Events & Calendars Lavender Graduation

The QRC, Pride Alliance, and AAS invite you to join us for Lavender Graduation, a ceremony to recognize and honor the accomplishments of graduating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer students, as well as their allies and families. We hope that you will join us in celebrating with the graduating students, honoring all that they have achieved!

This year's keynote speaker is Tiq Milan! Tiq has been an advocate in the LGBT community for over a decade. He is also a writer and journalist who carved a niche for himself as a media advocate and one of the leading voices for transgender equality. He is a regular on-air contributor to Huff Post Live and various MSNBC news outlets and has penned articles for BET.com, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Source, Vibe and others on issues facing the LGBT movement. Tiq is the former editor-in-chief of IKONS magazine, an LGBT pop culture magazine, and has been a freelance pop culture journalist for several years, interviewing people from Jay-Z to Cicely Tyson. Recently married to Toronto based artist and educator Kim Katrin Milan, they together speak about creating love in queer communities of color and intersectional approaches to human rights activism in North America and abroad.
To learn more, visit http://www.tiqmilan.com/

This event is open to all students, staff, faculty, alumni and families in the Five Colleges.

Reception with refreshments and hors d'oeuvres immediately to follow.