Weekly Announcements

March 19-25, 2006

Planet Orange: Before Stonewall
FALL 2006 LGBT Studies Minor Course Offerings
Making Academic Spaces Engaging for LGBTQA Students (For Faculty)
Cafe Q
The Syracuse Gay and Lesbian Chorus
Love, Life, & Law: Topics on the Lives of LGBT People & the Law
Melissa Ferrick
Greg Walloch
Outrage
Meeting: Open Doors
Meeting: Pride Union
National Orange Day Friday
Inclusion Imperative: A Two Day National Conference Honoring Diversity
Applications Available: University Judicial Board
Pride Agenda Marriage Equality Training in Syracuse
Fight to Give Life
GLAAD Applauds Updated Associated Press Stylebook Entries

LGBT Resource Center News

1. Planet Orange

"Before Stonewall"- Monday, March 20 7-9 pm 750 Ostrom
Drop-in discussion group for LGBTQA students that meets every Monday from 7-9 p.m. Topics vary from week to week, with a social event once a month.

This week we'll watch the documentary "Before Stonewall" followed by a discussion. What do you know about New York City's Stonewall Inn or what queer life was like prior to 1969? How does this history inform our experience today? This documentary uses extensive archival film, movie clips and personal recollections to construct an audiovisual history of the gay community before the Stonewall riots. Join us!

Facilitated by Adrea Jaehnig. Questions? Contact:
Adrea Jaehnig, 443.3983, aljaehni@syr.edu

2. FALL 2006 LGBT Studies Minor Course Offerings

QSX 112 Sexualities, Genders, Bodies (core course) Minnie Bruce Pratt
MW 2:15-3:35 in 210 Archbold

AAS 200/400 Gender, Race and Sexuality in the African Diaspora Linda Carty
MW 2:15-3:35 in 110 Bowne

CFE 300 Queer Kids, Straight Schools Applebaum/Biklen/Payne
TuTh 2:00-3:30

ARC 500.1 Space and Sexuality Jonathan Massey
Tu 1:00-3:50 in 616 Warehouse (350 W. Fayette St.)

WSP 438 Trans Genders and Sexualities Minnie Bruce Pratt
MW 9:30-10:50

WSP 400 Negotiating Differences: Coming of Age Vivian May
Wed 3:45 -6:30 in 101 HL

Questions about these courses or the minor? Contact Andrew London aslondon@maxwell.syr.edu or Margaret Himley mrhimley@syr.edu .

3. Making Academic Spaces Engaging for LGBTQA Students (For Faculty)

Wednesday, March 22
Learn how to make your classroom inviting for LGBTQA students' academic engagement. This workshop will include strategies for inclusion, a panel discussion, and your active involvement in discovering methods of infusing LGBTQA issues into relevant curriculum.

Register at http://cstl.syr.edu/register/

Time: 10:00 a.m. - Noon
Location: 400 Ostrom Avenue
Sponsoring department/organization: CSTL
Contact: Nancy Impelizzieri
443-4571

4. Cafe Q

Thursday, March 23 8-10 pm 750 Ostrom Avenue
You never know what can happen at Cafe Q. The latest unsolved mystery brings a special blend of coffee fun to Cafe Q that guarantees a good time for all. Was it the cook in the kitchen with the expresso shot? Stop in to tell us all about your Spring Break, the luck of the Irish, and the misadventures of the SU Orange BB team.

Questions? Contact:
Lauren Adamski, 443.3983, lbadamsk@syr.edu
Jay Tifone, 443.3983, jmtifone@syr.edu

5. The Syracuse Gay and Lesbian Chorus -- 15th Anniversary Concert

Saturday, March 25
The LGBT Resource Center has purchased 10 tickets for this concert--anyone interested in attending for free should email Adrea Jaehnig aljaehni@syr.edu. First come, first served.

The SGLC concert on Saturday, March 25, at Syracuse Stage, will celebrate the 15th annivesary of the founding of SGLC. A wine and cheese reception will start at 6:30 p.m. with the concert at 8:00 p.m. There will be a dessert reception after the concert. SGLC will be joined by the Rochester Gay Men's Chorus and The Nines, an all-women jazz band, for this concert. Tickets are $25.00 a person. This is going to be a special concert. Purchase your advanced tickets by calling the Chorus line on 315.476.4329.

