For Immediate Release: November 1, 2005

Contact: press@dotout.org

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DotOUT to host

“DotOUT Nite Out” Event

DotOUT, Dorchester’s gay and lesbian political advocacy group, will host a “NiteOUT” on Thursday, November 10, 2005 at the Blarney Stone on Dorchester Avenue starting at 7p.m. The event will celebrate DotOUT’s accomplishments, raise funds for future activities and will honor a local activist for his efforts to promote Dorchester’s diversity.

Dorchester activist and long-time Dorchester Day Parade organizer, Ed Crowley, will be awarded DotOUT’s first “DotOUT Community Service” award. Intended to recognize a Dorchester resident who has actively promoted and celebrated Dorchester’s diversity, this year’s award is offered to Mr. Crowley, who through his role as Parade Adjutant for the Dorchester Day Parade, has helped organize a parade and honorary “Mayor of Dorchester” contest that truly reflects our neighborhood’s diverse groups.

“It might strike some as odd that a gay group is honoring a straight man from Fields Corner with its first award.” said Richard O’Mara, DotOUT co-founder and lifelong Dorchester resident, “Not to us! Ed Crowley shares with us a commitment to our neighborhood and to Dorchester’s diversity and his efforts to include gays, lesbians and others in the parade and other Dorchester Day events, make him an easy choice.”

DotOUT’s members are active political and civic participants in Dorchester, standing with their friends and neighbors each and everyday to celebrate our neighborhood’s many strengths and to work together on quality of life issues to make the neighborhood even better. Ed Crowley is one of the many residents who stand with their gay and lesbian neighbors in Dorchester in the fight for fairness and equality. “One of the things that makes Dorchester special is the diversity of people working together everyday on many different issues. People in Dorchester appreciate that our similarities far outweigh our differences and more importantly most of our Dorchester neighbors consider those differences to be a neighborhood strength. That’s why DotOUT honoring Ed Crowley is so fitting, “ said (whoever we want).

The “NiteOUT” event will be held on Thursday, November 10,2005 at the Blarney Stone in Dorchester. Ticket and other information can be found at DotOUT’s webpage, www.dotout.org.