LGBTQ+ History Month
LGBTQ+ History Month 2024 Calendar of Events
The call for programs has closed; if you would like your program to be added to the LGBTQ+ History Month 2024 digital calendar, please email mica-office@umd.edu.
Check below for MICA's Hero Events!
Tuesday, October 1st, 2024
6:00pm-9:00pm
Studio A, Adele H. Stamp Student Union
RSVP required - sign up here!
Art is an incredible tool for creative expression and healing. Join printmaker MC Carey of Femme Prints and PhD student M Pease for a 3-hour linocut printmaking workshop exploring the ways LGBTQ+ folks of color can use creativity as a tool to navigate oppression, define expansive identities, build community, and find love and joy in an oppressive wold. Participants will walk away with their very own 4x6” linocut on and a small edition of prints on 5x7” paper. In addition, they would participate in building a linocut tapestry to hang in the MICA space. The workshop will be held in the Arts Building at Studio A. Light snacks and refreshments will be provided. Wearing a Mask is highly encouraged. We suggest that you wear clothes you are comfortable getting dirty as we will be working with washable water-soluble ink. You may also bring your own apron to protect your clothing.
Friday, October 4th, 2024
3:30pm
Juan Ramon Jimenez Room, Adele H. Stamp Student Union
Gather to write Queerly in community with others in preparation for the Queer Open Mic! Bring ideas, inspiration, or a writing project that you intend to work on!
Mondays in October
5:00pm
MICA's Cozy Corner in the Adele H. Stamp Student Union
Explore the history of Queerness in quilting as you create quilt squares that will be assembled into a Queer Quilt representative of our community at UMD! No Quilting experience needed!
Take-home materials are available. Complete squares must be turned into the MICA office or quilting session by Monday, October 21st in order to be included in the quilt.
Friday, October 11th, 2024
2:00pm-3:00pm
Nyumburu Amphitheater
Learn about the revolutionary symbolism of the brick within Queer History and activism through this zine and brick-painting event. Bricks and paint are provided while supplies last.
Tuesday October 15th
3:00pm
Baltimore Room, Adele H. Stamp Student Union
Join us for an afternoon of Queer creativity in poetry & performance art!
Friday October 18th
5:00pm
Juan Ramon Jimenez Room, Adele H. Stamp Student Union
Put your heads together with up to 3 teammates to show off your knowledge of Queer history and culture!
Monday October 28th
5:00pm - 7:00pm
MICA's Cozy Corner in the Adele H. Stamp Student Union
See the threads that connect us! Come view the complete Queer Community Quilt and see how we all stitch together to form this beautiful mosaic of community.
LGBTQ+ History Month Non-Hero Events
Painting Queer Revolution: Brick by Brick!
Wednesday October 2nd
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
VMH 1415
Hosted by the Queer Leadership Accelerator
SEE presents: Love Lies Bleeding Movie Screening
Wednesday October 2nd & Thursday October 3rd
8:00 pm - 10:30 pm
Hoff Theater, STAMP Student Union
Hosted by Student Entertainment Events
Doors open at 7:30pm! Contact seecinema@umd.edu for accommodations or information.
Clark School's DEI Council LGBTQ+ History Month Celebration: Paint and Sip Night
Wednesday October 9th
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Leidos Innovation Lab in A James Clark Hall
Hosted by the A. James Clark School of Engineering 's DEI Council
Register at: https://forms.gle/d8MemH9NwX9MpPU48
Come Out & Ride
Friday October 11th
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Regents Drive Garage / DOTS Building
Hosted by the LGBTQ+ Equity Center and BikeUMD
Register at go.umd.edu/OutandRide
Rainbow Pan Dulce y Cafe
Monday October 14th
10:00 am
Jimenez Room, STAMP Student Union
Hosted by the LGBTQ+ Equity Center
Join us for a networking brunch for queer and allied Latine students, faculty, and staff. Meet new people, build community and learn about UMD resources! Coffee, hot chocolate, pan dulce (sweet breads), and fruit will be served. For questions or accommodations requests email lgbtq@umd.edu. RSVP at https://go.umd.edu/RainbowPanDulce24
LGBTQ+ Grad Student Mixer
Thursday October 17th
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Prince George's Room, STAMP Student Union
Hosted by the LGBTQ+ Equity Center
LGBTQ+ Student Life and Org Collecting Day
Friday October 18th
11:00 am - 5:00 pm
MICA / LCSL Conference Room, STAMP Student Union Room 1129
Hosted by the UMD Libraries - Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA)
Art Collection Tour
Friday October 18th
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Stamp Gallery, STAMP Student Union Room 1220
Hosted by the Stamp Gallery
Monét X Change Performance
Sunday October 20th
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Kay Theatre, The Clarice
Hosted by The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Book tickets at https://theclarice.umd.edu/event-details/166203
Menace to the Future Book Talk with Dr. Jess Whatcott
Monday October 21st
3:00 pm - 3:50 pm
Hosted by the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
For more information and to RSVP visit wgss.umd.edu/events/dss24.
