IU and Bloomington GLBTIQ and Allies Group
Bloomington's Non-Discrimination Policy http://www.bloomington.in.gov/: It is the public policy of the city to provide all citizens equal opportunity for education, employment, access to public accommodations and acquisition through purchase or rental of real property including but not limited to housing, and to eliminate segregation or separation based on race, religion, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity, or handicap, since such segregation is an impediment to equal opportunity.
Bloomington has had an active gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, intersex, and transgender community for over 38 years. The community offers dances, art festivals, the annual PRIDE Film Festival http://pridefilmfestival.org/, host LGBTIQ awareness conferences, organize annual gay pride week activities, and LGBTIQA groups regularly sponsor lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender speakers.
Visit Gay Bloomington http://www.visitgaybloomington.com sponsored by the Convention and Visitors Bureau. You'll learn more about all the great activities available to the lgbtiq traveler. The variety of interests and cultures that abound in the middle of our nation's heartland is what makes Bloomington something truly special.
Speakers sponsored by the GLBTIQ community or by ally organizations have included author Rita Mae Brown; author and lecturer Malcolm Boyd; pioneer transsexual Christine Jorgensen; Colonel Cammermeyer; author Will Fellows; comedienne Suzanne Westenhofer; Attorney for NGLTF Evan Wolfson; gay military activist Sgt. Leonard Matlovich; Massachusetts state legislator Elaine Noble; author Brian NcNaught; fan dancer Sally Rand; Marc Ruben and Peter Fisher, authors of The Gay Mystique; Vito Russo, author of The Celluloid Closet; and legal activist Karen Thompson; Lambda Legal Defense Fund activist Mary Newcombe; Linda Villarosa, editor ESSENCE magazine; Tonya Domi, military activist, Riki Anne Wilchins, Director of Gender Pac, and The Flirtations, an openly gay male singing group. One of the earliest presenters at IU on a gay topic was Barbara Gittings, former editor of The Ladder (the nation's first lesbian periodical) and co-founder of the Gay Liberation Task Force of the American Libraries Association.
Sections of the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt http://www.aidsquilt.org/ were displayed at IU in February 1990 and April 1994, February 1999 and in 2004.
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