Events

Graduate students, faculty, professionals, and activists
are invited to enroll in the
IGDS four-week short course
on
Critical Sexuality Studies: Theory and Practice
July 9 – August 2, 2013
Mondays – Thursdays | 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m . . .

International award-winning director Jale Karabekir is organizing a theatre workshop for LGBTQ activists in Turkey. Based on the techniques developed by the Brazilian theatre director Augusto Boal, the workshop will employ diverse exercises and games in order to explore . . .

Caribbean Region of the International Resource Network presents the launch and a discussion of The Digital Archive Collection of the Jamaica Gay Freedom Movement

Panelists include:

Larry Chang, co-founder of the Jamaica Gay Freedom Movement and Jamaica Forum of . . .

Chair: Angelique V. Nixon, University of Connecticut.

Presentations:

“Researching and Theorizing in Caribbean Sexuality Studies,” Angelique V. Nixon, University of Connecticut
“Preserving the stories/activism of Caribbean sexual minorities,” Rosamond King, Brooklyn College
“Collecting LGBTQ Oral Histories in the Caribbean . . .

At Transnational LGBT Organizing in the World and on the Web we will highlight researchers, activists, and performers whose work focuses on the areas of gender and sexuality in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. We . . .

The anti-homosexuality bill introduced in Uganda in October 2009 sparked off wide-spread outrage, condemnation and, in certain quarters (and not only Uganda), massive support among defenders of the authoritarian, gay-hating status quo. Among many on the left . . .

Thomas Glave will be launching Our Caribbean in collaboration with the Institute of Gender and Development Studies at UWI. Please see the attached document for the details of the programme which will include readings from Colin Robinson and Lawrence Scott . . .

We envision this symposium as providing an opportunity for us to meet our peers from the region and abroad, while at the same time, brainstorming about how to support regional and local work. This meeting/symposium will include (1) a . . .

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in all configurations around the world have always experienced dramatic differences in representation and power. Today, after generations of sacrifice and organization, some LGBT people have won full legal rights with different degrees of . . .

Sex Acts in the Early Modern World
Vanessa McCarthy and Amyrose McCue Gill, Organizers

We invite paper proposals for one or more panels on sex acts in the
early modern world to be held at the 2013 Renaissance Society of . . .

Wednesday 7th November 2012, 11.00 to 17.00 and 18.00 to 20.00

Decades have passed since the first published histories examining aspects of gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans, intersex or queer life, or analysing social movements made up . . .

MAP/ACA’s 23rd annual conference will be in Pittsburgh. The GLBTQ Studies Area welcomes proposals of relevance to thegay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities. Proposals are encouraged on any medium of popular or American culture. This area is . . .

The dialectics between the prevailing neoliberal system in Southeast Asia and the intricate lives of sexual minorities are posing discursive challenges to global political thought. While Western theorists, in the likes of Judith Butler, are calling for Queer theory to . . .

You are invited to participate in the International Archives, Libraries, Museums and Special Collections CONFERENCE on the Future of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans* and Intersex Histories (LGBTI ALMS 2012), to be held in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) from 1-3 August . . .

Sofia Pride is the largest annual human rights event in Bulgaria since 2008. For 2012 it is organised by a civil initiative with a supoport by NGOs, diplomatic missions and the community. The week before the pride parade has a . . .

The University of Edinburgh
 
Sensualising Deformity: Communication and Construction of Monstrous Embodiment
 
June 15-16, 2012
 
Confirmed Plenary Speakers:
 
Prof. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen George Washington University, Washington D.C.Dr. Peter HutchingsNorthumbria University, UKProf. Margrit ShildrickLinköping University, SwedenProf. Rosemarie . . .

Mind the Gap II ConferenceThe Second Jerusalem Conference for Academy and the LGBTAIQ Community inIsrael. 
May 30th-31st, 2012 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount ScopusCampus.Borders are barriers, but they are also an area of ​​encounter with theother . . .

We are pleased to announce that the registration form and program for “Queer Places, Practices, and Lives: A Symposium in Honor of Sam Steward” are available on the symposium  website.

This two-day conference, to be held May 18-19 . . .

The Elton John AIDS Foundation in the United States and its sister organization in the United Kingdom have funding opportunities available for NGOS working in the area of HIV and AIDS: women and children; positive lives; livelihoods; vulnerable groups; and . . .

QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ
QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ
QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ
QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ
Solidarity & Pride – Ontario Federation of Labour presents:

out@work2012
TORONTO Ontario Canada  
May 10-12*, 2012*Venue tbd

Promoting the health, safety, jobs and justice for LGBT workers across Ontario  
A summit for affiliates, their LGBT . . .

Call for Papers: Gender studies is an interdisciplinary field of academic study on the issues of gender in its social and cultural contexts. Since its emergence from feminism, gender studies have become one of the most deliberated disciplines. The following . . .

Looking forward to to 2012? It arrived. Bought your tickets yet? Comrades, buy tickets to the new year, set foot on our deck, set sail with us, and spend a wonderful queer weekend together. Poets, writers, directors, curators, activists are all going to be out!

The Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA) is proud to announce the first year of an ongoing program of volunteer internships. Two curatorial internships will be available commencing April 2012. Other internships will be announced in fall. Curatorial Interns work . . .

SEXUAL CULTURES: THEORY, PRACTICE, RESEARCH
This conference, co-hosted by the Onscenity Research Network and the Schools of Arts and Social Sciences at Brunel University, will take place on April 20-22 at Brunel University, London, UK. http://www.onscenity . . .

Every year, Toronto-based feminist erotica shop Good For Her hosts the Feminist Porn Awards. Come on out for sexy, positive fun!
2012 marks the Seventh Anniversary of The Good For Her Feminist P*rn Awards! Good For Her honours . . .

Frauen haben sich in allen Bereichen der Filmproduktion im Laufe der vergangenen zwei Jahrzehnte zunehmend durchgesetzt und kreative und verantwortliche Positionen besetzt. Gleichzeitig gilt noch immer die Regel: Je höher das Budget und je höher das finanzielle Risiko . . .

FRINGE! IS BACK FOR 2012, SO CANCEL THAT CITY BREAK, REARRANGE YOUR WEDDING AND BLOCK OUT THE WEEKEND OF APRIL 12-15TH 2012: MAKE SURE YOU MAKE IT DOWN TO OUR FOUR DAY EAST LONDON EXTRAVAGANZA OF FILM, ART AND . . .

APWeb is a leading international conference on research, development and
applications of Web technologies, database systems, information management
and software engineering, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region. Previous
APWeb conferences were held in Beijing (1998), Hong Kong (1999 . . .

The First International Conference on Health Information Science (HIS 2012) provides a forum for disseminating and exchanging multidisciplinary research results in computer science/information technology and health science & services.
It aims to integrate computer science with health science & services, coupling . . .

identiT est un festival independant, feministe et multiculturel, qui entend reaffirmer les idees et les pratiques d’emancipation face à la multiplication des offensives reactionnaires.Nous programmons un cinema des minorites dans la necessite de penser une societe egalitaire . . .

北京e…·å„¿å½±å±•ç²¾e€‰å½±ç‰‡ï¼Œe”合中国e…·å„¿ç‹¬ç«‹å½±åƒå°ç»„，巡展来到e¦™æ¸¯ä¸­æ–‡å¤§å­¦ï¼Œeº«åœ¨ç²¤æ¸¯çš„同志们抓住机会啦！ 性别研究e¯¾ç¨‹ä¸»åŠž // 北京e…·å„¿å½±å±•ã€ä¸­å›½e…·å„¿ç‹¬ç«‹å½±åƒååŠž 日程及简介 2012.3.24 – 29 * 所有ežä¸­æ–‡å¯¹ç™½å½±ç‰‡å‡e…æœ‰ä¸­æ–‡å­—幕，All non-English dialogue films are subtitled in English ** e—¨ç¥¨e‡ªç”±æçŒ®ï¼ˆå»ºe®®æ¯åœº10元以上），所得全数捐助北京e…·å„¿å½±å±•å’Œä¸­å›½e…·å„¿ç‹¬ç«‹å½±åƒã€‚ （e¸£e°¢ 中大社会科学e™¢ã€ä¸­å¤§æ–‡å­¦e™¢ eµ„助） 24号 @ LKC_LT1（李冠春堂） 早 1030-1300 . . .

