Join Colorado State University and the Pride Resource Center as we celebrate and honor the many intersecting identities found within our LGBTQIA+ community all month long. We hope you join us in exploring the many stories, traditions, and history found within our community through our many collaborations, programs, and events.
“I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves, and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act” - Janet Mock
FALL 2021 SCHEDULE
Pride Community Retreat | Oct 1 -3
All Day | Host: Pride Resource Center | Audience: CSU Students of any age & grade level
Location | CSU Various Locations
The Pride Community Retreat is a weekend-long experience held the first weekend of October that focuses on building community, confidence, and skills for self and community care centered in our LGBTQIA+ experiences. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in small and large group discussions, workshops, and activities involving creativity, identity development, team building, outdoor recreation, art, and the local LGBTQIA+ community.
Register for the Pride Community Retreat
2nd Annual Borderlands Speaker ft Gabby Rivera | HYBRID WORKSHOP | Wednesday, Oct 6
5:30 PM | Host: Pride Resource Center, El Centro & Ram Events | Audience: CSU Students (registration required)
Location | LSC 226/228 & via Zoom
The Borderlands Speaker is an intentional collaboration between the Pride Resource Center, El Centro, and Ram Events to honor the overlap of Latinx/e Heritage Month and LGBTQIA+ History Month. The Borderlands Speaker seeks to honor the intersectional experiences, stories, and contributions of the Queer Latinx/e community.
In Person Workshop, LSC 226/228 or engage virtually via Zoom https://zoom.us/j/95167063403
2nd Annual Borderlands Speaker Keynote ft Gabby Rivera | VIRTUAL KEYNOTE | Thursday, Oct 7
5:30 PM | Host: Pride Resource Center, El Centro & Ram Events | Audience: Open
Location | LSC 382 & via Zoom
The Borderlands Speaker is an intentional collaboration between the Pride Resource Center, El Centro, and Ram Events to honor the overlap of Latinx/e Heritage Month and LGBTQIA+ History Month. The Borderlands Speaker seeks to honor the intersectional experiences, stories, and contributions of the Queer Latinx/e community.
In Person Watch Party, LSC 382 or engage virtually via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95296902618
Rainbros | Thursday, Oct 7
6 PM - 7 PM | Host: CSU Health Network | Audience: CSU Students
Location | Academic Village Honors Fireside Lounge (810 W Pitkin St)
Rainbros is a fun and supportive space for students who identify as queer, bi, or gay men. Join counselors Jeff Paulez and Adam-Jon Aparicio for monthly conversations on various topics such as queer men and friendships, dating, sex, judgment and loneliness in the queer, bi, and gay community, being out at work and with family, living in integrity, spirituality, supporting others in the queer community, and much more!
National Coming Out Day & Matthew Shepard Day of Remembrance | Monday, Oct 11
11 AM - 2 PM | LSC Plaza | Host: Pride Resource Center & KCSU | Audience: Open
Location | LSC Plaza
We’ll be out, loud, and proud celebrating National Coming Out Day and holding space to remember Matthew Shepard and others lost to anti-LGBTQIA+ violence. Find us on the Plaza celebrating what it means not just to come out, but to come into our own sense of queerness.
Go Live On-Air with KCSU Radio and Share your experiences regarding coming into your queerness. Deadline to Register, Monday, October 4. All students, staff, faculty, and community members are invited.
Live On-Air with KCSU Registration
QTPOC Voices | Tuesday, Oct 12
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM | Host CSU Health Network | Audience: CSU Students
Location | Pride Resource Center, LSC 232
QTPoC Voices is a fun and supportive space for students who identify as queer and/or trans* Black Indigenous People of Color. Join counselors Chloe Wright and Adam-Jon Aparicio for bi-weekly conversations on various topics such thriving as a QTPoC folx, navigating racism and bias, the intersection of being queer, trans, and a Black Indigenous person of color, supporting others and cultivating friendships in the queer community, and much more! For more information, contact Chloe at chloe.hinton@colostate.edu
Mindfulness Training for Trans & Queer Students | Wednesday, Oct 13
4 PM - 5 PM | Host: Pride Resource Center| Audience: CSU Students (registration required)
Location | Virtual via Zoom
Join the Pride Resource Center in engaging in mindfulness practices facilitated by a QTPOC mindfulness instructor. We will explore different tools to work with our internal experiences and be in a community that centers a contemplative life as a way to make sense and thrive in this oppressive world.
