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Upcoming Events

 

laramiebig The Laramie Project
Saturday, October 17 @ 7 p.m.; Rowan County Arts Center

Presented by The Imperial Court of Kentucky, this documentary play presents the events surrounding the death of Matthew Shepherd. Admission is $5 (students) and $10 (general). Net proceeds to benefit the charities of the Imperial Court of Kentucky and the Matthew Shepherd Foundation. For more information about the Laramie Project, please read this Wiki.

drag3 Life's a Drag! Drag Show Contest & Fundraiser
Wednesday, October 21 @ 8 p.m.; Crager Room, ADUC
FREE HIV TESTING from Noon - 4 p.m. in the Eagle Meeting Room & Eagle Dining Room (3rd Fl ADUC)

Morehead State University’s ALLYance will sponsor a drag show and fundraiser on Wednesday, Oct. 21.


The show will begin at 8 p.m. in the Crager Room of the Adron Doran University Center.

MSU students, faculty and staff are invited to participate in the drag show and talent competition. Those interested can sign up at the information desk on the first floor of ADUC by October 15. There is no registration fee for participation.

“We hope that this will be both an eye opening and entertaining experience for MSU and the Morehead community,” said Tyler Mullins, president of ALLYance. “Everyone should come out and show their support for diversity and AVOL during this event.”

Doors will open at 7:30 p.m.

Admission is $5. Tickets will be sold Oct. 19-21 in front of the cafeteria on the second floor of ADUC. All proceeds will benefit AIDS Volunteers, Inc. (www.avolky.org).

During the day, from noon to 4 p.m. AVOL will be conducting free HIV testing in the Eagle Meeting and Eagle Dining Rooms on the third floor of ADUC. Students, employees and members of the community are encouraged to be tested. MSU's Caudill Health Clinic will have an information booth about HIV/AIDS and other health issues.

ALLYance is a student organization that provides resources, education, awareness and support to MSU students, faculty, staff and the surrounding community. The organization works toward gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual and transgender equality throughout the community and envisions an institution where people are ensured of their basic human rights where they can be open, honest and safe.

Meetings are held every Tuesday in 312 ADUC and Wednesday in ADUC 302 at 5:30 p.m. on the MSU campus. Meetings are open to the public and membership dues are $15.

Additional information is available at www.moreheadstate.edu/orgs/allyance or by e-mailing Ben Winkler at bmwink01@moreheadstate.edu.

fall of 55 big "The Fall of '55" Movie Screening
Tuesday, October 27 @ 6 p.m.; Rader Hall 112

Morehead State University’s Office of Student Activities, in conjunction with the ALLYance will bring documentary filmmaker Seth Randal to campus on Tuesday, October 27, 6 p.m. in Rader Hall 112, on MSU’s campus.  Randal’s film, titled The Fall of 55, documents an anti-homosexual vendetta waged in Boise, Idaho in 1955.  The film will be shown in honor of gay history month. 

After the film, a question and answer session will be held with Randal.

“I am excited to be able to not only bring this kind of documentary to Morehead, but the filmmaker as well.  It is important to have gay and lesbian history highlighted at a public university this way,” said Mike Esposito, Director of Student Activities at MSU. 

In the fall of 1955, a gay sex scandal erupted in the unassuming, wholesome and "vice-less" town of Boise, Idaho, as teenage boys who had prostituted themselves to older men began to disclose their dalliances to authorities. Overnight, Boise's homosexual underworld-comprised mostly of married family men-was splashed onto headlines and thrust into the spotlight. Reputations were shattered and lives ruined as the rumors and accusations flew. What followed was a classic witch-hunt, marked by intense homophobic hysteria, in which the whole town became embroiled.

Randal's documentary provides unique insights into the pre-Stonewall gay experience as well as 1950s America's struggle with the issue of homosexuality and the prevailing myth that it was a cancer that could be spread to the youth. Interesting parallels are also drawn with the era of McCarthyism, during which fear and paranoia supplanted rational thought, and the federal government began its own purge of gays (one that continues to this day in our military).

The film raises many questions that prove difficult even today: With the accusers ranging in age from 15 to 22, at what age did their accusations of sexual corruption become simple hypocrisy? What kinds of behavior were immoral? How far should the community have gone to protect the youth? Who were the victims, and who were the exploited? In Boise, more than fifty years later, opinions are still deeply divided.

Past Events

(updated 09/23/09)