IGLTA Conference in Florianópolis, Brazil as 1 of 2 U.S. Student Tourism Award Winners
Thanks to the IGLTA Foundation!
I arrived with curiosity & left inspired with new insight & resources to start my own business. Can’t wait to see what happens next!
Senior Honors Thesis Oral Defense May 2, 2012
Thesis Committee: Kris Manjapra, Jeanne Penvenne, Lee Edelman, Christina Sharpe (not pictured)
Honored to have worked with 4 brilliant and supportive advisors & thrilled to be graduating with highest honors!
Yesterday I gave a public lecture at the Old State House in Boston on the 1766 opening of galleries of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Thanks to the Bostonian Society staff for organizing this event!
Click here for the script I followed!
A brief glimpse of my loving thoughts about Tufts at 1:30
The resource guides that I contributed to are now published in print and online!
http://blog.glad.org/2012/02/aks-infoline-lgbtq-and-hivaids.html
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On December 17th, Taichung, the third largest city in Taiwan, hosted its first gay pride. Chiwei Chen, the Secretary General of the Hotline Association, the largest LGBT organization in Taiwan, explains that the Pride is partially in reaction to the recent discrimination faced by 彩虹天堂 (Rainbow Paradise), an LGBT AIDS NGO. According to Chen, the landlord faced increasing pressure from other residents of the 西門商圈neighborhood to prohibit Rainbow Paradise from continuing to lease space within the community. Saturday’s Pride Parade aimed to pressure the Taichung City government to take action against the discrimination faced by Rainbow Paradise. So far, the city government’s failure to take action borders irony, as Rainbow Paradise receives money from the Taiwanese Government’s CDC fund.
The event itself exhibited Taiwanese commitments to order. We were organized into sections according to colors of the rainbow. When I strayed from the section to which I was designated, a volunteer asked me to step aside and let red come by. Current and former students of the number one ranked middle school in Taichung, also located in the same neighborhood as Rainbow Paradise, wore their uniforms. Though it was certainly not as flamboyant as gay prides tend to be in the West, Chen views the event as a success, drawing over 1,500 participants and 40 organizations.
