OCTOBER IS QUEER HISTORY MONTH!

Thursday, October 1st Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) will meet at Chester Creek Cafe (At Sarah's Table) downstairs meeting room from 6:30-8:30pm. Chapter contact person: Bev Pehkonen . Or call for support persons: Bonnie and Faris Keeling at 218.724.4768. (Meets first Thursday of each month)

Saturday, October 3rd, Dancing the Path of Peace. A Day of Dancing and Singing with The Dances of Universal Peace, feturing Hakim Bushnell and friends. 10-5pm (potluck lunch) Evening Program 7-9m Lafayette Community Ctr on Park Point (upper level) 3026 Minnesota Ave, Duluth. Suggested donation $40 day/evening, or $10 for evening only. NO one turned away for inability to pay. Newcomers welcome.

Sunday, October 4th Join the 2009 CROP WALK: Registration: 1:30 pm, Walk starts at 2pm. Takes place on the Western Waterfront Trail. (Register at Asbury United Methodist Church 6822 Grand Ave). Walk is approximately 5K, shorter if you choose. For info call Doug Bowen-Bailey at 722-7166. "Help Crop to Stop Hunger" http://www.arrowheadinterfaith.org/CROP.html

Tuesday, October 6 , Queer and Allied Students Union Meeting, Kirby 323, 5-7 pm.

Thursday, October 8th, 12-1 Join us for the 4th Annual National Coming Out Day Luncheon at UMD, Kirby Ballroom. Free and Open to the Public. This event is capped at 200 people. You must RSVP: anichols@d.umn.edu

Monday, October 12, 2009: The Duluth Playhouse Presents, The Laramie Project: 10 years later. 7-10 pm. 506 W. Michigan Street. 218-733-7555. Call and reserve tickets, arrive by 6:30, suggested donation is $10 and benefits the GLBT social support group for youth locally. See you there. For questions, please email Pricilla Manisto pjmanisto@yahoo.com

Tuesday, October 13, Queer and Allied Students Union Meeting, Kirby 323, 5-7 pm.

Tuesday, October 13th 12-1:30 Film in 273B Kirby Student Center (TV ROOM) Featuring Jim in Bold: 8,000 miles through one boy's soul. Produced by the Equality Forum.

Wednesday, October 14th, 7pm Peace UCC, 1111 N 11th Ave East, Duluth "Misusing the Oral Tradition." Lecture by Carl Gawboy about anthropologists, historians, and curriculum developers of their use of the Indian Oral Tradition.

Tuesday, October 20th 12-1:30 Film in 273 B UMD Kirby Student Center (TV Room) Featuring "Left Lane" on the road with Folk Poet Alix Olson. A film by Samantha Farinella. Left Lane highlights spoken-word performances from around the country and a plethora of behind the scenes glimpses at the search for independent though, grassroots defiance, passionate connection, organic food and a clean laundry. Accompanied by the music of Pamela Means, Melissa Ferrick, ember Swift, Lyndell Montgomery, Chris Pureka, and Peter Mulvey, LL offers a few more untethered voices to the nucleus of grassroots progressive struggle and the future of laughter, rage, and optimism.

Tuesday, October 20 , Queer and Allied Students Union Meeting, Kirby 323, 5-7 pm.

Thursday, October 22, 6-8 pm Rick Landman featured speaker in the UMD Kirby Ballroom, sponsored by the UMD Queer and Allied Students Union, UMD Center for Genocide, Holocaust and Human Rights Studies, Kirby Program Board, Baumler-Kaplan Commerorative Committee, and GLBT Services. His topic is: "Gay, Jewish, German and Proud:
Insights from a gay activist son of Holocaust Survivors" Click on Rick Landman to get to his site. He will also be speaking in individual classrooms/lecture halls.

