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MEETINGS
& EVENTS This page includes upcoming and past OUTLaw-sponsored events and other Northwestern and
Chicago-area events of interest to our members. |
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Past
events: October 2007 ▼ 10/15: OUTLaw Week ▼ 10/5 "Who's
Gay?!" - The audience tries to
guess the sexual orientation of a panel of 10 participants by asking them
questions, followed by a moderated discussion about gender roles and
stereotypes. ▼ 10/16
"Immigration Reform” - Panel on immigration issues as relating to minority
communities with an LGBT and Latino focus. This is a co-sponsored panel with
the Latino Law Student Association. ▼ 10/17 "OUTLawing Orgasms" A panel discussion
about whether obscenity/First Amendment law or privacy law should have
applied in Williams v. Alabama, an 11th Circuit case considering the
constitutionality of Alabama's law banning the sale of certain sex-related
materials. ▼ 10/17 "Fresa y Chocolate" (Movie night)
- a love story between two Cuban men by Tomas Gutierrez Alea,
one of ▼ 10/18 "Employment Panel" - A panel discussion about how
labor/employment law affects the LGBT community. ▼
10/18 “Meet & Greet Our
Sponsors!” Reception - Our sponsors
informally chat with our OUTLaw students about how
LGBT issues are handled at their firms, followed by an informal mixer over
hors d'ourves and drinks. ▼
10/18 - Bar Review at SPIN - a popular straight-friendly
gay bar. October
2006 ▼ 10/16: OUTLaw Week – Straight but
Not Narrow.
March
2005 ▼ 3/29: LGBT Sentencing Bias in
Capital Cases – Talk by Joey Mogul, Staff Attorney, People’s Law
Office (Co-sponsored by the NU Law National Lawyers’ Guild). ▼ 3/9: OUTLaw Dinner for Admitted LGBT
Prospective Students at Buca di Beppo ▼ 3/2: OUTLaw membership meeting
and 2005-2006 officer elections February
2005 ▼ 2/24: Civil Liberties
Week Panel – Putting the ‘T’ in LGBT:
Legal Issues Facing Transgender Individuals.
Panelists: John Knight, Director of the ACLU of
Illinois’s Lesbian & Gay Rights Project; and Diana Williamson, Chair
of Illinois
Gender Advocates.
Moderated by Prof. Kim Yuracko.
(Co-sponsored by the ACLU). January
2005 ▼
1/27: NU Chicago-campus LGBT Wine & Cheese (Sponsored by the
LGBT Support Network, LGBT Resource Center, Women's Center, NU Safe Space) ▼
1/26: Dinner at Joy’s Noodles with ▼
1/20: OUTLaw Membership Meeting November
2004 ▼
11/17: OUTLaw Membership Meeting ▼
11/12: Public Interest Law Week: Panel on Same-Sex
Marriage: Panelists: Heather Sawyer of Lambda Legal; John Knight, Director of the ACLU of
Illinois’s Lesbian & Gay Rights Project; and Professor Tonja Jacobi. (Official sponsor: Mayer Brown
Rowe & Maw.) October
2004 ▼
10/20: OUTLaw Membership Meeting ▼
10/19: LLSA Latino Heritage Month Panel on Minority Hiring
Trends in Law Firms (Co-sponsored by LLSA, BLSA, APALSA, SALSA, & OUTLaw) ▼
10/13: Presidential Debate-Watching Party at member’s apartment ▼
10/11: National
Coming Out Day. OUTLaw-sponsored events
included a talk by Cook County Circuit Court Judge Tom Chiola,
the first openly gay judge and elected official in ▼
10/6: OUTLaw Membership Meeting ▼
10/3: Brunch Review at The Original
Pancake House, Gold Coast September
2004 ▼
9/30-10/2: Lavender Law Conference, ▼
9/23: Alumni &
Student "End of Summer" Networking Party at Bob Chinn’s Restaurant (Sponsored
by Office for
Diversity Education and Outreach and the Law Alumni
Association) ▼
9/22: OUTLaw Membership Meeting. Guest
speaker: Mary Anderson, Board Member, Lesbian & Gay Bar Association of Chicago
(LAGBAC). ▼
9/21-22: ▼
9/19: City-Wide Diversity Picnic, Northwestern Law courtyard
(Sponsored by Office for
Diversity Education and Outreach) ▼
9/12: First OUTLaw “Brunch Review” at Tweet in ▼
9/8: OUTLaw Welcome-Back Meeting. Guest speaker: Barbara Schon-Lundberg,
GLSEN Chicago volunteer coordinator. ▼
8/24: OUTLaw Orientation Social Event
at Sidetrack ▼
8/23: 1L Orientation Diversity Barbecue (Sponsored by Office for
Diversity Education and Outreach) August
2004 ▼
8/26: New Student Orientation to LGBTQ Life and Student Services
(Sponsored by OUTLaw, Office for
Diversity Education and Outreach, Women’s Center, and LGBT Support
Network) ▼
8/24: OUTLaw Orientation Social Event
at Sidetrack ▼
8/23: 1L Orientation Diversity Barbecue (Sponsored by Office for
Diversity Education and Outreach) ▼
8/22: Orientation for Diverse Students (Sponsored by Office for
Diversity Education and Outreach) April
2004 ▼
4/15: Cocktail reception for Chicago-area LGBT law students and
attorneys at Monday’s (Sponsored by the Lesbian & Gay Bar Association of Chicago) ▼
4/15: OUTLaw Panel: “One Year After
▼
4/8: OUTLaw meeting and 2004-2005
officer elections ▼
4/7: Screening of “Before Stonewall” documentary by Prof. Len
Rubinowitz for 14th Amendment class and other interested
students. ▼
4/3: Day at
Northwestern Law (Information fair table and OUTLaw welcome reception) ▼
4/2: Prospective student event -- Drinks with OUTLaw at Roscoe’s ▼
4/2: “Celebrating Our Diverse Community” Day - Day of events for
admitted minority students, including prospective LGBT students, with dinner
at Vong’s Thai Kitchen. (Sponsored by the Minority
Affairs office)
March 2004 ▼
3/31: Constitutional
Law Colloquium Series: Richard Epstein (
February 2004 ▼
2/13: Kent
Greenfield, FAIR President: “Why Northwestern Must Stop
Solomon” (Sponsored by OUTLaw and Stop Solomon
Coalition) ▼
2/9-2/20: Stop Solomon Petition Drive ▼
2/4: Stop Solomon
Coalition meeting
January 2004 ▼
1/27: Evan Wolfson, Executive Director
of Freedom to Marry: “Winning Marriage Equality for Same-Sex Couples” (Co-sponsored by OUTLaw and NU American Constitution Society) ▼
1/26: Diversity Week 2004 Panel:
Race & Sexuality: Navigating Sexual Preference as a Racial
Minority (Co-sponsored by Diversity Coalition, OUTLaw,
BLSA, & LLSA) ▼
1/21: Stop Solomon committee meeting ▼
1/21: Constitutional
Law Colloquium Series: Mary Anne Case (U of Chicago Law) presented
paper, “Of ‘This’ and ‘That’ in Lawrence
v. Texas” ▼
1/14: Monthly OUTLaw meeting ▼
1/8: Solomon
Amendment/FAIR organizational meeting
November 2003 ▼
11/19: Monthly OUTLaw
general and website committee meetings. ▼ 11/11: Public Interest Law Week Panel: “Suspect Classes: The Future of Equal Protection,” including attorney Camilla Taylor of Lambda Legal | ||
