“Gaypril” Activities Planned by The Queer Resource Center
Jasper Everingham | April 6, 2023
This April at Warren Wilson College (WWC), there is a special magic afoot. The Queer Resource Center (QRC) has dubbed the month “Gaypril,” and has a bevy of queer activities planned. Jonothan “Jogo” Gonzales, the head of the QRC, said that he could not be more excited.
“Gaypril had been a thing before my time here at Wilson in August 2021,” Gonzales said. “The [QRC] crew wanted to put together a very ambitious April programming: looking at the calendar, you can see that there's something almost every day.”
Gonzales said that this April the QRC is planning on hosting everything from drag workshops, to queer film watch parties, to discussions about topics such as the intersection between WWC’s whiteness and its queerness, and much, much more.
Gonzales said that one event happening later in Gaypril has the potential to impact WWC’s curriculum in semesters to come.
“Dr. Robert Miller on April 26 will be working to create basically a syllabus for what will be a queer history class,” Gonzales said. “His style is very cool because students get to be a part of deciding what he teaches. There has been a demand for queer history [at WWC], so I think students can bring ideas of what that course looks like, what some of the readings [could be], what some of the articles could be for that course to be offered here.”
In the end, Gonzales said his main hope was to create a WWC where queerness can be seen and accepted in every corner of the school, and he hopes Gaypril’s festivities can help make WWC an even more queer friendly space.
“Gaypril was created with a lot of love and with queer students in mind by the QRC Crew,” Gonzales said. “I would definitely encourage students to show up for as much as they can; to at least come into the QRC once or twice, to see the space, to experience a program, because I would definitely love to see queer students be in queer community more on this campus.”
A calendar schedule of this year’s Gaypril activities can be found below, and Gonzales said that students will be emailed a copy soon.