Past Events
The LGBTQIA+ center is constantly evolving to meet the needs of our diverse and intersectional community. There’s so much expertise and scholarship at Boston University to draw inspiration from. Check out this list of past events to get a sense of the programming we provide. And if you have an idea for topics or presentations that might benefit our community, please reach out.
BU LGBTQIA+ Scholar Series
Commemorative and Awareness Days
National Coming Out Celebration: Affirming Queer Joy (annual)
International Pronouns Day (annual)
Transgender Day of Remembrance Memorial and Flag Installation at CRC (annual)
Transgender Day of Remembrance Memorial and Flag Installation at BUMC (annual)
Two-Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQIA+ Celebration and Awareness Day (annual)
Trans Day of Visibility: T(arot) Party (BUMC) (annual)
Trans Day of Visibility: T(arot) Party (CRC) (annual)
International Asexuality Day at BUMC (annual)
International Asexuality Day at CRC
Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week Celebration at the LGBTQIA+ Center for Faculty & Staff
Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week at BUMC
Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week at the LGBTQIA+ Student Resource Center
Genderfluid Visibility Celebration at BUMC
Genderfluid Visibility Celebration at CRC
Bisexuality Visibility Day BUMC
Bisexuality Visibility Day CRC
International Asexuality Day Celebration at CRC
International Asexuality Day Celebration at BUMC
Pansexual and Panromantic Pride Day (@BUMC) – 3 Events & Lots of Pride!
Be You at BU: A Panel of LGBTQIA+ Faculty & Staff
Trans Day of Visibility Celebration (annual)
Remembering our Transcestors: TDOR Vigil and Dinner (annual)
International Pronouns Day Tabling (annual)
Be You At BU and Be You At BUMC
Aromantic Awareness Week Celebration
Banned Books Storytime Marathon! (LMS)
Pansexual and Panromantic Awareness and Visibility Day
LGBTQIA+ Center for Faculty & Staff Open House for National Coming Out Day
Be You at BUMC: Celebrating Our Community on National Coming Out Day
Be You at BU: Celebrating Our Community on National Coming Out Day
Community Building Events and Celebrations
Celebrating QTBIPOC Communities and Affirming Queer Joy (annual)
Celebrating TGNC+ Communities and Affirming Queer Joy (annual)
Be You at BUMC: Celebrating Our LGBTQIA+ Community (semi-annual) (semi-annual)
Alumni Weekend Open House & Reception (annual)
Pride Soirée (annual)
Faculty & Staff Community Lunch at BUMC (annual)
5th Anniversary Celebration of the LGBTQIA+ Center for Faculty & Staff
Find Your Center: Faculty & Staff Open House
Grab n’ Gab at BUMC – Spring 2026
New to BU Tea at CRC – Spring 2026
Grab n’ Gab at CRC – Spring 2026
Finding Community at BU & Welcoming Steven C. Sweat – New LGBTQIA+ Center Assistant Director
Finding Community at BU: Hosted by the LGBTQIA+ Center for Faculty & Staff
Out at the Theatre: Mother Mary
New to BU Tea at CRC – Fall 2025
Alumni Weekend Open House & Reception – Fall 2025 (annual)
Fall Welcome Back Reception CRC
Fall Welcome Back Reception BUMC
Faculty & Staff Pride Affinity Brunch: Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, Gender Non-Conforming, and Two-Spirit – Spring 2025 – Spring 2025
Grab n’ Gab at BUMC – Fall 2024 (23-24 AY)
Welcome Back Barbecue for LGBTQIA+ Faculty & Staff
Welcome Chris Hinesley – Our New LGBTQIA+ Center Associate Director
Grab n’ Gab at BUMC – Fall 2023 (22-23 AY)
LGBTQIA+ at the Theatre: Mr. Parent
LGBTQIA+ Faculty Welcome Back Reception (annual)
Sweets & Swag LGBTQIA+ Fall Kick-Off Event
Faculty of Color & LGBTQIA+ Faculty Reception
LGBTQIA+ Center for Faculty & Staff Open House on National Coming Out Day
Community Collaborations and Cosponsorships
Grrreasetime with BUCK (annual)
Pride Paint-n-Sip (annual)
CAS LGBTQIA+ Pride Reception (annual)
Latinx/LGBTQIA+ History Month Event, Featuring Isa Noyola
Performance by S. Bear Bergman—The First Jew in Canada: A Trans Tale
WGS Queer Book Club: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Nikki Giovanni Opening Celebration
Queers at the Table Book Launch
A Performance & Conversation with Lady Shug
WGS Queer Book Club: The Gilda Stories: Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition by Jewelle Gomez
CLEAVAGE: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us WITH Jennifer Finney Boylan
Pre and Early Modern Trans Studies Symposium
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Seminar Series: Gender Affirming Care Panel
Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Seminar Series: Kareem Khubchandani “Decolonize Drag”
See Me! A Conversation with author & BUSSW Prof. Luis Alvarez-Hernandez
Terrier F1RSTS Together OUT-tober Social
Who’s Afraid of Gender? Reading Group
All for Love Pride Fest at BU Beach
Pride Night at Fenway (annual)
CAS LGBTQIA+ Pride Luncheon (CAS)
Grrreasetime with the BU Cycle Kitchen
