The L in LGBTQA

Tonight we had our first in a six-part series called The L in LGBTQA. The other parts are obviously, The G, The B, The T, The Q and The A.

We had Danielle Nied, Resident Director of Centreville Hall and Mercedes Hightower, Senior, as our discussion facilitators. We had a decent turn out and as we had a few new people join us as well. It's always nice to see new faces in the crowd and to know that we are reaching a wide range of students. One said she came because she saw our poster, another was just learning about lesbians because she is in an LGBT lit course, one wanted to meet some people and we had a grad student come as well.

We talked a lot about language. Mercedes said she liked the term Dyke, and didn't refer to herself as Lesbian. I think this is interesting because I always assumed this help negative connotations. We also talked about stud, dom, butch, lipstick lesbian, queer, sub and maybe a few more. It was a good discussion and once again proved that you never know what to really call anybody until they tell you.

We also talked about breaking some stereotypes especially one that we talked about at our last event that lesbians move in together on the second date. It seemed that the room was split as to if that was a true stereotype or not.

All in all, it was a good event. I hope our attendees enjoyed it.

On Monday we head into DC again to volunteer at the DC Center. Free pizza will be served. We'll be packing safe sex kits and helping out around the center.