{"id":10647,"date":"2012-02-02T16:29:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T20:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=10647"},"modified":"2012-02-02T16:29:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T20:29:39","slug":"rainbow-alliance-gearing-up-for-sold-out-equality-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/02\/02\/rainbow-alliance-gearing-up-for-sold-out-equality-benefit\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Alliance gearing up for sold out Equality Benefit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-10642\" href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/02\/02\/rainbow-alliance-gearing-up-for-sold-out-equality-benefit\/rainbow-alliance-logo1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10642\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2012\/02\/Rainbow-Alliance-logo1-260x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a>Already set to be bigger and better than last year\u2019s event, the Wright State University Rainbow Alliance\u2019s second annual Equality Benefit banquet will be held Monday, February 6, from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Student Union Apollo Room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe event is a fundraiser, but it\u2019s also a fun event,\u201d said Brandi Sowers, the vice president of the organization, which supports the university\u2019s GLBTQA (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning and Ally) community.<\/p>\n<p>The banquet is a semi-formal dinner with entertainment, speakers and an auction designed to raise money for PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) scholarships.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis event and others that we put on each year are important because they help our community at Wright State come together, but they also help our larger community off-campus come together to help organizations like PFLAG,\u201d said Sowers.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the event raised $500 for books and movies in the GLBTQA \u00a0resource room in the student union. Expectations are even higher for this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had 40 people last year, and this year we\u2019ve already hit our cap of 80, so we think we\u2019ll be able to raise more,\u201d said Sowers.<\/p>\n<p>Since this event is already sold out, log onto the Wright State Rainbow Alliance website to learn more about how you can be a part of future events or just get involved.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wright.edu\/studentorgs\/rainbowalliance\/\">http:\/\/www.wright.edu\/studentorgs\/rainbowalliance\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next big event for the Rainbow Alliance will be the annual Drag Show on May 4, the organization\u2019s largest event of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lready set to be bigger and better than last year\u2019s event, the Wright State University Rainbow Alliance\u2019s second annual Equality Benefit banquet will be held Monday, February 6&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/02\/02\/rainbow-alliance-gearing-up-for-sold-out-equality-benefit\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":10642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,725,715,719],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-news","category-special-categories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10647"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10653,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10647\/revisions\/10653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}