More than 2,200 attended the Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Ally College Conference (MBLGTACC) at Illinois State, making it the largest conference in the 22-year history of MBGLTACC.
LGBTQ conference makes history at Illinois State
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LGBT student leader takes pride in Illinois State
Senior Matt Rillie was part of the team that brought the nation’s largest LGBT college conference to Illinois State.
Talk looks at state of higher ed for LGBT
Susan Rankin, author of 2010 State of Higher Education for LGBT People, will present The State of Higher Education for LGBT People at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 13, in room 336 of the State Farm Hall of Business. The talk is free and open to all University faculty and staff, but those interested must register as space is limited.
Q&A with big LGBT conference’s student leader
Senior social work major Robert Alberts is leading 20 of his peers in planning and executing the 2015 Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Ally College Conference from February 13–15.
MBLGTACC volunteers still needed
Volunteers are still needed to guide the thousands of students expected on campus for the Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Ally College Conference (MBLGTACC).
Safe Zone Brown Bag looks at “down low”
The Safe Zone Brown Bag series on Wednesday, Dec. 3, will examine and define “down low” in the LGBT community.
Two grads proud to create first LGBT alumni network
Illinois State alum Dave Bentlin remembers nervously driving circles around Fairchild Hall on Wednesday nights back in the early 1980s, trying to build up the courage to walk in.
Safe Zone orientation Feb. 27
A Safe Zone orientation session for faculty, staff and students will be held from noon to 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27, at the Student Services Building, room 314. Safe Zone provides faculty, staff and students the opportunity to participate in a two-hour orientation dedicated to educating participants on current issues and creating safe spaces on
LGBT activist Justin Utley to lead talks
Justin Utley, singer, storyteller and LGBT activist, will be on Illinois State University’s campus Tuesday, Nov. 12, to facilitate discussions that are free and open to the public. Utley an “out” ex-Mormon and survivor of ex-gay therapy, will talk about his life and experiences through his inspiring storytelling and powerful, entertaining music. At noon, he
Celebrated author, activist Andrew Solomon to speak
Andrew Solomon believes it is our differences that unite us.
A celebrated author and lecturer, Solomon will give a talk based on his groundbreaking book, Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28, in the Brown Ballroom of the Bone Student Center. The event, which is part of the Speaker Series at Illinois State University, is free and open to the public.
Published in 2012, Far From the Tree won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was chosen as one of the New York Times’ Ten Best Books of 2012. The work is a breathtaking look at parents and children who face extraordinary circumstances including deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism and schizophrenia, to those facing stigmas for being transgender, prodigies or conceived in rape. While each of these characteristics is potentially isolating, Solomon argues, the “experience of difference” within families is universal.