盼望着盼望着，2012就真的到来了。你的船票买好了么？买不到船票的同志们，新年踏上我们的甲板，启航跟我们一起度过美妙的酷儿周末吧。诗人、作家、导演、策展人、活动家统统出来接客啦！

酷儿周末之“文学二重唱”：

时间：2012年1月7日星期六14：30-18：00

崔子恩：北京电影学院教授，著名同志导演、作家。主要电影作品有《男男女女》、《旧约》、《哎呀呀，去哺乳》、《副歌》、《誌同志》等，其中《誌同志》 在都灵同志影展获得观众票选最佳纪录片奖。著有小说《伪科幻故事》、《桃色嘴唇》、《舅舅的人间烟火》，新书《北斗有七星》描述了一家七口人的生离死别， 信仰坚持，史诗一般的格局和温情厚实的文字。现场将有该书的签售活动。崔子恩新浪微博：http://weibo.com/cuizi777

墓草：他出身贫寒，只身来到北京打工，做过餐厅服务员、清洁工，迄今仍然是一位无产工人。他又执着任性地书写着自己的文字，发表在网络和民刊上的作品 《人妖时代》、长诗《葵花宝典》，长篇小说《弃儿》，短篇小说集《午夜C男》《一个老头子说》等……作品被翻译为英文、日文、法文等。他将携最新诗集、小 说集与读者见面以及签售，带给大家不一样的同志文学。墓草新浪微博：http://weibo.com/u/1047157952

流程：14：30-15：00 签到

15：00-17：00墓草诗朗诵+崔子恩主题讲座+读者问答

17：00-18：00 图书签售+自由交流

酷儿周末之“影像三重奏”：

时间：2012年1月8日星期日14：30-18：00

范坡坡：同志导演、作家、活 动家。纪录片作品《新前门大街》、《柜族》、《纸房子》、《舞娘》等，著有《春光乍泄：百部同志电影全纪录》，曾任北京同志中心执行主任，现任中国酷儿独 立影像小组协调人，并策划几十场全国巡映。2011年因其对同志社群的贡献获得香港同志影展玲珑大奖。现场将放映他的最新作品《舞娘》，中国的同志电影发 展如何，游走全国有什么样的收获，他最有发言权了。范坡坡新浪微博：http . . .

Rainbow Health Ontario 2012 Conference: Supporting LGBT Health Through Every Stage of Life Ottawa Marriott Hotel, Ottawa, CanadaTuesday, March 20 – Friday, March 23, 2012 Rainbow Health Ontario is proud to present the only conference in Canada focused on the . . .

L’ASSOCIATION CINEMARGES
« L’association Cinemarges a pour objectif la diffusion d’œuvres cinematographiqueset culturelles alternatives en Aquitaine.
Elle explore les questions de genres et de sexualites, et assume un interêt particulier pour les « marges . . .

Binnenkort begint op het witte doek weer de jaarlijkse visuele reis om de wereld. 11 dagen nemen we Het Ketelhuis weer over om ons in het donker te verwonderen, te verbazen en te verlekkeren aan de beste, nieuwste, verrassendste roze . . .

Building upon the success of the First Self, Selves and Sexualities International Conference 2010, the Sexuality Studies team at DCU are delighted to host the Second cross-faculty conference, in keeping with the academic ethos of Dublin City University. It . . .

The criminalisation of homosexual acts is currently being challenged in the Central American and Caribbean nation of Belize. The United Belize Advocacy Movement (UNIBAM) has mounted a legal challenge to Section 53 of the Belize Criminal Code which currently criminalises . . .

Forty years ago, a young Australian expat living in the USA synthesised the politics of the emerging gay liberation movement in a provocative book called Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation. Described by the New York Times then as ‘the one to . . .

LGBT Issues in the CaribbeanWednesday, December 7, 201111:00EST (16:00 UTC)http://state.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a49153264c371916817f7fcdc&id=9fd1d8c3b5&e=c7765af1a5
Description: On December 7, join three human rights experts to discuss the experiences of . . .

Gender Cultures and Reality TV
Reality TV has gained a global foothold in popular culture, offering to explicate, regulate, and manipulate the social scripts we live by. Of these, no social framework is more central to reality TV than gender . . .

Conference 24 November 2011: Gender, Subjectivity and Oral History 

Thursday 24 November 2011, 9.30am – 5.30pm
Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) Seminar room, Millburn House

Organized by Angela Davis and Andrea Hajek

This one-day conference will focus on . . .

