UofU Pride Week honors history, cultures

Pride Week at the University of Utah is an annual event honoring LGBTQIA+ histories, cultures, and lives, say organizers. The week-long series of events will take place Mar. 28 – April 1.

Pride Week is planned by a volunteer committee of students, faculty, trainees, and staff collaborating across the university and all are welcome to the events.

An Art Show will showcase works of different mediums. In honor of this year’s Pride Week theme, organizers sought entries that hold strong connection to Pride and Solidarity. The art will be displayed all week in a virtual art gallery and in-person at the Student Union Building.

A scavenger hunt with daily clues posted on the LGBT Resource Center’s social accounts and diversity.utah.edu will help U students find ten Pride Block U’s that will be hidden around campus for prizes.

The keynote speaker is Black transgender activist Raquel Willis. Willis was a director at the Ms. Foundation, executive editor of Out magazine, and national organizer for Transgender Law Center.

A Queer Prom dance party and celebration of the LGBTQIA+ community in partnership with the College of Business and Out for Business. The event is open to the University of Utah campus community.

A forum will discuss handling nuanced intersectionality and trying to find healing with religion and spirituality.

More information on UofU Pride can be found at diversity.utah.edu/pride/