OUTober 2026

Events Schedule

All programs and activities are open to all Georgetown University students regardless of race, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, disability, age or any other characteristic protected under university policy or applicable law.

6-8pm, OSEI Community Room

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Join us on October 1st from 6–8pm in the OSEI Community Room for a rich conversation on queerness, resilience, and faith. This event brings together Buddhist, Jain, Hindu, and Sikh practitioners — Nikhil Mandalaparthy, Em Morrison, Parag Mehta, and Sundeep Morrison — to explore the intersections of queer identity and religious practice within the Dharmic traditions. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear personal perspectives and engage directly with the speakers on how faith and queer identity can coexist and enrich one another. The event is co-sponsored by the Walsh School of Foreign Service Asian Studies Program, the LGBTQ Resource Center, South Asia at Georgetown, and Dharmic Life at Georgetown University.

1-4pm, Arrupe Multipurpose Room

Play games and learn about identity, community, and challenging the status quo! 

3-5pm, Bioethics Research Library

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Join Hoyas With Pride and the LGBTQ Resource Center for a special Homecoming Happy Hour celebrating our LGBTQIA+ Hoya community! Alumni, students, friends, and allies are invited to reconnect, build community, and celebrate Homecoming together.

3-3:50pm, Healy Foyer

Join Campus Ministry’s chaplains and staff for our community gathering! Enjoy some delicious snacks, great company, and meaningful conversation. Immediately following, we invite you to our Interfaith Prayer for Peace and Justice from 3:50 to 4 p.m. in Dahlgren Quad. The event is wheelchair accessible via Dahlgren Quad or Maguire Hall. We look forward to seeing you there!

11-2pm, Red Square

First celebrated in 1994, LGBTQ+ History Month originated in the United States and was founded by Missouri high school history teacher Rodney Wilson. October was chosen as the month for celebration since October 11 is observed as National Coming Out Day. The month also commemorates the first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in 1979. This year Georgetown University will be honoring National Coming Out Day on October 13th. Join us for community, education, and giveaways in Red Square.

5-7pm, Hilltop Campus

Join the LGBTQ Resource Center for a spooky Queer Bakery! Come decorate Halloween-themed cake pops, get creative, and enjoy some sweet treats while connecting with the Georgetown LGBTQ+ community. No baking or decorating experience is required—just bring your creativity and come as you are!

6-8pm, Black House

A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami. At once a vital portrait of contemporary African-American life and an intensely personal and poetic meditation on identity, family, friendship, and love, Moonlight is a groundbreaking piece of cinema that reverberates with deep compassion and universal truths. Anchored by extraordinary performances from a tremendous ensemble cast, Barry Jenkins’s staggering, singular vision is profoundly moving in its portrayal of the moments, people, and unknowable forces that shape our lives and make us who we are.

11-2pm, OSEI Community Room

Join the LGBTQ Resource Center and Women’s Center for an opportunity to explore our community clothing closet and refresh your wardrobe. Chest Binders and Transtape will be available for students who are interested.

7-9pm, Arrupe Multipurpose Room

Build community and decorate pumpkins with us!

5:30pm, Makom

Join us and LJewBTQ in honoring our queer Jewish community at Georgetown with a special Shabbat service, words from your peers, and delicious rainbow challah! All are welcome to celebrate with us. Services are at 5:30 pm and dinner is at 6:30 pm in Makom.

6pm, Dahlgren Chapel

5-6:30pm, Mortara Center for International Studies

Hosted by the Georgetown University Gender+ Justice Initiative,  Women’s and Gender Studies Program, LGBTQ Resource Center, Protestant Life, Culture and Politics Program and American Studies Program.

Join us for a book talk featuring author Nina Sankovitch about her latest book, Not Your Founding Father: How a Nonbinary Minister Became America’s Most Radical Revolutionary. This talk will be moderated by Rev. Ebony Grisom, Director of Protestant Life at Georgetown University. See more information below about the author and book. 

6-8pm, OSEI Community Room

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Ph.D., is Professor of English at Georgetown. She is the author of three books: the novel Big Girl, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and winner of the Balcones Fiction Prize and the Next Generation Indie Book Award for First Novel; the short story collection, Blue Talk and Love, winner of the Judith Markowitz Award from Lambda Literary; and the critical study The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora, winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association.

In her creative and scholarly work, Sullivan considers the links between language, imagination, and bodily life in Black queer and feminist experience. Her critical articles and essays have appeared in American Literary History, Feminist Studies, American Quarterly, College Literature, GLQ: Lesbian and Gay Studies Quarterly, The Scholar and Feminist, Women’s Studies, College Literature, The Oxford African American Resource Center, The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Palimpsest: Journal of Women, Gender and the Black International, Black Futures, Teaching Black, Jacket2, Public Books, New York Magazine’s The Cut, Sinister Wisdom, The Rumpus, BET Online, Ebony Online, TheRoot, Ms. Magazine online and others. Her short fiction has appeared in Best New Writing, Kenyon Review, American Fiction: Best New Stories by Emerging Writers, Prairie Schooner, Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, Robert Olen Butler Fiction Prize Stories, BLOOM: Queer Fiction, Art, Poetry and More, TriQuarterly, Feminist Studies, All About Skin: Short Stories by Award-Winning Women Writers of Color, DC Metro Weekly, Baobab: South African Journal of New Writing, and others.

Sullivan has earned fellowship support and honors from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Institute for Citizens and Scholars, the Mellon Foundation, the American Association of University Women, the Center for Fiction, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Originally from Harlem, NY, she holds a B.A. in Afro-American Studies from Smith College, an M.A. in Creative Writing from Temple University, and a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Washington DC. 

5-7pm, Hilltop Campus

Join the LGBTQ Resource Center for a cozy Queer Bakery! Come make and decorate mini holiday pies, enjoy some festive treats, and connect with the Georgetown LGBTQ+ community. No baking experience is required—just bring your creativity and get ready for some holiday fun!

3:30-5:30pm, OSEI Community Room

Join the LGBTQ Resource Center for a cozy afternoon of boba, crafts, and community! Enjoy a refreshing boba drink, get creative with a fun craft, and spend some time with our therapy dog, Cosy. Come take a break, make something, and connect with the Georgetown LGBTQ+ community!

5:30-7pm, Healey Family Student Center Social Room

Join us for our annual Queersgiving celebration on Wednesday, November 18th, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in the HFSC Social Room! We will come together for food, connection, and good energy. Bring your friends and your appetite

6:30-8:30pm, Film Studies Screening Room

MAJOR! is a documentary film exploring the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a formerly incarcerated Black transgender elder and activist who has been fighting for the rights of trans women of color for over 40 years. Miss Major is a veteran of the Stonewall Rebellion and a survivor of Attica State Prison, a former sex worker, an elder, and a community leader and human rights activist. She is simply “Mama” to many in her community. Miss Major’s personal story and activism for transgender civil rights intersects LGBT struggles for justice and equality from the 1960s to today. At the center of her activism is her fierce advocacy for her girls, trans women of color who have survived police brutality and incarceration in men’s jails and prisons. MAJOR! is more than just a biographical documentary: It’s an investigation into critical issues of how the Prison Industrial Complex represents a wide-spread and systematic civil rights violation, as well as a historical portrait of diverse LGBT communities, told with love and humor, and personalized through the lens of a vibrant and charismatic woman. Through first-person narration and innovative visual story telling, MAJOR! seeks to create a living, breathing history of a community’s struggle and resilience, as seen and experienced by those who lived it.