Jeffery Zuckerman – My Moi: Translation as Autobiography
Black Trans Poetics: A Reading with Cameron Awkward-Rich, Levi Cain, and JR Mahung
Jee Leong Koh – Living the Li(f)e of Translation in English
Artist Talk-Natural Wanderment: Native-Led Environmental Movements with Matika Wilbur
Gallery Tour – Natural Wanderment: Native-Led Environmental Movements
Remembering Our Transcestors: International Transgender Day of Remembrance Vigil and Dinner
Asexual and Aromantic Allyship in Queer Communities
Professional Development Panel and Networking Event (GWISE and oSTEM)
Living with Monkey: A Lecture with Eli Clare
The Anti-Racist Roots of Queer and Trans Activism: A History of Direct Action and the Body
Lecture: Gay Liberation Goes to Church (WGS)
HIV & STI Testing Site – Free & Confidential
Supporting Folks Living with HIV/AIDS: World AIDS Day Panel
Film Screenings
2026 Best of Wicked Queer Shorts (annual)
2025 Best of Wicked Queer Shorts
OUT-tober Film Screening: No Look Pass
2024 Best of Wicked Queer Shorts
Screening: Gay USA as part of Wicked Queer Film Festival
LMS & Wicked Queer Screening: Best of Wicked Queer Shorts
LMS Film Screening & Post-Film Conversation: Rafiki
LMS Film Screening: Saving Face
2022 BU Pride Film Festival: Queer Desire in the 1990s and Early Aughts – Go Fish
2022 BU Pride Film Festival: Queer Desire in the 1990s and Early Aughts – Chasing Amy
2022 BU Pride Film Festival: Queer Desire in the 1990s and Early Aughts – Hedwig and The Angry Inch
Focus Groups
BU LGBTQIA+ History Project – Focus group for Alumni from the 1960s and 1970s
BU LGBTQIA+ History Project – Focus Group for Alumni from the 1980s
BU LGBTQIA+ History Project – Focus Group for Alumni from the 1990s
BU LGBTQIA+ History Project – Focus Group for Alumni from 2000-2015
Lectures, Panels, and Keynote Addresses
Latino/a/x or What? Rethinking Language, Identity, and Inclusion
Queer Representation in the Media
Broads, Sisters, Exes: Feminist Millennial Television—A Book Talk with Vincent L. Stephens
A Conversation with Two-Spirit Creatives (LMS)
Gender Affirming Care Across BU/BMC
Fashion as Resistance with Van Bailey
Touching the Art with Queer Author & Activity Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: Book Talk & Signing
The State of Anti-Trans Legislation
Fighting For Family: Recognizing and Protecting the Rights of LGBTQIA+ Parents (LMS)
Portraits of Pride: A Celebration of Queer and Trans Lives in Boston (LMS)
At Every Stage of the System: The Criminalization and Over-Incarceration of LGBTQIA+ People (LMS)
The Life and Love of LGBTQ+ People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (LMS)
What’s So Dangerous About a Picture Book?: Resisting the Ban on Children’s and YA Literature (LMS)
“A” is for Asexual Liberation: Centering Ace Aro Identities and Creating a Movement (LMS)
“We’re Not Going Back”: Protecting and Advancing LGBTQIA+ Rights in 2022 (LMS)
Queer History is American History: Historical Perspectives on LGBTQIA+ Identity and Experience (LMS)
Roe & Dobbs: The Ripple Effects of the SCOTUS Ruling on Democracy and Our Futures
Professional Development
Fall Researchers’ Roundtable (new, annual)
Early Career Academics’ Roundtable (new, annual)
BU Leadership & Belonging Series: A Conversation with President Gilliam
BU Leadership & Belonging Series: A Conversation with Senior Vice President Derek Howe
Federal & Foundation Funding Workshop
Training—Providing Gender-Affirming Legal Name Change Assistance
Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution Book Discussion Group – A Three Conversation Series
For BU Facilty & Staff: Estate Planning Considerations for the LGBTQ+ Community with Fidelity Investments (two sessions offered)
1st Conversation: Delving Deep into Your Queer Ecology: A Three-Conversation Series
2023-2024 Manuscript Workshop Series: Stereotypes & Scripts by Samia Hesni
Navigating Your Career – LGBTQIA+ Staff Edition
From Safe Spaces to Thriving Spaces
Take Pride in Green Office Certification (BU Sustainability)
Queering Race & Identity at BU Part 2
BU LGBTQIA+ History Project Kickoff Meeting
LGBTQIA+ Korn Ferry Results with Dietrich Warner
Learn More Grants Information Session
Queering Race & Identity at BU
BU LGBTQIA+ History Project Community Update Meeting
Drop-In Sessions (beginning in 2024)
Winter Book Drive for the Prison Book Program (annual)
Monthly Drop-In Hours at BUMC (Oct ’25 – May ’26)
Weekly Document Drop-in Q&A and Support at the LGBTQIA+ Center for Faculty & Staff (Jan ’25 – June ’25)
Monthly Document Drop-in Q&A and Support at BUMC (Feb ’25 – April ’25)
Support Session and Lunch with the Faculty & Staff Assistance Office (FSAO)
LGBTQIA+ Concerns in this Political Climate: Drop-In to Talk About Documents & Documentation at CRC (offered 3 times)
LGBTQIA+ Concerns in This Political Climate: Drop-In to Talk About Documents & Documentation at BUMC (offered twice)
Name Change/ Gender Marker Change Workshop with BU Cycle Kitchen