Transplanting Community: An LGBTQ+ Transfer/Off-Campus Student Meet Up
Tuesday October 22nd
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Prince George's Room, STAMP Student Union
Hosted by Transfer & Off Campus Student Life & MICA
Shaping the Movement: Panel on Legislative Testimony for LGBTQ+ Inclusion
Wednesday October 23
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Maryland Room, Marie Mount Hall
Hosted by the LGBTQ+ Equity Center
Whether you are a student, staff, or faculty we welcome you to learn the impact of providing testimony in order to help shape policy that impacts our community! Hear from our panelists on topics involving LGBTQ+ rights and policy! Click here to RSVP (required)!
Spook N' Slay
Thursday October 24
6:00 pm
Grand Ballroom, STAMP Student Union
Hosted by the Pride Alliance & MICA
Special Edition Queer Recess: The Celluloid Closet (1995) Watch-a-long
Friday October 25th
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
LGBTQ+ Equity Center, 2218 Marie Mount Hall
Hosted by the LGBTQ+ Equity Center
For questions or accommodations requests email lgbtq@umd.edu.
Let's Talk About Love: An Aro Workshop
Friday October 25th
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Prince George's Room, STAMP Student Union
Hosted by A-Space
Rock N' Jam
Tuesday October 29th
6:30 pm
MICA Cozy Corner, STAMP Student Union Basement
Hosted by Queers With Disabilities
New Way Vogue Workshop
Thursday October 31st
5:30 pm
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Cafritz Foundation Theatre
Hosted by The Clarice, the LGBTQ+ Equity Center, and Pride Alliance
In this class with Jason A. Rodriguez you will discover one of three styles of vogue called New Way Vogue. Stretch and precision are key to this style. We will move into an array of exercises to practice elements of vogue. Arms controls shows off your control of creating lines, shapes, illusions and face framing movements to the beat of the music. We will practice other elements such as poses, floor work, cat walks and duck walks. You seal it all with a dip that is a signature movement for voguing!
2024 Theme: Queering Creation Brick By Brick
The spirit of creation has always been central to Queer life. In hostile environments, we turn to art and creative endeavors to express our truths and build community. Queer and Trans artists like Chella Man, Daniel Arzola, and David Wojnarowicz have used their art as activism beyond surface-level representation. Shea Diamond’s melodic voice critiques systems while musicians in the Queercore movement use rage to thrash against oppression.
At the same time, the brick represents both this creative spirit and a revolutionary resolve - a tool of both disruption and construction. To pay homage to the Trans women of color who founded our movements, we often say that Marsha P. Johnson threw the first metaphorical brick at the Stonewall riots. Bricks serve as a reminder that the histories of Queer people are built into the origins of our society.
Here at UMD, bricks are as much a symbol of Queer revolution as a reminder of the oppressive histories within these walls. UMD’s foundations were laid through the lives and labor of enslaved people and built over the lands of the Piscataway people. The brick symbolizes not only our collective Queer histories and elders, but also represents our interconnected struggle towards creating a liberated future for all.
Within each of us is the capacity to imagine and create - we are all visionaries who can Queerly build a future of joy and freedom together brick by brick.
Other LGBTQ+ Programming at UMD
These meetings and resources have been taking place throughout the year at UMD and will continue even after Pride Month!
Weekly meetings of LGBTQ+ Student Groups
There are nine student-facilitated LGBTQ+ student discussion groups that have meetings weekly or biweekly, most of which take place in the LGBTQ+ Equity Center (2218 Marie Mount Hall). Head over to the Student Groups webpage run by LGBTQ+ Equity Center webpage for an up-to-date list of their meeting times and locations.
Counseling Resources
The Counseling Center is a safe and inclusive space where counselors provide support to students from underrepresented populations.
Rainbow Walk-In
Free unscheduled time with a counselor is available to LGBT students. Find more information about Drop-In Hour: Safe and Inclusive Support on the Counseling Center website.
Group Counseling
The Student of Color LGBTQ+ Support Group is open to undergraduate and graduate students of Color who represent the sexual orientation and gender continuum. Members of the group are invited to participate in co-creating a space to discuss identity, coming out, transitioning, relationships, struggles, victories, and more - a space to decompress, share what's on your mind, and find support.
The LGBTQIA+ Support Group provides a co-created space for non-heterosexual (e.g., bi, asexual, queer, lesbian, gay) and gender expansive (e.g., transgender, genderqueer, agender, gender non-conforming) undergraduate and graduate students to engage in discussions around their identities, coming out and/or transitioning experiences, relationships, families, as well as struggles and victories.