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LGBTQ Campus Resources

LGBTQ Campus Resources

, Library Resources, outreach
October is LGBTQ History Month, and IU East provides varied types of resources to assist students, staff and faculty in supporting members of the LGBTQ community.  At the IU East Campus Library, we subscribe to several databases focused on LGBTQ research.  Sources like Genderwatch cover both historical and modern approaches to issues in sexuality, while the Archives of Sexuality and Gender include numerous primary sources demonstrating the breadth of LGBTQ history.  In addition, the library maintains an LGBTQ community digital archive, centering on local voices and history.  The library maintains a libguide with local resources, event dates and other useful information. As part of its ongoing efforts to increase awareness, challenge biases and foster understanding, empathy, and inclusivity of LGBTQ … Continued
Get Loud, Get Proud with these LGBTQ+ Resources!

Get Loud, Get Proud with these LGBTQ+ Resources!

, Jesse Whitton, Library Resources, outreach
Pride Month, a significant cultural and social event that is celebrated in June, serves as a powerful testament to the ongoing fight for LGBTQ+ rights and recognition. We at the IU East Campus Library support all members of the LGBTQ+ community and offer resources on LGBTQ+ issues and topics. The IU East Library LGBTQ resource guide provides informative resources for LGBTQ students, families, and allies through links to various education-based, youth-specific, and political organizations resources. This guide also includes links to local resources on the IU East campus, including counseling services, resources on sexual discrimination and violence, and health.  Three years before the Stonewall Riots, an early moment in the gay liberation movement occurred on April 21, 1966, in New … Continued
A Pride Worthy Archives Update

A Pride Worthy Archives Update

, , , Programs
IU East LGBTQ+ Archive Just in time for Pride Month, we added several new items to the IU East LGBTQ+ Collection. Current Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, Dr. Nathan Froebe, recently premiered his new song cycle titled “In Paths Untrodden” on Facebook Live. This song cycle consists of ten poems by Walt Whitman and depicts the navigation of an LGBTQ+ relationship in the messy aftermath of romantic separation. Dr. Froebe composed this music over the last eight years, pulling from his own personal experience, and wrote the voice parts for two ungendered voices. The IU East Archives now has the performance, the performance program, the musical score, and Dr. Froebe’s interview on how and why he created this song cycle … Continued
Celebrating Pride and African American Music Appreciation Month

Celebrating Pride and African American Music Appreciation Month

, , , Research
June celebrations are myriad and interesting, with lots of opportunities for discovery and learning.  This month, we celebrate both African American Music Appreciation Month and LGBTQ Pride Month.  African American LGBTQ musicians have contributed some of the most recognizable songs in American history, as well as serving as examples of successful artists who in many cases lived their truths openly.  Here, we profile a handful of artists spanning over 100 years of recorded music. Gertrude “Ma” Rainey Ma Rainey was born in 1886 with the full name of Gertrude Melissa Nix Pridgett, likely in Columbus, Georgia.  Her potent version of the blues was confrontational and influential, and she worked with some of the most famous artists of her (and any … Continued
History of HIV/AIDS

History of HIV/AIDS

, , , Library Resources, Matt Dilworth, outreach
The history of AIDS, and the human immunodeficiency virus that causes it, has left a long and bloody mark on world history, moving from an academic concern, to an always-fatal but poorly understood disease, to an inflection point in civil rights, to what is now, in much of the world, a survivable chronic condition.  It has been an instrument of death and division which has cost perhaps 35 million lives. HIV was a zoonotic disease transmitted to humans from apes, mutated from the related simian immunodeficiency virus.  While the nature of its first transfer to humans remains a point of debate, it spread rapidly via unsterilized injections (commonplace in most of the regions of Africa where infected apes were known) … Continued