The Andrea Carson Coley Lecture was endowed by a donation by Andrew and Kathy Coley in memory of their daughter Andrea Carson Coley (1972-1993), who was a certificate candidate in Women's Studies. Each spring since 1995, our Andrea Carson Coley Lecture brings to campus scholars doing cutting-edge research in the area of LGBTQ studies. Previous Coley Lectures 2023 Kristen Schilt - University of Chicago, "Framing Agnes: A Multi-Media Approach to Trans History" 2022 Brandon Andrew Robinson - University of California - Riverside, "Coming Out to the Streets: LGBTQ Youth Experiencing Homelessness" 2021 Kristie Soares, University of Colorado - Boulder, "Dancing with Death: Celia Cruz’s Azúcar and Queer of Color Survival” 2020 Ann Pellegrini, New York University, "'How Dare You': Rage and Resistance in the Age of Catastrophe" 2019 Genny Beemyn, The Stonewall Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, "The Experiences of Trans Students Today: What We Know & Do Not Know (But Should)" 2018 Bettina Love, University of Georgia, "Get Free: Creativity, Queer Identity, Hip Hop Civics Ed, Intersectionality, & Black Joy" 2017 Siobhan Somerville, University of Illinois, "Unsettling Citizenship: Sexuality, Race, and the History of Naturalization in the US" 2016 Mollie Blackburn, The Ohio State University, "Talking about Race, Religion, Sex & Violence in Relation to LGBT-themed Literature" 2015 Juana María Rodríguez, University of California, Berkeley, "Sexual Affects: Visualizing Pleasure, Troubling Politics" 2014 Laura Brown, Fremont Community Therapy Project, "With Power Tools: Lesbian Feminists Approach Legal Marriage" 2013 Janet Jakobsen, Barnard College, “The Woman Question: Gender, Sexuality and Public Policy” 2012 Tricia Lootens, Univeristy of Georgia, “Friends and Family: Coming Home” 2011 Susan Rankin, The Pennsylvania State University, “Queering Campus: The State of Higher Education for the LGBT Community” 2010 Amy Hollywood, Harvard University, “Religiously Queer, Queer Religiously” 2009 Michelle Cliff, Renowned Author of Abeng and No Telephone to Heaven, "Everything is Now, a Reading with Commentary" 2008 E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University, “Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales” 2007 Chris Cuomo, University of Georgia, "Religion & The Right to Be Gay" 2006 Pat Griffin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “Sexism, Feminism and Lesbians in Sport: Unlocking the Locker Room Closet ” 2005 Kendall Thomas, Columbia University, “Condoleezza Rice and Wanda Jean Allen” 2004 Joan Roughgarden, Stanford University, "Evolution's Rainbow" 2003 Shirlene Holmes, Georgia State University, "Writing With Pride: Theatre as an Agent for Social Change & Lesbian and Gay Activism" 2002 Nancy Bereano, Founder of Firebrand Books, "Way Over the Rainbow: Considering the Politics of Outsiderness" 2001 Cynthia Patton, Emory University, "A Dozen Ways to Die: Why Tolerance of Sexual Minorities is Not Enough" 2000 Claudia Card, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Lesbians, Evil, and Gray Zones" 1999 Verta Taylor, Ohio State University, "Corporations as the New Frontiers for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Rights" 1998 Esther Rothblum, University of Vermont, "Just Friends: The Role of Friendship in Lesbians' Lives" 1997 Charlotte Patterson, University of Virginia, "Lesbian and Gay Families with Children: Research, Law, and Policy" 1996 Barbara Smith, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, "African American Lesbian and Gay History: An Exploration" 1995 Laura Brown, University of Washington, "The Lesbian/Gay Paradigm: Directions for the 21st Century"
