Diversity Week at CSULB
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Resource Center at California State University, Long Beach will host LGBT Diversity Week 2009 on April 13-16. The week features a series of public education programs designed to highlight diversity within the LGBT community. This event seeks to explore intersections among identities like sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, spirituality and socio-economic status. These conversations are considered especially important given the homophobic and racist fissures exposed in communities of color and the LGBT community in the wake of Prop. 8’s passage.
Sponsored by the LGBT Resource Center at CSULB; Student Life and Development; Counseling and Psychological Services; Division of Student Services; University Bookstore; the Departments of Human Development, Chicana/o & Latina/o Studies, Women’s Studies, Peace Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Geography, Africana Studies, History, and Middle Eastern Studies; Queer Ink; Delta Lambda Phi; Alpha Phi Omega; LGBT Artist Collective; the Multicultural Center; and the Shoreline Frontrunners of Long Beach.
MONDAY, APRIL 13
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Prop 8 and Single Issue Politics Panel Presentation: LGBT Professors Discuss Intersections of Sexual Orientation, Race and Religion (University Student Union, Alamitos Bay Room)
TUESDAY, APRIL 14
11 am - 3 pm
Whiteness and Privilege Symposium: Understanding How Well-Intentioned White People and Social Systems Maintain Inequality (University Student Union, Ballrooms)
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15
10 am - 2 pm
Day of Silence: Student Open Mic, Resource Fair, & Art Gallery (Speaker’s Platform, by the Bookstore)
4 - 6 pm
LGBTQIA Campus Public Forum: Learn about LGBTQIA Campus Resources and Share Experiences about Being LGBTQIA on Campus (University Student Union, Beach Auditorium)
THURSDAY, APRIL 16
4 - 8 pm
Butchlalis de Panochtitlan: A Performance Art Play about Butch Lesbian Chicana Experiences (University Student Union, Beach Auditorium)