Queer Colleagues

Announcing the annual Queer Student Reception as part of new student orientation
Details:
What:  Queer Student Reception
Where: Downey House Lounge
When: September 3, 2009, 3-4 PM
Who:  Queer and allied students, faculty, librarians, and staff
Even if you can’t stay for the full hour, it would be great if you can drop by.  Hope to see you there!

Registration is now open for the 
True Colors Annual Conference
March 12-14, 2009 UConn-Storrs
The world’s largest conference for LGBTQI* youth, providers, and their allies
 
The focus of this year’s conference is mental and behavioral health.  For more information and to register, go to:
http://www.ourtruecolors.org/

GLAD and Love Makes a Family are holding a marriage workshop here on campus this Tuesday, October 28. 
Middletown’s own Maureen Murphy will talk, and she is an expert on this issue.  GLAD asks that participants to RSVP.  The announcement is also posted online:
http://www.glad.org/event/index.php?stub=ct-marriage-workshop

Marriage Workshop in CT

October 28, 2008 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Wesleyan University, Exley [...]

Same-sex marriage now has legal standing in Connecticut.  Today, the Connecticut State Supreme Court issued a ruling that same-sex couples have the right to legal marriage.  
A huge gala party to celebrate this milestone will be held tonight at the Hilton hotel in Hartford, at 315 Trumbull Street, at 7 PM.  Before the party, an [...]

Wesleyan University offers the following benefits to domestic partners of its employees:  health care benefits, undergraduate tuition assistance for dependent children, and tuition remission for Graduate Liberal Studies Program courses.  For information about benefits, go here: http://www.wesleyan.edu/hr/benefits/2006/benefitslandingpage.html
To be eligible for these benefits, the employee and the partner must submit to the Human Resources office an affidavit [...]

QUEER COLLEAGUES is an organization of queer Wesleyan University faculty, librarians, and staff. We organize advocacy meetings and social gatherings.  
ADVOCACY
We advocate to the University regarding employee support for queer issues.  We advocate to Human Resources about benefits for domestic partners and same-sex couples.  If there is a queer-related issue you would like the University [...]