LGBT Center director Luca Maurer will facilitate a discussion on three films with LGBTQ themes: Queen of Lapa, For They Know Not What They Do, and Denise Ho: Becoming the Song - Virtual Cinema. The discussion will take place July 23 at 6 pm.
Pre-registration for this Zoom event here
The films are available for virtual cinema screening via cinemapolis.org and are offered as part of the Ithaca Virtual Summer of Pride 2020.
IC’s LGBTQ Center's Summer of Pride presents: DANCE WITH PRIDE, an open level class taught by Aimee Rials, Assistant Professor of Dance at Ithaca College. Tune in to strengthen, stretch, and get yourself moving! All levels are welcome! Sign up to participate using https://forms.gle/tn8AtUQgcVMGBzzq9
Transgender people experience systemic barriers in every facet of life just because of who they are. Equitable education, employment, housing, healthcare, mental health support, substance treatment and more are all harder to come by for trans folks -- especially low-income trans people of color -- due to systemic transphobia, sexism, racism, ableism, and heterosexism.
Racism, transphobia, misogyny and homophobia appear hand-in-hand in real life as much as they do on screen. Join the LGBT Center for an online watch party and discussion of Disclosure, an eye-opening look at transgender depictions in film and television.
Decades-old stereotypes, memes, and tropes in the media both form and reflect our understanding of trans issues have shaped the cultural narrative about transgender people, informing everything from dating and domestic violence, to school policy and national legislation.
Missing the LGBT Center Resource Room and all of the lovely people that spend time there? We may have a solution! Introducing the Virtual Resource Room, a Zoom space where you can see some friendly faces, chat, do homework, and watch cat and dog livestreams with other students. While virtual fig bars and cookies are still in the works at Zoom (or so we assume), we hope to provide some community and good company for each other.
You can join us in the the virtual resource room at the following times:
M and Deborah, like an estimated 1.7 percent of people, were born Intersex - with sex characteristics that differ from binary understandings of male or female. Like many, they were foreced into medically unnecessary surgeries to "normalize" their bodies during childhood. The film reflects on ways intersex people seek to reappropriate their bodies and construct their identities.
In 1973 a group of young writers, artists and activists built Lavender Hill, a gay and lesbian commune near Danby NY. While a dozen straight communes thrived in Tompkins County, Lavender Hill was a remarkable experiment in collaboration, gender exploration, and social political integration between young gay men and lesbians in the post-Stonewall era. This intentional community had its beginnings in the Gay Liberation Front and its twilight during the AIDS crisis.
Screening in collaboration with The History Center in Tompkins County