Two events on campus Oct. 11 will celebrate National Coming Out Day.
Old Lesbians: Feminist Reflections on our Past, Present, & Options for the Future, featuring speaker Sharon M. Raphael, PhD (GRS ’65, GRS ’74, sociology), Professor Emerita of Sociology at California State University Dominguez Hills, will be held at 3 p.m. on Oct. 11 at the Mandel Community Studies Center Room 106. The event is hosted by the LGBT Center and the College of Arts and Sciences.
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The CWRU Pride LGBT Alumni Network is also hosting its annual homecoming dessert reception from 6 to 8 p.m. on Oct. 11, in the Guilford House parlor and lounge. The event will feature special remarks by Jeramiah Davenport, Ph.D. (GRS’ 17, Musicology), known as Dr. Lady J.
Davenport is the world’s first drag queen known to have completed a dissertation on drag history. Dr. Lady J is a working drag queen whose research and educational outreach focus on obliterating the erasures of queer performance from history and bringing forward the contributions drag performers have made to politics, music, film, fashion, and popular culture.