FIU hosts first “Redefining Queer: Making Lavender Connections”

By Chris Portilla
Staff Writer

This April Florida International University will make history when it hosts Redefining Queer: Making Lavender Connections. This conference will be the first college and university conference of it’s kind in South Florida.

Lavender is created when pink and black mix. The conference chose the color as solidarity to the gay men and women who were labeled with pink and black triangles in concentration camps during WWII.

Just as the colors mix the conference hopes to bring all community members to the conference to network. Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transgender, Queer and Asking or LGBTQA, college students and community leaders will spend the day learning, and sharing. There will also be workshops, panels, and speakers. The entrance to the conference is complimentary to all higher education institutions within the Miami/ Broward Area and it’s students. Registration is highly encouraged because space is limited.

The objective for the Redefining Queer conference aims at teaching participants so they can take back to their communities what they have learned and share it with their institutions. It also aims to create a supportive foundation for members of the community in South Florida.

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Who: LGBTQA-Initiatives Multicultural Programs and Service (MPAS)

What: Redefining Queer: Making Lavender Connections

Where: FIU Biscayne Bay Campus

When: April 18, 2015/10 a.m.- 8p.m.

Why: To bring together students from the LGBTQA community for networking