Not your father's police department: how law enforcement became LGBT-friendly
Thursday, February 1 at 11 am at the Pride Center.
Meet new SDSU faculty member Dr. Roddrick Colvin
Roddrick Colvin joined the faculty in the School of Public Affairs in the fall of 2017, and teaches courses in public administration and criminal justice. His research interests include public employment equity, police officers' shared perceptions, and lesbian and gay civil rights. He is the author of Lesbian and Gay Cops: Diversity and Effective Policing (Lynne Rienner Publishing, 2012).
This talk will highlight the broad changes that influenced policing over the last 25 years, and how those changes aflected LG BT community - police relations.
Sad Porn
Dr. Hoang Tan Nguyen, University of California, San Diego 19 February 2018, 2 pm, Room TBD
In the 1980s, the AIDS pandemic wiped out a vibrant gay sexual culture established in the United States during the sexual revolution in the 1970s. Consequently, the trauma of AIDS is reflected in the preeminent site of gay male cultural production: gay video pornography. Critics noted the consumption of pornography (as material for masturbation) as the “safest” sex of all, and activists called for the use of condoms in porn videos as an important strategy of safer sex education. While these scholarly and activist responses have rightly focused on education and prevention, there have been few efforts made to register the affective dimension of AIDS and visual representation
This presentation examines the process of mourning in experimental film and video in the 1990s in response to the AIDS crisis. Specifically, I consider queer collage as a way of thinking about gay porn as a history of sexuality, as a celebration of sexuality, but also a history of loss and sadness. Using the films of Robert Blanchon, Michael Brynntrup, and Charles Lofton, I argue that these works, by reusing found footage from 1970s and 1980s gay pornography, call attention to the disappearance of the gay sexual archive with the advent of AIDS and the de-generation of analog media. The reanimation of obsolete formats, including celluloid film and VHS video, in these found footage films constitute a witnessing and a memorialization of a lost sexual culture. I contend that these films demonstrate how personal porn archiving ensures the survival of public sexual histories and memories.
Sponsored by English and Comparative Literature, Humanities in Action and LGBTQ Research Consortium
Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display
Dr. Jennifer Tyburczy, University of California, Santa Barbara 15 March 2018, 4 pm, Room TBD
All museums are sex museums. In Sex Museums, Jennifer Tyburczy takes a hard look at the formation of Western sexuality—particularly how categories of sexual normalcy and perversity are formed—and asks what role museums have played in using display as a technique for disciplining sexuality. Most museum exhibits, she argues, assume that white, patriarchal heterosexuality and traditional structures of intimacy, gender, and race represent national sexual culture for their visitors. Sex Museums illuminates the history of such heteronormativity at most museums and proposes alternative approaches for the future of public display projects, while also offering the reader curatorial tactics—what she calls queer curatorship—for exhibiting diverse sexualities in the twenty-first century.
Tyburczy shows museums to be sites of culture-war theatrics, where dramatic civic struggles over how sex relates to public space, genealogies of taste and beauty, and performances of sexual identity are staged. Delving into the history of erotic artifacts, she analyzes how museums have historically approached the collection and display of the material culture of sex, which poses complex moral, political, and logistical dilemmas for the Western museum. Sex Museums unpacks the history of the museum and its intersections with the history of sexuality to argue that the Western museum context—from its inception to the present—marks a pivotal site in the construction of modern sexual subjectivity.
