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  Spring 2006
February:
Pride Week (highlights: trip to local nightclub Diva's and a movie night!)
Brokeback GAP (Gay Amherst Party)

March:
Lecture: Lawrence Senelik

April:
Lecture: Jennifer Finney Boylan
Reception at Professor Corrales' House

May:
Pride Alliance BBQ


  Fall 2005
September:
Orientation Movie Film Screening
Heaven or Hell GAP (Gay Amherst Party)

October:
Playing the Field GAP (Gay Amherst Party)

November:
Coming Out Week (highlights: discussion-panel: "Come Out and Play" and a movie night)

December:
Lecture: State Senator Jarrett Barrios
5-College Queer Coffeehouse (at Amherst)


  Spring 2005

events listing coming soon!



  Fall 2004
events listing coming soon!


  Spring 2004
"Drag Films" Movie Series
Monthly 5-College Night at Diva's Night Club (in Northampton)

February
Discussion Meeting: Can Two Men Make a Baby?
Discussion Meeting: Current Events
Hillel & Pride Alliance Movie Night

March
Amherst College ALLIES WEEK (highlights: discussion-panel: "What's at Stake (in the 2004 Election)?" and queerTV night)
Britney GAP (Gay Amherst Party)
Discussion Meeting: Queer Republicans, an oxymoron?
5-College Queer Coffeehouse (at Mt. Holyoke)
Lecture: Anthony Romero (ACLU Executive Director, first gay and latino head of the ACLU)
Discussion Meeting: I Want My GayTV!

April
ACH, ASA, and Pride Alliance Movie Night
Performance: Kinsey Sicks Dragapella
Drag TAP (Party co-sponsored by Social Council and Pride Alliance)
Amherst College PRIDE WEEK (highlights: discussion-panel: "TRANScending Gender," lecture: Dr. Dean Hamer - "The Search for the Gay Gene")
Lecture: Paul Smith '76 (argued Lawrence v. Texas before the Supreme Court, co-sponsored by the College Democrats)



  Fall 2003
"Women Who Love Women" Movie Series
Monthly 5-College Night at Diva's Night Club (in Northampton)

September
5-College Queer Coffeehouse (at UMass)
Discussion Meeting: Sappho's Poetry, Sappho's Desire: What Can We Know? (with Prof. Hakan Tell of Classics and Dean Frederick Griffiths of Classics and WAGS)
Pride Alliance Reception at Professor Corrales's House
Discussion Meeting: Gay Marriage

October
Discussion Meeting: High School to College, What You've Learned
5-College Coffeehouse (at Amherst)
Pride Alliance & LaCasa Movie Night

November
Amherst College COMING OUT WEEK (highlights: panel-discussion: "Queering the Family", speaker: Danny Roberts from MTV's The Real World)
Sun Valley Party (Pride Alliance's Annual Fall Party)
Discussion Meeting: Bisexuality

December
5-College Queer Coffeehouse & Speed Dating (at Hampshire)
Gay Gourmet 5-College Dinner
Discussion Meeting: Home for the Holidays (co-sponsored by the Counseling Center)



  Spring 2003
"LGBT Foreign Films" Movie Series

March
Amherst College ALLIES WEEK (highlights: panel-discussion: Being an Ally)
GAP (Gay Amherst Party)

April
Amherst GLBT Alumni/Student Mentoring Weekend (highlights: lecture: Judy Shepard (Matthew's Shepard's mother), lecture: Eric Thalasinos '02 (The Gay History of Amherst College and the Pioneer Valley), discussion-panel: Out in the World: Being Queer in the Workplace, lecture: Kevin Kumashiro - Troubling Stories of Queer Asian America)
Amherst College PRIDE WEEK (highlights: panel-discussion: Religion and Sexuality, lecture: Professor Andy Parker - What's Queer about Queer Theory?, Pride Alliance Dinner)



  Fall 2002
"Beautiful People" Movie Series

October
Amherst College COMING OUT WEEK (highlights: panel-discussion: LBGT Athletes, lecture: Pat Griffin - It Takes a Team: Making Sports Safe for LBGT Athletes)
Party: HEAT

November
Discussion Meeting: Religion

December
Little 3 LBGTQ Dinner and Party