Mindfulness Training Registration Link
Masc 4 Masc: Masculinity and Relationship Violence in Queer Relationships | Thursday, Oct 14
5:30 PM - 7 PM | Host: Women Gender & Advocacy Center & Pride Resource Center | Audience: CSU Students
Location | LSC 328/330
Have you thought about the ways heteronormative ideals of masculinity and relationship violence can show up in Trans & Queer relationships and friendships? Join the WGAC and Pride as we collectively go over tools that contribute to the liberation of all.
Limited space available. First 10 participants get a free coffee voucher to use at Sweet Sinsations Coffee.
Out in the Rec: Climbing Wall | Thursday, Oct 14
7 PM - 9 PM | Host: Campus Recreation | Audience: CSU Students
Location | Campus Rec Center
Want to learn how to rock climb? Join the Campus Rec Center and learn the key elements to climbing. All abilities welcome. Register through Campus Rec portal or drop in!
Online Safe Zone Training | Friday, Oct 15
8:30 AM - 12 PM | Host: Pride Resource Center | Audience: faculty/staff (registration required)
Location | Virtual via Zoom
Online Safe Zone Training is a 3.5-hour training program [via Zoom] with the objective of reducing homophobia, transphobia, and heterosexism at CSU.
CANCELLED - We Rise: Collectively Engaging in Allyship within the LGBTQIA+ Community | Tuesday, Oct 19
6 PM - 7:30 PM | Host: Students Empowering & Engaging in Dialogue (SEED) | Audience: CSU Students (registration required)
Location | LSC 312
Participants will also learn about the personal resources (passion, knowledge/awareness, skills, and action) needed to practice more effective allyship and inventory where they have more developed resources vs. where they need to continue growing in fully supporting each other within our community.
Limited space are available
National LGBTQ+ Center Day: Celebrating the Pride Resource Center | Tuesday, Oct 19
Host: Pride Resource Center | Audience: Open
Join us as we revisit the Pride Resource Center’s history. We invite alumni to share photos, videos, or stories about their experience with Pride and being LGBTQ+ on campus at CSU to highlight on our Instagram.
Donate to the Pride Resource Center
Safe Zone Training: Student Session | Wednesday, Oct 20
3 PM - 5 PM | Host: Pride Resource Center | Audience: CSU Students (registration required)
Location | Virtual via Zoom
Online Safe Zone Training is a 2-hour training program [via Zoom] dedicated specifically for students with the objective of reducing homophobia, transphobia, and heterosexism at CSU.
Register for the Safe Zone Training: Student Session
International Pronouns Day | Wednesday, Oct 20
11 AM - 2 PM | Host: Pride Resource Center | Audience: Open
Location | Pride Resource Center, LSC 232
Visit the Pride Resource Center for a special treat or tune into our Instagram (@csupriderc) as we celebrate and learn about Int. Pronouns Day!
Rainbros | Thursday, Oct 21
6 PM - 7 PM | Host: CSU Health Network | Audience: CSU Students
Location: Academic Village Honors Fireside Lounge (810 W Pitkin St)
Rainbros is a fun and supportive space for students who identify as queer, bi, or gay men. Join counselors Jeff Paulez and Adam-Jon Aparicio for monthly conversations on various topics such as queer men and friendships, dating, sex, judgment and loneliness in the queer, bi, and gay community, being out at work and with family, living in integrity, spirituality, supporting others in the queer community, and much more!
LGBTQIA+ Employee Networking Social | Friday, Oct 22
2 PM - 4 PM | Host: Office of Inclusive Excellence | Audience: CSU Faculty/Staff
Location: Diversity House
Join the LGBTQIA+ Employee Network & Staff from the Office of Inclusive Excellence for our LGBTQIA+ Employee Network Social!
