Yale LGBT Co-op

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We are excited to begin celebrating our Pride festivities this April 2010.

Visit facebook.com/prideatyale for more information

2009-05-22T16:46:00.001-04:00

Everyone have a great summer!

2009-03-29T14:02:00.004-04:00

PRIDE 2009

The LGBT Coop at Yale is celebrating PRIDE for the entire month of April, culminating in the Gay and Lesbian Alumni Reunion Weekend and Rufus Wainwright Live in Concert! Please click on the links below for more information.

Pride 2009 Calendar

Pride 2009 Event List

Rufus Wainwright Live in Concert
Buy Rufus Wainwright Tickets Here

The First-Ever LGBT Reunion at Yale

2008-11-10T03:11:00.004-05:00

QUEER FAITH FILM SERIES AT YALE, NOV 10-13

A WEEK OF FILMS EXPLORING HOMOSEXUALITY AND RELIGIOUS FAITH, FOLLOWED BY A PANEL DISCUSSION WITH MINA TRUDEAU, LINA ZERBARINI, JOHN GAGE, AND EMILE TOWNES. CLICK ON LINK FOR MORE INFORMATION:

HTTP://WWW.YALE.EDU/CHAPLAIN/QUEERFAITHFILM.HTML

Purpose: To Present A Series Of Programs To The Yale Community Discussing The Realities Of Queer Members Of Faith Communities, And To Encourage Positive Dialogue About Those Experiences.

COSPONSORS: CHAPLAIN & RSQUO'S OFFICE; COUNCIL ON MIDDLE EASTERN

STUDIES; MARIA TRUMPLER, SPECIAL ADVISOR TO THE DEAN ON LGBT ISSUES; WOMEN, GENDER & SEXUALITY STUDIES; SOCIAL JUSTICE NETWORK; QUEER PEERS; OFFICE FOR DIVERSITY

Monday, November 10

Movie Screening: /FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO/, 7 pm, LC 317

http://www.forthebibletellsmeso.org/[1]

Film Synopsis:

Can the love between two people ever be an abomination? Is the chasm separating gays and lesbians and Christianity too wide to cross? Is the Bible an excuse to hate? Through the experiences of five very normal, very Christian, very American families including those of former House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt and Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson we discover how insightful people of faith handle the realization of having a gay child. Informed by such respected voices as Bishop Desmond Tutu, Harvard's Peter Gomes, Orthodox Rabbi Steve Greenberg and Reverend Jimmy Creech, FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO offers healing, clarity and understanding to anyone caught in the crosshairs of scripture and sexual identity.

Tuesday, November 11

Movie Screening: /HINEINI: COMING OUT IN A JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL/, 7

pm, LC 211

http://www.hineinithefilm.org/[2]

Film Synopsis:

The inspiring story of one student's courageous fight to establish a gay-straight alliance at a Jewish high school in the Boston area and the transformative impact on her entire community.

Wednesday, November 12:

Master s Tea: Master s Tea with Director of Jihad for Love Parvez Sharma, 4 pm

Movie Screening/Q&A: /JIHAD FOR LOVE/, 7 pm, Whitney Humanities Center

http://www.ajihadforlove.com/[3]

Film Synopsis:

Fourteen centuries after the revelation of the holy Qur'an to the Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h.), Islam today is the world's second largest and fastest growing religion. Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma travels the many worlds of this dynamic faith discovering the stories of its most unlikely storytellers: lesbian and gay Muslims. Filmed over 5+ years, in 12 countries and 9 languages, A Jihad for Love comes from the heart of Islam. Looking beyond a hostile and war-torn present, this film seeks to reclaim the Islamic concept of a greater Jihad, which can mean an inner struggle or to strive in the path of God . In doing so the film and its remarkable subjects move beyond the narrow concept of Jihad as holy war.

Thursday, November 13:

Panel, followed by Reception, 7:00 pm, LC 102 + foyer

Panelists:

1) Mina Trudeau, Director of Al-Fatiha

2) Rabbi Lina, Associate Rabbi of Slifka Center

3) John Gage, United Church of Christ

4) Emilie Townes, Dean of Yale Divinity School

Links:

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[1] http://www.forthebibletellsmeso.org/

[2] http://www.hineinithefilm.org/

[3] http://www.ajihadforlove.com/

2008-11-10T03:02:00.002-05:00

The LGBT Student Cooperative at Yale presents...

