Pride 2024

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This year's Pride logo was created by Jeanmarcos Perez '24, who has created numerous Pride and heritage celebration logos for us over his time at Dartmouth. A huge thank you to Jeanmarcos. 

The 2024 Pride celebration has been planned under the leadership of Rosario Rosales '25 and Felipe Mendonca '27 with support from assistant director Angélique Bouthot. Felipe joined the team as a first year, planning and attending his first Pride on campus. Rosario has been a part of planning three Prides and multiple other celebrations, co-chairing three major celebrations with OPAL.
Numerous other students, faculty, and staff are part of making Pride happen. A round of thanks for the many students participating in town hall and leadership meetings who provided feedback throughout the Pride planning process and for those who volunteer to make these events happen. Student organizations, faculty departments, and staff collaborators also host events throughout the term, creating a calendar and a Pride celebration that spans campus. 

This work would not be possible without additional support from our sponsors: Institutional Diversity & Equity, the Special Programs and Events Committee (SPEC), the Geography Department, the History Department, and English and Creative Writing.
 

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Dates: April 7th, 21st, and May 5th
Registration closed.

Our inaugural Books, Bites, & More at the Triangle House features Dr. Margot Kotler guiding students as they read and explore Audre Lorde's Zami: A New Spelling of My Name. Students will meet to discuss the book, watch related films, and spend time reflecting and creating in response. Food and a copy of the book provided.
 

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Date: Friday, April 5th
Time: 7 pm
Location: Loew Auditorium 
Tickets and Details

A sneak peek at a new episode from Season 4 of the critically-acclaimed HBO series about four fabulous drag queens using their art to spread love, awareness and connection. Discussion follows.
Stephen Warren '82 returns to campus with a sneak peek at a new episode from Season 4 of HBO's WE'RE HERE, the critically-acclaimed series he created in 2020 alongside his partner Johnnie Ingram. The Emmy®, Peabody and GLAAD award-winning unscripted series follows renowned drag queens: Sasha Velour, Priyanka, Jaida Essence Hall and Latrice Royale, as they continue the show's mission of spreading love and connection through the art of drag across small-town America. This season, the queens work with participants in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and Tulsa, Oklahoma, as well as in surrounding towns, and take an in-depth, immersive look at recent anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and the effect it has had on the community. 
Programmed in collaboration with the House of Lewan drag club, the Office of Pluralism and Leadership, the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and Dartmouth Women in Law and Politics.
 

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Date: Saturday, April 13th 
Time: 6:30-10PM 
Location: Collis Common Ground 
Food provided.
Registration required.
 
Queer Prom first started in 2019 as a kick-off event for Pride. This event seeks to give students the opportunity to relive their prom experiences outside the constraints of typical high school proms that tend to be characterized by heteronormative traditions and expectations. For many LGBTQIA+ students, high school proms can be harmful and exclusive to their identities. Thus, Queer Prom aims to make a space for LGBTQIA+ students to celebrate their queer identities with music, dance, food, performance, and positivity. This year, students will have the opportunity to engage with students from Colby-Sawyer and other New England colleges, allowing it to be a space for integration, exchange of ideas and celebration.

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Date: Sunday, April 14th
Time: 11 am - 12:30 pm
Location: The Triangle House, 4 N Park St
Registration preferred, but not required.

Visit the Triangle House as Live in Advisor Gary Xia and residents hosts campus guests for this Pride Brunch.
 

Date: Tuesday, April 16th
Time: 8-11 pm
Location: Alpha Theta
 

Date: Wednesday, April 24th
Time: 8 pm
Location: Sarner E/W

Join Programming Board and Pride as they welcome Molly Kearney to the stage. Molly is an actor, stand up comedian, and Saturday Night Live's first nonbinary cast member.
 

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Date: Saturday, April 27th
Time and Locations: 11 am parade start at Triangle House, approximately 11:30 am arrival to Kemeny Courtyard and speeches, 12 - 2 pm pride festival in Kemeny Courtyard
Register to march or table as a group.
Food provided.

Returning for a 2nd year at Dartmouth, the PRIDE Parade is an event to gather our LGBTQIA+ community on campus to celebrate our identities and is meant to memorize what PRIDE started off as- a riot and a march. Together, we will gather at the Triangle House to march in the pride spirit and end up in Kemeny Courtyard. for an informative and essential after-festival. There will be food, music, student organizations and community resources tabling, and an STD/STI clinic organized by Health Service. The parade is one of the central pieces of Dartmouth's Pride and this year's event will hopefully be the biggest one so far.

Interested in making a poster or getting a marching group together? Show up to the Triangle House around 10:30 to use our poster supplies.
 

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Date: Tuesday, April 30th at 6 pm
Location: Collis Common Ground
Food provided.

The panel is an opportunity to think about the history of the Queer movement having a moderated panel with Dartmouth staff and faculty, including prepared questions and a Q&A with students. The focus of the event is to discuss the history and today's struggles of the LGBTQIA+ community, giving to the college students an opportunity to learn about Queer issues, the achievements of the movement, and ongoing themes in LGBTQIA+ life and rights. As these faculty are also members of our community, it's an important opportunity to build intergenerational connections on campus and learn from personal experience and academic expertise. Confirmed panelists include Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Lecturer Sarah E. Chant and Associate Curator of Photography at the Hood Museum of Art Alisa Swindell, with more pending. 
 

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Date: Tuesday, April 30th
Time: 7  pm
Location: Loew Auditorium

Curated by the Dartmouth Asian American Studies Collective (DAASC), these short films look at queerness, transness and transnationality with a softened gaze.

In Bloom 
If a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, would Mr. Binh's community treat him in the same way once they learn the truth about his partner and him?
D: Duy Anh Nguyễn, Viet Nam, 2019, 12m

Roleplay 
A television advertisement film-set, an actress, a shampoo product, a promise, a strange devil, a pill—there was something insidious in the bamboo bush, it overwhelms the atmosphere, waiting to come out with the dark.
D: Duy Anh Nguyễn, Viet Nam,  2021, 17m

to boyhood, i never knew him
This poetic experimental film is a love letter to the filmmaker's childhood before his understanding of gender and body dysphoria, and a way to reclaim his now adult body and spirit on a path of healing and perseverance.
D: Trâm Anh Nguyễn, Viet Nam, 2022, 4m

Hoa
Before developing her memory disorders, the filmmaker's bà nội (paternal grandmother), Trần Thị Tuyết Hoa, wrote an autobiographical book about her life and its events.
D: Trâm Anh Nguyễn, Viet Nam, 2022, 15m

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Date: Friday, May 3rd
Time: 8:00 PM
Location: Kemeny Courtyard

The show known as Transform is one of the traditional PRIDE celebration events and it has grown in size after the creation and success of the House of Lewan. Over the past few years, House of Lewan has created a community and an incubator for drag artists on campus. Join the members of the house in Kemeny Courtyard for a show that will be sure to transform the way you think of drag and what Dartmouth students are capable of creating.

Date: Saturday, May 4th
Time: TBD
Location: Free Market and Cable Makerspace

Hosted by the Cable Makerspace in collaboration with DIAD and the Sustainability Office as part of their sustainable fashion series. Participants will have an opportunity to "shop" at the Free Market and alter that clothing under the direction of Noel Guetti. This will be a free event with limited space.

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Date: Saturday, May 4th
Time: 7 - 9 pm
Location: Collis Common Ground
Food provided.

Jotería is a fun board game that celebrates Mexico's Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer people in the Lotería style. Simulating a Bingo game, Jotería integrates the game tradition with art, folklore, history, and family. The event will consist of a community space to play Joteria, creating a space for intersectionality of identities, celebration, and Queer history. We hope to center queer, BIPOC students at this event in an effort to create a space for the community. This event will be in collaboration with Latine & Caribbean student advising, bridging our communities through art and play. It will also include amazing prizes and catering to make it even more engaging for the students.
 

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Date: Sunday, May 5th
Time: 4:30 - 9 pm
Pick up/Drop off Location: In front of 53 Commons
Learn more and sign up on Trailhead.

