In addition to being National Poetry month, International Guitar Month, Keep America Beautiful Month, National Anxiety Month, National Sexual Assault Awareness Month, National Humor Month, Alcohol Awareness Month, Math Education Month, National Welding Month, Pharmacists War on Diabetes Month, National Garden Month, Couple Appreciation Month and Uh-Huh Month, the LGBT center of Madison brings you "Out and About Month."
There'll be wonderful events, which, like the gay student organizations, have absolutely no relevance to me or my life.
A selection of the events:
Coming Out in the Developing World
Magdalen Hsu-Li (bisexual performance artist)
Tongues Untied: Black Men Loving Black Men (while the camp value of this documentary is enormous--the interpretive dance on the evolution of the SNAP!--I've already seen it and it's not something that I could sit through again)
Transgeneration (a three-night series about the four transgendered students oncampus)
Blue Strom (a transgendered man, who underwent surgery to become a woman, then had surgery again to become a man)
Queer People of Color: Straight Talk (Not to be confused with the African American, Hispanic, or Asian talks planned)
Q-Law (for gay law students)
Christian Meet and Greet
Sexism in the LGBT Community--now open to both genders!
Lesbian Sexual Health Panel
and, of course, the Day of Silence
If it wasn't for Dan Savage's talk, and my interest on how Cowboy Bebop qualifies for gay anime night, it'd be a complete waste of a month.
