The LGBT Resource Center is proud to announce that it has formed its very own Light the Night Team!

This is the Leukemia and Lymphoma Societies National Walk put on in the Syracuse area. Meant to raise money and awareness about the devestating affects of these two diseases, the walk hopes to be able to make the lives of people living with leukemia and lymphoma and their famies more comfortable.

If this is a cause that you would like to support than join our team as we light the night on Wednesday, September 19th. Registration starts at 5:00pm and the walk starts at 6:30pm.
You can register online by clicking below, and for more information contact Sean at swmalone@syr.edu

Click Here to Register For Our Team!

Health care in our increasingly globalized world is constantly changing, due in part to factors such as the emergence of new forms of illness like HIV/AIDS, the increased privatization of health care that followed on structural adjustment policies in the 1980s, and the more recent growth of medical tourism. Two back-to- back conferences at Syracuse University address these issues: the first examines the intersections between gender, sexuality and HIV/AIDS (Sept. 27-28) while the second examines the changing landscapes of health care in modern South Asia (Sept. 28-29).

This conference aims to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and advocates working in various contexts to examine critically the gendered, sexualized, and globalized character of HIV/AIDS pandemic and responses to it. This conference will examine HIV/AIDS as a transnational phenomenon that is simultaneously embedded within global economic and social transformations and local contexts. We will investigate the ways in which responses to HIV/AIDS are mediated through local and translocal conceptions of gender and sexuality, as well as how concepts of gender and sexuality are challenged and even transformed as a result of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. We will also explore how transnational discourses of feminism, human rights, queer theory, and "positive living" have been employed in locally diverse ways in responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis. Finally we will consider how these kinds of investigations can provide frameworks for simultaneously improving responses to HIV/AIDS and reducing discrimination based on gender and sexuality.

Both conferences will be held in the Killian Room, 500 Hall of Languages, Syracuse University.

For more information please contact Kasturi Gupta at kgupta@maxwell.syr.edu

Conference Webpage

Medley is one of the student projects started last year with the international and diversity outreach initiative through SU Abroad and the Slutzker International Center.

Some Projects that Medley, working in conjuction with students on campus, plan to organize include : - Writing and photography for Medley
- Teaching soccer to kids at the Spanish Action League
- Group attendance at SU soccer games-free tickets!
- Spanish practice group with native speakers
- Individual community service placements
- Community service projects with groups of 2 or 3 students
- Produce a video
- Events and preparation for International Education Week
- Student/Faculty/Community Seminar, November 8, 2007: What Is A Global Citizen?

For a copy of the latest issue of Medley click below!
Click Here

For more information contact Dr. Elane Granger at The Slutzker International Center.

The Syracuse Gay & Lesbian Chorus, Inc. is proud to announce the release of its new CD recording of multi- cultural holiday music! It is named "Wintertime Cheer," and they believe it is sure to brighten everyone's holiday. They are inviting everyone in the community out to their release party on Wednesday, September 12, from 6:30-8:30pm. The event is free of charge and being held at the Sutton Pavilion at Syracuse Stage (310 West Genesee Street).

The Chorus would also like to announce the start of its 2007 Holiday rehearsal schedule. Rehearsals start on Monday, September 12th at 7:00pm. They are being held at 232 E. Onondaga St, and ALL are encouraged to attend!

Sponsored by the Ithaca College Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender (LGBT) Education, Outreach, and Services, the film series this year will focus on the theme of ways people transgress, challenge and redefine gender as we know it. The series will present a total of six films during the fall semester. Additional screenings will take place during the spring. All are free and open to the public

For information about the film series contact Lis Maurer at The Center for LGBT Education, Outreach & Services Ithaca College. You can also visit their webpage at www.ithaca.edu/lgbt.

Editors are still collecting stories for a book called Lobster Bisque for the Rainbow Spirit - which is a collection of uplifting stories about the GLBT people. They are still in the process of collecting stories and will likely continue to collect stories through November 2007. If YOUR story is chosen then they will send you $50 for your participation.

To submit a story go to this link and follow the directions!

OUT FOR WORK
The Third Annual National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Ally College Student Career Conference Sept. 29-30th. The Washington Plaza Hotel in Washington, DC. Click HERE for conference details.

Princeton Post-Doctoral Opportunity!
Princeton University has a three-year LGBT Postdoctoral Fellowship through our Society of Fellows.
LGBT Alumni Association of Princeton University, and the Society of Fellows are co-sponsors of this three- year postdoctoral fellowship to be awarded to a scholar working on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender issues in any of the disciplines represented in the Society, and particularly in new and emerging fields. The postdoctoral fellow will be expected to pursue research in any scholarly areas that will make a positive contribution toward public discourse around contemporary LGBT issues. The successful candidate is required to teach one course each semester for the first two years and normally does some advising in his/her specialty. In the third year, the fellow teaches only one course and devotes the final semester to full-time research. The LGBT fellow is also encouraged to share research interests with the wider campus community, with the aim of creating a sustained dialogue on issues related to LGBT equality.
Click HERE for more information!

Undergraduate Business Conference!
The fourth annual Out for Undergraduate Business Conference in New York will help GLBT undergraduate students learn how other "out" professionals have dealt with these same issues. Panelists will share insider knowledge about if, when, and how to come out in different professional situations, as well as strategies they've used to investigate companies GLBT policies before joining a new organization.
If you would like to know more click HERE.

Monday Night: FIRST PLANET ORANGE (Social)
Wednesday Night: Open Doors
Wednesday Night: Pride Union
Thursday Night: Cafe Q (Open Mic Night)