OUTober 2023
Events Schedule
10/1 – Protestant Sunday night worship OUTober Service
7pm, Sister Thea Bowman Chapel
10/3 – Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates: A Conversation with Katie Barnes
7pm, HFSC Social Room
Women’s sports, since their inception, have been seen as a separate class of competition that requires protection and rules for entry. But what are those rules and who gets to make them? In Fair Play, award-winning LGBTQ+ sports journalist Katie Barnes (they/them) traces the evolution of women’s sports as a pastime and a political arena, and looks to the inclusion of trans athletes. Copies of Fair Play will be available for pickup in the Women’s Center, Leavey 327.
10/5 – GU Pride’s A Conversation with Danica Roem
6-7pm, HFSC Herman Room. Join GU Pride for a conversation with Danica Roem, the very first openly trans state legislator in the United States! Follow @gupride for more info.
10/11 – National Coming Out Day Celebration: Coming OUT to Red Square
11:30am-2pm, Red Square
Group photo time: 12:15-30pm**
Open Mic: 12:45pm-1:45pm
For those who can’t come out or aren’t ready to come out yet, we see you. For those who are able to live out loud, we hear you. All are welcome to join as we celebrate together! For more details, please follow our instagram (@lgbtqatgeorgetown) and the LGBTQ Resource Center newsletter.
10/12 – Queer Space: Mini pumpkin decorating with Dr. Amanda Phillips
6-8pm, Arrupe Multipurpose Room
10/18 – Fiction, Faith, and Sexuality: A Conversation with Author Arinze Ifeakandu — Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs
October 18, 2023
12:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. EDT
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One of the most distinctive and affecting voices in contemporary fiction is that of Arinze Ifeakandu. Born in Kano, Nigeria, in 1995, raised a Christian, and self-identified as queer from a young age, Ifeakandu is an emerging master of the short story (a craft he furthered at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop). Not yet 30 years old, he has been awarded a Dylan Thomas Prize, an O. Henry Prize, and is a Kirkus and LAMBDA Award finalist. At Georgetown University, he’ll read from his acclaimed first book, God’s Children Are Little Broken Things (2022), and discuss fiction, faith, sexuality, and the present-day Nigeria that is the setting of many of his stories. Paul Elie, senior fellow in the Berkley Center and moderator of the Faith and Culture series, will lead the conversation.
Copies of God’s Children Are Little Broken Things (2022) will be available for purchase. A light lunch will be served.
10/18 – Shyam Selvadurai & Film Screening of Funny Boy – Mini-Series on Queer South Asia
3:30-6:30pm, McShain Large Lounge in McCarthy Hall
10/18 – OUTober Meditation
9pm, John Main Center
10/22 – Mass of Belonging
8pm, Dahlgren Chapel
10/25 – Screening of Wonderfully Made
6:30pm, Lohrfink Auditorium. Learn more about the film.
10/27 – OUTober Shabbat, Campus Ministry
Service begins at 5:30pm, dinner begins at 6:30pm. Located in Makom, Leavey Center.
10/27 – Black Theatre Ensemble presents Creating the Cosmos: An Intergalactic Coffeehouse
6-8pm, Davis Performing Arts Center Lobby
For questions, please contact Shakeer Hood, srh118@georgetown.edu
10/27-28 – Rocky Horror Picture Show (GU Pride)
ICC Auditorium
Follow @gu_rockyhorror for more info.
10/30 – Sex in the Dark: Healthy Sexuality and Georgetown and Beyond
7-8:30pm, Lohrfink Auditorium
Students stay anonymous in this lights-off Q&A event, while our pair of national experts answer their deepest, darkest questions. No question too simple — or too outrageous. For more information, follow our instagram (@lgbtqatgeorgetown) and the LGBTQ Resource Center newsletter. This event is sponsored by the Student Health Center, Office for Student Health, Health Education Services, Women’s Center, Catholic Ministry, Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service, & LGBTQ Resource Center.