GLBT Resource Center @ SIUC
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GAY/LESBIAN/BI-SEXUAL/TRANSGENDER (GLBT) HISTORY MONTH 2007 Calendar of Events ______________________________________________________________________________________ ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED ______________________________________________________________________________________ Monday, Oct. 1 – Wednesday, Oct. 31 What kind of campus are we? What can we do better? Let us know what you think. Come learn what others think. Free Expression boards will be set up in Trueblood, Lentz, and University Hall Dining facilities during the month. Students are invited to share and gain from anonymous, raw, honest and uncensored statements about the GLBT environment at SIUC. There will also be information on GLBT awareness and History Month activities. For additional information contact Alfred Jackson ajackson@siu.edu Tuesday, October 2 POSTPONED due to health problems, will be rescheduled. Rev. White is the author of Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America and is Justice Minister of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches. Mel served the Christian church as a prize-winning television producer and filmmaker, a best-selling author, a pastor, seminary professor, and ghost writer to religious leaders including Billy Graham, Pat Robertson, and Jerry Falwell. After a time of terrible depression, Mel finally reconciled his Christian faith and his sexual orientation. In 1997, Mel and his partner, Gary Nixon, received the ACLU's National Civil Liberties Award in Atlanta, GA for their efforts at applying the "soul force" principles of Gandhi and King to the struggle for justice for sexual minorities. For additional information contact Paulette Curkin pcurkin@sdev.siu.edu Wednesday, October 3 In this joint program of GLBT History Month and Latino Heritage Month, video clips of comedians that use the topics of race and sexual orientation in their punch lines will be shown and discussed. Join us in seeing just how these comedians and their jokes lead us to laugh, cry, cringe, and think. Discussion Facilitator will be Craig Gingrich-Philbrook, Associate Professor, SIUC Speech Communication. For additional information contact Abed Abukhdair abed820@siu.edu ______________________________________________________________________________________ Thursday, October 4 October 4 th marks the fifth anniversary of the murder of Gwen Araujo, the California transsexual teenage girl whose tragic death led to the passage of the Gwen Araujo Justice for Victims Act which opposes the defendant’s use of societal bias against their victim in order to decrease their own culpability for a crime. For additional information contact Malinda Crow malinda_crow@yahoo.com Friday, October 5 Visit the newest resource center at SIUC, meet the dedicated staff, and learn more about the services and assistance provided. There will be free refreshments. For additional information contact Paulette Curkin pcurkin@siu.edu Saturday, October 6 Put on your walking shoes and join members of the GLBT community and allies as the Saluki Rainbow Network and friends participate in the SIUC Homecoming Parade. This is a tiny investment of time for a giant opportunity to inspire the achievement of equality and challenge discrimination within the SIUC community. For additional information contact the Saluki Rainbow Network salukirainbow@hotmail.com Saturday, October 6 Come and relax with old friends and new at the first ever GLBTailgate located in Saluki Row. Enjoy a drink, a kosher dawg and fabulous ambience. Commemorative cups to the first 500 guests. Sponsored by the GLBT Resource Center. For additional information contact Paulette Curkin pcurkin@siu.edu Tuesday, October 9 This panel will feature members of the local GLBTQQIA community. Panelists will describe their own sexual and gender identities, as well as accept questions from audience members about their experiences. Audience members should leave with a basic understanding of various terms that fall under the queer umbrella: gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, genderqueer, intersex, transsexual, questioning, ally, etc. Hosted by Stacia Creek. For additional information contact Stacia Creek staciacr@siu.edu Featuring: Margaret Cooper, Andrew Stanton, Jeremy Rodgers, Derand Wright and Andrea Krueger. For additional information contact Stacia Creek at staciacr@siu.edu Wednesday, October 10 A panel of faculty, staff members, and others will discuss the possibility, interest in and value of a GLBT/Q Studies minor at SIUC. For additional information contact Paulette Curkin pcurkin@siu.edu Wednesday, October 10 This is a joint GLBT/LHM program. This striking and illuminating documentary explores and exposes the secret subculture of New York lesbians living as "aggressives." Often mistaken for men, these women range from pretty tomboys to the blatantly butch, boldly creating their own identities outside of society's established sexual categories. Stripped of pretense, they lead us to fashion shoots and prison cells to reveal their work lives, love lives and social lives, including the underground "ball" scene where lesbians compete for lead "AG" status. A discussion will follow the film. (73 minutes) For additional information contact Sonia Garrett sonjka@siu.edu Thursday, October 11 Safe Zone is a program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale which identifies faculty and staff who can provide support and resources for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (GLBTQ) students, faculty, and staff. Participation as a GLBTQ ally helps