Mark your calendars for workshops, lectures, and lots of fun. Queer Awareness Week is a week long exploration of queer and straight issues that promises to challenge perceptions of the queer community. The week will also feature esteemed speakers such as Loren Cameron, Daphne Scholinski, and R. Zamora Linmark.
All events are free unless otherwise specified.
Things you don't hear about every day. The focus is on dispelling the myths about class, image, sexuality, gender, race, and age through positive dialogue and informative lectures. She also pointed out that this year's organizers are making a huge effort to make all of the events inclusive for people of all sexual orientations. Queer Awareness Week has come a long way. Valerie Chase, UCSC Alumna and Merrill Housing Staff Member, thinks the need for public awareness was one of the reasons Queer Awareness Week started in the mid-eighties.