Cleve Jones is an American human rights activist, author and lecturer. Jones joined the gay liberation movement in the early 1970s. He was mentored by pioneer LGBT activist Harvey Milk and worked in Milk’s City Hall office as a student intern until Milk’s assassination in 1978. Jones co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation in 1983 and founded The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, one of the world’s largest community arts projects, in 1987. HarperCollins published his first book, “Stitching a Revolution,” in 2000. Jones was portrayed by Emile Hirsch in Gus Van Sant’s Oscar-winning film, “MILK,” and was the historical consultant for the production. Jones led the 2009 National March for Equality in Washington, DC and served on the Advisory Board of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, which challenged California’s Proposition 8 in the US Supreme Court. Hachette Book Group published his new memoir, When We Rise, in November 2016. The ABC TV mini-series inspired in part by stories from Cleve’s book was broadcast in February 2017 with a screenplay by Academy Award winner Dustin Lance Black.

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Our Friday Forums program is designed to help build community among the LGBT+ and allies community. If you would like to attend a forum, become a member of QFaSA or get more info, email Laurel at the email above. All forums are held from 12 - 1 on , you guessed it, Fridays:)  For a look at the entire semester’s topics, go to https://qfasa.sonoma.edu/friday-forums

Sexuality education has historically been rooted in heteronormativity and the binary gender system. There is a need for more inclusive sexuality education that acknowledges and celebrates queer sexuality and experiences. We are all entitled to information to help us make informed and healthy decisions around sex. In this talk we will debunk myths and provide education and resources to empower queer students in their sexual journey.

Presenter Bio: 

Remi Newman, MA, is a local sex educator and writer. She received her Master’s degree in Sexuality Education from NYU and is a first-year student in the PhD program in Human Sexuality at CIIS in San Francisco. Remi has over 20 years of experience teaching sexuality education to people of all ages from a variety of cultures. She is the HIV/STI Clinical Health Educator at Santa Rosa/Rohnert Park Kaiser Permanente. She identifies as pansexual, slightly kinky and mostly poly, and has been an activist in the queer community for over 30 years.

W + B Tables

Coming out as LGBTQAI+ can be difficult, especially in a faith community. Join Open Table for a time of sharing stories, and finding new community together. Discussion will be led by queer clergy Rev. Lindsey Bell-Kerr and Rabbi Irwin Keller (Congregation Ner Shalom, Cotati).

Facilitators:

Rev Lindsey Bell-Kerr (they/them)

Reb Irwin Keller

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Our Friday Forums program is designed to help build community among the LGBT+ and allies community. If you would like to attend a forum, become a member of QFaSA or get more info, email Laurel at the email above. All forums are held from 12 - 1 on , you guessed it, Fridays:)  For a look at the entire semester’s topics, go to https://qfasa.sonoma.edu/friday-forums

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Sonoma County has always had an LGBTQI presence. The earliest photos we could find of local LGBTQI people are from the late 1940s. This county has had a significant role in Queer Culture and Politics regionally, statewide and even nationally. Women’s Studies classes/programs at SSU and SRJC were two of the first such programs in California. What was happening here in the years before Stonewall in 1969? What did Gender Nonconformity look like in this area during the 1970s and 80s? How did Sonoma County help stop a national anti-LGBTQ movement? What is the Intersex Movement and how did one person start it here? This zoom presentation will discuss these things and more. It will be followed by a Q&A session. Contact mo.phillips@sonoma.edu for more info

Presenters:

Tina Dungan
Shad Reinstein

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As we continue OUR QUEER hiSTORY in Sonoma county, we thought it would be great to take a look back at being Queer at SSU. We have a great group of students, staff and faculty who helped to pave the way for others, keep us informed and connected as LGBTQ members of this community, and who helped to inform change in attitude, exposure, program and policies at 1801 E Cotati Ave.  

Panelists:

Chuck Rhodes

Julie Greathouse

Laurel Holmstrom-Keyes

Tori Newborn

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For the first time, WGS Professor Don Romesburg shares research from his book-in-progress about the history of K-12 LGBTQ history education in the U.S. He reveals how this struggle began in the 1970s, had a burst of unrealized promise and frustration in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and is finally being realized in the 21st century. He will also discuss the current backlash to the progress that's been made, and the road ahead. Email mo.phillips@sonoma.edu with any questions

Presenter Bio:

Don Romesburg is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Sonoma State University. He is editor of the Routledge History of Queer America (2018) and was the lead scholar working to bring LGBT content into California's 2016 K-12 History-Social Science Framework and subsequent textbooks. He now trains educators on implementation. His related forthcoming book is tentatively entitled Fierce and FAIR: LGBTQ History Goes to School (Q+Public Series, Rutgers University Press). For these efforts, he is the namesake of the Committee on LGBT History’s Don Romesburg Prize for K-12 Curriculum. Dr. Romesburg is also a co-founder of the GLBT History Museum in San Francisco.

Seawolf Plaza

Come join QSA, as they celebrate National Coming Out Day at SSU! They’ll be making pronoun buttons, taking Coming Out Day photos and more.

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Our Friday Forums program is designed to help build community among the LGBT+ and allies community. If you would like to attend a forum, become a member of QFaSA or get more info, email Laurel at the email above. All forums are held from 12 - 1 on , you guessed it, Fridays:)  For a look at the entire semester’s topics, go to https://qfasa.sonoma.edu/friday-forums