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Clags Events And Outreach, Spring 2013, Benjamin Gillespie Apr 2013

Clags Events And Outreach, Spring 2013, Benjamin Gillespie

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

This past semester, CLAGS held many successful and provocative events that effectively supported our mandate as a platform for historical and contemporary issues affecting the LGBTQ community. We hosted the book launch for Born This Way: Real Stories of Growing up Gay by Paul Vitigliano, featuring such guest speakers as Noah Michelson (Huffington Post Gay Voices) and Michael Musto (Columnist, Village Voice).


2010 Kessler Lecture With Urvashi Vaid / From The Development Desk, Jasmine Burnett Apr 2011

2010 Kessler Lecture With Urvashi Vaid / From The Development Desk, Jasmine Burnett

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

This year's Kessler Lecture featured the dynamic Urvashi Vaid, who was described by Nan Hunter as "a force of nature and a multi-dimensional activist serving roles as street activist, fundraiser, mentor and an intellectual leader of the LGBT movement." The Kessler Lecture is the premier event for CLAGS highlighting Scholarship, Art, and Activism.


A Beautiful People, Arianne Benford Apr 2010

A Beautiful People, Arianne Benford

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

We are a beautiful people. People of the drum and open spirit. People with the strength to live our lives that bring us one-step closer to whole. We are beautiful when we constantly push and pull at the traditional American social fabric by just being ourselves.


Clags Launches Disability/Queerness Programming, Sarah Chinn Jan 2004

Clags Launches Disability/Queerness Programming, Sarah Chinn

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

CLAGS kicked off our initial year of Disability and Queerness: Centering the Outsider programming on September 22nd with an evening celebrating the release of Desiring Disability, a special issue of GLQ on disability and Disability Studies, and Haworth Press's forthcoming Queer Crips, a collection of essays and stories by disabled gay men.


Quny Notes, Linda Camarasana Jan 1999

Quny Notes, Linda Camarasana

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

QUNY, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer student group at the CUNY Graduate Center, has recently elected Robert Kaplan (English) to join Manolo Guzman (Sociology) as the graduate student representatives to the CLAGS board. QUNY and CLAGS have also been working together to develop an interdisciplinary concentration in lesbian and gay studies at the GSUC.