Enjoy a relaxing evening and free 5 course meal with old and new friends to celebrate being your awesome self! Co-sponsored by the Diversity, Inclusion, Justice and Equity (DIJE) sub club of the Dartmouth Outing Club. Travel to and from Moosilauke included. 

Questions? Email frr.23@dartmouth.edu
 

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Date: Wednesday, May 8th
Time: 6 pm
Nominate students, faculty, and staff for awards or to be our commencement speaker at dartgo.org/LavenderNoms
Register to attend the event at dartgo.org/LavenderRSVP 
Food provided.
 
Lavender Graduation is one of the annual cornerstone events of Dartmouth Pride. It is a ceremony conducted nationwide on various campuses that celebrates and acknowledges the contributions of LGBTQIA+ seniors to their higher education institutions. The ceremony originated in 1995 when Dr. Ronni Sanlo, a Jewish lesbian, was denied the opportunity to attend the graduations of her biological children because of her sexual orientation. Encouraged by the Dean of Students and the University of Michigan, Dr. Sanlo designed the first Lavender Graduation to create space for LGBTQIA+ students and faculty. 

At Dartmouth, we continue this tradition annually in an effort to honor this important LGBTQIA+ history and recognize the accomplishments of our LGBTQIA+ students. This event includes a short speaking program, the delivery of awards, and an opportunity for graduating students to be individually recognized and awarded a rainbow tassel to wear at graduation. Graduating students are highly encouraged to register to ensure they receive a tassel. 
 

Date: Friday, May 10th
Time: 9 PM
Location: Collis Common Ground
Snacks provided.
 
Rainbow rollerskating is one of PRIDE's most popular events! See Collis Common Ground transformed into a fun and funky roller rink and skate the night away with your friends. This event is hosted by Collis After Dark.
 

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Date: Saturday, May 11th
Time: 7 PM
Location: Loew Auditorium
Tickets Required
 

Kristen Stewart and her bodybuilder girlfriend attempt to escape her seedy criminal family (Ed Harris, Dave Franco) in this sexy, kinetic tale of romance on the run.

From A24 Films and director Rose Glass (Saint Maud) comes an electric new love story about reclusive gym manager Lou (Kristen Stewart), who falls hard for ambitious bodybuilder Jackie (Katy O'Brian) headed through town to Vegas in pursuit of her dream. The hitch? Their passionate romance comes in the wake of Lou's criminal family (a seedy Ed Harris and abusive Dave Franco) and unleashes a murderous rampage. Eschewing traditional film noir tropes, Glass only gets bolder with each surreal twist and the result is a sexy, brutal, violent, kinetic piece of filmmaking. 

D: Rose Glass, US, 2024, 1h44m CC
 

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Date: Saturday, May 24th
Time: 7 PM
Location: Loew Auditorium
Tickets Required

Colman Domingo ('Rustin') anchors the tender, riveting story of a prison theatrical troupe who finds deep beauty in an effort to make art for art's sake. While not an explicitly queer film, Domingo is a talented member of our community. 

Divine G (Domingo), imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theater group alongside other incarcerated men. The way acting exercises and rehearsal set something in these men free is a vivid reminder of the transformative power of art. Based on the prison's Rehabilitation Through the Arts program, the film stars an unforgettable ensemble cast of people formerly incarcerated at the Sing Sing correctional facility. Their participation brings an authenticity to the group's founding principle that human dignity must be a part of the justice system. Directed with a dynamism that matches the charm, mischief and compassion of the men themselves, Sing Sing recognizes the value of a place we can gather in which to discuss, debate and create, wherever that may be.

D: Greg Kwedar, US, 2023, 1h45m, CC
 

Students, faculty, and staff are in constant motion and adding in new, exciting events, so this website will be updated intermittently throughout the term. If you need up-to-date information, please check dartgo.org/qsa for flyers and registration links or contact the students and staff planning Pride:
Rosario Rosales '25 at rosario.e.rosales.25@dartmouth.edu
Felipe Mendonça '27 at felipe.f.mendonca.27@dartmouth.edu
Angélique Bouthot at angelique@dartmouth.edu.