We look forward to connecting more folx into the Network & the Office of Inclusive Excellence as part of LGBTQIA+ History Month! Please bring your colleagues along! Snacks and refreshments provided. Indoor/outdoor event.
“Sissies,” “Cake-eaters,” and Effeminacy: Facing Anxieties about Gender and Sex at CSU Before 1925, Diversity Symposium presentation | Monday, Oct 25
2 PM - 3:30 PM | Audience: Open
Location | Virtual
Anxieties about sex, sexuality, and gender performance have long been present in CSU history. Indeed, recent research shows significant concerns about performances of masculinity, femininity, gender-bending, and sex among CSU students and other residents of Northern Colorado during the first five decades of the university. These anxieties are historically specific, yet have meaningful and important connections to contemporary questions about making CSU a more inclusive place for transgender and non-binary folks, gender non-conforming individuals, gay men, lesbians, women, and others. However, in our efforts to show our “Ram Pride,” we regularly bury these moments deep in the past where they go forgotten and unaddressed. Thus, “pride” becomes a block in reaching a more just past, present, and future. Drawing on academic research in “queer rhetorical pedagogy” and “queer shame,” this presentation begins to resolve this block. Via an interactive lecture, we will examine a few notable instances about sex and gender anxiety at CSU from the university’s first 50 years, as a preview of a new educational and community program called the Queer Memory Project of Northern Colorado. With a better understanding of these long-forgotten memories and an interactive-prompt driven discussion, this presentation then suggests how we might better incorporate these memories to do the work of making CSU a more welcoming and safe place today.
About the Speaker: Dr.. Thomas R. Dunn is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Director of Public Speaking, and a 2020-2022 Monfort Professor at CSU. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in LGBTQ+ communication and queer theory, as well as a variety of classes in rhetoric. His award-winning research focuses on how LGBTQ+ people turn to the past to advocate for social, cultural, and political change in the present. He is the author of the book Queerly Remembered and an in-progress monograph on LGBTQ+ experiences of the Holocaust, a sought-after teacher, and the founder of the Queer Memory Project of Northern Colorado.
Register for the CSU Diversity Symposium
Intersex Awareness Day | Tuesday, Oct 26
Host: Pride Resource Center | Audience: Open
Location | Virtual via Instagram
Visit the Pride Resource Center or tune into our Instagram (@csupriderc) as we celebrate Intersex awareness and activism.
QTPOC Voices | Tuesday, Oct 26
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM | Host CSU Health Network | Audience: CSU Students
Location | Black/African American Cultural Center, LSC 335
QTPoC Voices is a fun and supportive space for students who identify as queer and/or trans* Black Indigenous People of Color. Join counselors Chloe Wright and Adam-Jon Aparicio for bi-weekly conversations on various topics such thriving as a QTPoC folx, navigating racism and bias, the intersection of being queer, trans, and a Black Indigenous person of color, supporting others and cultivating friendships in the queer community, and much more! For more information, contact Chloe at chloe.hinton@colostate.edu
CSU Pronoun Statement, Diversity Symposium Presentation | Wednesday, Oct 27
3:30 PM -5:00 PM | Virtual | Audience: Open
Location | Virtual Via Zoom
Learn about CSU’s new Pronouns Statement & how to support this initiative in and across campus
Register for the CSU Diversity Symposium
Asexual (Ace) Awareness Week Celebration | Wednesday, Oct 27
Host: Pride Resource Center | Audience: Open
Location | Virtual
Tune into our Instagram (@csupriderc) as we explore the asexual and aromantic spectrums and unpack our understandings of attraction.
Native American Heritage Month & LGBTQIA+ History Month presents Joshua Whitehead | VIRTUAL KEYNOTE | Wednesday, Oct 27
5:30 PM | Host: Native American Cultural Center, Pride Resource Center, & RamEvents: Audience: Open
Location | Zoom
In honor of LGBTQIA+ History Month and the transitioning into Native American Heritage Month, the Native American Cultural Center, the Pride Resource Center, and Ram Events present Joshua Whitehead, Oji-Cree, Two-Spirit storyteller, and academic from Peguis First Nation on Treaty 1 territory in Manitoba, Canada. He is also the author of full-metal indigiqueer, Jonny Appleseed, and the editor of Love after the End: an Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction.
