<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The LGBT Resource Center invited you to attend the following<div>UCR Spring events, open to all. Learn more at <a href="http://out.ucr.edu">http://out.ucr.edu</a><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">-- “On These Shoulders We Stand” Film Screening</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">-- The Coming Out Monologues 2010 - two performances</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">-- A Trail of Words and History: Naming Ourselves as Disabled People and<br>LGBT People - featuring Eli Clare</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">-- Breaking Through the Foundation: Gender & Performance In Southeast Asia</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">-- Allies Seminar - Join the Allies Safe Zone Program!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">-- Wherever There's a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants,<br>Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">-- Pride Prom</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">-- "Saving Face" Film Screening & Panel</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">-- A Rainbow from the East: Supporting & Understanding the Needs of South<br>Asian Queer People on Campus</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">-- Gregory Bredbeck Memorial Lecture featuring Dr. Jennifer D. Brody</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">-- Lambda Celebration<br></span><br><b>-- “On These Shoulders We Stand” Film Screening<br></b>Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 6:30p.m. @ HUB 379<br><br>Too seldom told is the story of Los Angeles' rise as a mature gay<br>mecca, but its struggles and achievements have been many. In this<br>stirring documentary, 11 noteworthy gay and lesbian seniors recall the<br>challenges, trials and triumphs of the city's gay past. From hidden<br>identities, underground parties and police raids, to organization,<br>defiance and leadership, the details of this story reveal its sweep<br>and grandeur and remind us of the advancements we can't afford to take<br>for granted. Director Glenne McElhinney will join us for the<br>screening.<br><br><b>-- The Coming Out Monologues 2010 - two performances<br></b>Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 8p.m. @ UNLH 1000<br>Friday, April 16, 2010, 8p.m. @ INTN 1020<br>A Queer Alliance Event<br><br>Inspired by Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, UCR's The Coming Out<br>Monologues is a community-based theatre project celebrating the<br>diversity of experience and identity as a culmination to the Day of<br>Silence. Monologues are written and performed by members of the UCR<br>campus community. FREE - suggested donation of $5 supports UCR student<br>scholarships.<br><br><b>-- A Trail of Words and History: Naming Ourselves as Disabled People and<br>LGBT People - featuring Eli Clare</b><div>co-sponsored by the Student Disability Union<br>Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 4:30p.m. @ HUB 367<br><br>Naming ourselves and our communities are often acts of both pride and<br>resistance. Join poet and activist Eli Clare in exploring the words<br>disabled people and LGBT people use and histories we reference in this<br>act of naming. Weaving stories, images, and analysis, Eli delves into<br>the words gimp, crip, queer, and freak and into the history of the<br>freak show to learn more about naming. ASL interpretation provided.<br><br><b>-- Breaking Through the Foundation: Gender & Performance In Southeast Asia<br></b>Friday, April 16, 2010, 10 a.m.–3:30 p.m. @ CHASS Interdisciplinary Courtyard<br>presented by the Department of Music and Southeast Asia: Text, Ritual<br>& Performance<br><br>This half-day conference includes panel presentations, beauty pageant,<br>and music and dance workshops.<br><br><b>-- Allies Seminar - Join the Allies Safe Zone Program!<br></b>Monday, May 3, 2010, 1–4 p.m. @ HUB 268<br>RSVP<br><br>Any student, faculty, or staff interested in joining the Allies Safe<br>Zone program should attend an Allies seminar. Allies is a network of<br>UCR students, faculty, and staff who are supportive of lesbian, gay,<br>bisexual, transgender people, and of anyone dealing with sexual<br>orientation or gender identity issues. Potential Allies members will<br>learn about LGBT issues, receive resources and referral info, interact<br>with a panel of LGBT students, and discuss issues of heterosexism and<br>privilege. After attending the seminar, participants may choose to<br>sign a contract promising to be a safe space, and they receive an<br>Allies placard sign to hang outside their office or residence hall<br>room. Participants must RSVP to the LGBT Resource Center, 827-2267 or<br><a href="mailto:out@ucr.edu">out@ucr.edu</a>.