OUTober 7th-11th, 2019 Monday Oct. 7th Wednesday Oct. 9th Faculty and Staff Lunch and Learn OUT-a-Palooza 12pm-2pm | SMC 202 11am-1pm | SMC Robert L. Slabinski Atrium Special lunch session with Dr. Jon Paul Higgins to talk about current issues Visit the Atrium as we gear up for Pridefest! Free Food, Music and Games! within the LGBTQ community and ways in which Higher Education LGBTQIA+ Affinity Meet Up Institutions can better support this community. Free lunch and space limited! To RSVP, please email [email protected]. 3pm-5pm | SMC 118 This is a closed event for faculty, staff and students who are members of the "Lead with Pride" Kickoff Keynote w/ LGBTQIA+ community! Come for food and fellowship! Guest Speaker Dr. Jon Paul Higins PCGSD Presents: Poetry Reading w/Meg Day 6pm| SMC Reighard Multipurpose Room (MPR) 6pm | Meyers Auditorium, McComsey Hall Join us for our Coming Out Week Kickoff! Dr. Higgins is a speaker, writer, Join the President's Commission on Gender and Sexual Diversity for an and social justice educator who focuses on issues related to gender, race, evening of poetry! Visit www.megday.com to learn more about the artist! and media. Quick Drag 101 LGBT Lingo Bingo 8pm | SMC Reighard Multipurpose Room (MPR) 9pm | SMC Reighard Multipurpose Room (MPR) Channel your inner drag queen or king and show the campus what you got! Come Learn about LGBT Identities and Terminology and win FABULOUS Prizes! Tuesday Oct. 8th Thursday Oct. 10th Coming Out Week Film: Mala Mala Pridefest 2019 3pm-4:30pm | SMC Reighard Multipurpose Room (MPR) 5pm-8pm| Student Memorial Center Mala Mala is a feature length documentary about the power of Our Annual Campus Celebration to educate, promote awareness of and transformation told through the eyes of 9 trans-identifying individuals in foster pride in the LGBTQIA+ and straight ally community at MU! Free Puerto Rico. swag, resource fair and carnival themed food. GSA Table at Purple Carinval 6th Annual Pridefest Drag Show 6pm | SMC Promeade, Sponsored by CHEP featuring Nina West and Peppermint Purple Carnival is an opportunity to learn about dynamics of healthy and 8PM(Doors open @ 7:30pm) | SMC Marauder Courts unhealthy relationships. GSA will be talking about issues related to the Featuring RuPaul Drag Race Queens and Local Royalty! Tickets on sale at LGBT community. SMC Ticket Office or online at MUTicketsOnline.com! MU Students-$10, MU Courageous Conversation: Power and Privilege Faculty/Staff-$15 and Community-$30. Visit the Intercultural Center for 6pm-8pm | South Village Great Room more information! Join us for our 3rd conversation of the semester as we examine Power and Privilege through a LGBT lens. Friday Oct. 11th National Coming Out Day-Paint with Pride! 10am-2pm| SMC Robert L. Slabinski Atrium In Celebration of National Coming Day, Paint your identity flag on a fan or canvas. Advocacy Photobooth and information!.