CU-Boulder's Lavender Graduation

The gay community is invited to congratulate and celebrate the graduation of CU-Boulder's GLBT graduates and their parents, friends, and allies on Tuesday, May 4, from 5-7 p.m. at Koenig Alumni Center at CU. You're invited to Lavender Graduation

In addition, scholarship winners, award winners and the GLBT Resource Center staff and volunteers will be presented and honored.

The CU GLBT Alumni chapter is hosting the celebration and will present "grad packs" of alumni goodies and rainbow tassels to the graduates and an appetizer buffet will be served.

Get more information or RSVP at www.cualum.org.

GLBT Alumni Chapter of CU-Boulder Holiday Party

The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Alumni Chapter of the CU-Boulder Alumni Association will be holding their annual holiday party on Friday, Dec. 4 from 6-8:30 p.m. at the Koenig Alumni Center at the CU-Boulder campus.

There will be food, friends, drinks, and door prizes and the event is open to everybody - not just alumni and not just gay folks.

Boulder's gay history

Boulder’s 150-year history holds stories of many groups, some well known and some relatively hidden from view. CU's GLBT Alumni group will make the hidden more visible when they discuss gay history in Boulder County at a colloquium on September 26 on the CU-Boulder campus followed by a reception at the Koenig Alumni Center.

Tim Fuller--a closeted gay city councilman who was recalled in 1974 in an angry election reacting to the council’s granting protections for gay, lesbian and bisexual citizens--will keynote the event. The Saturday afternoon colloquium will feature Fuller and a panel of close observers of the history of gayness in Boulder County that includes the city, the University, the school district and state.

The colloquium and reception are sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender chapter of the CU-Boulder Alumni Association with the support of a grant from The Open Door Fund and assistance from IBM Boulder and the CU-Boulder Office of Counseling and Psychological Services.

CU Boulder offers scholarships for gay students

CU-Boulder's GLBT Alumni scholarships will be awarded for 2009-2010 this spring. Two $1,000 alumni scholarships will go to gay or straight-ally students. They are available to both full-time undergraduate and graduate Boulder campus students. Application deadline is April 3 so get it filled out and sent in ASAP.

Hear Jared Polis speak tonight at CU

Rep. Jared Polis (Dem-CO-gay) will speak tonight at CU. Get the latest on the stimulus package, Colorado's economy and educational funding. Free admission. Check it out.

Makeout stakeout

Same-sex makeout session?

Hell, I have one of those every night.

But this group PDGay demonstration at CU should be interesting.

The idea is to desensitize straight people to public displays same-sex affection so that it becomes less shocking.

Straight couples are invited to the kiss-in, which is supposed to last all of two minutes (belated flash-mob mania), and maybe seeing a variety of couples making out will get the message across that it's perfectly natural and normal to want to kiss somebody you like.

Count me in!

Calling all GLBT CU alumni

Join up with the CU Boulder GLBT Alumni Association for the annual GLBT Alumni Buff Buffet before theCU women's basketball game vs. Nebraska on Saturday, Jan. 31 from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. (tip-off at 1 p.m.)

The group will gather before the game in the Buffalo Lobby area on the second level of Coors Event Center for a buffet lunch, beer and wine and chats with special guests Coach Kathy McConnell-Miller and former Coach and FSN sportscaster Ceal Barry.

Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Reservations are required in either case by noon on Thursday, Jan. 29
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For more information and to RSVP and pay for your reservations go here.

Good news for the CU GLBT Resource Center

There's good news today. After years of struggling with meager resources to serve both GLBT and straight students, faculty and staff, the CU-Boulder GLBT Resource Center has received reliable, continuing funding from UCSU, the campus' student governing body.

The support will free Stephanie Wilenchek, director of the Center, from constant fund raising and allow her to devote time to much needed programming.

Click here to read the article in Colorado Daily.

Holiday Cheer with CU GLBT Alumni

Are you a GLBT CU alumnus? Check out their annual GLBT Alumni Holiday Party and enjoy an evening with treasured friends, allies and fellow alums for an evening of friendship, holiday spirit, great prizes and delicious food, wine, beer and soft drinks on Friday, December 5 from 6-9 p.m. at the Koenig Alumni Center at Broadway and University Avenues on the Boulder campus of CU.

RSVP before Wednesday, Dec. 3, to marc.killinger@colorado.edu or at 303-492-2280 and visit the GLBTA web site at www.cualum.org/clubs/glbta.

CU-Boulder GLBT Resource Center reception

The Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender (GLBT) Resource Center at CU-Boulder welcomes GLBT people, parents, families, students, friends, and allies to their fourth annual reception. The event takes place Friday, October 17 from 3:30 - 5 p.m. in Willard Hall, Room 231. This is an opportunity to meet the GLBT Resource Center staff and to learn about the GLBT campus community and resources. For more information, call 303-492-1377 or e-mail glbtrc@colorado .edu. Sponsored by the GLBT Resource Center and Boulder PFLAG (Parents, Family, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays).