This year, because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, UC Merced will be celebrating Pride Month online. Social Justice Initiatives and Identity Programs, LGBTQ+ Initiatives and the CARE Office have provided virtual programming to remind us of our LGBTQ+ history, celebrate the lives and accomplishments of our LGBTQ+ colleagues, and advance the needed advocacy.
Merced County Arts Council is hosting a gallery exhibit, “Queer is … ?” The exhibit opened this week and will run through July 6, 2021, and features art and poetry by local LGBTQ+ identified artists. The gallery is open Wednesday – Sunday and is free to the public.
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The Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Queer Issues share the following for members of the UC Merced Community to learn more about the Pride movement in the US:
- Human Rights Watch, LGBT Rights portal for timely reports on the status of LGBTQ+ rights
- Stonewall then and now’ at the Harvard Gazette, “Harvard scholars reflect on the history and legacy of the milestone gay-rights demonstrations triggered by a police raid at a dive bar in Manhattan”
- ‘How Dressing in Drag Was Labeled a Crime in the 20th Century’ by Hugh Ryan'
- ‘Discrimination and Harassment by Law Enforcement Officers in the LGBT Community’ (UCLA, The Williams Institute)
- ‘Queer Law and Order: Sex, Criminality, and Policing in the Late Twentieth-Century United States’