The 6th Annual Trans Awareness Week @ Yale

November 12th - 19th, 2008

Wed, Nov 12

4pm

Race, Gender Performance and the Making of White Masculinity

Matt Richardson

Silliman College Master's House

Matt Richardson, a scholar, queer activist, and drag artist, is launching Trans Awareness Week with a Master's Tea in Silliman College. Matt will be focusing on experiences in the drag world, as both an artist with his troupe - the Nappy Grooves - and as an onlooker, to discuss the significance of race and gender performance in the making of white masculinity.

Sponsored by The LGBT Co-op at Yale, Silliman College, Women's Gender & Sexuality Studies, The Afro-American Cultural Center, Ethnicity Race & Migration, and LGBT Studies

Thurs, Nov 13

8pm

Opening Night Reception

Trans/Genderqueer Art and Photography Exhibit

Gallery, Afro-American Cultural Center, 211 Park St.

This exhibit of trans/genderqueer bodies by queer activists will open with a reception at the Af-Am House. The exhibit will remain open all week long, but the reception will gather individuals from the community to share their impressions, emotions, and reactions to artwork that challenges our preconceived notions of gender and activism through three different collections: "Animal Heads" (figure drawings by artist Noam Lapid, Canada), "Outcast" (photography by Tamir Lederberg, Israel/Palestine), and "Struggling for Pleasure" (video art/photography by Mats, Zafire, Mario, Lasse, and Signe a queer troupe from Sweden).

Sponsored by The LGBT Co-op at Yale and The Afro-American Cultural Center, with special support from the LGBT Studies Bruce L. Cohen Fund

Fri, Nov 14

6:45pm Shabbat Dinner

8pm Lecture

Sing If You're Glad to be Trans

A dramatic lecture by S. Bear Bergman

Sylvia Slifka Chapel, Slifka Center, 80 Wall St.

*Dessert reception to precede the talk

While the difficult narratives of trans life are valid and deserve our attention, is it not perhaps enough with the all-misery-all-the-time tranny channel? Being trans is not a reason for pity, scorn, shame, or apology. This lecture celebrates trans bodies, communities, awareness, sex, love, particular talents, successes and self-creation with a faultless logic and good humor that may just make you appreciate transfolks (or being trans) in a whole new way.

S. Bear Bergman is a writer, a theater artist, an instigator, a gender-jammer, and a good example of what happens when you overeducate a contrarian. Ze is also the author of Butch Is a Noun (Suspect Thoughts Press, 2006) and three award-winning solo performances, as well as a frequent contributor to anthologies on all manner of topics. Books will be available for purchase at the event.

Sponsored by The LGBT Co-op at Yale, Calhoun College, and Theater Studies, with special support from the Joseph Slifka Center

Sat, Nov 15

9:30-10:30 Performance by All The Kings Men

10:30-midnight Dancing

Drag Ball

Morse College Dining Hall

*Free admission

We are bringing back the troupe All The Kings Men for an encore performance at this year's Drag Ball. Enjoy an evening of gender-bending both on the stage and on the dance floor!

Drag attire encouraged.

Sponsored by The LGBT Co-op at Yale, The Yale Women's Center, Yale GALA, and the UOFC

Sun, Nov 16

4pm

Panel Discussion: Genderqueer and Trans Identities

The Yale Women's Center, 198 Elm St. (next to Durfee's)

This panel will focus on panelists' personal experiences with overlaps and tensions among "genderqueer" and "transgender" identities. What does it mean to be "subversive" with respect to gender, and how does that inform panelists' personal identities? Are transsexual and genderqueer identities mutually exclusive? How have panelists' identities been received within the context of queer spaces and communities? Outside of those spaces? Are there experiences that are unique to genderqueer identity? Just how relevant and applicable is the feminist adage "the personal is political" to individuals' lives?