18 November 2011

12.30 – 13.00 Opening: “We Are Together Against Hatred…”

Buse Kılıçkaya, Board Chair of Pembe Hayat, “Hate Crimes Are Crimes Against Humanity!”
Murat Çekiç, Director of Amnesty Turkey, “Neither Illness Nor A Crime…”
Aykan . . .

Queer Newark: Our Voices, Our Histories Saturday, November 12, 2011 9:00am-5:00pm Essex Room, 231/232 Paul Robeson Campus Center Rutgers-Newark
Rutgers-Newark has partnered with community leaders to present “Queer Newark: Our Voices, Our Histories . . .

On November 11th and 12th, the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin will host “Sexuality and Slavery: Exposing the History of Enslaved People,” a conference convened by Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie Harris. Leading scholars . . .

“De-Centring Western Sexualities: Central and Eastern European Perspectives”
With the help of Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, Birkbeck College 
 
08 November 2011, 6-8 pm
room B03, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0AL 
Map:  http://g.co . . .

Queer Temporalities: Reading Elizabeth Freeman’s Time BindsA Two-Day Intensive, Interdisciplinary Seminar, University College Dublin,Friday 4 November -Saturday 5 November 2011 This event forms part of The(e)ories: Critical Theory & Sexuality Studies 2009, the MA in Gender . . .

CALL FOR PAPERS
Love, Sex, Desire & the (Post)Colonial

For the most part, postcolonial studies, quite understandably, has privileged the political. Historical and economic processes, forms of identification (race and, to lesser extent, gender) and categories of difference have . . .

Check the conference website for more details . . .

. . .

The Department of Gender and Race Studies at the University of Alabama invites submissions for the 3rd Annual Recovering Black Women’s Voices and Lives Symposium on this year’s topic: Transnational Feminisms and Women in the African Diaspora. The . . .

Founded by Allen Cole, the Film Festival in Sacramento started in 1992, based on the student run gay and lesbian film festival at Fresno State. Organizers joined forces with the students from the California State University, Sacramento Gay and Lesbian . . .

Negative Cosmopolitanisms: Abjection, Power, and BiopoliticsUniversity of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 11-13 October 2012Organizers: Terri Tomsky (University of Alberta), Eddy Kent (University of Alberta), Imre Szeman (University of Alberta) Keynote Speakers:Timothy Brennan (University of Minnesota)Pheng Cheah (University of . . .

2nd Annual Fort Lauderdale Gay and Lesbian Film Festival . . .

LGBT film festival held in Santiago, Chie . . .

One of the oldest LGBT film festivals in the country, Atlanta’s Out on Film is dedicated to supporting the exhibition of LGBT film and video art forms. Out on Film was created in 1987 to inform, entertain, educate, and . . .

LGBT film festival held in Bratislava, Slovakia . . .

A half-day symposium at the University of Warwick, 23rd September 2011
Whilst discussions of gender and space in the nineteenth- to early-twentieth century have typically focused on “women and the city”, rural spaces offer equally productive contexts for . . .

Am 22. September 2011 um 16.00 Uhr startet die Demonstration gegen die menschenfeindliche Geschlechter- und Sexualpolitik des Papstes. Die Demonstration beginnt am Brandenburger Tor mit einer Kundgebung. Dies haben gestern die Mitglieder des Bündnisses „Der Papst kommt . . .

Queer film festival in Japan.
It will be held again this year in both Osaka and Kyoto:

OSAKA (HEP Hall, Umeda)
September 17th(Sat), 18th (Sun) and 19th (Mon)

KYOTO (Kyoto Uni. Seibu Kodo)
October 21st(Fri), 22nd (Sat) and . . .

Annual LGBT film festival held in Oslo, Norway.
Description in Norwegian:
Skeive Filmer er en årlig internasjonal filmfestival som har som formål å vise filmer av, om og med homofile, lesbiske, bifile og transkjønnede for å bidra til åpenhet og . . .

Images, Publics and Health: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Date: Tuesday, 13 September 2011Time: 10:30-18:00Venue: Room K2.31 (2nd Floor, King’s Building), King’s College London,Strand Campus, WC2R 2LSFrom images of the swine flu . . .

El CICLO ROSA es una muestra de cine, un foro público y un referente cultural que desde hace diez años y de manera ininterrumpida promueve la reflexión sobre temas relacionados con la diversidad sexual.
Este evento es . . .

