Coming Out Week 2011

• All week:
  StoSecret in the chapel hallway. StoSecret enters its second year as part of Coming Out Week. StoSecret is a project sponsored by GLOW! based on Postsecret (www.postsecret.com) that explores Oles’ secrets and allows for a time of self reflection, growth and healing. All cards are submitted by Oles and hold a secret close to their heart. We Oles are all the same in at least one way, we all have our secrets. If you’ve got a secret (and who doesn’t), cards and markers are in the GLOW! PO box. They’ve removed the glass paneling from our box, but it’s the box with all the white cards and markers in it.

• Saturday:
  Big Queer Bowling at Jesse James Lanes. Come to Jesse James Lanes for two hours of open bowling! First 30 people to respond to glow@stolaf.edu only pay $5 for bowling and shoes! Bus leaves at 6:30 in front of Buntrock and returns at 9:30.
  

• Sunday:
  Tie dye party at St. John’s. Starts at 4-ish. Bring all your whites down to St. John’s house and make them fabulous!
  

• Monday:
  SOLGEN (St. Olaf Lesbian and Gay Employee Network) panel: Being Queer at St. Olaf: Then and Now. Listen to Ken Johnson, Nancy Aaarsvold, Johnathan O’Conner and Tim Schroer discuss how St. Olaf’s queer community has grown and changed over the years from professors and employees that watched it happen. BC 144 at 4:30.

• Tuesday:
  Insider’s Guide to Gender and Sexual Orientation. 4 in Viking. Have you ever been confused when talking about gender or sexual orientation? Come to this *swiped* Wellness Center event! You’ll learn the history of classification, term definition, and contemporary society’s role in shaping these ideas.
  

• Wednesday:
  GLOW! retreat to St. Paul for a Community Action Training by OutFront Minnesota. We will be leaving at 5 and returning at 9. Contact glow@stolaf.edu if you’re interested in joining. Limited space.
  

• Thursday:
  Community Time Party, 11:20-12-30 in second floor Buntrock. Come celebrate coming out week in style with music, cupcakes and our trademark rainbow arch! The cupcakes are going to be mad intense this year, so get there early!!

• Friday:
  StoSecret closing ceremony, 4 pm in the chapel hallway. There will be a closing ceremony to bring the StoSecret experience to a close. Gather in the chapel hallway for a few words from Brian Walpole, StoSecret founder, and then we’ll move into the quad to conclude the ceremony.