Welcome to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Studies Program.

The LGBT Program currently offers an undergraduate certificate and a minor. The certificate is a 21-credit interdisciplinary course of study comprised of 15 required and 6 elective credits designed to complement any student's major field of study. The minor is a 15-credit interdisciplinary course of study comprised of 12 required and 3 elective credits.

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In Spring 2012 LGBT Studies Proudly Presented:

DELANY AT 70:
Honoring the Life & Work of Samuel R. Delany
Fifth Annual DC Queer Studies Symposium
Friday, April 20, 2012

The symposium was a daylong series of conversations in critical queer, race, and gender studies inspired by the multifaceted cultural work of author, literary critic, and professor Samuel R. Delany, whose seventieth birthday was April 1, 2012. Eventsl included paper sessions featuring faculty and graduate students, as well as an afternoon plenary of faculty who presented their work on Delany. The day culminated with Mr. Delany's reading from his new novel, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders, and conversation with Robert Reid-Pharr, Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

CONTACT
Tenth Annual Lecture Series in LGBT Studies

Contact. Of bodies, worlds, orders, organisms. Of people, modes of being, ways of seeing. "Life is at its most rewarding, productive, and pleasant when large numbers of people understand, appreciate, and seek out interclass contact and communication conducted in a mode of good will," declares Samuel R. Delany in Times Square Red, Times Square Blue. Contact is a theme that resonates throughout queer studies of intimacy, alterity, temporality, and globalization. Thank you for joining us for a provocative series of interdisciplinary conversations as we celebrated ten years of LGBT Studies at Maryland.

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LAVENDER GRADUATION is Saturday, May 19, 4-6pm, Colony Ballroom, Stamp Student Union. Congratulations to all the graduates, especially those who earned the minor or certificate in LGBT Studies!

Register for Summer 2012 and Fall 2012 courses! A full list of Summer and Fall courses, and course descriptions are available.

Are you interested in making a donation to support the LGBT Studies Program? A number of ways to donate are available to you, and your gifts are tax deductible. To make a donation by credit card online, go to the University's secure donation page

• Select "Give Now"
• Ensure that your funds are directed to the Rodler/Wood Endowment Fund
• Fill out the requisite information

Thanks to all those who joined us for the 5th Annual DC Queer Studies Symposium, "DELANY AT 70: Honoring the Life and Work of Samuel R. Delany." We hope you'll continue to make contact with us!

For the Spring 2012 semester, the LGBT Studies Program office will be staffed Mon. and Wed. from 10am-3pm; Tues. 11am-6pm; and Thurs. 9am-11am and 12:30pm-6pm. We look forward to talking with you about advising for the certificate or minor, enrolling in courses, or other concerns. So, come visit us in 2417 Marie Mount Hall, call us at 301.405.LGBT or e-mail us.

See News and Announcements for more events.

For other current events on campus check with the LGBT Equity Center, the The One Project, the Multicultural Involvement & Community Advocacy office, the Pride Alliance.