GLOW - The Queer and Questioning Community Centre

It’s exam time again, so not too much happening this week. Good luck on all your exams!

Wednesday, April 13

• Event: Wednesday Night Discussion Group
  Time: 7:15pm to 8:30pm
  Location: PAS 3005
  Topic: Queer Gazette – Feel free to bring along a newspaper, magazine or academic article related to the queer community that has been published within the past month to share during the discussion.

• Event: AfterGLOW Social
  Time: 8:45pm to 10:00pm
  Location: UW Grad House
  A social to meet other queer and queer-friendly people!

Monday, April 4

• Event: Sapphic Monday
  Time: 6:00pm
  Location: GLOW Office (SLC 2101)
  Free Food at Little Bean Coffee Bar
  This is the last official Sapphic Monday of the term! We’ll be going to Little Bean Coffee Bar in Kitchener, a queer-friendly establishment, for your choice of free food (not just snacks, but a whole meal free of charge!). Everyone who has come to Sapphic in the past is encouraged to come out. meet at GLOW at 6pm as usual. We’ll be leaving at 6:30, so meet us at the cafe around 7pm or later if you can’t make it in time.

Wednesday, April 6

• Event: Wednesday Night Discussion Group
  Time: 7:15pm to 8:30pm
  Location: PAS 3005
  Topic: Coming Out and Questioning – How Queer is Too Queer?

• Event: AfterGLOW Social
  Time: 8:45pm to 10:00pm
  Location: UW Grad House
  A social to meet other queer and queer-friendly people!

Book of the Week

Book: Dykes to Watch Out For
Author: Alison Bechdel
Description: The GLOW library has several volumes of Bechdel’s comic strip, also entitled Dykes to Watch Out For. In Bechdel’s words, the series is “half op-ed column and half endless, serialized Victorian novel.”

Ongoing Events:

Monday, March 28

• Event: Sapphic Monday
  Time: 6:00pm
  Location: GLOW Office (SLC 2101)
  Event: Ellen Degeneres and Vag Mons
  One of our Sapphic members has kindly volunteered to bring in some Ellen Degeneres videos and the Vagina Monologues on DVD! Come hang out and take a break from studying. Food in the form of Tim Hortons will be supplied.

Tuesday, March 29

• Event: Tuesday Movie Mayhem
  Time: 7:00pm
  Location: GLOW Office (SLC 2101)
  Film: Little Miss Sunshine
  Film Length: 101 Minutes
  Film Description: A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.

Wednesday, March 30

• Event: Global Queer Cinema Film Screening
  Time: 1:00pm
  Location: ECH 1219
  Film: Fig Trees
  Film Length: 100 Minutes
  Film Description: About a South African AIDS activist who goes on a treatment strike, refusing to take his pills until they are widely available to all South Africans. This symbolic act becomes known and helps build his group Treatment Action Campaign in a national movement.

• Event: Wednesday Night Discussion Group
  Time: 7:15pm to 8:30pm
  Location: PAS 3005
  Topic: Coming Out and Questioning – Alternative Relationships

• Event: AfterGLOW Social
  Time: 8:45pm to 10:00pm
  Location: UW Grad House
  A social to meet other queer and queer-friendly people!
  

Thursday, March 31

• Event: Volunteer Appreciation Night
  Time: 6:00pm to 8:00pm
  Location: SLC MultiPurpose Room
  Did you volunteer with GLOW this term? Well, come on out! To thank you all for your work this semester, we’re having our volunteer appreciation today. Come out for food, board games, and a prize draw for those of you who helped with things other than office hours! Hope to see you there!

Book of the Week

Book: Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out
Editors: Loraine Hutchins and Lani Kaahumanu
Description: This groundbreaking 1991 anthology features fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and art by over 70 bisexual people. The book was critical to the modern bisexual rights movement and was named one of the Lambda Book Report’s Top 100 Queer Books of the 20th Century.

Ongoing Events:

Monday, March 21

• Event: Sapphic Monday
  Time: 6:00pm
  Location: GLOW Office (SLC 2101)

Tuesday, March 22

• Event: Tuesday Movie Mayhem
  Time: 7:00pm
  Location: GLOW Office (SLC 2101)
  Film: Hot Fuzz
  * The film disappeared last week, so it wasn’t shown. It’ll definitely be playing on GLOW’s TV this week, though!
  Film Length: 121 Minutes
  Film Description: Jealous colleagues conspire to get a top London cop transferred to a small town and paired with a witless new partner. On the beat, the pair stumble upon a series of suspicious accidents and events.

Wednesday, March 23

• Event: Global Queer Cinema Film Screening
  Time: 1:00pm
  Location: ECH 1219
  Film: All About my Mother
  Film Length: 112 Minutes
  Film Description: Spanish drama dealing with issues such as AIDS and transvestitism, focusing on a mother whose teenage son is killed in a road accident.

