Queer Coalition, Illinois State University’s LGBTQIA+ affinity group for faculty, staff, and graduate students, is excited to present the new limited film series Fired Up: The American AIDS Crisis on Film.
WGSS is now accepting abstracts for its Student Research Symposium on April 24, 2026—submission deadline is March 2.
The Rachel Cooper Gallery’s new exhibition, “Perception,” features Ella Gage’s self-portraits.
WGSS held a fun event called “Trick or Transgress” with a haunted scavenger hunt, creepy treats, and a tarot card reading station.
Illinois State University’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) has announced applications are open to three grant programs intended to promote the future of general education and research in the University’s largest college.
The Illinois State University community is welcomed to attend two events on Tuesday, November 4, with journalist and director Mary Beth McAndrews, whose contributions to feminist and queer understandings of horror films have helped to shape the ways audiences engage with the genre.
Queer Coalition, Illinois State’s sponsored LGBTQIA+ faculty, staff, and graduate student affinity group, invites the University community to attend a lunchtime presentation November 19 by Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program Interim Director Dr. Jason Whitesel on the history and visual representation of Girth & Mirth clubs from their advent in 1970s San Francisco through their last hurrah in the early 2000s. This event will take place from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in 401 Stevenson Hall.
Author Dr. Heather O. Petrocelli and drag performer Peaches Christ, the alter ego of filmmaker Joshua Grannell, will host three events October 15-16, beginning with a podcast-style performance of Queer for Fear Live! at the Normal Theater.
CAS awards a number of highly competitive scholarships to qualified students thanks to our generous donors. Applications are due January 7, 2026.
WGSS recently had a party to celebrate the fall semester and its renovated library.
