Yale Gay and Lesbian Alumni/ae Association, Inc.

LGBT Alumni Reunion Program

"Remembering our Past, Shaping our Future"

(This schedule is subject to change. Continue to check back for updates!)

Thursday, February 7, 2013: Pre-Reunion Events

11:35 am - 12:25 pm          Visit a Yale LGBT Studies Class
                                              "Religion and Sexuality in America" with Prof. Kathryn Lofton
                                                          @ Luce Hall, Room 101, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

8:00 pm Welcome Mixer
@ Heirloom Bar, The Study Hotel, 1157 Chapel Street

9:30 - 11:30 pm Film screening & discussion: Keep the Lights On with Director Ira Sachs '87
@ Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall Street

10:15 - 11:30 pm The Bad Romantics: A Queer Cabaret, performance by undergrad drag troupe
(An IvyQ-sponsored event open to alumni)
@ Sudler Recital Hall, William L. Harness Hall, 120 Wall Street

Friday, February 8, 2013

9 am - 7:30 pm Registration & Hospitality
@ Rose Alumni House, 232 York Street

10:45 am "Gay Yale Today" Campus Tour

Noon - 1:30 pm Student Organizing Update
& Open House at the New Office of LGBTQ Resources

2 pm Reunion Overview

2:30 pm                     Plenary Welcome Address
  "Twenty-five Years the Gay Ivy"
                                              Professor George Chauncey '77, '89 PhD

3 pm                       Opening Panel Discussion
  "LGBT Studies in the Yale Curriculum: Reports from the Classroom"
                                                 Moderator: Joseph Gordon ’78 PhD

4:30 - 5:45 pm Welcome Reception & LGBT Archives Exhibit

Dinner Options    (Meal tickets provided at registration)
                                    ~ 5:45 - 7 pm: Dinner in Residential Colleges
                                    ~ 6 pm: Family & Friends Welcome Dinner
Sponsored by Af-Am House & PRISM
                                    ~ 7 pm: Shabbat Dinner
                                                   @ Slifka

7 - 8 pm Speed Dating

8:30 - 10:30 pm Benefit Concert
@ Woolsey Hall
Honoring Cynthia Nixon with the first annual Artist for Equality Award
(Tickets sold separately. Click here for more information.)

Late Night Events

10 pm "Yale School of Drag": Featuring Kings & Queens from YSD
(Tickets $10 at yalecabaret.org/drag or 203-432-1566 & at the door)
**Doors open at 9:30 pm
@ The Yale Cabaret, 217 Park Street

11 pm Feb Club Emeritus After Party
@ 116 Crown

Midnight "Yale School of Drag": Featuring Kings & Queens from YSD
(Tickets $10 at yalecabaret.org/drag or 203-432-1566 & at the door)
**Doors open at 11:30 pm
@ The Yale Cabaret, 217 Park Street

Saturday, February 9, 2013

9 am - 2 pm Registration
@ Rose Alumni House, 232 York Street

9:30am - 4:30pm Oral History Recordings

9 - 9:45 am Continental Breakfast
(With Affinity Breakfast groups in Rose Alumni House Dining Room)

10 am                        University Update
    Maria Trumpler, Director, Yale University Office of LGBTQ Resources
                                                      Kim Goff-Crews, Secretary & Vice President of Student Affairs, Yale University

10:30 am Plenary Address
  "The Journey to Election 2012 and the Path Ahead"
                                                      Michael Morand '87
                                                      Susan Sommer '83, '86 JD
                                              Evan Wolfson '78

11:45 am - 1 pm Break Out Sessions - I

~ Generational Perspectives on LGBTQ Life at Yale

~ LGBTQ Issues in Healthcare

~ Educating for a Queer Future

1 - 2:15 pm Lunch on Your Own
(Meals not provided at lunchtime events)

~ Speed Networking (rotations begin at 1:30 pm)

~ Open House at the New Office of LGBTQ Resources

~ Lunch with Director Ira Sachs (1:30 - 2:15)

2:30 - 3:45 pm Break Out Sessions - II

~ Past Meets Present: Building Communities Across Time
                                               *A Joint Session with IvyQ)

                                          ~ The Changing Nature of LGBTQ Military Experience
                                               *In collaboration with the Yale Veterans Association

                                      ~ Philanthropy: LGBT and Other Social Justice Causes

4 - 5 pm Break Out Sessions - III

                                           ~ Contributions to the Movement(s): How to Become and Stay Involved

                                           ~ Queer Arts at Yale

                                           ~ Paths to Parenthood
                                              *In collaboration with Family Equality Council

                                           ~ "Gay Yale Today" Campus Tours

6 - 6:45 Friends of Bill W. Gathering

6 - 6:45 pm    Cocktail Receptions

                                           ~ President's Room, Woolsey Hall

                                           ~ Yale Law School Dining Hall, 127 Wall Street
                                              * Hosted by the Yale AIDS Memorial Project

7 - 9 pm Banquet & Awards Ceremony
Yale GALA Lifetime Achievement Awards presented to:
James Esseks (Activism) & Peter Salovey (Ally)

10 pm "One-in-Four" After Party & Alumni Cabaret
@ Partners Cafe, 365 Crown Street
**Email thomas.dolan@aya.yale.edu with interest in performing

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Morning Attend local worship services of your choice
Listings available from the University Chaplain's Office (http://chaplain.yale.edu/yrm)

10:30 - 11:30 am Remembrance Gathering

11 am - 1 pm Farewell Brunch