Out To Lunch Lecture Series

UCONN- The Rainbow Center
Out to Lunch is a interdisciplinary lecture series that focuses on queer studies.

All lectures are scheduled for Wednesdays at noon at the Rainbow Center, Student Union 403, unless otherwise posted.

The following are the lectures for the Spring 2008 semester:

January

* 30: Rev. LaDonna Sanders; "Dancing With the Ancestors & Liberation Notes: Audre Lourde and Bayard Rustin"

February

* 6: Wayne Besen; "Can You Pray Away the Gay?"
* 13: Cancelled because of weather
* 20: Robin McHaelen; "Bridges, Barriers and Boundaries - Queer Youth, now -- and then"
* 27: Barbara Rick; "The Making of the Film In Good Consciousness"

March

* 5: Barry Schreier; "The House of Cards: Smart Social Advocacy for GLBTQ Community"
* 12: No Class - Spring Break
* 19: Brett-Genny; "The Lives of Transgender People Today"
* 26: Imani Henry; "Color Me Queer: The History of Trans and LGB People of Color Political Organizing in the US"

April

* 2: Eric Keenoghan; "Queer Nationalism & the Homeland Security State"
* 9: Joe Lovett; "Gay Sex in the 1970's"
* 16: Larry LaFountaine; "Puerto Rican Lesbians in Connecticut: Cultural Representations"
* 23: Michelle Driscoll; "Exploring Contemporary American Transgender Literature"
* 30: Katie Acosta; "Lesbianas at the Borderlands"



Last Updated: February 2008