LGBTQ+ Events
The new Rainbow Crosswalk located between the Student Union and The Commons. Photographer: Meredith Forrest Kulwicki
Upcoming Events
Safe Zone Training
Date & Time: Tuesday, June 22, 10:00am-12:00pm (Online)
Intended Audience: UB Faculty, Staff, and Students
A Safe Zone is an intentional space, climate and/or person that is affirming of all students, staff and faculty regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. Creating inclusive and supportive spaces for LGBTQ+ students, staff and faculty decreases stigma and increases social interactions, participation in campus activities and feelings of safety. In this interactive session, you will be introduced to what a Safe Zone is and how creating one and being a part of the Safe Zone Network, has a positive impact at the individual, group and institutional level. For more information and to register, click here.
Sponsored by Human Resources
Past Events
Fashion Show
Date & Time: Friday, April 23, 7:00-8:00pm (Online)
Intended Audience: UB Students
Show off your own meaning of Pride at our Virtual Fashion Show! Wear your best outfits and win prizes! To join, click here.
Sponsored by the Intercultural and Diversity Center
Raise Our Pride
Date & Time: Thursday, April 22, 11:00am-3:00pm (Student Union Lobby)
Intended Audience: UB Students
Let's raise our pride together! Stop by the table to receive your very own pride flag to celebrate and raise your own pride.
Sponsored by the Intercultural and Diversity Center
Lunch and Learn: LGBTQ+ Identities and Experiences
Date & Time: Wednesday, April 21, 12:00-1:00pm (Online)
Intended Audience: UB Students
The Intercultural and Diversity center invites you to a forum to explore issues around LGBTQ+ in schools and the work place. This event will feature a diverse group of individuals sharing their experiences navigating the world as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. To join, click here.
Sponsored by the Intercultural and Diversity Center
Virtual Voguing Tutorial
Date & Time: Tuesday, April 20, 6:00-7:30pm (Online)
Intended Audience: UB Students
Come learn not only how to vogue in this engaging virtual tutorial, but also to learn about it’s historical significance and relation to the LGBTQ+ community. To join, click here.
Sponsored by the Intercultural and Diversity Center
Tough Topics: LGBTQ+ Identities Within Society
Date & Time: Tuesday, April 20, 3:00-4:00pm (240 Student Union and Online)
Intended Audience: UB Students
This program will be a discussion surrounding the many identities that exist within the LBGTQIA2B+ community, and how those titles are perceived individually and within society. To join, click here.
Sponsored by the Intercultural and Diversity Center
Grab n’ Go Rainbow DIY Kits
Date & Time: Monday, April 19, 1:00-4:00pm (Student Union Lobby)
Intended Audience: UB Students
Celebrate and show pride for your own identity by making your very own pride bracelet! Supplies and instructions will be provided.
Sponsored by the Intercultural and Diversity Center
The Shapes of Fancy: Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature
Date & Time: Friday, April 16, 12:00-1:30pm (Online)
Intended Audience: UB Faculty and Staff
The Early Modern Research Workshop is inaugurating a “New Books in Dialogue” series, which brings together UB faculty and colleagues at other institutions who have newly published or soon-to-be-published books to discuss their works. Please join for a conversation with Joseph Gamble (University of Toledo) and Christine Varnado (Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies) about Varnado’s book, The Shapes of Fancy: Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature (Minnesota, 2020). Click here for more information.
Sponsored by the Humanities Institute
Transgender, Non-Binary, and Gender Non-Conforming Students: Through and Beyond the Gender Binary
Date & Time: Friday April 9, 12:00-1:30pm (Online)
Intended Audience: UB Faculty and Staff
How do we serve transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming students better? Join trans activist, writer, and UB Distinguished Visiting Scholar Eli Clare to answer this question. Issues around language, pronouns, names, restrooms, harassment, housing, and more, focusing on both policy and practice will be explored. Click here for more information.
Sponsored by Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Center for Diversity Innovation
Safe Zone Training
Date & Time: Tuesday, March 23, 10:00am-12:00pm (Online)
Intended Audience: UB Faculty and Staff
A Safe Zone is an intentional space, climate and/or person that is affirming of all students, staff and faculty regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. Creating inclusive and supportive spaces for LGBTQ+ students, staff and faculty decreases stigma and increases social interactions, participation in campus activities and feelings of safety. In this interactive session, you will be introduced to what a Safe Zone is and how creating one and being a part of the Safe Zone Network, has a positive impact at the individual, group and institutional level.