<br><br><b>-- Wherever There's a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants,<br>Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California</b><br>with author Stan Yogi, co-sponsored by Asian Pacific Student Programs<br>Thursday, May 13, 2010, 1p.m. @ HUB 355<br><br>Wherever There's a Fight captures the sweeping story of how freedom<br>and equality have grown in California, from the gold rush right up to<br>the precarious post-9/11 era. The book tells the stories of the brave<br>individuals who have stood up for their rights in the face of social<br>hostility, physical violence, economic hardship, and political<br>stonewalling. It connects the experiences of early Chinese immigrants<br>subjected to discriminatory laws to those of professionals who<br>challenged McCarthyism and those of people who have fought to gain<br>equal rights in California schools: people of color, people with<br>disabilities, and people standing up for their religious freedom. The<br>authors bring a special focus to the World War II internment of<br>Japanese Americans, focusing on the infamous Korematsu case, which was<br>foreshadowed by a century of civil liberties violations and<br>reverberates in more recent times—regrettably, even today in the<br>Patriot Act. And they follow the ongoing struggles for workers' rights<br>and same-sex marriage.<br><br><b>-- Pride Prom</b><br>A QA Youth Outreach Event<br>Saturday, May 15, 2010, 7:30–10:30 p.m. @ The Barn<br><br>Queer Alliance invites area high school students and members of the<br>LGBT and Allies campus community to Pride Prom 2010. This QA Youth<br>Outreach Event provides a safe space for a fabulous evening of music,<br>dancing, food, and fun. Dress for comfort, or dress to impress. A<br>professional photographer will be on site. Parents, teachers, and<br>allies also welcome. This is a non-alcoholic and non-smoking event.<br>FREE. UCR volunteers appreciated!<br><br><b>-- "Saving Face" Film Screening & Panel<br></b>co-sponsored by Asian Pacific Student Programs<br>Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 5 p.m. @ HUB 355<br><br>Saving Face is a romantic comedy that follows Wilhelmina (Michelle<br>Krusiec), a young Chinese American lesbian, and her traditionalist<br>mother (Joan Chen), who are both reluctant to go public with secret<br>loves that clash against cultural expectations. Wil struggles with<br>allocating time between her mother, who has been shunned by the<br>Chinese American community and thus has come to live with Wil and her<br>life with her girlfriend, Vivian (Lynn Chen), who she presents to her<br>mother as only a friend. The film screening will be followed by a LGBT<br>API student panel.<br><br><b>-- A Rainbow from the East: Supporting & Understanding the Needs of South<br>Asian Queer People on Campus</b><br>with Raja Bhattar, co-sponsored by Asian Pacific Student Programs<br>Wednesday, May 19, 2010, noon @ HUB 265<br><br>Queer People of Color (QPOCs) face marginalization as a result of<br>heterosexism and white privilege. Within this community, South-Asian<br>Queers (SAQs) have a unique experience due to a lack of support from<br>the South Asian community and absence of role models within higher<br>education. Come find out characteristics and issues they face in<br>navigating various communities. The presenter will provide survey<br>results and themes that emerge from a recent study conducted about SAQ<br>students, staff and faculty and how to support this community. This is<br>an Allies Brown Bag event.<br><br><b>-- Gregory Bredbeck Memorial Lecture featuring Dr. Jennifer D. Brody<br></b>Presented by LGBIT Studies Minor<br>Monday, May 24, 2010, 4 p.m. @ Humanities 1500<br><br>Jennifer D. Brody is a Professor of African and African American<br>Studies at Duke University where she teaches cultural and performance<br>studies, gender and sexuality as well as film and literary studies.<br>She is the author of Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity and<br>Victorian Culture (Duke University Press, 1998) and Punctuation: Art,<br>Politics and Play(Duke University Press, 2008). She has held a<br>Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Ford Foundation and her research has<br>been supported by the Monette/Horwitz Trust for Independent Research<br>as well as the British Society for Theatre Research. Her work on race,<br>visual culture and African American Literature has appeared in<br>journals such as Genders, Signs, Callaloo, Theatre Journal, Text and<br>Performance Quarterly and numerous edited volumes. Before joining the<br>faculty at Duke, Prof. Brody was the Weinberg College Board of<br>Visitors Research and Teaching Professor at Northwestern University.<br>She was also the President of the Women and Theatre Program, a<br>division of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.<br><br><b>-- Lambda Celebration</b><br>Wednesday, June 2, 2010, 6 p.m. @ HUB 355<br>RSVP<br><br>Join together with the LGBT and Allies campus community for a<br>celebration of our students, staff, faculty, and alumni. The evening<br>includes an alumni speaker, presentations of the Lambda Awards,<br>honoring of graduating seniors with rainbow tassels, the Significant<br>Others Awards, and recognition of students graduating with a Minor in<br>LGBIT Studies. Enjoy the vocal talents of UCR students. A buffet<br>dinner is provided with RSVP online by May 25.<br></div></div></div></body></html>