[Vcsa-announcements] November Events - LGBT Resource Centrer

[Nancy Tubbs]

Tons of great happenings in November, all FREE. Please join us and spread the word.

Q-Lab presents… Gay Latino L.A.: Coming of Age – Monday, November 12, 7pm @ Culver Center for the Arts Screening Rm
Allies Brown Bag: Queer & Christian – Thursday, November 15, noon @ HUB 355
Slam the Hate – Saturday, November 17, 6pm-10pm @ The Barn
Blood Fruit – Monday, November 19, 8pm @ Theatre Lab (Humanities 411)
Trans Remembrance Display – November 14-21 @ HUB Wall

- Q-Lab presents… Gay Latino L.A.: Coming of Age
Monday, November 12, 7pm @ Culver Center for the Arts Screening Rm

Making its Inland Empire debut, "Gay Latino Los Angeles: Coming of Age" is a docu-drama journey ino the lives of three young men as they search for identity and grapple with issues of family, hypermasculinity, religion, culture, and desire in L.A. An undocumented immigrant hipster from Mexico, a Salvadoran activist and Berkeley graduate, and a Mexican American from South Central Los Angeles escaping gang life round out the cast. The film is interlaced and nar- rated with the poetry of Yosimar Reyes and the ceremonial choreography of an Aztec dancer further conveying the independent path towardself-discovery and self-acceptance. This event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited and available on a first come and first serve basis. Doors for the show open at 6:30. A question and answer session with the filmmaker will immediately follow the screening. Visit www.culvercenter.ucr.edu for details!

- Allies Brown Bag: Queer & Christian
Thursday, November 15, noon @ HUB 355

Did God make people to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, or queer? Is it a sin? This highly interactive workshop by J. Mason and Crystal Cheatham will examine sexual orientation in terms of what the Bible says. Speakers will take apart scriptures often used against LGBTQ people and discover the inspirational and holy role of trans/GNC folks, and ways LGBTQ people are affirmed in both the Old and New Testaments. Everyone welcome. Part of the Allies Program brown bag educational series. J Mason (who prefers to be called Mason, thank you!) is a Black/Trans/Queer educator and performer based in Philadelphia, PA. Mason has worked with thousands of community members and service providers on the needs of LGBTQ youth and adults in spaces such as church communities, elementary schools, domestic violence shelters, medical agencies, juvenile justice organizations, foster care programs and others. Currently, serving as Co-Director of Soulforce’s 2012 Equality Ride, Mason works to end religious based oppression in addition to his role working with/for LGBTQ youth as the Training Coordinator of the Attic Youth Center’s Bryson Institute. Crystal Cheatham (who identifies as both a Christian and a lesbian) is a Masters level writer, long-time activist, and the creator of Your ID Kit: For Queer Christian Youth. Having been raised in a fundamentalist community and versed in biblical doctrine, Crystal is also a long time speaker for teen advocacy and a key facilitator in church leadership.

