GLOW! (Gay, Lesbian, Or Whatever!)

In addition to the following events, we will have a table outside the cafeteria throughout the week at lunch and dinner where we will be selling buttons and handing out safe zone triangles and rainbow fabric strips.  Email the coordinators (glow@stolaf.edu) if you have any questions!

Saturday 10/7	Sexuality and the Church 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., Buntrock Commons 142 GLOW (Gay, Lesbian or Whatever) and AfterGLOW Reception 3 to 4 p.m., Buntrock Commons, Heritage Room
Sunday 10/8	Bisexuality Student-led Panel Discussion 7:00 p.m., Buntrock Commons, Valhalla
Monday 10/9	Richard LaFortune (Anguksuar) Lecture: "A Long View: A Perspective on Humanity and Respect" 7:30 p.m., Buntrock Commons, Black and Gold Ball Room
Tuesday 10/10	Open Mike Night, co-sponsored by Presente and GLOW "Borderlands: Straddling Lines of Race, Gender, and Sexuality" 9:00 p.m., Buntrock Commons, Lion's Lair
Wednesday 10/11	Concert: Venus Demars and the House of Flowers 9:00 p.m., Buntrock Commons, Pause main stage
Thursday 10/12	Vigil Commemorating Matthew Shepard's Death 11:30 a.m. (community time), Wind Chime Memorial (Rain/cold site TBA)
Friday 10/13	Gender-Bender Day ALL DAY!

Sexuality and the Church
The relationship between the church and sexual orientation has become heated and complicated.
Join Professor of Religion David Booth for a roundtable discussion.








GLOW and AfterGLOW reception
An opportunity for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender alumni,
students, families and friends to meet with members and allies of the
campus GLBTQA community.








Bisexuality Panel Discussion
An opportunity for students to speak about and listen to one another about
bisexual experiences, including experiences of marginalization by
straight, gay, and lesbian people, coming out as bisexual, and conflicting
definitions of bisexual identities.







Richard LaFortune Lecture
Richard LaFortune (Anguksuar) (Yupik eskimo) has been a GLBT & Two Spirit
community organizer for over 20 years. He is a past executive director of
Honor the Earth, an environmental justice foundation, & served as director
of training for National Native American AIDS Prevention Center. In 1991
Governor Rudy Perpich appointed him to the Governor’s Task Force on
Lesbian & Gay Minnesotans. From 1991-93 he served on the founding board
of The OUTFund of The Funding Exchange, and was an opening speaker for New
York City Gay Pride in 1991. He has worked in the fields of philanthropy
& public policy for 15 years and currently serves as Chair of the
Development Committee to the Tretter GLBT Collection of the University of
Minnesota Archives, for which he is a lead donor to the International Two
Spirit archive component. He is legislative chair for the statewide Dakota
Ojibwe Language Revitalization Alliance, 2005 Grand Marshal for the Twin
Cities Pride Festival, serves on the development committee of
Philanthrofund, and is a co-founder of Two Spirit Press Room, a national
GLBT Native cultural and media literacy project based in Minnesota.







Open Mike Night

Come dance, sing, speak, read, or perform in any way your experiences of
marginalization and liminality in identities of race, gender, and/or sexuality.






Venus Demars and the House of Flowers
Venus Demars, formerly of All the Pretty Horses, will be rocking out again
with her dark glam sound and gender-bending performance style.






Matthew Shepard Vigil
On October 12th, 1998, Matthew Shepard died after being attacked several
days earlier because of his sexual orientation. We will gather briefly to
commemorate Matthew and other queer victims of hate crimes.






Gender Bender Day
Have fun with gender! Play around with your gendered appearance. Dress as
androgynous, genderqueer, or gender ambiguous as you can! Dress as
heteronormative as you possibly can! Cross-dress all the way! Try
something uncomfortable! Try something comfortable! Dress like you've
always wanted to or always haven't wanted to! Remind yourself and others
that gender is a performance.




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