Calendar of Events

If you have any questions regarding an event, or if you would like to confirm time and location, please contact the event coordinator.


Ongoing Events

Mondays
BQSA Meeting
8pm, 30 College Street
For more information please contact bqsa@bowdoin.edu. 

Thursdays
Dinner discussion series
Out, Coming Out, Figuring it Out, or Just Want to Hang Out
5:30-7 pm, 30 College Street
Enjoy the culinary splendor of the Bowdoin Dining Srevice while discussing a variety of issues relating to the LGBTQ community (staff included). RSVP (so we order enough food) to Kate Stern or just drop in.
Sponsored by the Queer-Trans Resource Center.  For more information please contact Claire Connors.

First Wednesday of the month
Men's Dinner Group
5:30-7 pm, 30 College Street
A dinner group for men who identify as gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning and for men who might not want to identify.
Dates: September 10, October 1, November 5, December 3.
Facilitated by Allen Delong (Director, Student Life and Smith Union), Timothy Diehl (Director, Career Services), Guy Mark Foster (Assistant Professor, English Department).  For more information please contact Allen Delong. 

Upcoming Events

Night Scene: Queer Identity and Alienation in China
Monday, October 20
7:00 pm, VAC Beam
About the director:
Zi’en Cui is a director, film scholar, screenwriter, novelist and an outspoken queer activist based in Beijing. Frequently referred to as a “queer auteur,” Zi’en Cui is one of the most avant-garde DV makers in Chinese underground cinema. A professor at the Beijing Film Academy, but is currently not allowed to teach because he refuses to leave gay issues off the academic agenda. He has published nine novels in China and Hong Kong.  He is also the author of six books on criticism and theory, as well as a columnist for four magazines. In 2002, Cui received a Felipa Award by The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission and a California State Assembly Award in the USA. He graduated from the Chinese Academy of Social Science with a major in literature and now is an associate professor at the Film Research Institute of the Beijing Film Academy.
About the film: Night Scene
A young Chinese man finds his entire perception of life altered after discovering that his father is a homosexual. When the accidental discovery of his father's homosexuality leads Yangyang to his father's partner Xiaoyong, Yangyang begins to question his own sexuality before falling for the handsome Haobin. When Yangyang discovers that his newfound lover is a street hustler, their fledgling relationship is put to the ultimate test.
Sponsored by Gay & Lesbian Studies.


Discussion
November 20
7:30 pm, Searles 315
Clean: A Discussion of Samuel Delany's Novel Stars in My Pockets Like Grains of Sand with Professor Robert Reid-Pharr, Professor of English at CUNY and author of Conjugal Union: The Body, the House, and the Black American and Black Gay Man: Essays.
Sponsored by Gay & Lesbian Studies.





Last Updated: October 2, 2008
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