Sponsored by LGBTQ Research Consortium
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Domestic Violence Support Group (Grupo de apoyo—Violencia Domestica)
Monday (Lunes) 4:00 PM—6:00 PM For more information (para mas informacion): Eva Murguia 760-879-9202 or [email protected]
Music Club (Club de Musica)
Free (sin costo) Ages (edad) 12+ Saturdays (Sabados) 4:00 PM—6:00 PM For more info (para mas informacion): Camden Aguilera 760-592-4066
Counseling Services (Consejeria) Free (sin costo)
Tuesday (Martes), Wednesday (Miercoles) & Thursday (Jueves) 10AM—12PM By appointment only (solo con cita previa): 760-592-4066 Bilingual—English/Spanish (Ingles/Español)
Support Group for Family & Allies of LGBT
Wednesdays (Miercoles) 7:00 PM Open to all who have loved ones who are LGBT (Abierto para familias y amigos de personas LGBT) For more information (para mas informacion) 760-592-4066
Bi Coming out Group at the LGBT Center in San Diego
Join The Center's discussion group on bisexuality on the third Wednesday of every month from 7-8:30 pm. It's a welcoming space to share your experiences, ask questions, discuss community issues and meet like-minded people. This group is open to all persons who are sexually and/or emotionally attracted to more than one gender. For more information, contact Aaron Heier at [email protected]
Campus--Past Events
Celebrate International Women's Day
Bonnie Zimmerman Lecture: The Movement from Native American Gender Fluidity to Colonial Eradication to the Two-Spirit Movement
March 8, noon – 3 pm
Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center, SDSU
Featured panelists: Dr. Sabine Lang, University of Hamburg and Karen Vigneault, MA, SDSU, Peace and Dignity Project in Tecate
Film: Kumu Hina
International Women's Day, March 8, 6-8 pm in Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center
The film features Hina Wong-Kalu, a native Hawaiian teacher and mahu--those who embody the male and female spirits
Sponsors: Women's Studies Bread and Roses Center, Common Experience, Bonnie Zimmerman Lecture, American Indian Studies, and the Pride Center
Transgender Day of Remembrance
November 17, 2017
March begins at 6:15am
Flag lowering at 6:30am
Remembering those that lost their lives for being who they are. Join us for a march from The Pride Center to the Conrad Prebys Aztec Students Union flag pole for a transgender flag lowering.
Looking Forward and Building Power: A Post -Election Discussion
Monday, November 14, 2pm
Little Theater LT 161
This conversation will focus on gender, race, sexuality, immigration, and religion and the election. We'll be discussing:
- The election's impact on schools and universities
- How we can protect the vulnerable and marginalized
- First steps at bilding community to create change
The event will be facilitated by: Facilitated by faculty and staff from: The Center for Latin American Studies, Africana Studies, American Indian Studies, Chicano/a Studies, Religious Studies, Women's Studies & the Women's Resource Center
National Coming Out Day
October 18th/6-8pm
at the Aztec Student Union Templo Mayor
Panel on less visible identities in the LGBTQ+ communities
Refreshments will be provided
Co-Sponsored by: Women's Resource Center and The Pride Center
The Bread and Roses Center of the Department of Women’s Studies at SDSU presents Feminist Research Colloquia
LGBT in Georgia and South Caucasus: History, Activism and Politics
Tamta Melashvili
Wednesday, Sept. 28, noon - 1pm
The Pride Center, SDSU
Tamta Melashvili is a feminist activist and writer residing in Tbilisi, Georgia. Since 2012 she works as a researcher and teacher at the Institute of Gender Studies, Tbilisi State University. Tamta got MA degree in Gender Studies (2008) from Central European University (Budapest, Hungary). Her current research interests are women’s and gender history, queer and feminist activism.
Cosponsored by the Pride Center and the LGBTQ Faculty Research Consortium
Queer Entanglements: Interdisciplinarity and LGBTQ Studies
One Day Symposium
San Diego State University
Friday, April 29, 2016
The LGBTQ Research Consortium is happy to announce a one-day symposium for spring 2016.
We will welcome two plenary speakers for the event, but the primary focus will be on the research of our own faculty and students. To that end, the symposium will feature panels of "lightning talks" (short 5-6 minute presentations) in order to highlight the wide variety of LGBTQ research on our campus.
Guest Speakers:
Juana María Rodríguez (University California, Berkeley) "Seeing Sexual Labor: The Women of Casa Xochiquetzal"
Anthony Ocampo (Pomona College) "Out in LA: Race, Masculinity, and Sexuality in the Immigrant City"
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 2pm-4pm Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center
SDSU’s 7th annual Lavender Graduation is to celebrate graduating students who openly identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex or allies.
