Out and About Week events planned

Robyn Ochs, a nationally renowned scholar and speaker on bisexuality, will kick off the 2002 Out and About Week Friday, April 19, with a pair of lectures.

Ochs’s free talks are part of a number of campus lectures, workshops and performances organized in observance of the week, which runs April 19-27.

Out and About Week is designed to increase the visibility and understanding of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and allied communities at UW–Madison, while providing ways for all communities, gay and straight, to meet and interact with each other in positive social and educational spaces.

Ochs will speak on “Creating a Both/And Identity in an Either/Or World” at noon Friday, April 19, Campus Women’s Center, Memorial Union. Her second session is “Bisexuality, Feminism, Men and Me” at 4 p.m. Friday, April, 19, 2080 Grainger Hall.

All Out and About Week events are open to the public and free, unless otherwise noted. Other highlights include:

• A safe sex workshop, conducted by Sex Out Loud, at 7 p.m. Sunday, April 21 in Memorial Union (check TITU).
• A poetry slam with New York-based poet Alix Olsen at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, 109 Union South.
• A LGBT activism panel discussion at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 25 in 272 Bascom Hall.
• The LGBT End of the Year Celebration and graduate reception at 7 p.m. Friday, April 26 in Memorial Union (check TITU).
• The LGBT Out and About Dance at 8 p.m. Friday, April 26 in Memorial Union’s Great Hall. Cost: $3.

For more information, contact Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Campus Center, (608) 265-3344, or the Ten Percent Society.