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In this mailing:
November - December update
Pre-registration is open
Volunteers
Pinkfest photos
Mailbag
Summary Schedule of Activities
Administrivia
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Only 152 days left, gang!
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November - December update:
First of all, welcome to newcomers! We've had a very high number of people
join the list this past month. Hope everybody can join us next spring.
This will be the last of the monthly summaries from the DLV 2002 list.
Beginning in January, we will begin our weekly-as-needed mailings, meaning
we'll plan on one mailing each Sunday, skipping a week if the traffic is
low, mid-week mailings if the traffic is high. All material that comes in
between now and January will be held unless it is time-sensitive.
As many of you know, things are falling in place concerning the schedule
and activities. We're actually much farther along at this point than we
were last year.
Although the schedule is filling up, there are still a couple open slots
and quite a bit of room for alternate or second-track activities. Please
take a look at the activity schedule below, and if there's anything you
would like to see that isn't there, please let us know. We're always open
for ideas.
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Pre-registration is open:
Advance registration is now open for members of this list. You can now
register for DLV 2002 through this URL:
http://www.geekbabe.com/dlv/reg.html
It's OK to answer "don't know" to various question, like where you are
staying, if you do not know at this time. You can update when you want.
The above URL has links to update and cancel your registration.
Please note that there is not currently a link from the main DLV page to
the registration page. This will be done in February when general DLV
registration opens. Please do not pass on this URL to those who are not
members of this list, or post it in newsgroups, mailing lists, etc., or
link to it from your pages, etc.
In the event you encounter any difficulty using the registration screens,
please let us know. If errors occur, please be very explicit, noting
error codes if they occur. A cut-paste of the error screen would be
helpful.
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Volunteers:
Awsk Nawt ... what DLV can do for you, ask what you can do for DLV!
Diva Las Vegas runs entirely on volunteer help. Although we had an
excellent response to our call for volunteers last summer, there are
a few areas in which we can use some additional help, including ...
1. ACTIVITY COORDINATORS and ASSISTANTS. We still have a few planned
activities that need to be "adopted" by one or more people who are
willing to do the busy-work necessary to make them happen. If you are
interested in helping along these lines, please hit REPLY and say so.
There are still a few holes in the schedule, and we are also quite open
toward any second-track or alternate activities for non-prime hours. If
you have an idea for something the group might like to do (and are
willing to help make it happen, of course), please hit REPLY and say so.
2. VOLUNTEER DRIVERS. If you will have a vehicle at DLV and don't mind
giving others rides to and from our activities, please let us know. (You
can indicate this on your registration form.)
3. SPREAD THE WORD. This is one thing you can do right now, without much
effort, whether or not you are actually planning to attend. I've lost
count of those who have written to the effect of "... if only I knew
about this earlier ...". This has happened most years, right after DLV
has just happened. It's a shame to have people miss out.
You can help spread the word in the following ways:
* If you are a member of a local support group, put a blurb in the
newsletter or announce it at a meeting.
* If you're on a mailing list or e-group, and you have not seen it
announced there, please make a brief announcement. Ditto on the
newsgroups you frequent.
* If you see one of those "TG Event Listings" that does not include
DLV, make a submission. We're already on most of the major ones, but
I'm sure there are those where we aren't.
* If your community has a local GLBT paper, submit a note to them for
their "Events and Activities" listing. Most will have an ongoing column
such as this.
* If you have a personal website, include a link to DLV at the url:
http://www.geekbabe.com/dlv/
* Use your imagination!
I realize many of you do not yet know if you will be able to attend,
but it's fine to provisionally volunteer.
Yes, it's ok to volunteer to "help out any way you can". You will be
taken up on your offer. :)
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Pinkfest photos:
For those who care, Pinkfest 2001 photos are up at:
http://www.geekbabe.com/annie/p01/
Yes, you might see a few familiar faces. :)
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Mailbag:
>First of all I would like to thank you Annie for keeping me posted on
>all the news and development for next Mays get together. I am very
>interested in attending but still a little nervous.
You're very welcome. :)
Nervousness is quite common, kinda goes with the territory, but most
everybody reports it goes away very fast.
>I am trying to get a few friends from Honolulu together to attend. I
>have never attended such a function and at this stage of my life I
>really do want to.
We've had people from Honolulu attend in the past, and I'm sure some
of them will be again this year. The more you can bring, the better.
>Can I have permission to use the information which you are sending in
>my promotion of the event?
Certainly, any and all of it, only restriction I would make would be
not to give out the pre-registration URL to those who are not members
of this list.
Also, please encourage those who want to attend to sign up for the
mailing list. It's easy and it's spam-free.
