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 and Gender 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 2024June Thomas - "A Place of Our Own: Where - And How - To Build a Community" 2023Kristen Schilt - University of Chicago, "Framing Agnes: A Multi-Media Approach to Trans History" 2022Brandon Andrew Robinson - University of California - Riverside, "Coming Out to the Streets: LGBTQ Youth Experiencing Homelessness" 2021Kristie Soares, University of Colorado - Boulder, "Dancing with Death: Celia Cruz’s Azúcar and Queer of Color Survival” 2020Ann Pellegrini, New York University, "'How Dare You': Rage and Resistance in the Age of Catastrophe" 2019Genny Beemyn, The Stonewall Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, "The Experiences of Trans Students Today: What We Know & Do Not Know (But Should)" 2018Bettina Love, University of Georgia, "Get Free: Creativity, Queer Identity, Hip Hop Civics Ed, Intersectionality, & Black Joy" 2017Siobhan Somerville, University of Illinois, "Unsettling Citizenship: Sexuality, Race, and the History of Naturalization in the US" 2016Mollie Blackburn, The Ohio State University, "Talking about Race, Religion, Sex & Violence in Relation to LGBT-themed Literature" 2015Juana María Rodríguez, University of California, Berkeley, "Sexual Affects: Visualizing Pleasure, Troubling Politics" 2014Laura Brown, Fremont Community Therapy Project, "With Power Tools: Lesbian Feminists Approach Legal Marriage" 2013Janet Jakobsen, Barnard College, “The Woman Question: Gender, Sexuality and Public Policy” 2012Tricia Lootens, Univeristy of Georgia, “Friends and Family: Coming Home” 2011Susan Rankin, The Pennsylvania State University, “Queering Campus: The State of Higher Education for the LGBT Community” 2010Amy Hollywood, Harvard University, “Religiously Queer, Queer Religiously” 2009Michelle Cliff, Renowned Author of Abeng and No Telephone to Heaven, "Everything is Now, a Reading with Commentary" 2008E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University, “Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales” 2007Chris Cuomo, University of Georgia, "Religion & The Right to Be Gay" 2006Pat Griffin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “Sexism, Feminism and Lesbians in Sport: Unlocking the Locker Room Closet ” 2005Kendall Thomas, Columbia University, “Condoleezza Rice and Wanda Jean Allen” 2004Joan Roughgarden, Stanford University, "Evolution's Rainbow" 2003Shirlene Holmes, Georgia State University, "Writing With Pride: Theatre as an Agent for Social Change & Lesbian and Gay Activism" 2002Nancy Bereano, Founder of Firebrand Books, "Way Over the Rainbow: Considering the Politics of Outsiderness" 2001Cynthia Patton, Emory University, "A Dozen Ways to Die: Why Tolerance of Sexual Minorities is Not Enough" 2000Claudia Card, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Lesbians, Evil, and Gray Zones" 1999Verta Taylor, Ohio State University, "Corporations as the New Frontiers for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Rights" 1998Esther Rothblum, University of Vermont, "Just Friends: The Role of Friendship in Lesbians' Lives" 1997Charlotte Patterson, University of Virginia, "Lesbian and Gay Families with Children: Research, Law, and Policy" 1996Barbara Smith, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, "African American Lesbian and Gay History: An Exploration" 1995Laura Brown, University of Washington, "The Lesbian/Gay Paradigm: Directions for the 21st Century"