2016 Distinguished Awardees: Senator Marty Block,Jan Garbosky, Wesley Paláu, and Professor Allison Vaughn
This event is sponsored by: Robert DeKoven, Aaron Bruce from The President’s Office, SafeZones@SDSU, the Office of Diversity & Inclusion, LGBT Studies, the Pride Center, Counseling and Psychological Services, Intercultural Relations, Gamma Rho Lambda, Delta Lambda Phi, Queer Student Union, SDSU LGBT Aztec Alumni Chapter, and the Women’s Studies Department
Voices of Change: Conversations with an International Woman of Courage: Nisha Ayub
Tuesday, April 5 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
We invite you to a public discussion with Nisha Ayub, Malaysia’s brave transgender activist and human rights defender. Nisha Ayub is a leading advocate for transgender rights in Malaysia and 1 of 14 honorees selected for the 2016 Secretary of State's International Women of Courage Award.
Event is sponsored by: The Pride Center at SDSU, San Diego Diplomacy Council, San Diego Pride, and the U.S. Department of State
Location: Jeffrey W. Glazer Center for Leadership and Service, located in Student Life & Leadership, Aztec Student Union, Room 220. Upon arrival to the Aztec Student Union, follow signs to Student Life & Leadership
Parking: Please park in Parking Structure 6 on levels 1-3. Please ensure to purchase a parking permit.
Same-Sex Love and Desire among Muslim Women
Prof. Huma Ghosh (Women's Studies)
Thursday, 2/11 from 12:30-1:45 pm at The Pride Center
Dr. Huma Ahmed-Ghosh is Professor and Chair of the Department of Women's Studies at San Diego State University. She is also on the Advisory Board of the Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies and the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies . Her research focuses on women in Afghanistan, Muslim immigrant women to the USA, and Islam and feminism.
SafeZones @SDSU and SafeZones Outreach Student Organization
Join us for a movie night!
Paris Is Burning
Thursday October 22 7-9PM
in Arts and Letters 204
Discussion will follow the film.
"'What’s Your Gaydar Telling You?': Untangling Gender and Sexual Orientation in Gaydar Research"
Dr. Arianne Miller (Department of Counseling and School Psychology, SDSU)
Thursday, 10/29 from 4:00-5:30 at The Pride Center
Over the past 30 years, “gaydar" has moved from being a popular in-group term used among LGBTQ communities, to a concept and phenomenon that is the focus of scientific study. This talk discusses recent findings and trends in gaydar research. Recent studies, for example, provide evidence that gaydar may exist, yet they also have the tendency to use gender nonconformity as a proxy for homosexuality and to use gaydar as a means of establishing homosexuality as a visually detectable identity. The talk will address how the research masks gender diversity among gay and straight individuals as well as reproduces traditional racialized archetypes of femininity and masculinity.
"Young, Effeminate, and Strange: The Debut of Truman Capote"
Dr. Jeff Solomon (Department of English, USC)
Thursday, 10/1 from 4:00-5:30 pm in Templo Mayor, Aztec Student Union
How did young Truman Capote, a gay writer who closeted neither his person nor his writing, succeed amidst the homophobia and censorship of 1947?This talk will explore how Capote vaulted himself into celebrity through a campaign of photographic self-representation that portrayed him as young, effeminate, and strange—a triad of broad queerness that both broadcasted and disguised Capote’s homosexuality and climaxed with the spectacular notoriety of the dust jacket of his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms.