Zoom Info: https://zoom.us/j/95522478225
Out in the Rec: Cardio Power Class | Friday, Oct 29
6 PM - 7 PM | Host: Campus Recreation | Audience: CSU Community with Rec Center membership
Location | Campus Rec Center
Ready, set, go! Join Campus Recreation as we engage in some beginners cardio exercises. Bring water and a sweat towel. Register through the Campus Rec portal or drop in!
Embodied Queerness: Artfully Healing in Community | Friday, Oct 29
3 PM - 4 PM | Host: CSU Health Network & Pride Resource Center| Audience: CSU Students (registration required)
Location | Virtual via Zoom
Every time we have to hide or diminish a part of who we are to be safe, loved, or respected, it takes a toll on our bodies and wellness. This monthly 1-hour workshop will explore how we can support our bodies in a healing process to build the resilience we need to expand and grow into our authentic selves.
How to Register | Students can access the zoom information by emailing me at beit.gorski@colostate.edu and putting "EQ" as the subject.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
The Borderlands Speaker is an intentional collaboration between the Pride Resource Center, El Centro and Ram Events to honor the overlap of Latinx Heritage Month and LGBTQ+ History Month. Join us for our Keynote speaker Gabby Rivera the author of Juliet Takes a Breath and the Marvel Series America – featuring the first queer Latinx teen-girl superhero ever.
HYBRID WORKSHOP | Wednesday, Oct 6
5:30 PM | Host: Pride Resource Center, El Centro & Ram Events | Audience: CSU Students (registration required)
Location | LSC 226/228 & via Zoom
The Borderlands Speaker is an intentional collaboration between the Pride Resource Center, El Centro, and Ram Events to honor the overlap of Latinx/e Heritage Month and LGBTQIA+ History Month. The Borderlands Speaker seeks to honor the intersectional experiences, stories, and contributions of the Queer Latinx/e community.
In Person Workshop, LSC 226/228 or engage virtually via Zoom https://zoom.us/j/95167063403
VIRTUAL KEYNOTE | Thursday, Oct 7
5:30 PM | Host: Pride Resource Center, El Centro & Ram Events | Audience: Open
Location | LSC 382 & via Zoom
The Borderlands Speaker is an intentional collaboration between the Pride Resource Center, El Centro, and Ram Events to honor the overlap of Latinx/e Heritage Month and LGBTQIA+ History Month. The Borderlands Speaker seeks to honor the intersectional experiences, stories, and contributions of the Queer Latinx/e community.
In Person Watch Party, LSC 382 or engage virtually via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95296902618
VIRTUAL KEYNOTE | Wednesday, Oct 27
5:30 PM | Host: Native American Cultural Center, Pride Resource Center, & RamEvents: Audience: Open
Location | TBA
In honor of LGBTQIA+ History Month and the transitioning into Native American Heritage Month, the Native American Cultural Center, the Pride Resource Center, and Ram Events present Joshua Whitehead, Oji-Cree, Two-Spirit storyteller, and academic from Peguis First Nation on Treaty 1 territory in Manitoba, Canada. He is also the author of full-metal indigiqueer, Jonny Appleseed, and the editor of Love after the End: an Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction.
HYBRID WORKSHOP | Thursday, Oct 28
12 - 1 PM | Host: Native American Cultural Center & Pride Resource Center, & Ram Events | Audience: CSU Students (registration required)
We ask our community to engage in allyship by dedicating this workshop space to Queer & Trans Black, Indigenous,
Location | TBA
In honor of LGBTQIA+ History Month and the transitioning into Native American Heritage Month, the Native American Cultural Center, the Pride Resource Center, and Ram Events present Joshua Whitehead, Oji-Cree, Two-Spirit storyteller, and academic from Peguis First Nation on Treaty 1 territory in Manitoba, Canada. He is also the author of full-metal indigiqueer, Jonny Appleseed, and the editor of Love after the End: an Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction.
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Blue - CSU Students
Green - CSU Staff/Faculty
Purple - Open to all community members
For accomodations please contact pride_rc@mail.colostate.edu for further support.
