Queers on campus
· Ontario The University of Western Ontario's new Pride Library computers have a unique search engine that accommodates "queer lingo" - just one of the features of Canada's first library devoted to the academic study of "diversexuality." It opens today.
· Connecticut/Massachusetts: While we're still wondering if 25 percent of Yale students are gay (seems unlikely?), Harvard's Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) kicks off its second-annual “Bisexuality Weeks” program addressing the marginalization of bisexuals within the larger queer community.
· California: While California State University, East Bay, kicks off its first weeklong Queerfest today, University of California Riverside's Graduate Student Research Conference is digging deeper into sexuality. Conference highlights include Whitman’s obsession with masturbation, Queer Asian perspectives in contemporary literature, masculinity in film noire and sexual deviance in society. Sounds like my kind of crowd.
· Hawaii: And sadly the high school years are still a nightmare/endurance test for teens like "Shane", a transgendered sophomore who says, "Being queer in high school here is really hard. It makes you scared, like you can't even walk down the hall without being thrown against a locker."
· Vermont: Photos from Lyndon State's Gay Straight Alliance.
Comments
re: the UWO's new Pride Library computers and their "queer lingo" ("quingo"?), I posted a link to this squib on another forum, and a fellow forum regular there there writes:
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That library is great. It's actually been around for a couple years, opening in 1997, but this is an important re-opening. It started out as a personal collection by one of the professors who would lend his books out to interested students. As word started spreading about it, he began to get more and more donations, and eventually he had so many texts that got it's own room inside the English department. The university recognized it as it's own library and began to fund it, and it quickly overwhelmed its new space, so now they've moved it into a much larger location inside the main research library. It's easily the fastest growing collection on campus.
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Posted by 'berto? on February 15, 2006 4:25 AM
well i am ashamed of hawaii for being such a narrow minded state
Posted by alexandria? on June 2, 2007 6:34 AM
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