This past Wednesday, Oct. 8, the Drew Office of Student Engagement kicked off its three-day-long “Queering the Forest” event series, setting up a table in the Ehinger Center lobby to promote their events for the upcoming week.
Tabling started in the E.C. at 11 a.m. and ran until 1 p.m., and those who stopped by could answer an LGBTQ+ historical trivia question by Lexi DeRonde (‘26) in exchange for a prize of their choice if they gave the correct response.
One question that participants were asked, for example, was the year that the Stonewall Inn riots (a well-known 1969 uprising at an LGBTQ+ bar in Greenwich Village, New York, after police attempted to raid the establishment, causing patrons to fight back) took place. Participants could choose from items like rainbow baseball caps, bracelets and mugs, among others, as their reward for answering correctly.
The Path description of the programming for all of the events stipulates that it is “not exclusive to only queer-identified students, faculty and staff,” adding that “we welcome all members of the Drew community to engage and celebrate with us.” Events, which can be found on The Path, will run through Friday, Oct. 10. Organizers also invite anyone who may be interested in participating in or joining the effort to revive Drew’s Sexuality and Gender Alliance (SAGA) to visit www.tinyurl.com/saga-acorn for more information.
Faiz Menai is a junior majoring in Political Science and minoring in Sociology and Anthropology.
