University of Illinois at Chicago’s Office of GLBT Concerns celebrates GLBT Heritage Month with free events all month. Oct. 16 is Trans 101, a panel with Lorrainne Sade Baskerville of TransGENESIS, FTM Jacob Mueller, and Mary Boenke, editor of TransForming Families: Real Stories of Transgendered Loved Ones and the mother of an FTM son. Noon-1:30 p.m., Chicago Illini Union, Room, 218-219, 828 S. Wolcott, (312) 413-8619, www.uic.edu/depts/quic/oglbc.