Thank you for all your feedback regarding our new Newsletter format!  Many of your suggestions have been adopted, including the name "Reaching Out," which was the original name of our Newlsletter some years back. We welcome your continued suggestions.

We have co-hosted two wonderful Harvey Milk events since our last Newsletter: one at IUPUI on October 9 and one at IU South Bend on October 12.  Both were well-attended, fun and inspirational and reached a particularly large group of students and young people.  Both, of course, paid tribute to one of our community's heroes, Harvey Milk, the first openly-gay elected public official in the Nation.  Kand McQueen, PhD, a national expert regarding gender identity, spoke at IUPUI and Gavin Ferlic, South Bend Councilman, spoke at IUSB.  Part of the GLBTAA mission is to build on Harvey Milk's legacy of strength, vision and LGBT equality.  We also co-hosted Chaz Bono's visit to the Bloomington campus on October 4, another successful event.  Bono's main appearance at the IU Auditorium addressed gender identity and his 40-year struggle to match his gender identity with his physical body.

In this Newsletter, we are announcing plans for our Fifth Celebration Weekend the first week of February.  Hope to visit with you then!  

Mike Shumate, GLBTAA President

[email protected]  

  

Grazie, '12

The GLBTAA is proud to announce its fifth annual Celebration Weekend February 1-3! Coinciding with the Bloomington PRIDE Film Festival, our Celebration Weekend offers faculty, staff, alumni, students and friends a wonderful schedule of diverse and fun-filled events throughout the first weekend in February. The main events are:

Reception at the Lilly Library

~ Friday, February 1, 2013, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.

~ For parking information and directions to the Library, please visit http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/info-directions.shtml

The Lilly Library is one of the largest rare book and manuscript libraries in the nation, home to such rare items as a Gutenberg Bible and a copy of the Declaration of Independence. What a fabulous way to to start the evening of films at the PRIDE Film Festival! Admission is free with complimentary hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar. We will be bestowing the GLBTAA Distinguished Alumni Award at this event. The name of the 2013 recipient will be announced in our November Newsletter. The GLBT Student Support Services office will also be presenting its annual Spirit Awards.

GLBTAA Annual Board Meeting

~ Saturday, February 2, 2013, 10:00 a.m. - noon

~ DeVault Alumni Center,1000 E. 17th St. (parking available in lot west of building)

Grazie! Reception and Silent Auction                     

~ Saturday, February, 2, 2013, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.

~ Grazie! Italian Eatery, 106 W. Sixth St.

~ Cost is $20 per person, which includes a glass of wine

Please join us for an early evening of hors d'oeuvres, rainbow martinis, jazz piano, a silent auction and much, much more! What a great way to see old friends and make new ones before attending one of the films, or any other of the events, during this special Saturday evening. All net proceeds benefit our various GLBTAA events, programs and scholarships. A reservation site will be available in our November Newsletter. If you wish, you will also be able to contribute to pay for one or more Grazie tickets for IU students. The GLBTAA Board will administer the distribution of all such donated tickets to students. Thank you in advance for any student ticket donations you may elect to make. Please look for the reservation site in our next Newsletter.

Bagels and Coffee at the GLBTSSS Office

~ Sunday, February 3, 2013, 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.

~ GLBT Student Support Services Office, 705 E. Seventh St. (across from the IMU)

Wrap up the weekend with coffee and bagels at the GLBTSSS Office, a "home away from home" for countless of our IUB students for over 17 years. If you haven't already done so, come by and take a tour of the fairly recent renovations to the office - a perfect way to complete the weekend's festivities.    

GLBTSSS

 2. GLBTSSS Office

We receive numerous requests for information about the IU GLBT Student Support Services Office ("GLBTSSS") on the Bloomington campus. The GLBTSSS has provided a "home away from home" and rendered critically important services to our students for over 17 years. We are only too pleased to pass along information about the GLBTSSS and its countless good deeds. We intend to post this and related information in future Newsletters periodically.

The GLBTSSS website is: www.iub.edu/~glbt/. As you move from its home page, you'll want to click on "Office Staff" to become acquainted with some of the amazing people, who work in the office, as well as "About Us", where you'll find a number of the GLBTSSS Annual Reports. Written in narrative style, you'll learn the stories of the various students, staff, faculty, alumni and parents, who have have been associated with the office over the years The 2011 Annual Report will give you news of the recent renovations to the "old house" occupied since 1994. As a result of changes in the IU Division of Student Affairs, the GLBTSSS now occupies most of the space of the newly renovated house. The office now has an impressive library, a welcoming reception area and room for interns and student volunteers from the School of Education, Social Work, and Library and Information Services.

It's an exciting, yet challenging, time to be advocating for LGBT issues and supporting LGBT individuals.  As you peruse these web pages, feel free to e-mail ([email protected]), call the office (812-855-4252), or drop by and visit when you're in the neighborhood - and see first-hand the extraordinary work being performed by the GLBTSSS! The coffee pot is usually on, and personnel will be delighted to share with you some of the positive energy experienced each and every day. Special thanks go to two of our heroes:   Doug Bauder, Coordinator, and Carol Fischer, Office Supervisor, of the GLBTSSS!

The GLBTAA has had a Facebook page for some time now, but some of you may not be aware of it.  If you haven't already done so, check out our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/iuglbtaa.  "Like" our page and then you will automatically get our Facebook posts regarding news, updates and information of our events.

GLBTAA Academic Scholarships  Academic Scholarships are awarded to IU students enrolled at any IU campus, who are academically strong, as well as active in promoting diversity, tolerance and social justice. Scholarships are awarded to students based upon academic achievement, career goals, financial need, leadership experience, community service and extracurricular activities. Involvement in activities promoting diversity and raising awareness of GLBT and related issues on the student's campus or in his or her community is carefully reviewed by the Board. The maximum award for an Academic Scholarship is $1,000 per semester. An individual student may not receive more than $2,000. The deadline for the Spring 2013 semester is November 15, 2012.