Kick-Off LGBTQ+ History Month at LCC!
Featuring stories from local LGBTQ+ leaders, performances from LCC Theatre’s upcoming play “Queering History” and a conversation with the playwright, special guest Maggie Keenan-Bolger joining via Zoom from NYC.
Free gift for the first 50 in-person attendees!
Box lunches will be provided for the first 75 guests. RSVP preferred, but not required.
Program
- Welcome
- Storyteller Segment #1: Layne Ingram
- Q& A with Special Guest Maggie Keenan-Bolger
- LGBTQIA+ History Celebration
- Storyteller Segment #2: Emily Dievendorf
- Storyteller Segment #3: Tim Retzloff
- Finale Performance: A Scene From Queering History
Featured Guests
Layne Ingram - MC
Chief of Staff, LCC President’s Office
Host of The Reconstructed Man Podcast
Layne Ingram is an out-and-proud Transgender man with a passion for raising awareness of and supporting the Trans community, specifically youth and teens. He is a strong advocate for people being exactly who they are and living their lives as authentically as they can.
He graduated from the University of Michigan in 2002 with his bachelor's in communications after a standout, four-year career on the women's basketball team. He was then drafted to the WNBA's Sacramento Monarchs. Over the course of his professional career, Layne has worked in the non-profit, professional sports and higher-education sectors and is also an accomplished public speaker and national presenter. He also holds a Master of Science degree in Leadership from Central Michigan University.
Layne made the decision to transition in 2016 and hasn't looked back since.
Connect with Layne:
Follow him on Twitter: @The_Right_Layne
Follow The Reconstructed Man Podcast on Twitter: @TheRMPodcast
Follow The Reconstructed Man Podcast on Facebook: /thereconstructedman
Read his blog: therightlayne.blog
Maggie Keenan-Bolger
Special Guest
Playwright, Queering History
Maggie Keenan-Bolger (playwright) is a queer, disabled artist from Detroit, Michigan, who currently lives in New York City. She is co-founder and Artistic Director of Honest Accomplice Theatre, producing art for social change from the perspective of historically excluded communities (honestaccomplice.org). Maggie has toured the country as a performer, sex educator and teaching artist. She was recognized as an LGBTQIA leader by the White House in 2012, and can also be seen on The Good Wife with Julianna Margulies and in the movie Admission with Tina Fey.
Emily Dievendorf
Storyteller
President, Lansing Association of Human Rights
I am a passionate advocate for our community. I have spent my life championing progressive issues, particularly LGBTQIA equality, racial justice and equality, sexual and domestic violence, women’s rights, and ending HIV/AIDS.
I have been proud to serve as president of the Lansing Association of Human Rights (LAHR), vice president of the board of the Firecracker Foundation, a board member of the Lansing Area AIDS Network as well as with the Ingham County Women’s Commission. In addition, I was federally appointed in 2015 to the Michigan Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and recently completed my second term on the committee where I served as co-chair.
I have been fortunate to build a career around the issues I have spent my life fighting for. As Executive Director for Equality Michigan, I advocated for LGBT-friendly policies among legislators and other political leaders throughout the state and at every level of government.
I'm also a proud Spartan where I graduated from James Madison College at Michigan State University with a degree in social relations.
Tim Retzloff
Tim Retzloff teaches LGBTQ studies and U.S. history at Michigan State University. He received his PhD in history from Yale University in May 2014, working with adviser George Chauncey; Retzloff’s dissertation examines how city and suburb shaped gay and lesbian life and politics in metropolitan Detroit in the decades following World War II. His scholarly articles have appeared in CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, and the anthology Creating a Place for Ourselves: Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Community Histories. Before graduate school, he worked in various libraries and archives at the University of Michigan. He is also former editor for Between The Lines, Michigan’s LGBT newspaper. Retzloff grew up in Flint, Michigan, a place that shaped him indelibly.
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Wednesday, Oct 5, 2022, 12 p.m. Eastern Time
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Come See Queering History!
October 13 - 15, 2022
8 p.m.
Black Box Theatre Room 1422
Queering History explores how our world might be different if LGBTQIA+ history was taught in our schools.
Written by Maggie Keenan-Bolger; Directed by LCC's Paige Tufford.
What is LGBTQ+ History Month?
LGBTQ+ History Month is an opportunity to celebrate the diversity and history of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community all month-long. It was created in 1994 by a teacher in Missouri, Rodney Wilson, who wanted to find a way to recognize and celebrate the LGBTQ+ community. It occurs each October and began with recognition of a different individual from the community each day.
Learn more about LGBTQ+ History Month at the following resources below:
Proudly Presented by:
LCC Performing Arts and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
