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Pride Week 2006

It's that time of year again. The ANU Sexuality Department is hosting the annual Pride Week - a week of celebrating queer youth and students. Get along to these events. Money raised during the week will be helping the department to send delegates to the annual Queer Collaborations conference in Perth.

Monday 15 May

Champagne Brunch
Place: ANU Copland BBQ Pit
Time: 10:30am until 1pm
Details: Champagne brunch to kick off Cross Campus Pride Week. Andrew Barr, MLA, launching Pride Week at 11.15am.

Queerlympics
Place: ANU Chifley Lawns
Time: 1pm until 3 pm
Details: Our own queer sports event!

Queer(y)ing Legislation
Place: UC, Room 2B11
Time: 7pm onwards
Details: Seminar and discussion on the past, present and future queer rights legislation. Featuring presentations by Good Process, Queer Action and CAAH.

Tuesday 16 May

Queers in the Grass
Place: ANU Union Court
Time: 11am until 1:30pm
Details: Spend a relaxing lunchtime on the lawns in Union Court! We’ll be having a picnic, Frisbee, and just general kicking back

Speed Dating
Place: UCU Bar, Chillout Room
Time: 7:30pm until 10pm
Details: Queer speed dating! None of this gender binary crap – everyone gets to suss everyone else out! Over 18s only.

Wednesday 17 May

IDAHO (International Day Against Homophobia) Action, stall and BBQueer
Place: UC Concourse
Time: 11am until 2pm
Details: An action highlighting the plight of queers, and aiming to raise the visibility of the fight against homophobia and sexual prejudice, as well as the UC Queer Space Campaign plus the Sea of Smut and a BBQueer!

Tasty Bust DVD
Place: Room 2C5 at the UC.
Time: 2:30pm
Details: Hard-hitting documentary about the Tasty nightclub bust in Melbourne in which the gay nightclub was raided and queers were stripped searched and interrogated for hours.

Coffee Crawl
Place: Starts at Mama’s Trattoria
Time: From 6pm
Details: Feel the caffeine rush! We’ll be doing a tour of the Garema Place cafés.

Thursday 18 May

National Genderfuck Day
Place: ANU Union Court
Time: 11am until 2pm
Details: Celebrate National Genderfuck Day with a BBQueer and the Sea of Smut in Union Court!

Cross Campus Pride Week Gender(is)fuck(ed) Ball
Place: Bar 32, Northbourne Avenue City
Time: 8pm onwards
Details: Round off Pride Week with the Genderfuck Ball - fuck your gender!
Just remember to move in numbers and play it safe – people are still bashing queers! Over 18s only.

Friday 19 May

Recovery Br[l]unch
Place: ANU Queer Space
Time: 1pm onwards
Details: Recovering from the Pride Party? Come and join us at the Queer Space and those cobwebs away. Video from 2pm – Wollongong Uni Queer Space
DVD.