PRIDE in our History, Power to our Future
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
Why Latinx? Stories from the Latinx Community and the Power of Inclusive Language
1:30 to 2 p.m., every Wednesday in October
LASSO Instagram: @lasso_gsu
Latinx Student Service and Outreach (LASSO) will host a video series where we share Georgia State Latinx stories and promote the usage of inclusive language. (Editor's Note: Latinx Heritage Month continues through October. We acknowledge intersectionality of identities/communities, and also share this event because using inclusive language is relevant for all communities.)
Pride in the Plaza
Monday, Oct. 4, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
Unity Plaza, Student Center East
Sponsored by the Multicultural Center
Join the Multicultural Center as we celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month with "Pride in the Plaza!" Stop by our table to engage with us and to find out how you can get involved to help celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month!
Free HIV Testing: In observance of National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day #NLAAD
Wednesday, Oct. 6, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Student Center East Court Salon
BeWellPanthers Health and Wellness
Join Student Health Promotion for Free & Confidential HIV testing - is everyone welcome. Student Health Promotion is collaborating with the Fulton and DeKalb County Health Departments, the Georgia Department of Public Health, community partners (e.g., SomeCares, Positive Impact Health Centers, AID Atlanta) and the Student Health Clinic to offer free and confidential rapid HIV testing along with sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing.
Confessions: Homophobia in the Black Community
Thursday, Oct. 7, 3 to 5 p.m.
The Intersection Lounge, Student Center East, Suite 210
Sponsored by the Office of Black Student Achievement and the Multicultural Center
Join Black Student Achievement and the Multicultural Center for a dynamic conversation on homophobia in the Black community. This conversation will be led by Dr. Jasmine Kelly and Mr. Victor Sledge.
Culture Café at the Intersection: Out on Campus
Monday, Oct. 11, 10 a.m. to Noon
The Intersection Lounge, Student Center East, Suite 210
RSVP required, see link below
Sponsored by the Multicultural Center
Join us for free coffee, cocoa or tea, coupled with conversation about cultures, communities, and inclusion. This Culture Cafe at the Intersection will celebrate LGBTQ+ identities on National Coming Out Day. Connect with others around identity, intersectionality and intercultural engagement. Bring a friend for a chance to win giveaways and prizes!
An RSVP is required through the Panther Involvement Network, which requires you to sign in with your Georgia State campus ID and password. Please click the link below to join in on the fun! The RSVP button is to the right of the event description if you are on a desktop computer. On your phone, it's located underneath the "categories" section.
Pride in the Plaza - National Coming Out Day
Monday, Oct. 11, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
Unity Plaza
Sponsored by the Multicultural Center
Join the Multicultural Center as we continue to celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month with "Pride in the Plaza!" It's National Coming Out Day! Stop by our table to engage with us and to find out how you can get involved to help celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month!
Community Conversation: National Coming Out Day
Monday, Oct. 11, 3 to 4 p.m.
In Person and Livestreamed
In Person at The Intersection Lounge, Student Center East, Suite 210
RSVP and livestream information in the link below
Sponsored by the Multicultural Center
Join the Multicultural Center for a very special conversation on National Coming Out Day. Faculty and Staff will share experiences and provide insight on what it means to come out.
Students can view live in the Intersection Lounge, Student Center East, Suite 210. RSVP information for in-person participation and the livestream is in the link below; the livestream will be held via Webex (RSVP required to get the Webex link).
Panelists include:
- Dr. Jacob English - Director, Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships
- Dr. Jill Lee-Barber - Associate Vice President for Student Health and Wellness
- Benjamin Williams - Director of New Student Orientation
- Dr. Michael Sanseviro - Vice President for Student Engagement
Pride Prom
Tuesday, Oct. 12, 8 to 11 p.m.
Student Center East Ballroom
Sponsored by Cultures, Communities & Inclusion - Division of Student Engagement & Success
It's time to come dressed to impress because Cultures, Communities, and Inclusion is throwing a PROM! We are taking PRIDE in our History and giving POWER to our future! Come ready to dance the night away for our LGBTQ+ History Month kick-off event! There will be a live DJ, food, a photo booth, and so much more! Please RSVP on the Panther Information Network - the link is located below.
From Not Me, to Me, From Male to Female - Ms. Diane Haymes
A Personal Story of Transitioning
Wednesday, Oct. 13, 10 to 11:15 a.m.
Dunwoody Campus, NE Building, Room 0310
Sponsored by Dr. Nancy Gup
Diane Haymes will speak to a class of Dr. Nancy Gup, professor of psychology at the Perimeter College Dunwoody Campus, about her personal story of her gender transition; experiences in self-acceptance; challenges, discrimination and dangers faced by trans persons in our society; personal growth and positive aspects from her experience; as well as allyship and how to support friends and family who are trans.
Diane is a successful tech executive with a long career in the application software industry spanning from mainframes to the current Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings. She has been instrumental in taking two startups public and held leadership positions with several software companies including Unisys, E3, JDA, Lawson, and Promethean and is currently is a Sr. Sales Director at Aptean, leading the ERP and Supply Chain sales team in North America.
