GLBTQ Awareness Week (Fall 2005)

Purpose
GLBTQA Awareness Week is centered around the National Coming Out Day on October 11th every year. It has been established to bring the GLBTQA community into the mainstream Loyola community and let people see what the culture is really like.

The goals of the week are to:

• Provide the Loyola community with an understanding of the discrimination underrepresented by the GLBTQ community.
• Educate the Loyola community on GLBTQ issues.
• Provide a safe and supporting environment for people of all groups to discuss and interact with each other.

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Other Years
2006
2004

October 17 th - October 21 st , 2005

Monday

Should there be GLBTQ Initiatives at a Jesuit University Like Loyola? : A Panel Discussion
•  Hosted by: Advocate
•  Time: 7:30pm
•  Location: McCormick Lounge
A discussion with Fr. Salmi (Administration), Judith Wittner (Faculty - Sociology), and Fr. D. Godfrey (University Ministry). The panel will address the religious and academic basis for allowing, or NOT allowing, GLBTQ initiatives at a Jesuit university.

Tuesday

"In Good Conscience" Movie
•  Hosted by: Sociology, Theology, Ministry, Anthropology, Women's Studies, Gannon Center
•  Time: 7:30pm
•  Location: Crown Center Auditorium
The film is a story about Catholic sister Jeannine Grammick who defied a silencing order by the Vatican to continue her pastoral ministry among GLBTQ folks and their families.  It is a very powerful story about non-violent resistence to oppression. 

Wednesday

Service Day
•  Hosted by: Advocate
•  Time: Various
•  Location: Vital Bridges

Prayer Service
•  Hosted by: Advocate and Ministry
•  Time: 7pm
•  Location: Ministry
During LGBTQ Awareness Week, Advocate co-sponsors an interfaith prayer service with University Ministry. For the past few years, the service has been held as a service for the healing of homophobia. However, the theme may change according to the organizers' wishes, as long as it is LGBTQ awareness-themed and interfaith in nature. The prayer service is student-led and usually incorporates music, meditation, prayer, and a candle-lighting ceremony.

Coming Out Discussion
•  Hosted by: GLBTI Committee of the Graduate Student Association of the School of Social Work and Advocate
•  Time: 7pm
•  Location: 25 E. Pearson Room 202
Panel presentation of Loyola Students discussing their process of "Coming Out" and the issues/challenges they faced in becoming open about their sexuality.  A Q&A to follow.

Thursday  

Angels in America Readings
•  Hosted by: Theatre Department
•  Time: 7:30pm
•  Location: Mullady Theatre
Part of the Fall Platform Reading Series; a reading of Tony Kushner's ground breaking award winning play by the case of "The Laramie Project" followed by a panel discussion on "Re-creating Community in a Diseased Culture: AIDS, Homophobia, and American Ideologies"

Friday

Awareness Week Concert
•  Hosted by: Advocate
•  Time: Doors open 6:30pm, Starts at 7:00pm
•  Location: McCormick Lounge
Veteran singer/songwriter Sacha Sacket returns to Loyola while in the process of creating his third album. For more information on Sacha please visit www.sachasacket.com .

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