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LGBTQIA+ Pride Month

Focusing on the LGBTQIA+ community, this guide highlights electronic databases, journals, and books published since 2019 and held in the E. H. Butler Library collection.

LGBTQIA+ Pride Month is celebrated at Buffalo State University during the month of April.

LGBTQIA+ Pride Month

Gay Pride, also called LGBT Pride or LGBTQ Pride... [is an] annual celebration, usually in June in the United States and sometimes at other times in other countries, of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) identity. Gay Pride commemorates the Stonewall riots, which began in the early hours of June 28, 1969, after police raided the Stonewall Inn bar in New York City’s Greenwich Village neighbourhood. Gay Pride typically involves a series of events and is often capped by a parade involving marchers and colourful floats from the LGBTQ community and its supporters.

"Gay Pride." Britannica Academic, Encyclopædia Britannica, 16 Mar. 2023. academic.eb.com/levels/collegiate/article/Gay-Pride/475466. Accessed 28 Mar. 2023.

April 2025 events

To celebrate Pride, there are a number of events scheduled on campus for April 2025:

 

April 14: Film Night

4:30-7pm, Upton 230

Join us to kick off Pride Week with a film screening in Upton Hall! Free food!

 

April 15: Bengal Ally Mixer

4-6pm, Student Union Assembly Hall and Fireside Lounge

Returning for another semester, join us in the Fireside Lounge and Assembly Hall to celebrate LGBTQ+ students and allies! Free food! Free stuff!

 

April 16: Living Out Loud: LGBTQ+ Panel

7-8:30pm, Student Union Assembly Hall

Join us for an evening of courageous conversations regarding LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing.

 

April 17: Gayme Night

4-6pm, Bacon 214A

Hosted by Queer Students United

 

April 17: Beyond Boundaries Film: Every Body (2023)

7pm, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Tower Auditorium

Every Body tells the stories of three intersex individuals who have moved from childhoods marked by shame, secrecy, and non-consensual surgeries to thriving adulthoods. Director: Julie Cohen.

 

April 18: Drag Show & Kiki Ball

5-10pm, Student Union Social Hall

Join us for an evening of performances you won't want to miss! Free food!

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