LGBT Concerns Committee Minutes

Meeting Held: December 2, 2005, Room 301, Peabody Hall

Next Meeting: January 27 from 1-3 in Peabody 301

Committee Web site: http://www.aa.ufl.edu/committees/lgbtcc.htm

In Attendance: Linda Lamme, chair
Tamara Cohen
Kirk [?]
Vince [?]
Ashley Goforth
Greg Allen
Ken Wells
Jennifer Sager
Ricky [?]
Jonathan Keane
Geoffrey Giles
Joyce Dewsbury
Charels Brown

DP Benefits passed by Board of Trustees 12 to 1.

** Write thank you to Kyle Cavanuagh and Bernie Machen.

A. Pride Student Union -- Ashley Goforth

Elizabeth Birch coming Jan 30
IPC conference a success
Attendance about 100; 40-50 from other schools - UCF, USF, NOVA, UNF
Ronni Sanlo
Panels -- esp. balck and LGBTQ

Divide between black and white in LGBT community
"Gay" seen as white
Centered on church
Double minority

Pride Awareness Month in April

Trying to bring Rita Mae Brown or Jacquelyn Woodson
Looking for transgender speakers

B. GGSA (e-mail report)

C. LGBT Student Affairs Committee -- Ricky

3 projects all co-sponsored

• Fall assembly
• National COming OUt Day -- cosponsored with GGSA, PSU; pictureson PSU WEb site
• Vigil for Transgender Remembrance Day; 23-35 attendance

D. Friends

Nov 6 training

98 more people certified as Friends

E. LGBT Driector

Visits by porspective students
Lambda Law becomes Outlaw
Sexuality conversations

Feb - Katrina Schwartz -- LGBT issues in Latvia
March - Grad student panel

Strategic Planning Meeting, Nov 18

F. Awards Committee

Closing date for awards applications, March 1, 5 pm
Announcement out this week

G. TG Support

• Broad spoke to Ken Osfield, head of disability services -- All new buildings will have one unisex bathroom -- Currently adding one to University Auditorium
• Hernandez and Sager met with Student Health about adding protocol for hormone therapy fot TG individuals -- how that would integrate into counseling, etc.

H. Library Actions

Adding an ex offico member was voted against

GLBT Life with full-text database now available -- Visit the library homepage and click on "databases"

I. Incidents

incident with David Miller
poli sci department
flier -- motorbike
B2B flier -- student

SG to become more strict in enforcing non-discrimination in all student org charters

Case of Gator Christian Life being considered by general counsel

J. Old or future topics

Gender identity and expression

intention to add to SG
Terry Fleming working on city
faculty senate

Boy Scouts -- Community Campaign

ROTC

Training -- mandatory

Reporting

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Minutes prepared by Charles Brown.