Our Stories: Finding LGBTQQIA Communities Over Time
Wednesday October 7th
Scripps Cottage, SDSU
4-6 pm
Refreshments will be served
See you there! Seating is limited so please arrive early
"Invisible and Ambiguous Bodies: An Analysis of Asian Americans in Orange Is the New Black"
Dr. Minjeong Kim (Department of Sociology, SDSU)
Wednesday, 9/16 from 2:00-3:30 pm at Scripps Cottage
In this presentation, Dr. Kim critically examines the two Asian American characters --Chang and Soso-- whose bodies are marginalized and ridiculed in the setting of women’s prison named Litchfield Penitentiary. Many mainstream films and television shows that have attempted to tackle racial issues or represented racial diversity have failed to present meaningful images of Asian Americans and perpetuated unflattering, stereotypical representations of Asian American characters. Despite both characters’ queerness--Chang’s androgyny or genderqueer, and Soso’s same-sex intimacy, this presentation argues that the show has yet to challenge racial images. This presentation discusses various issues related to Asian American images in popular culture, such as American orientalism, intersectionality, and representation of Asian American LGBTQ and interracial intimacy.
Tuesday, 5/5 from 11:00 am-12:30 pm Location: Leadership Center at the Aztec Student Union
Professor Gonzalez-Rivera will talk about her latest book project, a co-authored account of Nicaragua’s LGBT history from the early twentieth century to the present. The lecture will address the tensions inherent in writing a book that documents the history of LGBT activism, as well as the lives of regular people who tried very hard to avoid being caught by the historical record.
SafeZones@SDSU and the SafeZones Outreach Student Org are collaborating on a Film Night that will be held on April 7th from 7-10pm. We will be showing Pride and having a discussion panel afterwards featuring some local LGBTQ activists in the community.
Refreshments will be served.
"Attitudes Toward Sexual Minorities: A Social Psychological Perspective"
Dr. Allison Vaughn
Thursday, 3/19 from 1:00-2:30 pm
Location: The Pride Center
Free event and open to the public
Research on attitudes toward sexual minorities reflects the multifaceted nature of attitudes as well as the diversity of this inclusive group. Attitudes contain cognitive (i.e., stereotypes), affective (i.e., prejudice), and behavioral (i.e., discrimination) components in both their formation and expression. This talk will focus on the use of two social psychological models to examine attitudes towards sexual minorities: the Stereotype Content Model and the Behaviors from Intergroup Affect and Stereotypes map.
"Public Health Research on Substance Use in LGBT Populations"
Dr. Heather Corliss
Monday, 3/2 from 1:00-2:30 pm Location: The Pride Center
Free event and open to the public
Advances in public health research has lead to the identification of disparities in unhealthy substance use and substance use disorders in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender populations compared to heterosexual cisgender populations. This presentation will summarize the major findings from this body of research, describe what we know about potential causes, and discuss the public health community's response to addressing these disparities.
"Erotics of Disproportion: Suicide and the Golden Gate Bridge as Anti-Memorial"
Dr. Yetta Howard
Tuesday, 2/17 from 1:00-2:30 pm Location: The Pride Center
Free event and open to the public
This talk explores the Golden Gate Bridge as an unlikely memorial to the suicidal subjects who have jumped to their deaths from it. Building on the question of memorializing via bodily architectures and queer phenomenology, Howard turns to experimental documentary to theorize the erotic potentials of suicidal relationality.
San Diego State University’s Pride Center and Queer Student Union would like to invite you to our first large scale dance: The Spring Queertillion. We are so excited to invite you to our Spring Queertillion, as this is SDSU’s first semi-formal gathering for the queer community! This is intended for all college and universities in San Diego County.
There is a limited capacity for the space and entrance will be first come. The event will take place on Friday, February 13, 2015 from 8:30pm to 12:30am. The event will take place in Montezuma Hall, which is located on the East side of the second floor of the Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union on San Diego State’s campus.
Acclaimed novelist Michael Nava will discuss his new work The City of Palaces, a tale of interwoven lives: Miguel and Alicia; José, a boy as beautiful and lonely as a child in a fairy tale; the idealistic Francisco Madero, who overthrows Díaz but is nevertheless destroyed by the tyrant's political system; and Miguel's cousin Luis, shunned as a "sodomite." A glittering mosaic of the colonial past and the wealth of the modern age, The City of Palaces is a story of faith and reason, cathedrals and hovels, barefoot street vendors and frock-coated businessmen, grand opera and silent film, presidents and peasants, the living and the dead.
