‘Exposed and UnCovered’ is the theme of GLBT Heritage Month, sponsored by the Office of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Concerns at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).
Former adult video star-turned Ph.D. sexologist, educator and multimedia artist Annie Sprinkle headlines GLBT Heritage Month Oct. 4. Sprinkle, author of Dr. Sprinkle’s Spectacular: Makeover Your Love Life, will offer the lecture ‘X-Posure’ with her partner, Elizabeth Stephens, at an opening reception at the UIC Student Center East, 750 S. Halsted, Illinois Room, 3-5:30 p.m.
On Oct. 5, Sprinkle and Stephens will host a free sidewalk sex clinic in the campus plaza from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Other events during the month include National Coming Out Day celebrations on Oct. 11 and an Oct. 13 lunch talk, ‘Queers in Our Military,’with Jean Albright, a former member of the armed services and current board member of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network. The month concludes with Kenji Yoshino, professor at Yale Law School, discussing his book, Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights, on Oct. 26, 3:30-5 p.m. in the UIC Student Center East Illinois Room.
A complete schedule is online at www.glbc.uic.edu. All events are free and open to the public.