We are looking for pictures of you and your friends, pictures taken at events, pictures taken around town or at conferences...any pictures you would like to have shown in the slideshow that have been taken in the last year! The more pictures we have, of the more people, the better we will be able to see the LGBTQA community over the past year! So keep sending them in!

** Send your pictures to: mbsager@syr.edu **

Presented by Open Doors- the graduate student organization for LGBTA students and friends. The film festival is on 3/22, 3/23, 3/29, 3/30, 3/31 from 7-9:30 in Hall of Languages Room 107.

Amy Lind, Associate Professor of Women's Studies, University of Cincinnati, April 2, 2007, 4:00 p.m., 100 Eggers Hall

This paper addresses how sexual subjectivities are produced, understood, and imagined in the global development industry. I argue that this industry serves as an important site for the institutionalization of neoliberal policies and the broader process of global restructuring. By examining how sexual subjectivities are represented in narratives and institutional practices of development, I demonstrate the paradoxes of defining queer sexualities in an era of transnational production and neoliberal governance. I draw out the implications of this research for scholarly and activist strategies that aim to resist normativities produced and/or accentuated by restructuring processes.

A striking and illuminating documentary that explores the subculture of New York lesbians living as 'aggressives.' 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.

Date: March 28, 2007 , Time: 5-7 pm , Location: 304 Tolley

by Richard M. Juang, April 11, 2007, 5 pm in Kittredge Auditorium and informal reception for Richard at the LGBT Resource Center at 3 pm.

Richard M. Juang is a co-editor of and contributor to Transgender Rights (Univ of MN Press, 2006), the first major collection of essays on the contemporary transgender civil rights and social justice movement. His work also appears in Routledge's Transgender Studies Reader. Richard co-chairs the advisory board of the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) in Washington, DC and was an editor of NCTE's 'Responding to Hate Crimes: A Community Resource Manual.' Richard has taught at Oberlin College and Susquehanna University and currently lives in Boston, where he is assisting with transgender non-discrimination and hate crimes legislative efforts, as part of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition.

Film viewing: Wednesday, March 28th, 7:00 pm, Palace Theater (2384 James St. in Eastwood) $6 admission fee. Contact Anne McGonigle, akmcgonigle@yahoo.com

We are a culturally diverse research team (one lesbian and one Asian American) conducting an empirical study examining attitudes, feelings, and experiences associated with being an Asian American who experiences attraction to members of the same sex. Historically, researchers have neglected the lives of Asian American gay, lesbian, and bisexual persons, and very little research has looked specifically at attitudes, feelings, and experiences that sexual minority persons have based on their race and sexual orientation. To be eligible for this study, you must be an Asian/Asian American who is at least 18 years old, has experienced same- sex attraction, and currently resides in the United States. The survey is anonymous, and takes about 20 minutes to complete. For those interested in participating in this study, click on the following hypertext link (or cut and paste it into your browser) http://d990.psysurvey.com

Dawn M. Szymanski, Ph.D., University of Tennessee : dszymas@utk.edu

Arpana ?Annie? Gupta, M.Ed., University of Tennessee : agupta4@utk.edu

Seeking transgender people who are willing to share their experiences in traveling internationally. I am currently studying the use of passports by transgender (including transsexuals) individuals and any difficulty, discrimination, or harassment, they have experienced in using their passport at the United States border when traveling internationally.

I hope to gain insight into the process and experience of the use of identity documents for transgender people and how transgender people mediate their self identity, self presentation, and legal identity. Must be 18 years of age or older to participate. If you are interested in taking part in this study, please email me at transpassport@gmail.com

Conducting research to better understand the experiences of people who identify as Lesbians. Participants must be individuals who identify as Lesbians and are 18 years old or older. It will take about 15-20 minutes to complete. If you are interested in participating in this study please click the following link. Participation in this study is completely voluntary and you may withdrawal from your participation at anytime. This is a research study approved by the University Internal Review Board (IRB) at Iowa State University, Julia Keleher from the Department of Psychology.

www.christianlesbians.co.uk

If you are interested in the petition campaign, here is a website to access the petition for individual signatures. Please print out and return to Attn: Graduate Assistant, LGBT Resource Center, 750 Ostrom Ave. Syracuse, NY 13244. For more information please contact Bethany at, brblooms@syr.edu

With a new Governor and state legislature in place, there are now new opportunities to make progress on LGBT issues in Albany. So now it?s time for us to step up and make that change happen, LGBT Equality & Justice Day. NOW IS THE TIME to show our strength to our lawmakers!!