>I have viewed your site with photos of past years and it looks like
>just simple great fun.
It *IS* a lot of fun. It was fun back when it was small, and it's
remained a lot of fun the past few years when it got much larger.
>That is what I am interesting in doing. All the expensive pagents and
>the like are really to much.
DLV is very affordable. Las Vegas itself is affordable, and we do not
have the overhead that the larger and fancier t* events do.
>I am still a little worried about dressing. I "don't pass" very well.
If Tammy Fay Bakker can pass, so can you! :)
>It is my height, and with heels, heaven help the doorway!
You will develop your own style and poise over time. It may be a steep
learning curve, but you will eventually learn how to dress and act in
public.
Maybe heels will not work for you. A lot of people who develop one style
in private will find that it does not work in public.
Remember that women (both GG and TG) come in all shapes and sizes,
including yours.
>But I want to do this in the worse way.
Then do it. Go4it! Don't dream it, be it. :)
>I have also been interested in working with a group such as yours to
>promote a get together here in Honolulu. With travel the way it is
>right now there are really many "deals" popping up for us. Do you
>think that such a great together here would work?
>Maybe the spring in Vegas and the fall in Hawaii? What do you
>think?
I don't know. Only way to find out would be to try it. For me, I doubt
if I could swing a trip to Hawaii next fall. Others may be interested,
though.
>Also, in my mails and promotions are your evening get togethers
>casual, semi-formal or formal? How should I promote? I guess that I
>am asking for a little encouragement......haha.
Many of the evening events (like the welcome mixer, evening buffet,
pre-DLV party) have a wide latitude for dress. Anything from very casual
to moderately dressy, either boymode or girlmode, is appropriate.
The evening shows and the limo tour are the only activities where formal
dress might be expected, although there are others where very dressy
might be ok. Some will do nice casual or dressy-informal for the evening
shows as well.
For Rocky Horror, anything goes, *anything*!
Daytime activities are almost always casual.
We'll have some discussions on what dress is appropriate for which
activity as the date approaches, as well as some more specific
guidelines.
>Also, a couple of people here who are interested in attending are
>looking for a "very nice" motel where they can stay. They are
>interested in a place where they don't have to walk through a lobby or
>casino to get transportation to your events. Can you suggest a "very
>nice" location?
If you want a motel-type building rather than a hotel tower (for this or
any reason), places like Imperial Palace (one of our suggested places)
and Palace Station have "garden" rooms in motel buildings behind their
hotel towers. They are often less expensive than the tower rooms as
well.
Some of our people stay in some of the outlying motels, such as La
Quinta, Comfort, or Hampton.
However, the hotels we suggest for our people, such as Imperial Palace
and Sahara (as well as Tropicana, Riviera, and others) are very
t-friendly and will welcome you in boymode or girlmode in all parts of
the hotel, the casino, the restaurants, etc. You will be nothing new at
all to the staff of these places.
>I also guess that I personally am interested in knowing that since I
>will be "the new girl on the block" that we will fit in.
Our people have always been very outgoing and inclusive, never snobby
or cliquish. New people report feeling part of the group almost
immediately.
The mailing list archives from the past few years discuss this and
other things you've brought up, you might peruse through:
http://www.geekbabe.com/annie/dlv01arc/
http://www.geekbabe.com/annie/dlv2klist/
>I just want to be able to dress, laugh, have a drink and party. I hope
>that you can take a minute to share your insites. Hope all is going
>well with future plans.
This next part may not be what you want to hear, but we don't promote
DLV as "an opportunity to dress", but an opportunity to enjoy life and
share the company of others in the community. Dressing is, of course, a
part of self-expression, but not the primary focus of DLV.
I know a number of people originally signed up for DLV thinking of it as
an opportunity to dress, but when they got there, they found it to be
much much more.
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Summary Schedule of Activities:
Date Day Time Activity
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Apr 30 Tue Morning
Afternoon Milano's Welcome Dinner
Evening Pre-DLV get-together
May 01 Wed All day Blond Hair Day
Morning
Afternoon
Evening Keys Buffet Dinner and Welcome celebration
Later Slumber Party
May 02 Thu Morning
Afternoon Glamour Boutique Open House
Evening Female Impersonator Show
Limo tour
May 03 Fri Morning Golf
Afternoon Carluccio's Dinner (5:00pm)
Evening Goodtimes Annual Mixer
Late Night Dance Night
May 04 Sat Morning
Afternoon Mall Crawl
Evening Las Vegas "Legacy" show
Midnight Rocky Horror Picture Show
May 05 Sun Morning
Afternoon Side trip
Evening Buffet dinner, Palace Station
Farewell Get-together
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