Past Events
Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Center Open House
LGBT Center, 3907 Spruce Street
Welcome Dinner & Intro to Penn's Native Indigenous Community
GIC, 3708 Chestnut Street
Philly’s Black LGBTQ+ Nightlife Scene: A Panel Discussion
4th Floor Skyline Room
Social Science and History Department
Parkway Central Library
1901 Vine St, Philadelphia, PA 19103
Join the Philadelphia Trans Oral History project to discuss Philly’s Black LGBTQ+ nightlife scene, the history of queer/trans performance, how the scene has changed since the 1980’s, how it endures in the present political conjuncture, and how it will thrive going forward. Doors…
Penn Women's Center Graduation Bruncheon
Penn Women's Center
Penn Women's Center excitedly invites you to our annual graduation celebration happening on Friday, May 16 from 11 AM-12 PM. This year's theme is 'Graduates in Bloom' as we wish to celebrate you all blooming and entering a new era. Join us in commemorating your time at Penn and…
Lavender Ceremony
4PM Ceremony: Arch 208
6PM Reception: LGBT Center
Lavender Graduation is the historic, national celebration of LGBTQIA+ graduates. Join us for a celebration of the queer and trans communities' accomplishments for commencement. Please invite friends, family, mentors, or anyone else you would like to help recognize your…
GSWS Honors Thesis Presentations
345 Fisher Bennett Hall, GSWS Suite
Please join us in celebrating GSWS seniors' achievements and incredible research during their honors thesis presentations!
Reflections on the Wars: Then and Now 50th Anniversary of the US Wars in Vietnam and Southeast Asia
McNeil 473 (PSC Commons) and Zoom
Please join us for a roundtable discussion with Penn alumni and faculty on the history of Vietnamese and Southeast Asian Americans in the greater Philadelphia area over the last 50 years. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the War in Vietnam and other conflicts in…
LGBTQ Poetry from Homer to Langston Hughes Undergraduate Conference
Fisher-Bennett Hall 135
Please join us for “LGBTQ Poetry from Homer to Langson Hughes,” a conference featuring the work of Penn undergraduates and responses by Stephanie Burt (Harvard) and Drew Daniel (Johns Hopkins). The formal papers and responses will be followed by a reception, and all attendees…
Embodied Histories Seminar with Asli Zengin on Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World
LGBT Center, Goodhand Room
In Violent Intimacies, Aslı Zengin traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative violence. Drawing on the history and ethnography of the trans communal life in Istanbul, Zengin develops an understanding of cisheteronormative…
Postmodern Trans Studies
Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge, Room 135
The symposium will feature five speakers, each discussing their work and recent trends in Premodern Trans scholarship for approximately 15 minutes, followed by a Q&A session and open conversation. This event aims to bring together scholars whose work will be featured on our…
