Kappa Beta Serving the transgendered community since 1988

Ladies, you may or may not have gotten the word by now, but here is the real scoop on our June get-together. Forget about doing your laundry or your hair that weekend, and join us for a really different meeting (If you have to remain home to do one of those things, please don’t get them confused).

When you think about it, it really makes a lot of sense to have a special party in June, because this is the midway point from our annual Christmas party. By the way, for any of you who may have missed the Christmas party last December, it was truly special. We were favored with "entertainment" from several of the girls, and I was in awe of the talent — and the guts that it took to get up there and sing and dance for the party. Really, really special and I think that it set a high mark for expectations in ’07!

Anyway, back to June. First of all we have moved the meeting weekend to June 23rd (NOTE: do not show up on June 16th, the usual meeting date -- you will be very lonely… ). This was done so as not to compete with Fathers’ Day.

What else is different you might ask? I’ll tell you that this meeting is a once in a lifetime event. And the lifetime that we are celebrating is that of Dyana Lea, our resident Charlotte queen of the “Queen City”. Dyana Lea has been a longtime member and supporter of Kappa Beta and of T-girls in general. She has made many, many friends over the years, and we are asking any of you who can make it to this event to come and help us honor her.

Now, the fine print: you will have a couple of responsibilities.

1. First of all, please be prepared to help out with the extra financial costs involved. Meeting fees for the current members will apply, and for non-members a similar donation will be extremely helpful. After all, if we don’t recapture our expenses, we’ll be asking Dyana Lea to stick around and wash dishes, or be a French Maid for the group until it’s all made up.
2. Secondly, please note that this celebration is in the time-honored format of a "roast." Yes, speeches will be made and the honoree expects to be roasted to a charbroiled finish. Your responsibility, should you choose to accept it will be to sit down in advance of the meeting and write yourself a roast-speech. We are expecting several people to have very clear memories of some of the times that our girl has gotten into trouble; times that we would all love to hear about! Please try to limit your speech to about 5 minutes (or, if the stories are particularly damaging to her reputation, feel free to go on longer).

That’s it for now. As we get a better feel in the days ahead for potential attendance numbers, we will have more information for you about location logistics, etc.

In the meantime, if you have any questions about any of this, please feel free to write me…