Forensic Psychological Services at Middlesex University is holding an inaugural one day conference on sexual violence. The conference is designed to bring together key practitioners, leading strategists, policy makers and academics working in this field. The overarching aim of this . . .

Mission
The Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival cultivates the Texas LGBTQI film and arts community by enlightening, educating, and entertaining our clients and patrons through the exhibition and support of the best in recent LGBTQI international, national, and . . .

A discussion forum will be organised in Brussels in September 2011 to explore the characteristics of the Intersex Movement, its relationship with the international and regional organisations ILGA, ILGA-Europe and TGEU, and to develop agreements on key issues for . . .

BiCon 2011 in Leicester: 1st-4th September 2011
BiCon is an annual long-weekend gathering or bisexual people in the UK, Europe and all around the world. Bisexual identified people, their friends, partners, children and anyone with a supportive interest . . .

Organized by the Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality/Comite canadien d’histoire de la sexualite, the conference will be held at the Coast Plaza Hotel in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, August 26-28th, 2011. “We Demand”: History/Sex . . .

Cape Town Sex Workers’ Open University Seminar

The Cape Town Sex Workers’ Open University invites you to attend its second seminar: ‘Sex work & the Law: Full Decriminalisation of sex work vs Partial Criminalisation’.

 
Join us for an interactive discussion as . . .

The mission of FilmOut San Diego is to enlighten, educate, and entertain the communitites of San Diego County & beyond through the exhibition of LGBT- themed films. FilmOut San Diego seeks to recognize, promote, celebrate and support the important diverse . . .

MiMi was born in Barcelona with the intention of creating a new space to spread Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transexual short films (LGBT).
We believe in the short format and we also want to make the festival a new annual . . .

The Jerusalem March for Pride and Tolerance will take place Thursday, July 28th 2011, on the eve of the two-year commemoration-day of the murder at Bar Noar.

The March will begin downtown in Independence Park, and march to . . .

Q! Film Festival was founded in 2002 by some freelance journalists. Taking up films with queer and HIV/AIDS theme, it is the only film festival of its kind in the predominantly moslem country.
Over the years, the film festival . . .

Entzaubert is a radical queer d.i.y. film festival happening since 2007 on the queer wagenplatz Schwarzer Kanal in Berlin.
the festival team aims to bring queer artists and filmmakers together, focusing on do-it-yourself-video, on the . . .

The 2011 IASSCS (International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society) Conference theme focuses on the multiple ways that equality and inequality are articulated through sexuality. This year we will explore diverse situations of (in)equality in sexuality . . .

We invite scholars and activists to join in an exploration of the methods, possibilities, challenges, and dangers of doing LGBT/queer scholarship, activism, pedagogy, and curriculum in a transnationalized and technologically mediated world. We want to address the many challenges . . .

Girls, Sexuality and Sexualisation: Beyond Sensationalism and Spectacle

Please find details of the final seminar, ‘Girls, Sexuality and
Sexualisation: Beyond Sensationalism and Spectacle’ of the ESRC-funded
seminar series, ‘Pornification?: Complicating Debates About the
Sexualisation of Culture (2009-2011).

*Girls . . .

Curated by Barrak Alzaid in partnership with International Resource Network

June 23 – August 10, 2011
Kleio Projects: 153 1/2 Stanton Street New York, NY

The exhibition is curated by ArteEast Artistic Director, Barrak Alzaid, with support from the International . . .

CREA’s Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute is an annual, week-long, residential course – begun in 2007 – that focuses on a conceptual study of sexuality. It examines the links between sexuality, rights, gender, and health and their interface with socio . . .

The Lesbian Spring Meeting is the major event for lesbian and feminine political dialogue in Germany today. The get-together is organised and run by lesbians for lesbians and with lesbians for four days every year. Main focus of the . . .

 
The members of SASOD cordially invite you to the Seventh Festival. 

We are happy this year to open the festival with our own documentary “My Wardrobe, My right”

“My Wardrobe, My Right” explores the issues related to the . . .

In the wake of the twentieth Anniversary of the publication of The Empire Writes Back
Dans la foulee  du vingtieme anniversaire de la publication du livre The Empire Writes Back
we proudly announce the following event
nous organisons un colloque . . .

WELCOME TO QUEER CITY CINEMA’S WIDEOPENWIDE…
…Coast to Coast 2011 Tour – Victoria, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Halifax and St. Johns.
Wide Open Wide brings you twenty-eight queer films and videos that examine and play with notions of queer identity . . .