-  Slam the Hate
Saturday, November 17, 6pm-10pm @ The Barn

Slam the Hate brings us together for an evening of spoken work and music by queer and trans performers of color, LGBTQ community resources, food and community-building. Performers include Crystal Cheatham, J Mase III, Regie Cabico, and the poet Emotions. Everyone welcome, both on- and off-campus. FREE event, with suggested donations to support PRISM of LSU. Free fountain drinks and food giveaways, and The Barn's happy hour menu will be open for you to purchase more food. Sponsored by UCR's Associated Students Program Board*, Residence Hall Association, Diversity Initiatives, & LGBT Resource Center; and by PRISM of La Sierra University. *ASPB Co-sponsorship grant of this event does not constitute an endorsement of the views and opinions expressed. Crystal Cheatham is a well-traveled singer-songwriter in the Philadelphia area. Her range and style encompass folk, jazz, and blues. Having been raised on gospel and spoken word, her original tunes are packed with an emotional story you can’t wait to discover from song to song. J Mase III is a Black/Trans/Queer/Rowdy-as-Hell Poet with a capital [P] based in Philly. As a performer and teaching poet J Mase III has rocked venues all across the country from San Diego to Boston at colleges and radio stations to group homes and youth centers. An organ donor, J Mase is the author of If I Should Die Under the Knife, Tell My Kidney I Was the Fiercest Poet Around and creator of the annual performance event Cupid Ain’t @#$%!: An Anti-Valentine's Day Poetry Movement. Regie Cabico is a poet and spoken word artist. He has been featured on two seasons of Def Poetry Jam on HBO (produced by Russell Simmons). Cabico is a critically acclaimed spoken word artist who has won top prizes in the 1993, 1994 and 1997 at National Poetry Slams. His poetry appears in over 30 anthologies including Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café, Spoken Word Revolution and Slam. He was also featured in MTV's "Free Your Mind" Spoken Word Tour. Regie is the recipient of three New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships for Poetry and Multi-Discplinary Performance. He is a regular performer at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City. Cabico is of Filipino American descent and is an out and proud gay man who has been called the Lady Gaga of spoken word poets. Emotions is a therapist, activist, poet and entrepreneur. Emotions identifies as an African American, masculine of centered, lesbian, boi. Emotions has been writing poetry and performing spoken words for ten years. Recently, Emotions had the opportunity to facilitate a 12-week LBGTQ poetry workshop at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center. Emotions has a passion to create dialogue and conversation that deepens the overall connection of those who are gender non-conforming, trans, queer LGBTQ, POC, MOC, and straight allies. Emotions is also the co-producer, host and writer of a web series called Me&MyBois, which examines the experiences of masculine of center people, highlighting images of sophisticated, resiliency and complexity. "Masculinity is the way I express my gender in the most authentic and comfortable way. I try to wear my masculinity with as much sophistication as possible. My masculinity is dapper." -Emotions the P.O.E.T., 2012

- BLOOD FRUIT
Monday, November 19, 8pm @ Theatre Lab (Humanities 411)
This autobiographical one man show, spanning Majd Murad’s high school and college years, focuses on his coming out – first to his friends, but his ultimate decision to reveal to his family that he is a homosexual, especially to his Catholic-Iraqi traditional parents, is the heart and soul of Blood Fruit. Murad fears that by revealing his sexuality to his family, he risks losing those he holds dearest. In his attempt to replace the family that would reject him, he finds himself thrust into the perilous world of the modern gay lifestyle. He uses humor and pathos to tell his story, while playing the various characters that are central to his life. Majd says: “I believe from our deepest vulnerabilities we can find our deepest strengths.” Blood Fruit is a part of that for him. Blood Fruit won Best of the 2011 Hollywood Fringe Festival in the Solo category! LA Theatre Review says: “Majd Murad is a truly likable and empathetic soul, struggling to have life and love on his own terms…..he is here to educate and inspire by ‘airing out his dirty laundry,’ good and bad.” Blood Fruit contains mature themes, sexual situations and strong language. Co-sponsored by the UCR Department of Theatre, UCR Committee on HIV/AIDS at UCR and the UCR Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Center, the Minor in Peace and Conflict Studies Program, and the Mosten Series on Human Rights and Community Development.

- Trans Remembrance Display
November 14-21 @ HUB Wall
The LGBTRC honors the 14th Annual National Transgender Day of Remembrance (Nov. 20) with a display memorial to commemorate each of the 400 known victims of transgender related violence. This memorial will be posted outside of the Highlander Union Building all week. The LGBTRC (245 Costo Hall) will have more information available about transgender identities. We invite everyone to come check out this powerful display against hatred and violence. The Transgender Day of Remembrance was set aside to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. The event is held in November to honor Rita Hester, whose murder on November 28th, 1998 kicked off the "Remembering Our Dead" web project and a San Francisco candlelight vigil in 1999. Rita Hester's murder - like most anti-transgender murder cases - has yet to be solved.

Best, nancyjean

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Nancy Jean Tubbs, M.S.
Director, LGBT Resource Center
University of California, Riverside
245 Costo Hall, Riverside, CA 92521
951.827.2267, nancy.tubbs at ucr.edu
www.out.ucr.edu

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