• Event: Wednesday Night Discussion Group
  Time: 7:15pm to 8:30pm
  Location: PAS 3005
  Topic: Questions from a Hat – Come prepared with questions/topics to be added to the random pool for discussion!

• Event: AfterGLOW Social
  Time: 8:45pm to 10:00pm
  Location: UW Grad House
  A social to meet other queer and queer-friendly people!

Book of the Week

Book: Oscar Wilde Discovers America
Author: Louis Edwards
Description: This historical fiction novel follows a young Oscar Wilde and his valet as they travel throughout the United States.

Ongoing Events:

Monday, March 14

• Event: Sapphic Monday
  Time: 6:00pm
  Location: GLOW Office (SLC 2101)
  Event: Bow Tie Making Night
  Make your own bow tie this Monday! All necessary materials will be supplied free of charge. Bring your own fabric if you want a bow tie made of it.

Tuesday, March 15

• Event: Tuesday Movie Mayhem
  Time: 7:00pm
  Location: GLOW Office (SLC 2101)
  Film: Hot Fuzz
  Film Length: 121 Minutes
  Film Description: Jealous colleagues conspire to get a top London cop transferred to a small town and paired with a witless new partner. On the beat, the pair stumble upon a series of suspicious accidents and events.

Wednesday, March 16

• Event: Global Queer Cinema Film Screening
  Time: 1:00pm
  Location: ECH 1219
  Film: Iron Ladies
  Film Length: 104 Minutes
  Film Description: Hilarious comedy based on the true story of a Thai male volleyball team that competes in the national championships in 1996 with a team consisting mostly of gays, transvestites and transsexuals.

• Event: Wednesday Night Discussion Group
  Time: 7:15pm to 8:30pm
  Location: PAS 3005
  Topic: Coming Out and Questioning – Volunteering and Activism in the Queer Community.

• Event: AfterGLOW Social
  Time: 8:45pm to 10:00pm
  Location: UW Grad House
  A social to meet other queer and queer-friendly people!

Book of the Week

Book: Wrestling With the Angel: Faith and Religion in the Lives of Gay Men
Author: Brian Bouldrey
Description: This anthology features 21 autobiographical essays by gay writers about the relationship between their spirituality and their sexuality.

Ongoing Events:

Monday, March 7

• Event: queerSAY: Homophobia and Transphobia on Campus
  Time: 1:00pm to 3:00pm
  Location: SLC Great Hall
  
  This event will start off with a fantastic set of panelists who have amazing experiences of activism and community service to share – from GLOW’s beginnings to the current campus climate, from previous Coordinators to current community activists. After an hour of speaking, the focus will shift to the audience who will be able to ask questions, make comments, share concerns and experiences and provide recommendations for how GLOW can continue to work against homophobia and transphobia on campus, and can actively work with the Waterloo Region community.
  
  Bring friends, family, classmates, professors, volunteers, staff, teachers, trustees and community members. Let’s combat homophobia and transphobia on our campus and in our community as a community!

• Event: Sapphic Monday
  Time: 6:00pm
  Location: GLOW Office (SLC 2101)
  Event: Video Game Night
  
  There will be fun games such as DDR and Tekken! If you have games for Playstation, please bring them!

Tuesday, March 8: GLOW’s 40th Birthday!

• Tuesday is GLOW’s official birthday, and we’re throwing an official birthday party to go with it! We’ll be having films, fun, and a cake fit to jump out of (and if you’re around at 1pm, you may even get to see someone do just that).
  
  All activities will be taking place in the SLC Great Hall!
  Come on out and party like it’s 1971!

Wednesday, March 9

• Event: Global Queer Cinema Film Screening
  Time: 1:00pm
  Location: ECH 1219
  Film: I am My Own Woman
  Film Length: 90 Minutes
  Film Description: Ich bin meine eigene Frau presents the true story of a transvestite, who helped start the German gay liberation movement after surviving the Nazi reign and the repression of the communists in Germany.
  

• Event: Wednesday Night Discussion Group
  Time: 7:15pm to 8:30pm
  Location: PAS 3005
  Topic: Queer Gazette – Feel free to bring along a newspaper, magazine or academic article related to the queer community that has been published within the past month to share during the discussion.

• Event: AfterGLOW Social
  Time: 8:45pm to 10:00pm
  Location: UW Grad House
  A social to meet other queer and queer-friendly people!

Saturday, March 12

• Event: Drag Me to the Bomber
  Time: 8pm
  Location: The Bombshelter Pub (Bomber) in SLC
  This term’s on-campus Drag Show is moving back to The Bomber!
  
  Doors open at 8pm and the show starts at 9pm.
  This event is all ages for UW students, but 19+ for non-UW students.
  
  There will be both professional and amateur king and queen performances with hosts Miss Drew from Club Renaissance and Hamilton’s Nikki Davis.
  
  The show is only $5 at the door!
  Alcohol will be served until 11pm and there will be a dance party after the show!