Call for Papers: SDSU LGBT Consortium
The Coming of Age of LGBTQ Studies:Past, Present, and Future San Diego State University April 17-18, 2015
We invite proposals that explore and interrogate issues related to the place of LGBTQ studies in the academy. The organizing committee is particularly interested in papers that address the opportunities and challenges that face LGBTQ Studies in the current moment, that highlight current research trends, or that focus on interdisciplinary approaches. We encourage proposals from a diverse range of disciplinary fields, approaches, and methodologies.
Interested scholars are invited to submit abstracts of no more than 300 words, along with a brief CV (including name, email address, and institutional affiliation), to [email protected] by November 1, 2014.
The Queer Life of Diaspora: Race, Religion, and Resistance in Colorblind Europe
Lecture by Prof. Fatima El-Tayeb, Literature, UCSD
October 23, 2:00-4:00pm
Park Boulevard Room, Aztec Student Union
This talk takes a comparative approach to processes of radicalization in order to both complicate US-centric readings of (post)raciality and to challenge notions of a colorblind Europe. Focusing on translocal queer of color activism across the continent, Prof. El-Tayeb traces racialized communities’ resistance to a system of neoliberal multiculturalism that is as present on the continent as in the US.
LGBTQ Research Consortium: Challenges and Opportunities in Studying the Longest 'Legal' Same-Sex Couples in North America
Lecture by Prof. Esther Rothblum, Women's Studies
October 8, 12:00-1:30pm
The Pride Center (corner of Lindo Paseo Ave. and Campanile Dr.
In the year 2000, Vermont became the first state in the U.S. (and before any province of Canada) to legalize same-sex relationship in the form of civil unions (same-sex marriage would not be legal until 2005 in Massachusetts). This longitudinal study follows several hundred couples over time: same-sex couples who had civil unions in Vermont during the first year of that legislation, same-sex couples in their friendship circle who did not have civil unions, and heterosexual married siblings. The study focuses on couples who have since gotten married as well as those that have terminated their relationship, focusing on a number of demographic, psychological, and relationship variables.
National Coming Out Day
Join us and our on-camous supporters!
Panel Discussion: How "ComingOut" Imapcts Relationshsips
for Students, Faculty and Community Members
Thursday, October 9th, 2014 12:oo PM- 2:00 PM Scripps Cottage on SDSUCampus
LGBTQ Research Consortium: We Were Never Meant to Survive: Coalition Building in Queer Times
Lecture by Prof. Andreana Clay, Sociology, San Francisco State University
September 25, 4:00pm-6:00pm
Lipinsky Hospitality Center in Student Services West
LGBTQ Research Consortium: Sappho's Erased Sexuality: Lesbian Lyrics and Early Renaissance Humanism
Lecture by Prof. Walter Penrose, History
September 11, 12:00-1:30pm The Pride Center (corner of Lindo Paseo Ave. and Campanile Dr.)
Although Sappho was revered as the greatest woman poet of all time by the Greeks, in late antiquity and the Middle Ages, Sappho was vilified for her sexuality. In the initial stages of the Renaissance, however, humanists “rehabilitated” Sappho’s virtue in a Christian context where same-sex love was considered an “unmentionable” vice. In this context, Sappho's love for other women was simply not mentioned. Desperate times call for desperate measures: Sappho was perhaps the most famous and skilled woman who had ever lived, and her example was pivotal in the Humanist quest to improve the lot of women in the late medieval era, a time of extreme misogyny. At the apex of this effort, Sappho's skill was used to argue that women were better than men by Bartolommeo Goggio. Sappho was an extraordinarily gifted individual, the prototype "Lesbian," and, in Goggio's reading, a member of the "first sex."
Intertsectionality & Advocacy in SOGI & LGBTQIA Communities
SafeZones@SDSU presents
A Skype conference between San Diego State University and the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
April 16, 2014 9 am to 11 am
Post-Conference Discussion 11 am to 12 pm
Student Life and Leadership Conference Room, Second Floor
Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union
Join us for a discussion of how our intersectional identities based on race, gender, sexuality, class, culture, age, ability/disability, and other factors impact advocacy in SOGI (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity) and LGBTQIA communities.
