A Queer week, but not at all odd...

A week of awareness and fun in Victoria

by Tammy Coombes

The week of February 13th to the
18th, was Queer Awareness Week at
the University of Victoria.

The woman in charge of organiz-
ing the events was Lisa J. Lander, who
is a former Douglas College student.
She has now has moved on from our
institution to a place of even higher
learning.

Lisa Was the coordinator of the
LGBC, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual
Collective at Douglas College. Along
with her numerous responsibilities here,
she had a desire to educate students
about queer issues.

She organized the Out Loud event
which took place at Douglas College a
year ago. It was an informative, one day,
speeches and
workhsops to promote queer awareness

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both on campus and in the community.
It was a great success.

 

Now at UVic, Lisa is the coordi-
nator of the LGBA (the Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual Association). The Queer
Awareness Week was her project this
year. With this event, she hoped to cre-
ate an atmosphere in which other stu-
dents at UVic could learn more about
queer issues. She feels these issues are
often talked about but not accepted by
many students. ,

Monday was the day M.P. Svend
Robinson, introduced Queer Awareness
Week and expressed the importance of
such an event.

Booths for Artists for AIDS and
other information were set up in the
SUB.

Later in the evening, there was a
screening of the independantly pro-
duced lesbian film Go Fish.

Wednesday was a day filled with
workshops. Some of the topics covered
were: AIDS (although this is NOT only
a queer concern), homophobia in learn-

Kees
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Nicola
Harwood
Struts her
Stuff as
Love
Mitten

The Other Press

February 25, 1995

 

ing institutions (concerns of students
and instructors), censorship of homo-
sexual literature (Little Sisters, etc.),
and challenges of studying and re-
searching queer issues in a university.

 

 

To end the day, there were two
screenings of erotic films; one for men
and one for women.

 

aWARENESs

 

 

   
      
      
      
   
 
     

Friday was a day
of fun... and learning
too!Nicola
Harwood per-
formed her show -
Love Mitten, the
Lesbian Aveng-
ers’ Vancouver
Chapter showed
a video entitled,

Lisa J. Lander

Lesbians Eat
Fire II , and to
wrap up the

week, there
was a BIG
party.