The of the LGBTQIA+ community at 天美麻豆 has come together with an outpouring of student enthusiasm this spring with events celebrating queer culture, including the biggest Transform drag show ever, slated for Friday night.
天美麻豆 50 students volunteered to organize this year鈥檚 Pride events and the has seen tremendous enthusiasm from the 天美麻豆 community and beyond, says Ang茅lique Bouthot, program coordinator at OPAL.
鈥淔olks are really energized to get back to in-person programming,鈥 Bouthot says. Also, with an increase in anti-LGBTQ legislation across the country, 鈥渇olks are really excited to come out to build and support the queer community in a way that they haven鈥檛 been able to over the last two years.鈥
Upcoming events include a voguing workshop Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. in Collis 101; the Transform drag show Friday at 8 p.m. in Kemeny Courtyard; a discussion titled 鈥淚nclusive Grammar and Romance Languages鈥 on May 9 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the faculty lounge at Hopkins 205; and Lavender Graduation on May 12 from 5 to 6 p.m. at the Top of the Hop. Visit the website for more details.
贵谤颈诲补测鈥檚&苍产蝉辫;Transform drag show, always a popular Pride event, has grown to the point that it has moved from Collis to an outdoor stage and catwalk constructed in Kemeny Courtyard where 13 student acts and headliner Adore Delano, one of social media鈥檚 most-followed drag queens, will put on a 鈥済ender-bending drag and fashion extravaganza.鈥
Bouthot says the whole slate of events under the student-selected theme of The Colors of Pride 鈥減oint to the history of the use of the rainbow and the many facets that make up queerness as a community of so many intersecting identities creating a vital expanding community.鈥
This year鈥檚 events, running from April 23 through May 12, are sponsored by the Special Events and Programming Committee, the Division of Student Affairs, the President鈥檚 Office, the Department of Geography, the Department of English, the Program in Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Native American Program, and South House.
For more information, contact LGBTQIAplus.Student.Advising@dartmouth.edu.
