Memorial Service for John Adams

The Department of Geophysical Sciences will be hosting a memorial service for John Adams on Monday, January 30th, in Bond Chapel on the University of Chicago campus.  The memorial service will begin at 10:30 am, and a reception will follow from 11:30-1:30 in Swift Hall.  Feel free to come to any portion of this, even if you cannot make the entire event.

Please pass along this notice to anyone that is not on the list but might be interested in coming.

Please RSVP to mhoerner@uchicago.edu by this Thursday, Jan. 26, so that we can get an approximate headcount.

This Week @ the Office of LGBTQ Student Life

Campus-Wide Events

Free, Rapid, Anonymous HIV Testing
Tuesday, January 24
11:00 AM
Room 302 (Amandla Lounge)
5710 South Woodlawn

Get tested. Know your status. Protect yourselves and your partners. Drop by 5710 for free rapid HIV testing. Results in 15 minutes. HIV testing provided by The Center on Halsted.

Free. Rapid. Anonymous.

Trans/Gender/Diversity and the Family, Tuesday 1/24 12-1:30pm

The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality is hosting a special event regarding trans/gender-variant individuals and families! Check it out!

Free Movie Passes – Albert Nobbs

The Office of LGBTQ Student Life has free movie passes for an advance screening of the movie Albert Nobbs. Award-winning actress Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs) plays a woman passing as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some thirty years after donning men’s clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making. Mia Wasikowska (Helen), Aaron Johnson (Joe) and Brendan Gleeson (Dr. Holloran) join a prestigious, international cast that includes Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Janet McTeer, Brenda Fricker and Pauline Collins.

The screening will take place on Monday, January 23 at 7:30 PM at the Landmark Century theater at 2828 N. Clark Street.  Note: The Seating is first-come, first-served. The ticket does not guarantee you a seat as the theatre is overbooks to ensure a full house.

Passes will be available for pick-up at the front desk of 5710 (South Woodlawn).

Thursday, 2/9/12: Bayard Rustin Event at the Chicago History Museum

The Office of LGBTQ Student Life has a limited amount of discounted tickets to a very special event at the OUT at Chicago History Museum lecture series on Thursday, February 9 at 6:30pm.

Bayard Rustin and Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1956

Bayard Rustin (1912–87) was instrumental in bringing Gandhi’s protest techniques from India to America in the 1940s, a mentor to Martin Luther King Jr., and an organizer of the seminal 1963 March on Washington. Despite his achievements, Rustin was expunged from history—largely because he dared to be an openly gay man during a fiercely homophobic era. Join filmmaker Bennett Singer (codirector of Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin) and Rustin’s life partner Walter Naegle for a conversation on Rustin’s life and legacy—including his rediscovery by a new generation of Americans committed to social and economic justice.

Regular cost is $12, but the Office of LGBTQ Student Life is selling a limited quantity for $5! To RSVP and reserve a ticket, please email lgbtq@uchicago.edu. Tickets are available on a first come first serve basis, so be sure to RSVP and reserve yours as soon as possible!