Tuesday, October 27th 12-1:30 Film in 273 B UMD Kirby Student Center (TV Room) Featuring: "Looking for Langston" (Winner Teddy Award, Berlin International Film Festival). The film is not a biography of Langston Hughes. It is a memoriam to Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance as reconstructed from a black gay perspective.^[1] Moreover, it reports to be a meditation on the black gay experience within a historical context built around the homophobia, oppression, and denial faced by men of African descent within black communities alongside “allusions and political commentary on white racism.”^[2] Hughes is presented as an icon and cultural metaphor for black gay men who were confronted with being ostracized if they did not conform to black bourgeoisie standards whose overriding goal concerned fuller social integration. Contested are the ways the black male and his sexuality have been represented in the modern Western world and how existing notions of race and gender figure within American and African American culture.^[3] Throughout this process, the identity of Hughes as a black gay man is reclaimed and no longer denied, a process paralleled in the ever growing academic studies of Langston Hughes today.^[4][5] Moreover, adding to the historic and cinematic importance of the film in gay cinema, Looking for Langston was and continues to be one of very few films showing intra-racial affection between black gay men as revealed in the love story between the two leading black protagonists, Ben Ellison as Langston Hughes and Matthew Baidoo as Beauty.^[6][7] (from Wikepedia online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_for_Langston

Tuesday, October 27 , Queer and Allied Students Union Meeting, Kirby 323, 5-7 pm.

Wednesday, October 28th, 7pm Peace UCC 1111 N. 11th Ave. E. Duluth, MN "Many acts of goodness they had shown me... Defending and Defining the Indians, 1670-1989." Readers' theatre organized by Carl Gawboy and Cindy Donner.

Wednesday, October 28th, 4-5pm, UMD Ballroom / damali ayo will give the keynote address at the 2nd annualStudent Leadership Conference. Her “I Can Fix Racism” guide and presentation gives ten practical solutions people can do to improve the state of race relations in our culture by enhancing our personal interactions. Presented simply, directly and with her signature sense of humor and intimate stories, ayo’s approach to race relations is simply unforgettable. Info:. damali ayo

Saturday, October 31st Halloween

Saturday, October 31
Dance Party (GLBTA friendly for sure!)
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Duluth at 835 W College St (Between UMD and St Scholastica)
UUCD is the sponsoring organization and the location.
from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Suggested $5.00 donation
bring a snack to share and your own beverage (alcohol permitted if legal drinking age)
Contact Bruce Holmen bholmen@pobox.com 724-4666 or Doug Stevens paulxdoug@charter.net

NOVEMBER 2009

Tuesday, November 3rd Election Day.

Tuesday, November 3 , Queer and Allied Students Union Meeting, Kirby 323, 5-7 pm.

Thursday, November 5 Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) will meet at Chester Creek Cafe (At Sarah's Table) downstairs meeting room from 6:30-8:30pm. Chapter contact person: Bev Pehkonen . Or call for support persons: Bonnie and Faris Keeling at 218.724.4768. (Meets first Thursday of each month)

Saturday, November 7th QASU's Fall Drag Show. Call 218.726-7041 for info. Starts at 7pm in the UMD Kirby Ballroom.

Tuesday, November 10 , Queer and Allied Students Union Meeting, Kirby 323, 5-7 pm.

Wednesday, November 11, Veteran's Day.

Nov 13-15, 2009 Minnesota OUT! Campus Conference (MOCC) 2009
McNally Smith College of Music, St. Paul

Tuesday, November 17 , Queer and Allied Students Union Meeting, Kirby 323, 5-7 pm.

Friday November 20th is the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance. See link for history.

Tuesday, November 24 , Queer and Allied Students Union Meeting, Kirby 323, 5-7 pm.

Thursday/Friday November 26-27 campus is closed.

DECEMBER 2009

Tuesday, December 1 World AIDS Day

Tuesday, December 1 , Queer and Allied Students Union Meeting, Kirby 323, 5-7 pm.

