TH6.1: Coming Out Coming Up
BY JEREMY D. POSADAS
Union’s annual observance of National Coming Out Day will become National Coming Out Week this year, according to the Queer Caucus and Fierce, Union’s caucus for queer students of color. While next week will include distributing materials affirming LGBTQ people, three chapel services will present varied experiences of LGBTQ life. On Monday, October 10, alumnus Malcolm Boyd will discuss being a queer student at Union in the 1950s. The Queer Caucus and Fierce are jointly sponsoring Tuesday’s chapel on the plight and survival of homeless LGBTQ youth, and Fierce will welcome the Rev. Jeffrey Haskins to preach on Wednesday. Haskins is the senior pastor at Unity Fellowship Church, a congregation of and for LGBTQ people of color. The week will conclude with Club Sanctuary, a dance on Wednesday evening, to launch the Seminary’s fall break.
In conjunction with the week, the Rev. Cari Jackson will conduct training for students, including straight allies, interested in serving as positive resources for students wrestling with issues of sexuality and gender. The session will be held October 11, 6:30-8:00pm, and interested students can contact either of the Queer Caucus’s co-conveners, second-year MDiv students Michelle Slack and John Shorb. Speaking of the necessity for the week, Slack said, “It’s important that we observe NCOD because, in this laboratory we call Union, it is part of our responsibility as members of the community to educate each other about our lives, to acknowledge the gifts we bring as queer folk, and to help create a space that is truly safe and affirming for LGBTQ people.”
Union’s annual observance of National Coming Out Day will become National Coming Out Week this year, according to the Queer Caucus and Fierce, Union’s caucus for queer students of color. While next week will include distributing materials affirming LGBTQ people, three chapel services will present varied experiences of LGBTQ life. On Monday, October 10, alumnus Malcolm Boyd will discuss being a queer student at Union in the 1950s. The Queer Caucus and Fierce are jointly sponsoring Tuesday’s chapel on the plight and survival of homeless LGBTQ youth, and Fierce will welcome the Rev. Jeffrey Haskins to preach on Wednesday. Haskins is the senior pastor at Unity Fellowship Church, a congregation of and for LGBTQ people of color. The week will conclude with Club Sanctuary, a dance on Wednesday evening, to launch the Seminary’s fall break.
In conjunction with the week, the Rev. Cari Jackson will conduct training for students, including straight allies, interested in serving as positive resources for students wrestling with issues of sexuality and gender. The session will be held October 11, 6:30-8:00pm, and interested students can contact either of the Queer Caucus’s co-conveners, second-year MDiv students Michelle Slack and John Shorb. Speaking of the necessity for the week, Slack said, “It’s important that we observe NCOD because, in this laboratory we call Union, it is part of our responsibility as members of the community to educate each other about our lives, to acknowledge the gifts we bring as queer folk, and to help create a space that is truly safe and affirming for LGBTQ people.”
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