University of Michigan offers class: "How to be Gay: Male Homosexuality & Initiation"

American Family Association of Michigan ^ | December 5, 2005 | AFA-Michigan

[weegee]

As in, how to initiate contact with the womenfolk with intent to get your freak on; basically, the same thing this course is doing, but for straight guys.

I'd recommend it for all accredited engineering programs.

[Calpernia]

puke, er uh, ping

[perfect stranger]

Perhaps they can get extra credit acquiring some of the newer drug-resistant strains of HIV.

[Once-Ler]

That was very funny. Thanx for a hearty laugh.

[Grizzled Bear]

You are my new hero!

[freespirited]

What kind of a job do you apply for with a B.A. in Homosexual Studies ? A hairdresser, airline steward ..?

Gracious, no. You continue your studies, with your tuition covered by a teaching assistantship during your master's degree years and a research assistantship during your doctoral study. Then you do a post-doc. After that you apply for tenure-track professor positions in the many departments of GLBT (that's Gay, Lesbian Bi-sexual and Transgender Studies). You get one, and with hard work and some Ford Foundation funding, eventually wind up with an endowed chair at an ivy league school and more speaking invitations than you can handle (not unlike Ward Churchill).

Btw, it's tres gauche to refer to the field as Homosexual Studies. The proper term is Queer Studies.

[MikefromOhio]

somehow I am not surprised!!

PING!!!

[sam_paine]

Dude. That is the gayest dog I have ever seen.

[csmusaret]

As opposed to an anal exam?

[Calpernia]

LGBT STUDIES: LOCAL, NATIONAL, and GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES

Schedule of Events

Conference Home | Registration | Driving and Accommodations

8:30: Registration

9:00-9:15: WELCOMES from

* Vice Chancellor and Provost Deborah Freund
* Senior Vice President and Dean of Student Affairs Barry Wells

(introduced by Margaret Himley, Writing, SU)

9:15-10:15: KEYNOTE ADDRESS: AMY VILLAREJO

(introduced by Steven Cohan, English, SU)

10:15-10:30: BREAK

10:30-11:45: CONCURRENT PANELS

11:45-1:00: LUNCH

1:00-2:15: CONCURRENT PANELS

2:15-2:30: BREAK

2:30-3:30: KEYNOTE ADDRESS: DAVID HALPERIN

(introduced by Adrea Jaehnig, LGBT Resource Center, SU)

3:30-4:15: ROUNDTABLE WITH SU FOLKS

* Paula Johnson (Law School, SU)(ROTC and the Solomon Amendment)
* Tom Dunn (Communication and Rhetorical Studies, SU)(thesis and dissertation work going on at SU)
* Micere Mugo (African American Studies, SU)(consulting in Kenya)
* Keith Bybee (Political Science, SU)(equal marriage rights)
* Adrea Jaehnig (Director, LGBT Resource Center, SU) (LGBT Center)
* Stacey Lane Tice (Assistant Dean, Graduate School, SU)(Interrupting Heteronormativity)
* Steve Davis (Public Communication)(Student Voice on LGBT Community)

(moderated by Andrew London, Sociology, SU)

4:15-5:00: CLOSING REMARKS and OPEN DISCUSSION

* Chancellor Nancy Cantor



Panels

Morning Panels [10:30-11:45]

[1] Transnational Feminist Perspectives:

Robin Riley (Women’s Studies, SUNY Plattsburgh), and Chandra Talpade Mohanty (Women’s Studies, SU), and Linda Carty (African American Studies, SU)

[2] Identities and Institutions:

Paisley Currah (Political Science & Executive Director, CLAGS), Julie Gedro (Empire State College), and Ritch Savin-Williams (Psychology, Cornell)

[3] Art and Activism:

Juanita Diaz (Sociology, Women’s Studies, & Latin American and Caribbean Studies, SUNY Binghamton), Ellis Hanson (English, Cornell), and Thomas Glave (English, General Literature, and Rhetoric, SUNY Binghamton)

Afternoon Panels [1:00-2:15]

[4] Queering the Academy:

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Queering the Academy??!!!

How do these people take themselves seriously?

[John Will]

Or Physical Science, can't forget the Chemistry and Physics majors in that program.

Will this class include acessorising as well as how to be fablouth for your swetthheaaart?

[SteveMcKing]

I'm afraid we are going to hit bottom so hard there will be no picking up the pieces.

If I knew things were hopeless, I'd say get it over with. I don't want to live in a sunset empire, or watch younger generations succumb to some awful fate.

It's the weirdest thing, but Japan is the only country I see as truly civil anymore, good cultured, and somewhat Westernized. All other nations are being subdued and subverted by the worst social models imaginable. (Maliciously, in my radical view.)

[SeaBiscuit]

Immorality, decadence and perversion, are all the historical hallmarks of great nations on the way down. The homo agenda in this country must fail ..or we will.

[LK44-40]

I stood and said "I always knew I was different. I really dug funerals as a kid, especially corpse skin...I would not trade it for anything.

You sure made the best of your fifteen minutes of fame! Salute!

[CrazyIvan]

"I wonder how many credit hours this class will count for?"

I don't know, but the tuition is to be paid for in three dollar bills.

[Tall_Texan]

Yeah, I wish they had "how to be a heterosexual male" courses when I was in college. Heck, I might have even shown up for the labs.

[Boazo]

A class? I'm surprised it's not already a campus department. ....or at least a major. Or a rear admiral

[festus]

I didn't know it was all that complicated to be gay.

I thought it was mainly "insert tab A into ....." well you get the idea.....

[Calpernia]

"I'm proud to be part of aculture known over theworld as a beacon for freedom, opportunity, and a place for oppressed peoples. I am part of a group that, when we dominated western culture, produced more freedom, more tolerance, more wealth, more healthy people, than any civilization in history, so that oppressed minorities from all over the world want to come here."

Bump!!!!

BTTT!

And a big bump to your "disrespect to homosexuals"

Almost makes me want to leave my own business to submit myself to some PC training to follow in your footsteps!

[taxesareforever]

I can almost visualize "Initiation". Excuse me while I go puke.