Spring 2025 Full List of Events
Please find below our programming for the Spring 2025 semester. Click on the links to jump to a specific section.
Community Building Events and Celebrations
Programs for this Moment
Weekly Document Drop-in Q&A and Support at the LGBTQIA+ Center for Faculty & Staff
Mondays from 11 am – 1 pm (excluding holidays)
Monthly Document Drop-in Q&A and Support at BUMC
Tuesday, February 18, March 18, and April 15 from 10 am – 3 pm
For BU Faculty & Staff: Estate Planning Considerations for the LGBTQ+ Community with Fidelity Investments
Tuesday, February 4 from 12 – 1 pm
Training—Providing Gender-Affirming Legal Name Change Assistance
Friday, February 21 from 2 – 3:30 pm
Support Session and Lunch with the Faculty & Staff Assistance Office (FSAO)
Wednesday, March 5 from 12 – 1 pm
Federal Funding Outlook in 2025
Wednesday, March 19 from 12 – 1 pm
For BU Faculty & Staff: Estate Planning Considerations for the LGBTQ+ Community with Fidelity Investments
Tuesday, April 1 from 12 – 1 pm
Gender-Affirming Name and Gender Marker Change Clinic
Wednesday, April 2 from 4 – 6 pm
Community Building Events and Celebrations
Grrreasetime with the BU Cycle Kitchen
Wednesday, January 22 from 6 – 9 pm
Grab n’ Gab at the Center
Tuesday, February 4 from 8:30 – 10 am
Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution Book Discussion Group – A Three Conversation Series
Thursday, February 6, March 6, and April 3 from 12 – 1:15 pm
Drag 101 Workshop
Wednesday, February 12 at 5 pm
LGBTQIA+ Faculty & Staff Luncheon at BUMC
Wednesday, February 26 from 12 – 1:30 pm
Grab n’ Gab at BUMC
Tuesday, March 4 from 8:30 – 10 am
Trans Day of Visibility: T(arot) Party
at BUMC – Tuesday, March 25 from 12 – 2 pm
at the CRC – Monday, March 31 from 12 – 2 pm
Grab n’ Gab at the Center
Tuesday, April 1 from 8:30 – 10 am
International Asexuality Day Celebration
at BUMC – Tuesday, April 8 from 12 – 2 pm
at the CRC – Thursday, April 10 from 5 – 7 pm
Screening: Best of Wicked Queer Shorts
Wednesday, April 16 from 6:30 – 9:30 pm
Faculty & Staff Affinity Lunch: Queer and Trans Black, Indigenous and People of Color (QTBIPOC)
Thursday, April 17 from 12 – 1 pm
Faculty & Staff Affinity Lunch: Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, Gender Non-Conforming, and Two-Spirit
Wednesday, April 23 from 12 – 1 pm
LGBTQIA+ Scholar Series
The LGBTQIA+ Scholars Series features BU faculty and their current LGBTQIA+ scholarship and research.
Remembering Confucian Homoeroticism
Featuring Peng Yin, Assistant Professor of Ethics, School of Theology
Friday, February 7 from 12 – 1:15 pm
“My Gender is Lesbian”: Lesbian Feminism for the TikTok Generation
Featuring Cati Connell, Associate Professor of Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Friday, March 21 from 12 – 1:15 pm
“The way that we survive is to be connected”: Social media and eating disorders risk among LGBTQ+ young adults
Featuring Allegra Gordon, Assistant Professor, Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health
Friday, April 4 from 12 – 1:15 pm
Talks & Panels
See Me! A Conversation with author & BUSSW Prof. Luis Alvarez-Hernandez
Tuesday, February 11 from 5:30 – 8 pm
WGS Seminar Series: Kareem Khubchandani “Decolonize Drag”
Thursday, February 20 at 5 pm
WGS Seminar Series: Gender Affirming Care Panel
Tuesday, March 18 at 5 pm
Pre and Early Modern Trans Studies Symposium
March 23 – 25
Learn More Series: A Conversation with Two-Spirit Creatives
Wednesday, March 26 from 5 – 7 pm
13th Annual Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Lecture in Gender & Sexuality Studies: A Lover’s Discourse—Scenes from a Puta Life
Featuring Juana María Rodríguez
Thursday, March 27 at 5 pm
Schuyler Bailar Keynote + Q&A
Thursday, April 3 from 6 – 7:30 pm
WGS Seminar Series: Tesla Cariani “Gender Reveals: Logics of Exposure and Trans* Narratives”
Monday, April 7 at 4 pm
Intersecting Identities: Insights from Deaf Faculty Across Diverse Backgrounds
Tuesday, April 8 from 4 – 6 pm
Save the Date
Pride in April
Month of April
Lavender Ceremony
Wednesday, May 14 from 7 – 9 pm
Pride Soirée
Wednesday, June 4 from 5 – 7 pm
Pride Month
Month of June