Thursday, December 3 Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) will meet at Chester Creek Cafe (At Sarah's Table) downstairs meeting room from 6:30-8:30pm. Chapter contact person: Bev Pehkonen . Or call for support persons: Bonnie and Faris Keeling at 218.724.4768. (Meets first Thursday of each month)

Saturday, December 5 2009 Cruden-Riggs GLBTA Scholarship Fund Applications are Due!!! See link to download application form. (Will receive through Monday, December 7th by 4:30 pm).

Tuesday, December 1 , Queer and Allied Students Union Meeting, Kirby 323, 5-7 pm.

Tuesday, December 8 , Queer and Allied Students Union Meeting, Kirby 323, 5-7 pm.

Tuesday, December 15 , Queer and Allied Students Union Meeting, Kirby 323, 5-7 pm.

Tuesday, December 22 , Queer and Allied Students Union Meeting, Kirby 323, 5-7 pm.

Thursday, December 24-25 campus closed

Monday, December 28th campus closed

Thursday December 31st campus closed

JANUARY 2010

Friday, January 1st Campus is closed

Thursday, January 7 Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) will meet at Chester Creek Cafe (At Sarah's Table) downstairs meeting room from 6:30-8:30pm. Chapter contact person: Bev Pehkonen . Or call for support persons: Bonnie and Faris Keeling at 218.724.4768. (Meets first Thursday of each month)

Monday, January 18, MLK Jr. Holiday, campus is closed. See DNT for details. Bayard Rustin Commemorative Alliance volunteers wanted. Banner to carry in march/rally Call 726-7300.

Tuesday, January 19th, Spring Semester Classes Begin

FEBRUARY 2010

Thursday, February 4 Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) will meet at Chester Creek Cafe (At Sarah's Table) downstairs meeting room from 6:30-8:30pm. Chapter contact person: Bev Pehkonen . Or call for support persons: Bonnie and Faris Keeling at 218.724.4768. (Meets first Thursday of each month)

Wednesday, February 10 Chinese New Year

MARCH 2010

Thursday March 4th Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) will meet at Chester Creek Cafe (At Sarah's Table) downstairs meeting room from 6:30-8:30pm. Chapter contact person: Bev Pehkonen . Or call for support persons: Bonnie and Faris Keeling at 218.724.4768. (Meets first Thursday of each month)

Friday, March 12th Last day before Spring Break

Monday, March 15-19th UMD Spring Break

Tuedsay, March 22nd Classes Resume

APRIL 2010

GLBT Lobby Day is in April: Date TBA (UMD GLBT Services works with the Faith-based communities of Duluth to charter a bus to get us to this important lobby day).

Thursday April 1st is April Fools Day

Thursday, April 1st Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) will meet at Chester Creek Cafe (At Sarah's Table) downstairs meeting room from 6:30-8:30pm. Chapter contact person: Bev Pehkonen . Or call for support persons: Bonnie and Faris Keeling at 218.724.4768. (Meets first Thursday of each month)

Tuesday, April 13th Fabulous Farewell by GLBT Services, QASU and the UMD GLBTA Advisory Commission. Students, mark the date, and if you or someone you know is graduating, please let us know: Email Angie Nichols

Friday, April 30th, 2010 UMD GLBT Services Director Angie Nichols turns 39. Fundraiser info TBA: Suggested donation is $39.00 to the "UMD"Cruden-Riggs GLBTA Scholarship Fund. Anonymous gifts are accepted (please indicate this when you send it). Please make checks payable to: UMD Cruden-Riggs Scholarship Fund #6021. Send to: University of Minnesota Fundation, CM-3854, PO BOX 70870, St. Paul, MN 55170-3854. Thank you for your generosity and support of our fabulous students!

MAY 2010

Thursday, May 5th Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) will meet at Chester Creek Cafe (At Sarah's Table) downstairs meeting room from 6:30-8:30pm. Chapter contact person: Bev Pehkonen . Or call for support persons: Bonnie and Faris Keeling at 218.724.4768. (Meets first Thursday of each month)

Monday, May 10-14 Final Exams

Thursday, May 13 Graduate School Commencement, Romano Gym

Saturday, May 15 Undergraduate Commencement, DECC

Monday, May 31 campus is closed