Queer History Month 2022
Monday, October 3, 2022
Queer History Month Kick-Off
Hosted by the LGBTQ+ Center
2:00 – 4:00 pm | Manchester Plaza
Join the LGBTQ+ Center staff and students for our official kick-off to Queer History Month 2022! Drop by for awesome LGBTQ+ Center swag like our signature Love is Love shirts, and sign up for our QHM Book Club featuring the Memory Librarian. Enjoy food, activities, and more as we celebrate the start to a packed month!
Tuesday, October 4, 2022
D.E.A.C. Allies: LGBTQ+ 101
Hosted by the LGBTQ+ Center
10:00 – 11:30 am | Virtual via Zoom
LGBTQ+ 101 is the first in our Developing Empowering and Affirming Communities (D.E.A.C.) Allies series. It offers a general introduction into the LGBTQ+ community including expanding and questioning assumptions, discussing terminology, and analyzing the experiences of LGBTQ+ people within our communities.
GendEx: Identity Space
Hosted by the LGBTQ+ Center
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm | LGBTQ+ Center
GendEx is a space that invites nonbinary, trans, and other gender exploring folks to come together in a supportive and affirming community where we will explore gender and its many impacts and implications on lived experience. RSVPs are appreciated but not required.
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
Qinfolk: Identity Space
Hosted by the LGBTQ+ Center
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm | LGBTQ+ Center
QinFolk is a space that explores the intersectional experiences of BIPOC LGBTQ+ students in a supportive and affirming environment that fosters community building. RSVPs are appreciated but not required.
Thursday, October 6, 2022
Queer First Year: Identity Space
Hosted by the LGBTQ+ Center
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm | LGBTQ+ Center
Queer First Year is an identity space that explores LGBTQ+ experiences for incoming students in a supportive and affirming environment that fosters community building. RSVPs are appreciated but not required.
Friday, October 7, 2022
Family Weekend Open House
Hosted by the LGBTQ+ Center
1:00 – 3:00 pm | LGBTQ+ Center
Join LGBTQ+ Center staff and students as we share space together in the Center as a community during Family Weekend. Bring the folks visiting you for Family Weekend, or join in with your Center family here in support of one another. Snacks will be provided.
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
D.E.A.C. Allies: The Gender Binary and Beyond
Hosted by the LGBTQ+ Center
10:00 – 11:30 am | LGBTQ+ Center
The Gender Binary and Beyond is the second in our core series of Developing Empowering and Affirming Communities (D.E.A.C.) Allies workshops. This workshop centers on gender, including gender identity, gender expression, and analyzing the myriad ways individuals may experience gender. Participants will develop skills for ensuring spaces are inclusive for people of all genders.
Monday, October 17, 2022
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Joanna Schwartz
Hosted by the School of Business
3:30 pm | Broyhill Auditorium, Farrell Hall
On Monday, October 17, at 3:30pm, the School of Business in partnership with the Office of Diversity & Inclusion will host Dr. Joanna Schwartz (she/her/hers), a speaker, researcher, and consultant in marketing and inclusion, as our keynote speaker in honor of LGBTQ History Month. This will take place in Farrell Hall in Broyhill Auditorium.
Covering topics such as LGBTQ marketing, targeting, intersectionality, and political expression, this speaker event will provide a supportive and informative space for all Wake Forest students, faculty, and staff. A closing reception will follow.
Making Queer Histories Accessible
Hosted by Center for Learning, Access, and Student Success (CLASS) and Information Systems
6:00 – 7:30 pm | WakerSpace
This is a skill-building workshop and collective working session to think through how to make archives and projects that center the stories and histories of queer people accessible, i.e. how to write good alt text and image descriptions, how to write transcripts for audio content, and how to create subtitles or captions for video content.
Queer Bible Study
Hosted by Wake Forest Baptist Church
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm | Davis Chapel
The purpose of this program is to highlight queer people of faith. To emphasize that you can be queer and a Christian. We will be telling stories of influential queer people of faith like Pauli murray, rev. Mychal judge (saint of 9/11), churches that performed same sex marriages and supported people during the aids epidemic.
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
DEAC Allies: Skill Development
Hosted by the LGBTQ+ Center
10:00 am – 12:00 pm | Virtual
Skill Development and Practice is the third workshop in the core trio and is primarily focused on providing space for D.E.A.C. Allies participants to put their knowledge into practice. This highly interactive workshop will include opportunities for reflection, dialogue, practice, and more. Register on Workday Learning.
Student Government is hosting a D&I Panel with new affinity center directors Monique Gore, Kayla Lisenby-Denson (interim Director), and Shelley Sizemore. This panel is to introduce our new directors and get to know them, their centers, and their goals. The event is open to all.
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Thursday, October 27, 2022
Register here for the Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth webinar.