Sponsored by The LGBT Co-op at Yale, The Yale Women's Center, and the Yale Gay and Lesbian Alumni Association

Mon, Nov 17

5pm

"Before Transgender: Gender and Gay Identity in New York's Gay Liberation Movement, 1969-1974"

Aaron Potenza

WLH 309, 100 Wall St.

Present at the opening salvo of gay liberation, gender variant individuals have been depicted in popular and academic histories as an integral part of the modern gay rights movement. Yet their story, one of declension and marginalization, is rarely explored in ways that illuminate the changing and contested relationship between same-sex desire and cross-gender identification. Looking at the Gay Activist Alliance, the most prominent and arguably the most successful gay liberation group in New York, my work argues that the gay liberation era saw the parsing of gay and trans identities - a shift from a period where transvestism, transsexuality, and cross-gender expression were understood as part of gay life to one in which many gay men and lesbians began to think of same-sex desire as perhaps entirely different from cross-gender identification.

Sponsored by The LGBT Co-op at Yale and LGBT Studies

Mon, Nov 17

7pm

Film Screening: No Dumb Questions and No Dumb Questions: 5 Years Later

followed by a Talkback with Filmmaker Melissa Regan

Office of International Students & Scholars (OISS), 421 Temple St.

Uncle Bill is becoming a woman! This lighthearted and poignant documentary profiles three sisters, ages 6, 9 and 11, struggling to understand why and how their Uncle Bill is becoming a woman. With just weeks until Bill's first visit as Barbara, the sisters navigate the complex territories of anatomy, sexuality, personality, gender and fashion. This film offers a fresh perspective on a complex situation from a family that insists there are no dumb questions.

Melissa Regan has designed award-winning educational software, co-founded an Internet software company, taught math, science and engineering, and published research on innovative uses of technology for learning. Melissa has produced several short documentaries about poverty, gender equality and water scarcity in Africa, and produces an interactive video multimedia series for the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Melissa has a masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.

Sponsored by the LGBT Co-op, the Saybrook College Shutack Fund, and Film Studies

Tues, Nov 18

12:30-1:30pm

Trans 101 for Religious Professionals

Scott Larson

Yale Divinity School, RSV Room

As part of Yale's 6th Annual Trans Awareness Week, the Yale Divinity School LGBTQ Coalition, along with the YDS Women's Center will be hosting a lunchtime conversation with Scott Larson, MAR '09. Scott will give an introduction to the "T" in LGBT, and talk about some of the issues that trans individuals and their families face, and the ways that religious professionals can be allies to trans communities. Bring a lunch and join the conversation -- all are welcome!

Scott Larson is an out queer transman and studies the intersection of Transgender and Christian Thought.

Sponsored by The LGBT Co-op at Yale, the Yale Divinity School LGBTQ Coalition, and the YDS Women's Center

Tues, Nov 18

5pm

On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us

Kate Bornstein

Followed by a DRAMATalkback

Branford College Common Room

Join author, playwright, and performance artist Kate Bornstein for a dramatic reading of hir signature piece, "On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us," which provides both a welcoming introduction to the notion of sex and gender beyond the binary as well as a deeply moving affirmation of spirit for sex-and-gender outlaws. It will include hir most personal stories, favorite comic and dramatic monologues, and a chapter from hir upcoming memoir. The reading will be followed by a talk back.

Sponsored by The LGBT Co-op at Yale, the Dramat, Timothy Dwight College, and Theater Studies, with special support from the LGBT Studies Bruce L. Cohen Fund

Tues, Nov 18

9pm

Film Screening: XXY

A new film from Argentina, Short Listed for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards

Branford College Common Room

For just about everybody, adolescence means having to confront a number of choices and life decisions, but rarely any as monumental as the one facing 15 year-old Alex (Ines Efron,) who was born an intersex child. As Alex begins to explore her sexuality, her mother invites friends from Buenos Aires to come for a visit at their house on the gorgeous Uruguayan shore, along with their 16-year-old son Álvaro (Martin Piroyanski.) Alex is immediately attracted to the young man, which adds yet another level of complexity to her personal search for identity, and forces both families to face their worst fears.

Sponsored by the LGBT Co-op at Yale, La Casa, and Film Studies

Wed, Nov 19

5-7pm

Trans-Inclusive Health Care Workshop

Jane Ellen Hope Amphitheater (corner of Cedar and Congress St.)

