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By Staff Report Updated 8:46 AM Wednesday, March 17, 2010

OXFORD – Miami University will hold an LGBT Awareness Week March 22 through March 26 with events to celebrate and draw attention to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

A pride parade and ally picnic kicks off the week at 4 p.m. Monday, March 22, starting at Uptown Parks, with the picnic following at the Fine Arts Plaza. Events, which are free and open to the public, are sponsored by many groups on campus, including the office of GLBTQ services, Spectrum and Haven.

Events include:

• Film “Screaming Queens” with director, historian and activist Susan Stryker at 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 23, in 212 MacMillan Hall

• Safer Sex Olympics, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 24 at the Hub

• Performance by Good Asian Drivers, a blend of pop, rock, folk and spoken word at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 24, in 102 Shideler Hall

• Women’s Read-In, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, March 25, at the Instructional Materials Center at King Library

• Kinsey Sicks, “America’s Favorite Dragcapella Beautyshop Quartet,” 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the Shriver Center multipurpose rooms, part of After Dark For more information go online to units.muohio.edu/saf/glbt/programs/lgbtaw.htm or contact glbtq@muohio.edu.

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