"Remembering our Past, Shaping our Future"

Thursday, September 19

5:00 – 6:30 pm            James Robert Brudner ’83 Memorial Prize Lecture

“Man Up – Queer Feminism after All These Years”

Cherrie Moraga, 2013-14 Brudner Prize Recipient

Sudler Hall (Floor 2A), William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St.

6:30 – 7:30 pm            James Robert Brudner ’83 Memorial Prize Reception

Friday, September 20

(9 am – 7:30 pm)         Registration

1201 Chapel St. (1^st Floor Conference Room)

12:00 – 1:30 pm          Open House at the New Office of LGBTQ Resources

Swing Space, Room 124, 40A Ashmun St.

2 – 2:30 pm                 Reunion Welcome

Mark Dollhopf, Executive Director, Association of Yale Alumni

Mickey Dobbs ’92, President, Yale GALA

Reunion Co-Chairs: Gabriel Seidman ’11 & Anna James Wipfler ’09

George Chauncey ’77, ’89 PhD

Whitney Humanities Center (Auditorium), 53 Wall St.

Yale GALA Allies Award Recipient:  President Peter Salovey ’86 Ph.D.

2:30 – 3:00 pm            Plenary Address

“Twenty-five Years the Gay Ivy”

Professor George Chauncey ’77, ’89 PhD

Whitney Humanities Center (Auditorium), 53 Wall St.

3:00 – 4:15 pm            Opening Panel Discussion

“LGBT Studies in the Yale Curriculum: Reports from the Classroom”

·         Joseph Gordon ’78 PhD

·         George Chauncey ’77, ’89 PhD

·         Joe Fischel

·         Kathryn Lofton

·         Karen  Nakamura ’01 PhD

Whitney Humanities Center (Auditorium), 53 Wall St.

4:30 – 5:45 pm            Welcome Reception

Afro-American Cultural Center, 211 Park St. (Room 104)

Dinner Options (**Meal tickets provided at registration**)

·         5:45 pm:          Dinner in Residential Colleges

                                                                        (Last call at 6:30)

·         7 pm:               Shabbat Dinner

Slifka Center, 80 Wall Street

8:00 – 10:00 pm          Benefit Concert & Award Presentation

                                    Artist for Equality Award: Cynthia Nixon

Battell Chapel, 400 College St.

11:00 pm +                  Benefit Concert After-Party

116 Crown St.

Saturday, September 21

(9 am – 2 pm)              Registration

1201 Chapel St.(1^st Floor Conference Room)

10:00 – 10:30 am        University Update

                                    Battell Chapel, 400 College St.

Kim Goff-Crews ’83, ’86 JD

Secretary & Vice President of Student Affairs, Yale University

Maria Trumpler ’91 PhD

Director, Yale University Office of LGBTQ Resources

10:30 – 11:15 am        Plenary Address

“Winning the Freedom to Marry: How Far We've Come, How Much More to Do”

Battell Chapel, 400 College St.
Evan Wolfson ’78

President & Founder, Freedom to Marry

Susan Sommer ’83, ’86 JD

Senior Counsel & Director of Constitutional Litigation, Lambda Legal

Michael Morand ’87

11:45 am – 1:00 pm    Panel Sessions – I  (Concurrent sessions)

·         LGBTQ Issues in Healthcare  

Afro-American Cultural Center, 211 Park St. (Room 104)

·         Generational Perspectives on LGBTQ Life at Yale  

Afro-American Cultural Center, 211 Park St. (Room 101)

·         You Can Tell Just By Looking:  A Discussion of LGBT Myths  

Golden Center, 268 Park St. (Lecture Hall)

1:00 – 2:15 pm            Lunch on Your Own

·         Open House at the New Office of LGBTQ Resources

Swing Space, Room 124, 40A Ashmun St.

2:30 – 3:45 pm            Panel Sessions – II  (Concurrent sessions)

·         It’s a Gay, Gay, Gay World:  How LGBT Travel is Expanding Horizons 

Afro-American Cultural Center, 211 Park St. (Room 104)

·         Philanthropy – LGBT and Other Social Justice Causes  

Afro-American Cultural Center, 211 Park St. (Room 101)

·         The Changing Nature of LGBTQ Military Experience 

Golden Center, 268 Park St. (Lecture Hall)

4:00 – 5:00 pm            Panel Sessions – III  (Concurrent sessions)

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

Afro-American Cultural Center, 211 Park St. (Room 104)

·         Modern Families: Parenting and the LGBT Community  

Afro-American Cultural Center, 211 Park St. (Room 101)

·         Queer Arts at Yale  

Golden Center, 268 Park St. (Lecture Hall)

6:00 – 6:45 pm            Cocktail Reception

                                    University Commons

7:00 – 9:00 pm            Banquet

                                    University Commons

                                                GALA Lifetime Achievement Award:

James Esseks (Activism)

9:00 pm +                    Drinks on Your Own at Gryphon’s Pub

Graduate-Professional School Center at Yale (GPSCY), 204 York St.

10:00 pm+                   Yale GALA Fall Equinox Party: Celebrating the Last Day of Summer

Partners Café, 365 Crown St.

Sunday, September 22

                                    Attend local worship services of your choice

(Listing available via Chaplain’s Office http://chaplain.yale.edu/yrm)

10 am – 12:30 pm       Farewell Brunch

                                    Rose Alumni House, 232 York St.

10:30 –11:30 am         Remembrance Gathering

Chapel (2^nd floor), Slifka Center, 80 Wall St.