National Coming Out Day is approaching. Our campus observances of National Coming Out Day will be held on Tuesday, October 9, and Thursday, October 11.
National Coming Out Day is approaching. Our campus observances of National Coming Out Day will be held on Tuesday, October 9, and Thursday, October 11.
Events will include:
Tuesday, October 9, 7:30 p.m. -- Roey Thorpe will be the featured Coming Out Day speaker, in Clark Lounge, Campus Center. Sponsored by the Center for LGBT Education, Outreach, and Services.
Each year our campus hosts a featured speaker on campus in commemoration of National Coming Out Day; the speaker usually has unique ties to our local community. In past years, highlighted speakers have include notable people in the fields of research, writing, the arts, and law and public policy.
Featured speaker Roey Thorpe is the advocacy services director for the Equality Federation, where her job is to build the political power of grassroots LGBT organizations across the country. An activist for social justice for over 20 years, Roey worked at Empire State Pride Agenda (New York's statewide LGBT civil rights and advocacy organization), Freedom to Marry, and served for five years as the executive director of Basic Rights Oregon (the statewide organization seeking to attain basic civil rights for LGBT Oregonians).
Roey was the first openly LGBT elected official in Tompkins County, elected in 1994 as a city councilwoman and later as acting mayor of Ithaca. She was named one of Portland's "50 Most Powerful Women," is a recipient of the Ann Shepherd Award for her leadership, and was recently selected as one of GO NYC magazine's "100 Women We Love."
Thursday, October 11, Noon -- The student groups Prism and Created Equal celebrate Coming Out Day at Free Speech Rock.
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20071001110914857