Co-sponsored by: LGBT Studies, LGBTQ Research Consortium, The Pride Center, College of Arts and Letters, Office of Diversity, Office of Intercultural Relations
Trans* Week of Empowerment
Panel Discussion
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 5-7pm
SDSU, Scripps Cottage
Department of Women’s Studies Counseling and Psychological Services The Pride Center Queer Student Union College of Arts and Letter Center for Intercultural Relations Student Life and Leadership LGBT Studies
Trans* Week of Empowerment is April 7th - 11th!
Monday, 4/7/2014
Flag Raising Ceremony 12PM-1PM Location: Hepner Hall at the flag pole Presented by The Pride Center
Trans* 101 1PM-2PM Location: The Pride Center
Tuesday, 4/8/2014
TRANS* Panel Discussion 5-PM-7PM Location: Scripps Cottage Presented by Safe Zones
Trans* 101 1PM-2PM Location: The Pride Center
Wednesday, 4/9/2014
Trans* The Documentary 6PM · 9PM Location: Theater in Conrad Presby Aztec Student Union Discussion Panel Presented by Queer Student Union
Trans* 101 12PM-1PM Location: The Pride Center
Thursday, 4/10/2014
Take Back the Night 4PM-8PM Location: North Grand Hall Entrance, Conrad Presby Aztec Student Union Presented by Womyn's Outreach Association
Trans* 101 12PM-1PM Location: The Pride Center
Friday, 4/11/2014
Candlelit Vigil, Day of Silence ALL DAY Location: The Pride Center & Queer Student Union Presented by Queer People of Color Collective
Trans* 101 12PM-1PM Location: The Pride Center
Professor Emeritus Oliva Espin
"An illness we catch from American women?": Lesbian Identities and Migration
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Location: The Pride Center
Professor Doug Bigham (Linguistics)
April 15, 2014 (Tuesday) @12:00-1:30 pm Location: The Pride Center
"Queer Accents & Linguistic Identity"
Queer People of Color Conference
May 2-3
May 2
Opening At the LGBT Center in Hillcrest
May 3
Workshops At San Diego State University
The conference will have three consecutive sessions that align with the theme of this year’s conference, which is “(in)VISIBLE: Our Story, Our Life and Future".
March 5, 2014 (Wednesday)@4:00-5:30 pm Location: The Pride Center
"Why is there Same-Sex Marriage in Argentina? A Comparative Analysis of Recent History of Sexuality and LGBT politics in Latin America and the United States"
Documentary filmmaker Christie Herring
March 12, 2104 (Wednesday)@ 2-4 pm Location: The Center for Leadership and Service (second floor of the Aztec Student Union)
Ms. Herring will screen her acclaimed film The Campaign, which focuses on the Proposition 8 campaign from the perspective of those working to prevent its passage.The screening will also include an opportunity for a question-and-answer discussion with Ms. Herring.
Know your status! HIV Testing
Tuesday, February 25th 10am to 5pm Free movie ticket for getting tested
Dr. Anna Muraco, from Loyola Marymount University (Sociology)
Dr. Muraco will be giving a lecture focused on her research with LGBTQ populations.She will discuss her recently published book, Odd Couples: Friendships at the Intersection of Gender and Sexual Orientation (Duke UP), and she will also discuss her current research, which focuses on LGBTQ seniors.
“The Transgender Day of Remembrance was set aside to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. The event is held in November to honor Rita Hester, whose [1998] murder, […] like most anti-transgender murder cases, has yet to be solved. It raises public awareness of hate crimes against transgender people, an action that current media doesn’t perform. Day of Remembrance pub-licly mourns and honors the lives of our brothers and sisters who might otherwise be forgotten.“ (From: Remembering our Dead Web Project and The Transgender Day of Remembrance)
