Past Events

The Adler School's LGBTQ Mental Health and Inclusion Center in affiliation with Affinity presents Cruel & Unusual.

Cruel & Usual is a 64 minute documentary focusing on the experiences of transgender women who are placed in all-male prison facilities that still prescribe to a genital-based classification system. Transgender inmates are often prevented from accessing hormones while incarcerated, frequently harassed and assaulted by prison inmates and employees, and placed in “protective custody” (solitary confinement) and cut off from all human contact, supposedly for their own protection. The documentary explores the ways in which transgender female prisoners are forced to survive in order to maintain their right to gender self-determination while in such hostile environments, and their incredible resilience.

To register, email ce@adler.edu.

Please join us for a panel discussion on the Quran’s teachings of what it means to be a sexual orientation and/or gender identity minority.  We will further discuss the impact of those teachings, and what efforts are being made to help those who are excluded or in physical danger from these teachings.  Panelists will share how they have reconciled their faith and identity. Finally, the specific needs of LGBT refugees and asylum seekers will also be addressed.

The Panelists are:

• Maher Alhaj: Born in Jordan and creator of www.homosexualityishalal.com
• Dalia Fridi: Born in Algeria and Chair of Equality Illinois Education Project
• Daniel Weyl: Heartland Alliance International and Rainbow Welcome Initiative Coordinator

Location: Community Hall. This event is free! Light dinner and refreshments will be served.

RSVP is required.  Please send email to ce@adler.edu  to register.

In partnership with the PRIDE Institute and Chicago Lakeshore Hospital. Identifying and Treating Maladaptive Sexual Behavior of LGBTQ People.  Learn how to identify and treat maladaptive sexual behavior.  Breakfast provided.

Alternative Sexualities Conference sponsored by the Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities.  Learn about clinical issues present in providing care to the Leather/BDSM/Kink communities (both heterosexual and LGBTQ).  Day-long conference with lunch and refreshments included.