{"id":54447,"date":"2012-04-27T14:29:49","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T18:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=54447"},"modified":"2021-02-09T17:10:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T22:10:42","slug":"pride-week12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/04\/27\/pride-week12\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride Week events include singer DavEnd, national LGBT advocate Salkind ’90"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Susanne Salkind '90, managing director of the Human Rights Campaign.<\/p><\/div>\n

A drag show featuring an acclaimed singer-songwriter, a discussion about LGBT activism including the head of a national civil rights campaign and a film about homophobia in athletics are among public offerings during Pride Week at Bates taking place May 4-10.<\/p>\n

The student group OUTfront hosts the second annual festival. Events are open to the public at no cost. For more information, please contact Jarron Brady, OUTfront coordinator, at jbrady@bates.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Through these events, OUTfront hopes to bring awareness to the Bates campus and increase the recognition of LGBT voices at the school,” says Brady, a first-year student from St. Louis.<\/p>\n

“We welcome the participation of LGBT organizations and persons from the local community, and we strongly encourage residents of Lewiston-Auburn to attend.”<\/p>\n

Among performers in the May 5 drag show is acoustic singer-songwriter DavEnd, a Maine native and San Francisco resident described as a “tender-hearted, genderqueer, costume-designing, accordion-wielding songwriter, performing artist and designer.”<\/p>\n

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Related story: Bates has been named a top LGBT-friendly collegiate athletic program by Campus Pride<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Acclaimed performer DavEnd is featured in a drag show and a drag "werkshop" at Bates.<\/p><\/div>\n

DavEnd has released two studio albums (How To Hold Your Own Hand<\/em> and Fruits Commonly Mistaken For Vegetables<\/em>, both on Olive Juice Music) and for the past five years has toured extensively in the U.S., performing at queer teen centers, festivals, colleges, theaters and back yards.<\/p>\n

Between tours, DavEnd designs costumes, and most recently has been producing a new musical, designing costumes and dancing in production numbers for songwriter Kimya Dawson and\u00a0appearing in Taylor Mac’s epic five-hour play, The Lily’s Revenge<\/em>.<\/p>\n

DavEnd\u2019s current project, Fabulous Artistic Guys Get Overtly Traumatized Sometimes: The Musical!<\/em>, brings together the worlds of music and radical performance art in a theatrical extravaganza, exploring the effects of heterosexism and street harassment on the development of queer identity.<\/p>\n

Here’s the schedule of public events for Pride Week at Bates:<\/p>\n