Please submit any news for the weekly QA newsletter to Sam Klugman at news@queer.brown.edu by 11:59pm each Saturday.
QUEST is a confidential support group for questioning and coming out students. Weekly meetings are held upstairs in the Sarah Doyle Women's Center, Sundays at 9:00 pm. All are welcome.
Time: Tuesday, November 1st at 9 pm
Location: Third World Center Informal Lounge (half-flight upstairs)
Come meet cool people and help further solidify Brown's Queer community! We have a lot of cool projects in the works for the year, and we would love your help to make them happen :) Interested in programming at Brown? Bring your ideas and make it happen! We meet every Tuesday at 9pm in the TWC Informal Lounge. Everyone is welcome, no experience necessary.
Current projects and initiatives of the group include:
If you have any questions or would like to get involved but cannot attend the meeting, please e-mail one of us.
Thanks so much and we're excited to see you on Tuesday!
Sincerely,
Aaron, Talia, & Terrence
Aaron_Powers@brown.edu
Talia_Stein@brown.edu
Terrence_Gong@brown.edu
The dance committee will be holding a very important meeting Wednesday, Nov 2, at 9PM in the LGBTQ Resource Center (323 Faunce). Come.
Wednesday, November 2, 10:00-11:30pm
In the LGBT Resource Center
Faunce House 3rd Floor
Take a break from work and meet cool people!
Great music and yummy junk food!
See some old friends and maybe make some new ones!
All are welcome!
Questions? Comments? Wanna help out?
E-Mail queer@brown.edu
Come to our first planning meeting this Thursday, November 3rd at 8pm in the LGBTQ Resource Center (Faunce 322)! Help decide on a theme and book amazing speakers for the whole month!
Come, eat and plan! Questions? Email Talia_Stein@brown.edu
Want to know what's happening? Come and find out! It'll be fun!!!
Come to the GBM on Thursday, November 3rd at 9PM in Petteruti (1st floor, Faunce)!
Katha Pollitt, the award-winning columnist, for The Nation, will deliver the inaugural Masha Dexter Lecture at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, November 1 in Salomon 001. She will address current issues facing the country. The talk is free and open to the public (no backpacks please). The lecture is designed to honor the memory of Masha Dexter ’06, who passed away from Hodgkin’s disease in 2004. While a student at brown Masha worked on LGBTQ issues, women’s issues and issues of public policy. This annual lecture will take place in her honor and will cover a variety of topics related to Masha’s own activism.
Ms. Pollitt is known for her provocative analysis of popular culture and politics. The Washington Post has called her “Subject to Debate” column “the best place to go for original thinking on the left.” She is the recipient of the National Magazine Award, the Whiting Foundation Award, the Maggie Award, and a National Book Critics Circle Award. There will be a book signing following the lecture.
Girls' Night Out will be venturing off campus this week! We will be going to the dance club Pulse this Saturday, November 5th. (Saturday is lesbian night at the club.) The club is 18+ to get in, so anyone can come. We will meet on campus and go to the club together. Transportation to be determined.
Email Amanda_Lehtinen@brown.edu if you'd like to come and are not already on the Girls' Night Out email list. (Those who signed up at the first QA general body meeting or at a Girls' Night Out meeting are already on the list.)
The Queer Alliance Community Sub-Committee is proud to announce the beginning of e4e: Education for Equality, a new campus-wide educational awareness campaign spear-headed by QA. It is our hope to more effectively raise awareness in the greater community of present issues, as well as unite various student organizations, by uniting under this common symbol.
The project is very simple: it consists of a week of table-slipping with each group responsible for one day and sharing an issue important to their group to the greater community.
The groups involved for this initial campaign and the date of their table-slips are the following:
So please keep your eyes out for the e4e table-slips, and spread the word :)
If any questions or concerns, please e-mail Trevor Pollack (trevor@brown.edu) or Terrence Gong (Terrence_Gong@brown.edu)
Party managers are so hot. Why not be one?
The dance committee still has a few more slots it needs filled.
Up for it? Know someone who might be? Email dance@queer.brown.edu
Dear Friends,
We need your help today to reach out to Cox cable with a quick email. We think it's time they knew first-hand how many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and gay-friendly households they are serving in the greater Providence area. You may have heard that LOGO, the new lesbian and gay channel from MTV Networks, launched this past June to nearly 18 million households. But did you know that LOGO is not available to one single cable customer served by Cox in Providence?
Whether or not you wish to watch LOGO (that is your choice), we believe the airwaves belong to all of us, and that we should have a say on what is available on TV. Today we have a unique opportunity to help bring LGBT related cable programming to underserved parts of the country including Providence, RI. LOGO features relevant LGBT news, a wide range of LGBT related films, original series, innovative documentaries and much more.
Visit www.LOGOonline.com to see for yourself what LOGO is all about.
This is in no way a pitch for you or anyone else to subscribe to cable or satellite TV, or even to watch LOGO. This is about you and your family and friends deserving to have a choice about what to watch, and not being denied access to gay TV programming.
We can make the difference, and we are asking you to do the following right now: Email Cox cable at ,ar https://www.cox.com/support/NewEngland/emailchat/emailus.asp
Select "Product/Sales Question" in the Support field, and then "Digital Cable" in the Detail field. Then strongly urge them to carry LOGO.
Let's make sure Cox knows that there are plenty of potential viewers in the community they serve who care and count, including you.
Please share this message with your friends, and ask them to request LOGO too. We have strength in numbers.
Sincerely,
Robyn Sunderland
November 18 - 20 (Friday to Sunday), 2005
Cornell University
FREE REGISTRATION (Deadline: Friday, October 21st)
mosaic_conference05@yahoo.com
This conference aims to help LGBT Students of Color build skills and knowledge to amplify their voices in campus, state, and regional contexts and connect them to regional and national resources. By strengthening these students' networks and skills, we hope to further our communities' ability to shape awareness at our respective campuses.
Our conference is for lesbian, gay, bisexual, two-spirit, transgender, intersex, queer, and same gender loving college or graduate students of color (including but not limited to Asian and Pacific Islander, Black, latina/o, Middle Eastern, and Native American students of color). We encourage participation from students of color with disabilities, women, genderqueer, and transgender students of color.
Attendance will be capped at 150 students. Each student must register individually. We prioritize representation from a large number of campuses.
Registration is FREE.
Attendees must provide for their own transportation and housing costs. Call the Holiday Inn (www.hiithaca.com, 607.272.1000) and get a room at the special rate by saying you are with the "Building Bridges" conference. All attendees will be responsible for booking/paying for their own lodging. If any of this is a problem, please contact us; special arrangements may be made on a case-by-case basis.
ROOM TYPES: Each room has TWO queen size beds (Sleeps 4 max.)
ONE PERSON / ROOM = $280.00 for total stay (2 nights).
TWO PEOPLE / ROOM = $140.00 for total stay per person.
THREE PEOPLE/ROOM = $94.00 for total stay per person.
FOUR PEOPLE /ROOM = $70.00 for total stay per person.
If you need help finding a roommate(s), http://mosaicconf.proboards27.com/
The conference will be hosted by CORNELL UNIVERSITY.
We're located in *cold* Ithaca, NY.
For inquiries and further updates, please e-mail mosaic_conference05@yahoo.com.
Upcoming Updates: Final Detailed Schedule & Website.