She is a graduate of the Kenan Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina and currently resides in Atlanta, GA. Diane also has a passion for photography (DianeHaymesPhoto.com) and volunteers with the Atlanta Pride Committee as an event photographer.
Diane began her transition in 2013 and is active in the LGBTQ community and is a keynote and panel speaker on Transgender issues, working to achieve acceptance and understanding through education.
The talk is planned to be recorded for later viewing, and the ad hoc communications team of the DEI website will work to place the recording in the searchable DEI Resource Library.
Pride in the Plaza
Monday, Oct. 18, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
Unity Plaza
Sponsored by the Multicultural Center
Join the Multicultural Center as we celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month with "Pride in the Plaza!" Stop by our table to engage with us and to find out how you can get involved to help celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month!
Music Monday with Tie the Oracle on Instagram Live
Monday, Oct. 18, 3 to 4 p.m
Multicultural Center Instagram Live: @multiyougsu
Sponsored by the Multicultural Center
Tune in on Instagram Live for Music Monday! Staff from the Multicultural Center will be interviewing queer musician, Tie the Oracle (Instagram: @TietheOracle)! Check him out on Instagram so you are prepared for the show! To join, please follow @multiyougsu on Instagram!
LGBTQ+ Center Awareness Day
Tuesday, Oct. 19, Noon to 1:15 p.m.
The Intersection Lounge, Student Center East, Suite 210
Sponsored by the Multicultural Center
Join the Multicultural Center as we embark on the importance and necessity of LGBTQ+ resource centers for this special Talk Tuesday celebrating LGBTQ Center Awareness Day! After the discussion, there will be refreshments and fun at Georgia State's resource center - the Gender & Sexuality Resource Center.
Diversity Dialogues - Sexual & Gender Minorities at Georgia State during Pride: Unpacking the Past and Envisioning the Future of our LGBTQI+ Community
Thursday, Oct. 21, Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Via livestream at https://dei.gsu.edu/diversity-dialogues/; register here
Sponsored by the Office of the Provost
The Diversity Dialogues series at Georgia State continues on Oct. 21 with a discussion focused on the past and future of the LGBTQI+ community at Georgia State. The event will be livestreamed through the link below.
LGBTQ+ Awareness & Ally Training
Thursday, Oct. 21, Noon to 3 p.m.
Gender & Sexuality Resource Center, Student Center East, Suite 206
Sponsored by the Multicultural Center
Join the Multicultural Center for an interactive workshop on allyship and advocacy for the LGBTQIQA community. In this workshop you will learn the history, common vocabulary and lived experiences of LGTBQIQA communities and how you can best advocate to create a more equitable society.
International Pronouns Day
Throughout the day Wednesday, Oct. 20
Multicultural Center Instagram: @multiyougsu
Sponsored by the Multicultural Center
Check out the Multicultural Center's Instagram, @multiyougsu, to find out more on the importance and acknowledgement of gender pronouns!
The Garden Cycle
Friday and Saturday 10/22 & 23 at 6 p.m
Sunday 10/24 at 3 p.m
http://sites.gsu.edu/perimetercollegefinearts/hub
Sponsored by Perimeter Department of Fine & Performing Arts
Contact name Aaron Gotlieb
Contact email agotlieb@gsu.edu
The Garden Cycle is an immersive experience of theatre and song featuring short plays scattered through the Decatur Campus Native Plants Botanical Garden. All of the pieces feature characters, and performers, from a diverse assortment of backgrounds, sexualities, and gender identifications. Of particular interest in October is a piece called Harina Pan (written by local playwright Sofia Palmero) which explores the potential romance between Mariana, a young Latina, and Ryan, her non-binary friend.
Pride in the Plaza
Monday, Oct. 25: 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
Unity Plaza
Sponsored by the Multicultural Center
Join the Multicultural Center as we celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month with "Pride in the Plaza!" Stop by our table to engage with us and to find out how you can get involved to help celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month! This week will feature student performers and music!
Queer De-Stress Fest
Tuesday, Oct. 26: 3 to 4:30 p.m.
Gender & Sexuality Resource Center, Student Center East Suite 206
Sponsored by the Multicultural Center
Join the Multicultural Center 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. Tools and resources are provided to students that help them navigate their educational journeys.
Queer and Trans Resiliency Cohort
Friday, Oct. 29, 1 to 3 p.m.
Gender & Sexuality Resource Center, Student Center East, Suite 206
Sponsored by the Multicultural Center
Come find out how you can get involved with our LGBTQ+ Community Connections cohort! The Queer & Trans Resiliency Cohort is comprised of 15-20 LGBTQ+ students who attend 12 weekly sessions to help them learn skills of resiliency.
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: William Britto, Multicultural Center
Website construction and management: Jeremy Craig, Communications Manager, Office of the Provost
Image credit: iStockphoto.com