6. Love, Life, & Law: Topics on the Lives of LGBT People & the Law

Tuesday March 28 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Love, Life, & Law: Topics on the Lives of LGBT People & the Law
Location 201 College of Law. Charles M. Sprock, Jr, adjunct professor in the School of Law, and law students in his class, "Planning for Nontraditional Families", will answer your questions about how the law intersects with the lives of LGBT people and ways you can best protect yourself and your family. What would you like to talk or hear about at this session?

Please email your questions or requested topics to lgbt@syr.edu with the subject line "Love, Life, & Law".

7. Melissa Ferrick

March 28 8:00 p.m. Schine Underground http://www.melissaferrick.com/
Pride Union presents Melissa Ferrick. Tickets available at the Schine Box Office. $3 students/$5 non-students

8. Greg Walloch

March 29 8:00 p.m. Shemin Auditorium in the Schaffer Art Building http://www.gregwalloch.com/
Not your ordinary comedy show. Free Tickets available at the Schine Box Office.

Sponsored by: Student Affairs Diversity Programming Grant, the LGBT Resource Center, the Team Against Bias, UU Comedy, Office of Greek Life and Experiential Learning, Office of Disability Services, Center on Human Policy, Law, and Disability Studies, Beyond Compliance Coordinating Committee, the Residence Hall Association, Pride Union, School of Social Work, Zamboni Revolution, Penguins without Pants, Disability Law Society, Outrage, Open Doors, and Outlaw.

Student Organization Meetings

9. Outrage

Questions? Contact:
Brian Stout, brstout@syr.edu

10. Meeting: Open Doors

Come to the Open Doors meeting on Tuesday, March 21 at 7:30 pm at the LGBT Resource Center. All LGBTQA graduate students are welcome to attend.
Questions? Contact:
John David Molesky, jdmolesk@syr.edu

11. Meeting: Pride Union

On Wednesday, March 22 at 9 pm, Pride Union holds its weekly meeting at the LGBT Resource Center. All SU/SUNY-ESF undergraduate students are welcome.
Questions? Contact:
Jen Spinner, jaspinne@syr.edu

Other SU News

12. National Orange Day

Friday, March 24
Syracuse University students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends are asked to show their orange pride by wearing their best orange threads*a flashy tie, a sweater or a colorful T-shirt, for example. National Orange Day is a tradition to commemorate the founding of Syracuse University, March 24, 1870. This is SU's 136th year.

On campus, the festivities begin at 12:30 p.m. when the Crouse chimes will ring out the alma mater and the fight song. Members of the University community will gather in the atrium of the Hildegarde and J. Myer Schine Student Center, where Chancellor Nancy Cantor will carve the first slice of SU's birthday cake, one of six sheet cakes donated by the SU Bake Shop. The celebration in Schine will also include a visit by Otto the Orange. Radio station Z89 (WJPZ-FM) will play music and provide giveaways.

13. Inclusion Imperative: A Two Day National Conference Honoring Diversity

The School of Education at Syracuse University is co-sponsoring a conference entitled, "Inclusion Imperative: A Two Day National Conference Honoring Diversity" on April 21 and 22. Keynote speakers will be John Hockenberry, Simi Linton and Gerardine Wurzburg.

Several speakers will explore the interconnections between queer studies and disability studies, including Robert McRuer and Santiago Solis.

This kick-off event for the centennial year celebration of the School of Education at Syracuse University promises to be a great conference! A brochure for can be found at: http://soeweb.syr.edu/cego/193-012-M2006_WEB_PDF.pdf.

The series' first speak will be Jasbir Puar, assistant professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, on March 9 at 4 pm in 341 Eggers Hall. Her talk is on "Biopolitical Intimacy: Lawrence, Sodomy, and Infinite Detention."

