The Stonewall Center provides support, advocacy, and programming for LGBT and allied students, staff, and faculty at UMass Amherst and for the larger Pioneer Valley. We also seek to educate the campus and local community about heterosexism, genderism, and sexual and gender prejudice in order to create a more inclusive and welcoming climate for bisexual, gay, lesbian, queer, and transgender individuals and their allies.
Stonewall staff members: Jenna, Adam, Sarah, Jo, and Olivia
News and Upcoming Events
New England Film Premiere: Riot Acts--Flaunting Gender Deviance in Musical Performance
Tuesday, Nov. 17, 7 p.m.
137 Isenberg School of Management, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
Riot Acts is a transfabulous rockumentary representing the whole lives of transgender and gender variant musicians, through a first-hand perspective of the intersections between gender performance and stage performance, culminating with the notions that identities and bodies are undeniably political, and the trans experience is not always one of tragedy, but one of creativity and joy.
The filmmakers, Madsen Minax and Simon Strikeback, will lead a discussion after the screening. Free and open to the public.
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Pioneer Valley Transgender Day of Remembrance Memorial
Thursday, November 19, 7 p.m.
Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst Meetinghouse, 121 North Pleasant Street
The annual Day of Remembrance memorializes individuals who have been killed throughout the world in the previous year because of anti-transgender hatred. Since last year’s event, more than 100 people are known to have been murdered because of their gender identity/expression.
Speakers at the Pioneer Valley Transgender Day of Remembrance will include Reverend Alison Wohler, the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst; Rabbi Raquel Kosovske, the rabbi of Beit Ahavah: The Reform Synagogue of Greater Northampton; Rabbi David Dunn Bauer, the rabbi of the Jewish Community of Amherst; Reverend Louis Mitchell, a founder of Recovering the Promise Ministries; Reverend Liza Neal, the minister of the Village Congregational Church in Cummington and the director of the Spiritual Life Office at Hampshire College; and Gunner Scott, the director of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition.
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