"Real Progress, Real Problems: A Critical Look at the LGBT Movement"

A talk by renowned LGBT Activist Urvashi Vaid, 4:30 p.m., Ernst Common Room of Blaustein Humanities Center. This talk by Vaid, the director of the Engaging Tradition Project at Columbia Law School, is the keynote address of celebrations marking Connecticut College’s inclusion on a list of the top 25 LGBT-friendly colleges and universities in the country, compiled by Campus Pride and the Huffington Post. The event will also include the LGBTQ Center’s salute to departing president Leo I. Higdon Jr. and the debut of a video made in collaboration with the Department of Athletics for the "You Can Play Project," a movement dedicated to ridding sports locker rooms of homophobia and discrimination. For more information, contact the center’s director Jen Manion atjmanion@conncoll.edu.