The LGBT Speaker’s Bureau provides resident advisors, student organizations and instructors an opportunity to sponsor a LGBT-themed diversity discussion that aims to educate students about current issues affecting the LGBT Community through discussion and dialogue.
Facilitated by fellow LGBT students, members in the bureau are trained to speak about their personal experiences or coordinate an LGBT ice breaker or workshop for students. Bureau members are comfortable with their own diverse sexual and gender identities and are eager to share their own experiences to educate the greater USC community about concerns and issues within the LGBT community.
If your organization would like to address LGBT issues, then invite the LGBT Speaker’s Bureau, please email the Speaker’s Bureau Coordinator at lgbtsb@usc.edu.
How do I Work with the Speaker's Bureau? It's simple.
If you are interested in utilizing the Speaker’s Bureau, please follow these steps:
- Generate your program idea
- Email the Speaker's Bureau Coordinator at lgbtsb@usc.edu and inform him/her of your program idea with specific information includeing potential date, location,time and how many student speakers would be required
What are Some Possible Discussions?
- Discussions about coming out experiences, gays/lesbians in the media, being gay/lesbian and religious, being transgender, etc.
- Debate about AntiGay Marriage Amendments (i.e. Proposition 8)
- Dual identities: Being a racial minority and gay or lesbian
- Sex in a fishbowl – basically a guess whose gay and straight based upon particular questions asked by the audience
- Or any other topics pretinent for your students
How do I Get Involved with the Speaker's Bureau?
If you are a current undergraduate or graduate LGBT & Ally student, and feel comfortable sharing your life experiences with others , then please email the Speaker’s Bureau Coordinator at lgbtsb@usc.edu.
Feel free to download our information handouts about the LGBT Speaker's Bureau: Bureau Synopsis, Bureau Recruitment