The Institute for LGBTQ Studies

The Institute brings people and ideas together to conduct LGBTQ+ research, design LGBTQ+ relevant curricula, and develop public LGBTQ+ focused programming.

Events

6 p.m. Nov. 6, 2019

Creating Good-enough Containers: Reflections on Queerness in Community-based Museum Education

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6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Nov. 9, 2019

Artistic InQUEERies: An evening of LGBTQ+ Art, Culture, and Expression

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News

Despite TUSD voting delay, LGBTQ+ parents, students, and community members aren't backing down from the fight

Monday

Last week, the TUSD board's vote to implement an updated version of the Family Life Curriculum (FLC) was delayed in order to make more time for the board to "consider" Superintendent Gabriel Trujillo's abstinence-centered modifications to the curriculum.

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CFP: Queer Displacements

Aug. 27, 2019

Questions of sexuality and refugee or migration status remain on the margins of queer and refugee movements, policy, and support services. The Humanities Research Centre invites paper and panel proposals that will respond in diverse and interdisciplinary ways to the questions of an intersection of sexuality with a refugee status, including situations when queer people fall through the cracks of common refugee or migration pathways.