The description of the event:

Through a deconstruction of the celebratory readings of the 2003 Lawrence and Garner v. Texas Supreme Court ruling that effectively decriminalized sodomy in the United States, this lecture argues that such readings are only possible through the erasure of contemporary politics of surveillance, racial profiling, detention, and deportation. Re-reading the privacy and intimacy debates of Lawrence through the spatial politics of the war on terror reveals that, not coincidentally, the legislative incorporation of homonormative and queer liberal subjects through discourses of diversity and inclusion collaborates with the demarcations of queerly racialized populations targeted for neglect, disposal, and dying. Further, intimacy for these populations, rather than residing in the private or mismanaged in the public, appears instead through circulating points of exchange and contact within a biopolitical control economy mediated by surveillance, systems of information gathering and monitoring, and aggregations of statistics, such that the spatial and representational public-private domains of liberal personhood remain meaningful only insofar as they demarcate subjects of privilege.

14. Applications Available: University Judicial Board

The University Judicial Board/Peer Education Team would like to extend an offer to apply for a position as a member of the University Judicial Board/Peer Education Team for the 2006-2007 academic year.

Applications are available in 310 Steele Hall, or by contacting Patrick McPeak at plmcpeak@syr.edu. Completed applications should be returned to 310 Steel Hall by Friday, March 24.

Questions? Contact:
Patrick McPeak, plmcpeak@syr.edu

REGIONAL NEWS

15. Pride Agenda Marriage Equality Training in Syracuse

Pride Agenda offers a great way to get involved in the fight for marriage equality in New York State by attending upcoming "Marriage Ambassador" trainings.

The trainings are a collaborative effort of Empire State Pride Agenda, ACLU, Lambda Legal, GLAAD and Syracuse University student organizations OutLaw, Outrage, and Pride Union. The trainings consist of a comprehensive, up to the minute legal and political update, media training and skills building workshops.

They are designed to build community and keep the conversation around marriage equality going. As early as this summer the Court could hand down a ruling and we need to be prepared to swing into action. We are looking for people who are interested in making a difference right in their own community by meeting with their elected officials, writing letters to the editor of their local paper, throwing house parties, talking to church and community groups, or who will simply rally when the time comes. There are many ways you can help win marriage in New York State and attending a training is the first step.

The sessions are:
Friday, April 7 from 5:30-8:30 pm at the Genesee Grande Hotel
Saturday, April 8 from 9am-5:30 pm at Syracuse University

These trainings are for:

Straight Allies
Community Members
Parents and Family Members
Friends
LGBTQ People
Students, Faculty, or Staff
Anyone who wants to make a difference

Please attend both sessions. Hotel information is available upon request. Conference organizers will supply snacks and refreshments on Friday evening and a continental breakfast and lunch on Saturday. A packet of materials will also be provided.

The trainings are free of charge but you must register in advance.

To register please contact Elisabeth Bullard at 212.627.0305 ext.105 or at ebullard@prideagenda.org.

NATIONAL NEWS

16. Fight to Give Life

There is a national organization - Fight to Give Life - coordinating a nationwide protest on April 5. The articles in this website are excellent tools.

On March 9th, 2006 the American Red Cross joined the American Association of Blood Banks
and America's Blood Centers in advocating for a change in the lifetime ban of gay men. At a conference held by the Food and Drug Administration on Behavior-Based Blood Donors Referrals in the Era of Nucleic Acid Tests the groups said "the current lifetime deferral for men who have had sex with other men is medically and scientifically unwarranted and recommend that deferral criteria be modified and made compatible with criteria for other groups at increased risk for sexual transmission of transfusion-transmitted infections." The Fight to Give Life lauds the American Red Cross for joining with the other blood donation centers throughout the country in advocating for the removal of this lifetime ban.

Here's the link:

http://www.fighttogivelife.org/

17. GLAAD Applauds Updated Associated Press Stylebook Entries

http://www.glaad.org/index.php
NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 13, 2006 * The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), the nation's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy group, today applauded the Associated Press' (AP) unveiling of updated LGBT-related AP Stylebook entries as a significant step forward in promoting fair, accurate and inclusive language throughout the nation's media.

Nicknamed "the journalist's bible," the AP Stylebook is the most widely used style guide for reporters and editors in the United States. Today's LGBT-related terminology updates to the AP Stylebook are detailed below. They are now available online at APStylebook.com and will also appear in the 2006 print edition, slated for publication this spring.

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