Equality and Justice – LGBTI (Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex) Rights in the XXI Century is the two-day international conference closing the Equal Jus Project, an 18-month Fundamental Rights and Citizenship action co-funded by the European Union . . .

Focus group discussion on the 10th of May, 2010 at GHARPII conference room to be convened from 9.am to 4.pm.
In preparation for this focus group we are kindly asking if it’s possible to have feed . . .

The 2011 Boston 27th Annual LGBT Film Festival: Celebrating Global LGBT Cinema
The Boston LGBT Film Festival is the longest running and largest LGBT media event in New England. Founded in 1984 by film programmer George Mansour, the festival has . . .

The Veritas Partnership at UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Presents:
*Monday May 2nd, 4-5:30 PM* in the Social Hall

SARAH SCHULMAN
“United in Anger: Documenting the History of ACT-UP”

ACT-UP is the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power

———————————————

Union . . .

Friday, April 29, 2011, 3:00–5:00 p.m.
Desire, Sexuality, and the Cold War Body

Commentator: Lane Fenrich, Northwestern University

Someone to Love: Girls, Adolescence, and Same-Sex Desire in the 1950′s United States
Amanda H. Littauer . . .

QUNY, The LGBTQ Student Organization of the CUNY Graduate Center Presents
Session 3 of its Queer Embodiments Seminar Series of 2010-2011:
*Queerness, Disability, Performance, and Critical Resistance*

*”Ashley Xed: Private Matters, Public Life”*
Lezlie Frye
Doctoral Candidate, American Studies . . .

Queer Theory, Queer Children, and Kid Orientalism: The Sexual Child in a Racialized World
A talk by Kathryn Stockton . . .

Since 1989, when Denmark became the first country to introduce registered partnerships, the legal recognition of same-sex relationships has been on the political agenda in many countries. By now, half of the Member States of the EU have introduced . . .

International Conference on Body Image and Identity: April 8-9
On April 8-9, 2011 CUNY will be hosting an International Conference on Body Image and Identity at The Graduate Center (34th St. and 5th Ave.) This two-day event . . .

Kate Clinton and Urvashi Vaid
invite you for wine and hors d’oeuvres to support OutHistory.org,
the website on LGBTQ history, produced by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies

Joan Nestle, co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives . . .

KE KULANA HE MAHU: REMEMBERING A SENSE OF PLACE
a film screening and discussion with producer Connie Florez

April 5, Tuesday
6 to 9 pm
a film by Brent Anbe and Kathryn Xian
67 minutes, 2001, USA
For more film . . .

(M)OTHER SEACOLE’S WONDERFUL ADVENTURES: CLAIMING THE ENGLISH FAMILY IN THE CRIMEA
a Brown Bag Lunch Talk with Elahe Haschemi Yekani

April 4, Monday
12:30 to 1:45 pm
Elahe Haschemi Yekani, English and American Studies, Humboldt University . . .

Why Are the Drag Queens Laughing
A talk by David Halperin . . .

Programme

Time Session
9.45 Arrival, tea/ coffee and registration
10.15 Welcome and Introduction
10.30
Researching lesbian and gay family life: A Retrospective’
Susan Golombok (Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge)
11.30 . . .

For Japan with Love – Day of Silence. Students will be having a day of Silence to show respect for the victims of the ongoing disasters in Japan.
The aim is just raise awareness and respect and acknowledge the devastation going . . .

Across the Asia Pacific region a wide range of terms describe the diversity of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) within our communities. In Aotearoa / New Zealand these include takatāpui, whakawāhine, tangata ira tāne, queer and gender . . .

Revenge, the Queer and the ‘(neo-) Jacobean’: lunch talk @ NYU

Revenge, the Queer and the ‘(neo-) Jacobean’
Katherine M. Graham, CSGS Visiting Scholar
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
11:30 am to 1:30 pm
The Great Room
19 University Place . . .

Gender and Sexuality Law Queer Theory Workshop w/Joseph Fischel on Transcendent Homosexuals and Dangerous Sex Offenders: Sexual Harm and Freedom in the Judicial Imaginary

The Columbia Law School Center for Gender & Sexuality Law and Columbia University Institute for . . .

In this talk, Dr. Malmström will discuss constructions of gender, embodiment and agency among male Hamas youths in the West Bank through the prism of violence. She will highlight the importance of analyzing the body in such processes – both . . .

