Upcoming (and Past) Events
Below is a chronological list of some great pro-LGBT annual events that NGA puts on or piggybacks on throughout the year. Please celebrate them in whatever small way YOU can think of, and please contact us if you have any event suggestions or ideas.
Day of Silence -- April 15, 2011
Sponsored by GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, Day of Silence is a national youth effort using self-imposed silence to protest the actual silencing of LGBT people due to harassment, bias and abuse in schools. To remain silent on this day is to express one's solidarity with the many who have been harassed into silence by anti-LGBT bullying.
Each year, NGA makes "Day of Silence" buttons that people can wear to show that they are participating, and short printed out blurbs about the Day of Silence so that participants can explain their silence to others.
Link to the Day of Silence website: http://www.dayofsilence.org/
Each year, NGA makes "Day of Silence" buttons that people can wear to show that they are participating, and short printed out blurbs about the Day of Silence so that participants can explain their silence to others.
Link to the Day of Silence website: http://www.dayofsilence.org/
International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia -- May 17, 2011
Rainbow flag over Norris for last year's IDAHO (May 17, 2010)
International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, held on May 17 every year, coordinates international efforts calling for respect for gays and lesbians. The symbolic event seeks to deconstruct homophobia's social logic, expose it as shameful and backwards, and fight against it openly. May 17 was chosen as its annual date because homosexuality was removed from the World Health Organization's (WHO) International Classification of Diseases on May 17, 1993.
Each year, NGA raises a rainbow flag over Norris and makes rainbow bracelets to hand out in order to spread awareness of this important day.
Safe Space Training -- May 25, 2011
Every spring quarter, NGA puts on a popular Safe Space training program for the Greek community, with one person from each house usually attending. The program includes a panel of LGBT students who share their stories, hardships, and successes.
This is one of the most effective ways NGA spreads awareness of our group and of the insensitivity and intolerance yet to be eliminated in the Greek community.
This is one of the most effective ways NGA spreads awareness of our group and of the insensitivity and intolerance yet to be eliminated in the Greek community.