet, compared to the volume of emails we receive from people needing support, asking for information, or just needing to express themselves freely, the amount of hate mail is minimal.

Our mailing list in Spanish is growing exponentially. We already have over 300 email addresses in our list (in less than a year!) mostly from people sharing their stories and happy to find that they are not alone. Also, we are in conversations with a volunteer who is interested in starting an ACB chapter in Madrid, Spain.

Out of the overwhelming amount of stories that we receive, we decided to publish Víctor's Story. We hope that people can identify and benefit from his experiences, and also increase their awareness that they are not alone in this world. Read Victor's Story.

Ongoing

Some of our chapters meet regularly, some don't. Please visit our meetings page for information on an ACB chapter in your area.

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A Common Bond in the Media We are very pleased that the news media has taken notice of A Common Bond and the work we are doing in offering support to gay & lesbian former and current Jehovah's Witnesses.	Do We "Bash" the Jehovah's Witnesses? As one might expect, this website is not looked upon favorably by the Jehovah's Witnesses (JW) religion. Its membership is taught that homosexuality is "a sin", "an abomination", "detestable", and various other assorted words synonymous with evil. These teachings are based on certain cited passages in the Bible that the JWs are taught condemn homosexuality.
Pride Events 2007 In the years 1998, 1999, and 2000, a contingent from A Common Bond has marched in the San Francisco Pride Parade, much to the delight of approximately one million onlookers annually lining both sides of Market Street. We were also televised on San Francisco's TV-20, giving us exposure to hundreds of thousands of additional viewers.	Our Coming Out Stories In the years since A Common Bond was founded, we have learned that each one of our members has their own unique story to tell about their experiences as a member of Jehovah's Witnesses. We have posted stories of some of our members in hopes that you will find encouragement, hope, and most importantly, the knowledge that you are not alone.
The Watchtower Tries to Silence Us... and fails!! On Friday, July 24, 1998, our group's web site was blocked access by Geocities, where this site was formerly located. This was done without any prior notification.	Making Our Presence Known Locally District Assemblies of Jehovah's Witnesses are held annually at the Cow Palace on Geneva Avenue in Daly City (just outside San Francisco). For the last two years, we have been making our presence known by parking our vehicles across the street from the Cow Palace with signs advertising our support group, complete with telephone numbers and our web site URL.

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