2009 MSU Pride Week!

Pride week is the primary LBGTQ community celebration, planned, implemented and sponsored by the various MSU student LBGTQA organizations. Some of the events listed here are educational, but there's plenty of fun, too!

• Monday, 6 April

Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South tell their Tales
A performance by E. Patrick Johnson, 7:00 - 9:00 pm, in the Arena Theatre (basement of the Auditorium Building). Q/A and book signing following the performance.

• Friday, 10 April

Pride around the world
4:00 - 6:00 pm*, Spartan Rooms B & C, International Center.
Lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender people are everywhere! The LBGT Resource Center profiles and celebrates influential queer people from around the world. * Corrected time.
 

Film: Boys Don't Cry
7:00 pm, W013 Phillips Hall.
Boys Don't Cry is about the life and death of Brandon Teena, a trans man who was murdered in 1993. The viewing is followed by a short discussion session. Brought to you by TransAction.

• Saturday, 11 April

Vogue Dance Workshop
3:00 - 5:00 pm, IM Circle room 218.
Strike a pose! Join PRISM in learning to vogue with students from Affirmations LBGTQ Community Center. The workshop focuses on the dance style and includes some background information.
 

Black & White Dance
9:00 pm, Union Gold Rooms.
Show off what you learned in the vogue dance workshop! This semi-formal dance is also brought to you by PRISM.

• Monday, 13 April

Outdoor BBQ Dinner
5:00 - 8:00 pm, garden behind Student Services.
Spectrum and PRIDE bring you the bi-annual BBQ and Gay Gaymes! FREE catered barbeque food, croquet, Frisbee®, and more. Come get to know your LBGT student leaders, present and future! Rain location: room 140 Natural Science, next to SSB.
 

Sex & S'mores
8:00 - 9:00 pm, W013 Phillips Hall.
Join RING for some marshmallowy goodness and explore both sex and s'mores! Learn about safe sex, toys, fetishes and other issues of sexuality from an LBGT slant, and enjoy some goofy treats in the process. There are also some fabulously kinky door prizes, so be sure to not miss this event!

• Tuesday, 14 April

Athens Boys Choir & Good Asian Drivers
8:00 pm, Erickson Kiva.
Spend an evening with Atlanta's Jewish, trans hip-hop slam poet Harvey Katz (Athens Boys Choir) and the musical and poetic talents of New York's Good Asian Drivers! Bring your own poetry, because the mic will be open to all who are willing to share! Come be part of this year's Pride Week Poetry Slam!

• Wednesday, 15 April

Ally Workshop
7:30 - 9:00 pm, 140 Natural Science.
Are you someone who is not LBGT, but you want to support your LBGT friends, family and colleagues? Come to this workshop presented by the LBGT Resource Center to find out how!

• Thursday, 16 April

Film: MILK
8:00 pm, Campus Center Cinema, Wells Hall.
This FREE showing of MILK is brought to you by MSU's LBGTA residence hall caucuses in partnership with RHA's Campus Center Cinema and UAB. Free Campus Center popcorn, too! Information from the LBGT Resource Center and presenters before the film begins.

• Friday, 17 April

Day of Silence
8:00 am - 5:00 pm, W013 Phillips Hall.
Help MSU's LBGTQA community commemorate all the LBGTQ individuals who have been silenced by hatred and bigotry by taking a vow of silence for the day. To make an even greater statement, come to W013 Phillips Hall between 8:00 and 10:00 am to have your face painted! There is a debriefing session at 5:00 pm in W013 Phillips Hall. Day of Silence website.
 

MSU Drag Show
9:00 pm, International Center (doors open at 8:00 pm)
For the seventh year in a row the annual drag show hits the stage with some of your favorite local and national drag kings and queens! This year's theme is Heaven & Hell, and is hosted by none other than Hershae Chocolatae! Dress up or dress down, just COME ON and enjoy the dancing, music and more that this year's show has to offer! (MSU students may bring one guest. Photo ID required for student and guest.)

Pride Week events sponsored by: Spectrum, PRIDE, Trans Action, SGL-SOCIAL, RING, The Alliance of LBGT and Ally Students, Office of Cultural and Academic Transitions, Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives, LBGT Resource Center, GLFSA, ASMSU, RHA, UAB.

— Updated April 10, 11:10 am —