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The Sexual Orientation And Gender Non-Discrimination Act, Julia Churchill Schoellkopf

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Center

The United States is still not a safe place for members of the LGBT community, demonstrated by the lack of federal laws protecting them and frequent discrimination. Because discrimination against LGBT people is still legal in the work place, they are mistreated and put out of work. To ensure their safety and economic security, LGBT people need the protection that is granted to women, people of color, veterans, the disabled, and many other hard-working Americans. The Sexuality and Gender Non-Discrimination Act must be passed and enforced to give this protection to LGBT members by prohibiting employment discrimination based on sexual …

Students Teaching Students: Lgbtq History, Brian Stack

Senior Honors Projects

When the Students Teaching Students program called for submissions for student created courses I jumped at the opportunity to learn and share with a group of peers dedicated to a subject. The close to year long process culminated in the first Students Teaching Students course at URI, focusing on the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people: HPR 107: Introduction to LGBTQ History.

Just getting ready to teach was a multifaceted process, since I tend to fluctuate between ravenously seizing every book I can get my hands on and devising practical applications for that intellectual knowledge. First …

Civil Rights Reform And The Body, Tobias Barrington Wolff

All Faculty Scholarship

Discrimination on the basis of gender identity or expression has emerged as a major focus of civil rights reform. Opponents of these reforms have structured their opposition around one dominant image: the bathroom. With striking consistency, opponents have invoked anxiety over the bathroom -- who uses bathrooms, what happens in bathrooms, and what traumas one might experience while occupying a bathroom -- as the reason to permit discrimination in the workplace, housing, and places of public accommodation. This rhetoric of the bathroom in the debate over gender-identity protections seeks to exploit an underlying anxiety that has played a role in …

Transgender Day Of Remembrance Vigil 2011, Joseph A. Santiago, Brian Sit

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Center

Transgender Vigil

Day Of Remembrance !!

Hosted By: The URI Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) And The GLBT Center!

The following event has audio and pictures from the night. Transgender Vigil Day Of Remembrance !! vHosted By: The URI Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) And The GLBT Center! vDate: Monday November 21th 2011 vTime: 7:00pm To 9:00pm vPlace: GLBT Center: Adams Hall Room 111 vOpen For All To Attend!!! J v What Will Be Accomplished At The Event? § Tee Shirt Making @GLBT Center! @7:00pmGLBT Center; GSA; Candle-Lite Walk Around Campus (Starts At Barlow Circle) @8:00pm Ends …

Coming Out Day Presenter Robyn Ochs - Beyond Binaries: Identity And Sexuality, Joseph A. Santiago, Carolyn Sovet

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Center

The program will explore the landscape of sexual orientation. Similar to snowflakes, no two people are exactly alike. So, how do we assign precise labels to our complicated and unique experiences? What is the relationship between experience and self-identity, between self-identity and the way we are "read" by others? In this interactive program, different experiences of identity, the complexity of attraction, and more will be explored.

Strategic Plan Metrics For The University Of Rhode Island’S Glbt Center Plan July 2010, Joseph A. Santiago, Andrew Winters

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Center

This is the Strategic Plan Metrics for the University of Rhode Island’s GLBT Center Plan July 2010. University of Rhode Island GLBT Center; University service; Joe Santiago; Joseph A Santiago; Andrew Winters; Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Programs and Services; Academic Plan Goal: Ensure a Campus Climate that celebrates differences and creates a rich environment.; Student Affairs Goal 7: Optimize collaboration toward developing a culture that embodies equity and celebrates multiculturalism and inclusion.; Develop collaborative opportunities to address contemporary issues impacting upon LGBTIQQ people and communities on and off campus; Promoting a network of continuing support for LGBTIQQ people and their …

Glbtiqq Symposium Meeting Minutes 11/16/2007, Joseph A. Santiago, Pankaj L. Ahire, Andrew Winters

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Center

This post contains the GLBTIQQ Symposium Meeting Minutes 11/16/2007; Pankaj L Ahire; Proposals 1. From someone in Library in Bridgewater – Deliver us: How censors target GLBT materials. 2. Woman Spirit Rising. 3. PFlag – Bonettis are chair for South county chapter. Coming out to your family. Coming Monday meeting. 4. Ron – prolific in writing about bi issues and bears. 60th Anniversary of Kinsey Report. Looking at Kinsey. 5. Sabrina at Bridgewater… Sociology Professor… Dynamics of discrimination. 6. Jodie Glass – Lifelines (Transgender groups). Group called “Women of a certain age”; Possibility of getting someone from athletics department to …

The Welcome Project Brochure 2007, Joseph A. Santiago, Kiev-Tuen Atreides, Andrew Winters

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Center

The Welcome Project is a diverse group of URI students, faculty, and staff organized to examine and address the climate for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning (GLBT) individuals on the URI campuses and beyond. The purpose of the Welcome Project is to affirm the dignity of all members of the URI community regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity/ expression, as well as to promote a safe, comfortable, and inclusive environment for all. The Welcome Project strives to identify and eliminate various forms of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity/expression, and works toward developing a tradition …

Stonewall, Polly Thistlethwaite

Publications and Research

This is a brief history of the Stonewall Inn in New York City's Greenwich Village, site of massive resistance to police harassment in June 1969. The Stonewall Riot immediately became a rallying point for U.S. gay liberation movements. The Stonewall resistance is commemorated by annual gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) protests and celebrations around the world.

12th Annual Symposium On Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender And Questioning Issues Brochure, Joseph A. Santiago, Aja Van Dyke, Kiev-Tuen Atreides, Bekki Davis, Al Lott, Andrew Winters

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Center

This post contains the 12th Annual Symposium on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Issues Brochure and the Ms Word doc it was created in. 12th Annual Symposium on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Issues Brochure; The University of Rhode Island 12th Annual Symposium on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Issues; Pathways to Equality, Facets of Freedom; Schedule at a Glance April 19-22, 2006; Acknowledgements Our Symposium is free and open to public thanks to the contributions and support of the following: The Office of The Vice President for Student Affairs, The University of Rhode Island GLBT Center, …

The Lesbian And Gay Past: An Interpretive Battleground, Polly Thistlethwaite

Publications and Research

The lesbian and gay past is an interpretive battleground that mainstream archives have refused to enter, assuming few risks in collecting, naming, or identifying archival collections. At the same time, libraries offer up worlds to those who work to unearth the secrets there.

The New York Public Library's 1994 "Becoming Visible" exhibit trumpeted The Arrival of lesbian and gay history to New York's cultural mainstream. The NYPL exhibit denies the library's role in secreting lesbian and gay history, and diminished the contributions of community-based archives to the exhibit.