Women Who Rock Project is excited to redefine words, music, genres, space, community & love at the 2nd annual Women Who Rock: Making Scenes, Building Communities Meeting and Film Festival–“Vibrations of Love.” We invite activists, scholars, musicians, filmmakers . . .

Feminist Autobiographical Fictions: Performing the Self on Stage & On the Page

a book talk with Barbara Browning, Linda Schlossberg, & Alina Troyano (aka Carmelita Tropicana)

February 22, Tuesday
7 to 8:30 pm

http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/02 . . .

Commun(icat)ing Bodies.
The Religion & Body Conference

http://communicating-bodies.net

University of Graz / Austria
15 – 17 February 2012
The Institute of Fundamental Theology and the Institute of Religious Studies – University of Graz/Austria – are pleased to announce . . .

Palestinian queer activists Haneen Maikey and Abeer Mansour will be touring 6 US cities for a series of open conversations moderated by locally and nationally known US activists . Their New York host is CLAGS – please join us for this exciting . . .

The 23rd National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change is coming to beautiful Minneapolis, Minnesota and the Hilton Minneapolis, February 2–6, 2011.

Creating Change is the premier annual organizing and skills-building event for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and . . .

XXV ILGA World Conference to be held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, between December 4 and 9, 2010.
ORGANISED IN ASSOCIATION WITH COLETIVO DE FEMINISTAS LESBICAS, GRUPO DIGNIDADE, GRUPO ARCO-IRIS, AND INSTITUTO EDSON NERIS

ENGLISH
On behalf of the Board . . .

The conference will begin on Thursday morning (2 December 2010) with three keynote addresses from leading scholars in the field (to be announced), followed by workshop meetings in the afternoon. Friday (3 December 2010) will be organized similarly with both . . .

Please visit the congress website for further information . . .

Check here for details . . .

On 15 and 16 November 2010 the Heinrich Böll Stiftung (HBS) and the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) will host an international conference on ‘Struggle for equality: Sexual orientation, gender identity and human rights in Africa’.
The conference will . . .

Presenter: Michael Nebeling Petersen (PhD-student, Center for Gender Studies, University of Copenhagen)
Petersen will present his work on his PhD-project, which draws on recent queer critiques of homonormativity and homonationalism. The project examines different sites of homosexual inclusions . . .

Presenter: Dr Tuula Juvonen (University of Helsinki and Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies)
“Americanization of the media” is one of the catch phrases used to describe the recent changes towards intimization of the media representations of politicians throughout Europe . . .

The 1970s was a period of intense excitement, change, activism, and activity for lesbians.  As lesbian feminism redefined what qualified as a “political issue” and challenged every assumption about gender, race, class, ability, sexuality, and any other social category, lesbians . . .

. . .

On September 23-25th 2010, the LGBT Studies Program & Minor at Syracuse University will be hosting a Transnationalizing LGBT Studies Conference/Workshop in Syracuse, New York. This will be a small, single-track conference/workshop so that all participants . . .

BiCon is an annual conference/convention for bisexual people and their friends, allies and supporters, and anyone with a supportive interest in bisexuality. It’s a friendly, welcoming event – BiCon is enjoyed each year by people who are just beginning . . .

O Fazendo Gênero 9, em 2010, terá seu foco central em temas que sugerem movimento tanto pela dispersão dos povos e culturas atraves de espaços geográficos quanto pelo desejo de realocações em espaços imaginados . . .

[中文展e®¯: 我们e§‰å¾—e‡ªå·±ä¸åŒ——CARLOS MOTTA个展 (个展)]
About We Who Feel Differently – Carlos Motta Solo Show
by Carlos Motta
We Who Feel Differently is a multi-part art project composed of a series of illustrations, posters, a video installation and an Internet . . .

The International AIDS Conference is the premier gathering for those working in the field of HIV, as well as policy makers, persons living with HIV and other individuals committed to ending the pandemic. It is a chance to assess where . . .

During this free seminar we seek to bring together researchers who examine contemporary, empirical material on adult friendship, who view friendship as a social, temporal and cultural relationship with a specific focus on gender and sexuality. Depending on the outcome . . .

On June 25, 2010, Trans and Gender Non Conforming People of Color and allies will take to the streets of NYC once again and demand justice to let the world know, that the rebellion is not over and we will . . .