to create a campus that is inclusive and affirming. Participants are committed to social justice and understand the importance of campus diversity. Upon completion of the workshop, participants have the option of becoming a Safe Zone member. Both the workshop and membership are free. For additional information visit the website http://www.siu.edu/~glbtrc/safe_zone/index.htm and contact Paulette Curkin pcurkin@siu.edu Thursday, October 11 October 11 is National Coming out Day. SIUC students and allies will wear plain white shirts labeled with the words “I’m Out” or “Ally.” Community members are invited to show their support for their fellow students by using sharpies to write words of encouragement on the shirts. There will be an additional event later that night. Keep your eyes open for announcements. For additional information contact the Saluki Rainbow Network salukirainbow@hotmail.com Monday, October 15 Since the sensational news of Christine Jorgensen in the 50's, we have been curious about transsexuals. Day time talk shows, recent documentaries, and movies highlight transgender individuals. Come see a visual history of real, everyday transgender individuals. For additional information contact Kylan M. de Vries Kylan33@siu.edu ______________________________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, October 16
This workshop will define terminology, dispel myths, challenge homophobia, and introduce activities designed to help you gain appreciation for diversity. For additional information contact co-presenters Barry Vesciglio or Christy Hamilton at (618) 536-4441 ______________________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, October 17 The Believers is an unprecedented feature documentary that shatters assumptions about faith, gender, and religion. Built around the world's first transgender gospel choir, the film portrays the choir's dilemma - how to reconcile their gender identity with the widespread belief that changing one's gender goes against the word of God. The intimate personal stories shed light on the complexity of balancing social change, family history, religion and identity. At the heart of their dilemma is a struggle for acceptance within two worlds historically at odds with one another. As one of the film's subjects eloquently says, "I'm living in a window. I get to see both sides." (80 min) For additional information contact Sonia Garrett sonjka@siu.edu Thursday, October 18 Dave Pallone worked 18 years as a professional umpire, 10 of those years with the National Baseball League. As the third youngest umpire in baseball history, he demonstrated courage, professionalism and the ability to withstand adversity through many of baseball's high profile controversial events. Dave is the author of the 1990 New York Time's best-selling autobiography, Behind the Mask: My Double Life in Baseball, which offers a revealing look at baseball through the eyes of a gay man. For additional information contact Brooke Morgan bmorgan@siu.edu Wednesday, October 24 I examine fashioning of lesbian linguistic agency that is taken up in autobiographical writing by imagining desire outside heteronormative frames, hence probing and further translating personal experience into the collective’s force for political action. I argue for the autobiographical postmodern re/turn that both recognizes and disavows sexual difference. Such practice of writing accounts for decentralized operations of power, as well as the infinite possibilities for agency and contradiction. In short, linguistic agency and linguistic survival are located within autobiographical writing. This textual move highlights a nuance to the constitutive nature of hetero-discursive frameworks that define lesbian bodies and subjectivities, but also mobilize strategically disruptive politics that undermine their hegemonic effects. For additional information contact Professor Naida Zukic zukicn@siu.edu Wednesday, October 24 While the majority of Americans believe that gays deserve the same rights as straight citizens, nearly half feel that, on some level, homosexuality is wrong. Exploring the roots of homophobia through a profile of a murder case, this PBS video questions how America’s attitudes, beliefs, and fears have contributed to the rise in violence against gays. (60 minutes) A discussion will follow the film. For additional information contact Sonia Garrett sonjka@siu.edu Friday, October 26 Join Community Floss, a local improv comedy group, and other SIUC students for an evening that is high-energy and all laughs. Help us celebrate GLBT History Month with a smile! ______________________________________________________________________________________ Monday, October 29 What happens when Super Queer, a humanitarian working to educate people on the effects of HFV (Heteronormative Fascist Virus), attempts to psychically channel the political leadership of this country to hold an open discussion on equality right here at SIUC? This is definitely SERIOUS. For additional information contact Amber Zimmerman alterity@siu.edu GLBT History Month Exhibition Student Center , Display Case (Tuesday, October 2 - Tuesday, October 9) ______________________________________________________________________________________ Career Resources Information on career planning and careers for GLBTQ students and others can be found at SIUC Career Services www.siu.edu/~ucs Sponsors of 2007 GLBT History Month GLBT Resource Center For additional information on GLBT History Month contact Student Development Multicultural Programs and Services at (618) 453-5714 or visit us online at www.stddev.siu.edu |
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