LGBTQ+ History Month at Georgia State
As part of the university’s signature heritage observance months, Georgia State’s Cultures, Communities & Inclusion team is marking LGBTQ+ History Month this October, and you are invited to join in on the celebration!
LGBTQ+ History Month observes the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer/questioning communities, and was first celebrated in the United States in 1994.
Check out the event highlights and helpful resources below!
Event Highlights
Culture Café on the GO!: Celebrate PRIDE
Monday, Oct. 3, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
Student Center East, 1st Floor Lobby
Hosted by the Multicultural Center
Culture Café is designed to highlight culture and heritage while providing students support services by promoting resources and events provided by our office and other campus partners. We offer goody bags and resources for students who visit our table and join our department listserv. This event will highlight LGBT+ History Month!
Paris is Burning: Watch Party
Tuesday, Oct. 4, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Library, Classroom 1
Hosted by Multicultural Center & Library Services
Join the Multicultural Center On Tuesday, October 4th, from 4:00pm - 6:00pm in the Atlanta campus library for a FREE showing of award-winning LGBTQ+ documentary Paris is Burning. After the film, we will have be hosting a group discussion on the relevance of 'Ballroom culture' in the LGBTQ+ community today
Community Connections LGBTQ
Friday, Oct. 7, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Student Center East SCE 206
Hosted by the Multicultural Center
The Community Connections Mentoring Program (C2) is a unique opportunity designed for YOU to feel a sense of belonging and help you dive deeper into your identity and community as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. Through a facilitated curriculum on what it means to develop resiliency as a member of the LGBTQ+ community, you’ll have the opportunity to engage in personal growth, leadership development, and more. You can expect access to campus programs, events, and services only for program participants.
Culture Café at the Intersection
Monday, Oct. 10, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Student Center East SCE 2100
Hosted by the Multicultural Center & ISSAC
Join us for free coffee, cocoa or tea, coupled with conversation about cultures, communities, and inclusion. Connect with others around identity, intersectionality and intercultural engagement. Bring a friend for a chance to win giveaways and prizes!!! RSVP required.
National Coming Out Day
Tuesday, Oct. 11, 11 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Student Center East - Ballroom
Hosted by the Multicultural Center
Life's not a Drag! #WeOutSide It's National Coming Out Day! Join us as we celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month as we share the stories of what means to be out! This celebrations will include the following: The Premiere of OUTober: The Coming Out Chronicles, drag performance, games, refreshments, live dj resources and so much more!
In The State Zone: LGBTQ+ Awareness & Ally Training
Tuesday, Oct. 11, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
In Person and WebEx
In Person at Student Center East Ballroom
RSVP and livestream information in the link below
Hosted by the Multicultural Center
Join the Multicultural Center for an interactive workshop on allyship and advocacy for the LGBTQ+ community. In this workshop you will learn the history, common vocabulary and lived experiences of LGTBQ+ communities and how you can best advocate to create a more equitable society!
Know Your Status: Free STD & HIV Testing
Thursday, Oct. 13, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Student Center East SCE 206
Sponsored by The Multicultural Center, Student Health Clinic, & Fulton County Health Department
The Multicultural Center in collaboration with Student Health Clinic and Fulton County Health Department will be offering free STD & HIV testing and safe sex supplies.
Community Connections LGBTQ
Friday, Oct. 14, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Student Center East SCE 206
Hosted by The Multicultural Center
The Community Connections Mentoring Program (C2) is a unique opportunity designed for YOU to feel a sense of belonging and help you dive deeper into your identity and community as a member of the LGBTQ+ community.
Legendary: The WERKShop
Tuesday, Oct. 18, 12:00 noon to 2:30 p.m.
Student Center West 460/462
Sponsored by the Multicultural Center & Alliance
You better WERK! Join us as we explore, discuss and learn about Ballroom Culture With special guests from HBO's LEGENDARY! Dress comfortable because you will be learning the skills and putting them to test! Students will be able to create their own Houses and compete against one another for the grand prize!
Pop Talks
Wednesday Oct. 19, 12:15 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Student Center East SCE 206
Hosted by the Multicultural Center
Pop on Wednesday (bi-weekly) for the Multicultural Center's weekly discussions about pop culture, national/global news, trigger-warning topics and/or anything related to diversity and inclusion. This peer-facilitated dialogue series provides a safe space to engage in critical thinking, explore diverse identities, and examine privilege and understand systematic oppression.
National LGBTQ Resource Center Day & International Pronouns Day
Wednesday Oct. 19, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Student Center East SCE 206
Hosted by the Multicultural Center & Alliance
Join us in the Gender & Sexuality Resource Center as we celebrate International Pronouns Day & LGBTQ+ Resource Center Day!Swing by our office and create your own Pronouns PIN! Don't have the time? No worries we will have some pre-made!
Pride Prom: Ode To Camp
Thursday, Oct. 20, 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Student Center East Ballroom
Hosted by the Multicultural Center & Georgia Tech
It's time to come dressed to impress because Cultures, Communities, and Inclusion is throwing a PROM! Come ready to dance the night away for LGBTQ+ History Month!