由台灣大學人口與性別研究中心「婦女與性別研究組」（簡稱：台大婦女研究室）主辦的「第一屆酷兒飄浪國際研討會」，將於2010年6月11-12日於台北舉行。
The First International Conference on Queer Diaspora, initiated and organized by the Division of Women’s and Gender Studies at the Population and Gender Studies Center, National Taiwan University, will take place in Taipei (Taiwan . . .

Check the website for details . . .

The Philadelphia Trans Health Conference is an annual conference focusing on the specific issues, needs, and experiences of transgender and gender-variant people and our allies with regard to the health of our bodies, lives, and communities. Everyone concerned about . . .

Guest curator Paul Lee has put together an interesting collection of films . . .

5月17日是国e™…不再恐同日（IDAHO），世界各地各种反歧e§†çš„æ´» 动异彩纷呈。各地e¿¥å¼‚e²œe¾£çš„e£ŽåœŸäººæƒ…纷纷上e¡—抢先出炉出柜，反对e’ˆå¯¹æ€§å€¾å‘æ­§e§†ï¼Œä¸€æ´¾ç‹‚欢盛景。

没有大把e’žç¥¨å’Œå¤§æŠŠæ—¶e—´çš„你，如果也想体eªŒe¿™ä¸€ç•ªç¹eŠ±ä¼¼e”¦ï¼Œ5月30号的演e®²ï¼Œä½ ežæ¥ä¸å¯——因为在e¿™ä¸€å¤©ï¼ŒåŒ—京同志中心十分e£å¹¸çš„e¯·åˆ°äº†å›½e™…不再恐同日委员会秘书e•¿Joel Bedos，e¿™ä½e£Žå¤´æ­£åŠ²çš„eµ„深的法国ＬＧＢＴ权益社会活动家，即将做客中心，eº«åä¸–界各地517活动e§†e¢‘与照片，分享世界彩e™¹e‚»å±…们 “５１７全球同志亲 吻活动”在内的一片热火朝天。

同e¯­e . . .

“Victims to Citizens: Strategies to Confront Homophobia in the Caribbean”
You are invited to attend the IRN Workshop and panel which will be held at the the Caribbean Studies Association CSA; http://www.caribbeanstudiesassociation.org) Conference, which will be held . . .

Check the conference website for details . . .

At Transnational LGBT Organizing in the World and on the Web we will highlight researchers, activists, and performers whose work focuses on the areas of gender and sexuality in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. We . . .

You are invited to an evening of Readings and Discussion
with

Anton Nimblett
Sections of an Orange

Lawrence Scott
Aelred’s Sin

on

Wednesday 21st April 2010
6.30 PM

R.S.V.P. 625-3197/ 734-6091/ joan.dayal . . .

Homophobia in the Caribbean to be Explored at Symposium at NSU

Social, cultural and religious aspects of the issue to be examined April 8-10

FT. LAUDERDALE-DAVIE, Fla. – A symposium exploring homophobia in the Caribbean will be held at . . .

International Anti-Homophobia Meeting is an internationally participated forum organized by Kaos GL in Ankara since 2006. The annual meeting aims to compose a platform for discussing the discrimination towards to LGBT individuals in Turkey and providing the visibility.
This . . .

Felipe Bruno Martins Fernandes

PhD Candidate, Interdisciplinary Program in Gender Studies (Faculty of Human Sciences), Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil), CLAGS Scholar-in-Residence (2009-10).

In 2004, the Workers Party administration of President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da . . .

Beyond the Pink Curtain? Eastern European Sexualities, Homophobia and Western Eyes . . .

Presenter: Angelique Nixon
Resources & Readings:

Please review the website for the Caribbean Region of the IRN to find a new collection of resources and materials concerning Caribbean sexualities and organizing around sexual minorities inside and outside the region.

Please . . .

Sexualities, as keys to identity and as part of the public language of the nation, are a controversial feature of post-communist transition in Central and Eastern Europe. Radical political changes have led to the emergence of new social actors . . .

Human rights of sexual minorities and their violation have a direct impact on the mental health of these populations. Over the past decade, the international human rights movement for sexual minorities has established a strong network that has been active . . .

The main aim of the conference is to develop linkages between research about Asian LGBTQ cultures and communities and promoting recognition and respect for sexual and gender diversity in the region. A parallel goal of the conference is to support . . .