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Welcome!
Thank you for checking out our new GLBTA International Resources website. This website is the result of input from students, staff, faculty and alumni from across the University of Minnesota, all supportive of GLBTA identities (broadly understood!) and all supportive of making connections across countries, continents and cultures!
Now we welcome - and solicit - your input on this website. We know there are events, programs, websites, and communities that we've not yet discovered. Let us know what we can add - our goal is to be as inclusive and useful as possible.
If you've studied abroad, or are considering studying abroad, please consider joining our new Learning Abroad GLBTA Network. This is your opportunity to share the insight you've gained from your travels - or to meet someone who's been where you would like to go. And soon our International GLBTA Message Board will be operational. The Message Board will give you the chance to meet others from around the globe - in a setting that is safe and educational.
As always, the GLBTA Programs Office and the GLBTA International Initiative welcome your feedback and participation. Feel free to contact us by phone at 612-625-0537 or by email. We'd love to have you involved!
In peace and solidarity,
Anne Phibbs
Director
GLBTA Programs Office
Upcoming Events & Meetings
For more information about these upcoming events and meetings, please contact the GLBTA Programs Office by phone at 612-625-0537 or by email.
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Worldwide Pride Celebrations
For a listing of Pride Celebrations across the globe, click here.
Aniruddha Dutta's Story
Having lived and studied in India and now in the US, and moving between my small town home in Eastern India and many large cities, being queer has been a complex and at times paradoxical experience for me.
I had a childhood that I now recall as mostly happy, which was disrupted in early teenage when I moved from my small-town school to a large boys only catholic institution in a nearby city. There I realized both my attraction for boys and the sheer impossibility of articulating that desire, given the circumstances.
It was only in my first year of college that I came out – not to my friends at first, but to my sister and to cousins within our extended family, who were initially taken aback but soon became a large, closely-knit and invaluable support base.