Participants will elevate their understanding, empathy and capacity to engage with colleagues and students who identify as members of the LGBTQ+ community in a welcoming and inclusive way. This session will help participants support a safe workplace community for everyone as part of their everyday work interactions in a variety of ways. Click here to learn more and to register.
Sponsored by Human Resources
Queer/Feminist New Media Tools
Date & Time: Wednesday, March 3, 12:00-1:00pm (Online)
Intended Audience: UB Faculty, Staff, and Students
Queer/feminist DH scholars and new media artists use (and critique!) technologies in order to challenge dominant narratives, biases, and cultures in digital spaces and to advocate for more socially just societies and futures. UB’s Palah Light Lab seeks to further this work through creative new media art projects that foster community and cultural critique while centering marginalized peoples. This workshop explores queer/feminist design principles through the lab’s ongoing projects in poetry and gaming (such as Trans Folks Walking, a 3D narrative video game about trans peoples and their experiences) and will introduce accessible digital tools such as Twine and Ren’Py that participants can use to create their own new media art. Click here to register.
Co-sponsored by Media Study and Global Gender Studies
Inclusion and Acceptance: Supporting LGBTQIA+ Communities
Dates: Wednesday, March 3, 10:00am (Online)
Intended Audience: UB Faculty, Staff, and Students
This workshop will provide participants an open conversation on LGBTQIA+ history, such as the Stonewall Riot and Marsha P. Johnson, as well as opportunities for participants to engage within the LGBTQIA+ community, including podcasts and musical artists. Topics surrounding exclusion, bullying, safety, as well as persistence and resilience will be discussed. Creating spaces and opportunities for LGBTQIA+ folks to be seen, heard, and feel a sense of belonging in school, family, and social systems are emphasized. Finally, this workshop will provide resources for participants to find both mental and physical health support. Click here to join.
Sponsored by Counseling Services
Transgender, Non-Binary, and Gender Non-Conforming Students: Through and Beyond the Gender Binary
Date & Time: Tuesday, March 2, 9:30-10:30am (Online)
Intended Audience: UB Faculty, Staff, and Students
How do we serve transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming students better? Join trans activist and writer Eli Clare to answer this question. Issues around language, pronouns, names, restrooms, harassment, housing, and more, focusing on both policy and practice will be explored. Click here to attend.
Sponsored by UB Student Engagement, PSS Inclusion & Diversity Committee, and the Center for Diversity Innovation
Transgender Sensitive Health Care
Date & Time: Monday, March 1, 5:00-6:00pm (Online)
Intended Audience: UB Faculty, Staff, and Students
Please join Jeff Day, DNP, AGPCNP-BC, CNEcl, to learn about the delivery of transgender sensitive care in the clinical setting. Click here to learn more and to register.
Sponsored by the School of Nursing, Committee on Diversity & Inclusion
2/5/20- Forbidden: Undocumented and Queer in Rural America (Film Screening)
Forbidden: Undocumented and Queer in Rural America is a feature length documentary about an inspiring young man whose story is exceptional, although not unique. When Moises Serrano was just a baby, his parents risked everything to flee Mexico in search of the American dream. Forbidden to live and love as an undocumented gay man in the country he calls home, Serrano saw only one option—to fight for justice.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director, Tiffany Rhynard, and the subject of the film, Moises Serrano. For more information, click here.
Sponsored by the Office of Inclusive Excellence in partnership with the Department of Theater and Dance
Crosswalk Celebration
Painting the Crosswalk
4/24/19 UB's First Pride Parade
Student Union Field filled with For Freedom signs for Spirit Day
On October 18 2018, the Office of Inclusive Excellence collaborated with the LGBTQ Faculty and Staff Association, the Intercultural and Diversity Center, and LGBTQ student organizations to recognize Spirit Day through a public art display on campus. UB students expressed different forms of freedom important to them using lawn signs designed by the For Freedoms project.