The Yale Nursing School's Student Diversity Action Committee will sponsor this FREE workshop about providing positive, inclusive health care for transgendered, genderqueer, and gender non-conforming individuals. All are welcome.

Dinner will be provided. For food estimation purposes, please RSVP to joan.katko@yale.edu by November 17th.

2008-11-03T20:08:00.003-05:00

QUEER FAITH FILM SERIES AT YALE, NOV 10-13

A WEEK OF FILMS EXPLORING HOMOSEXUALITY AND RELIGIOUS FAITH, FOLLOWED BY A PANEL DISCUSSION WITH MINA TRUDEAU, LINA ZERBARINI, JOHN GAGE, AND EMILE TOWNES. CLICK ON LINK FOR MORE INFORMATION:

HTTP://WWW.YALE.EDU/CHAPLAIN/QUEERFAITHFILM.HTML

Purpose: To Present A Series Of Programs To The Yale Community

Discussing The Realities Of Queer Members Of Faith Communities, And

To Encourage Positive Dialogue About Those Experiences.

COSPONSORS: CHAPLAIN & RSQUO'S OFFICE; COUNCIL ON MIDDLE EASTERN

STUDIES; MARIA TRUMPLER, SPECIAL ADVISOR TO THE DEAN ON LGBT ISSUES; WOMEN, GENDER & SEXUALITY STUDIES; SOCIAL JUSTICE NETWORK; QUEER PEERS; OFFICE FOR DIVERSITY

Monday, November 10

Movie Screening: /FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO/, 7 pm, LC 317

http://www.forthebibletellsmeso.org/[1]

Film Synopsis:

Can the love between two people ever be an abomination? Is the

chasm separating gays and lesbians and Christianity too wide to

cross? Is the Bible an excuse to hate? Through the experiences of

five very normal, very Christian, very American families including

those of former House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt and Episcopal

Bishop Gene Robinson we discover how insightful people of faith

handle the realization of having a gay child. Informed by such

respected voices as Bishop Desmond Tutu, Harvard's Peter Gomes,

Orthodox Rabbi Steve Greenberg and Reverend Jimmy Creech, FOR THE

BIBLE TELLS ME SO offers healing, clarity and understanding to anyone

caught in the crosshairs of scripture and sexual identity.

Tuesday, November 11

Movie Screening: /HINEINI: COMING OUT IN A JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL/, 7

pm, LC 211

http://www.hineinithefilm.org/[2]

Film Synopsis:

The inspiring story of one student's courageous fight to establish

a gay-straight alliance at a Jewish high school in the Boston area

and the transformative impact on her entire community.

Wednesday, November 12:

Master s Tea: Master s Tea with Director of Jihad for Love Parvez

Sharma, 4 pm

Movie Screening/Q&A: /JIHAD FOR LOVE/, 7 pm, Whitney Humanities

Center

http://www.ajihadforlove.com/[3]

Film Synopsis:

Fourteen centuries after the revelation of the holy Qur'an to the

Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h.), Islam today is the world's second

largest and fastest growing religion. Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez

Sharma travels the many worlds of this dynamic faith discovering the

stories of its most unlikely storytellers: lesbian and gay Muslims.

Filmed over 5 � years, in 12 countries and 9 languages, A Jihad for

Love comes from the heart of Islam. Looking beyond a hostile and

war-torn present, this film seeks to reclaim the Islamic concept of a

greater Jihad, which can mean an inner struggle or to strive in the

path of God . In doing so the film and its remarkable subjects move

beyond the narrow concept of Jihad as holy war.

Thursday, November 13:

Panel, followed by Reception, 7:00 pm, LC 102 + foyer

Panelists:

1) Mina Trudeau, Director of Al-Fatiha

2) Rabbi Lina, Associate Rabbi of Slifka Center

3) John Gage, United Church of Christ

4) Emilie Townes, Dean of Yale Divinity School

Links:

------

[1] http://www.forthebibletellsmeso.org/

[2] http://www.hineinithefilm.org/

[3] http://www.ajihadforlove.com/