Student Center East SCE 206
Friday, Oct. 21, 1p.m. to 3 p.m.
Student Center East SCE 206
Sponsored by the Multicultural Center
The Community Connections Mentoring Program (C2) is a unique opportunity designed for YOU to feel a sense of belonging and help you dive deeper into your identity and community as a member of the LGBTQ+ community.
Queer Destress Fest: Sip & Spill
Tuesday 25 Oct, 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Student Center East SCE 210
Hosted by the Multicultural Center & Atlanta Pride
Join the Multicultural Center, in collaboration with the Counseling Center and Atlanta Pride, for Queer Destress Fest, a monthly series that focuses on factors that may contribute to stress, anxiety and other issues within LGBTQIQA and varying gender communities.
Community Connections LGBTQ
Friday 28 Oct. 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Student Center East SCE 206
Hosted by Multicultural Center
Through a facilitated curriculum on what it means to develop resiliency as a member of the LGBTQ+ community, you’ll have the opportunity to engage in personal growth, leadership development, and more. You can expect access to campus programs, events, and services only for program participants.
Resources
History at the University Library: LGBTQ+ Archival Collections
The University Library Archives hold a treasure of holdings, from papers to photographs and oral histories, from LGBTQ+ people who called (and call) Atlanta and the South home. Multiple collections of materials from organizations and the personal papers of individual persons help tell their stories.
While some of the materials in the Gender & Sexuality Collections are available only in the library's reading room, there are a lot of materials that you can access 24/7 through the library's Digital Collections search system.
Selected materials from the following collections are available online through the Digital Collections search system:
- Gender and Sexuality Oral History Project documents LGBTQ+ history in Atlanta, Georgia, and the South.
- Poet, psychotherapist, activist, and original member of the Radical Faeries, Franklin Abbott's papers include extensive personal correspondence, conference proceedings, printed and audio-visual items, and materials related to his published works.
- Thomas Crim Jr. Papers include editorials, articles, and letters to the editor from the Augusta Chronicle, about gay rights, and smokers' rights.
- Jim Blyth Buffalo Chips scrapbooks document the activities of the Buffalo Chips gay clogging group.
- Andrew Wood Papers document Atlanta-focused ACT UP activities and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
- LGBTQ Institute’s Jim Allen Papers highlight Pride events and ACT UP and Cracker Barrel protests.
- Terri Wilder Papers focus on HIV/AIDS as it affects women and children.
- Ron Lambe Running Water scrapbooks document Radical Faerie activities at Running Water Farm, in Bakersville, North Carolina.
- Mike Maloney OutTV Atlanta includes more than 200 tapes of raw footage from OutTV Atlanta – a local news and entertainment TV show that ran from 1999-2001.
- LGBTQ T-Shirt Collection brings together textiles from all of the Gender and Sexuality collections.
- Unitarian Universalists Lesbian and Gay Community Newsletters document the organization’s activities from 1982-1990.
- The Athens Gay/Lesbian Alliance Newsletter documents the organization’s activities from 1984-1985.
For Now and the Future
The Gender & Sexuality Resource Center
The GSRC provides services including programming, workshops, organizational support and mentoring. Programming and services focus on all identities within the LGBTQIQA and varying gender communities. The GSRC welcomes all faculty, students and staff who would like to serve as allies for the LGBTQIQA and varying gender communities as well, or those with an interest in learning more.
Student Organizations
Search for LGBTQ+ student organizations by keyword at the Panther Involvement Network.
PRISM
Pride, Respect, Inclusion, Support, Movement
The mission is to contribute to and support a welcoming and inclusive university community for sexual and gender minority faculty and staff through community building, education, mentorship, and advocacy.
Institute for Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies
The Institute for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) at Georgia State University has been chartered since 1994, although its history reaches back to the 1970s when a small group of committed feminist faculty members began meeting to address women’s issues. Today, WGSS offers a cutting-edge academic program focusing on three areas: globalization, sexuality studies and social change.
Search for Programs & Initiatives:
The Diversity Database
More than 140 programs, initiatives and policies at Georgia State address diversity, equity and inclusion across numerous fields. The Diversity Database brings them together with a searchable tool that helps users find programs/initiatives of interest, and helps interested parties to assess programs for their impact and effectiveness.
Search for Books, Policies, Procedures, Multimedia, Maps & Directories
The Resource Library
The Resource Library is a keyword-searchable repository of helpful books, articles, policies, procedures, maps, directories, multimedia and more addressing LGBTQ+ and other diversity, equity and inclusion matters.
Gender Neutral Restroom Maps
The Multicultural Center has identified gender-neutral restrooms on the map linked below.
2021-22 Cultural Awareness Guide: Building Bridges of Understanding & Respect
This Cultural Awareness Guide has been created to enhance awareness pertaining to diverse cultures and communities. The guide offers essential information about dates and practices that will be helpful to those planning activities, events, meetings, and co-curricular events that impact our university community.
Credits:
Main events compilation: Chrissonia McCall, Multicultural Center
Website construction and management: Jeremy Craig, Communications Manager, Office of the Provost
Image credit: iStockphoto.com