Yale Bulletin and Calendar

March 16, 2001

Volume 29, Number 22

Annual Pride Week celebration will
feature talks, comedy night and film

A variety of activities, from the comic to the serious, will be offered during the annual Pride Week celebration March 23-31 sponsored by the Yale Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgendered Cooperative.

This year's highlights include:

* Panels on being "out" in athletics, the corporate world and academia, featuring Yale athletes, alumni, and graduate students and professors, respectively.

* A night of comedy by gay comedian Rob Nash and a world premiere by transgendered activist and performance artist Kate Bornstein.

* Talks by playwright and author Moises Kaufman on his works "Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde" and "The Laramie Project"; and by Dr. Bert Schaffner on his book "Homosexuality and the Mental Health Professions: The Impact of Bias." In addition, Cornell psychology professor Rich Savin-Williams will present a talk titled "Mom, Dad, I'm Gay: Young men and young women coming out to their parents," and Yale history of art professor Jonathan Weinberg will discuss British artist David Hockney.

* A screening of "Scout's Honor," the Sundance award-winning documentary about the Boy Scouts' Supreme Court case, and a talk by its director, Tom Shepard.

Other events will include a panel on "Homosexuality and South Asian-America"; a "Queer People of Color" film festival; a "CaberGAY" talent show; and more.

All events will take place on campus, and are free and open to the public. For a complete schedule, contact laura.horak@yale.edu.

T H I SW E E K ' SS T O R I E S

Economist will develop better way to measure economic activity in U.S.

Yale SOM to establish database for study of world's financial history

F&ES to create industrial ecology program in Asia

Greene and Brisman awarded DeVane Medals

Professor Lane explains the economics of happiness

Scientist Thomas Steitz honored with Sterling Professorship

Goldman-Rakic is Eugene Higgins Professor of Neurobiology

Joan Steitz cited as outstanding woman scientist

Student actors 'take flight' in comic version of 'The Birds'

Exhibition examines photographers' contrasting images of Saarinen designs

'Faces of Hope' offers portraits of people living with HIV

Model urges students to take pride in their bodies

'Cities and Buildings' pays tribute to urban works . . .

Forum to explore fate of U.S. 'melting pot'

Discovery boosts understanding of hereditary blindness

Grants will support Yale researcher's study on how to quell the 'voices' . . .

Women under 60 more likely to die after heart attack, says study

Renowned nuclear physicist to discuss 'Science, Technology and Politics'

'A Taste of Inequality' explores issues still on feminist frontline

Love songs will be dramatized in workshops

New fund will support activities for teachers of religious studies

New ways of funding environmental enterprises to be examined

Film series focus on the banned and Brazilian

Innovation is focus of this year's Spring Teaching Forum

Annual Pride Week celebration will feature talks, comedy night and film

Campus Notes