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Kimberly Dark starts off the Gay Awareness Week with her act "Stripped and Teased".

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Alliance will sponsor Gay Awareness Week this week, with different events held each day on campus.

Gay Awareness Week is put on every year around the end of March to educate and raise awareness.

"We're hoping that students see that gay/bi/trans people are just like everyone else," said Alison Wood, LGBTA president. "We really want to bring in a diverse crowd to talk about what separates us and what brings us together, not just in this community but across the university as well."

Katie Bookbinder, LGBTA Gay Awareness Week chair and vice president of the interior, said that the week is all about creating visibility for LGBTA.

"This week is all about educating people on homosexuality and letting students know that we are here," Bookbinder said.LGBTA kicked off Gay Awareness Week yesterday with a performance in Haymarket Theatre by Kimberly Dark. Dark challenged the audience's concepts of sex and gender roles through storytelling and poetry.

Tonight in Colonial Hall at 7:30 p.m., LGBTA, along with the Black Student Alliance, is sponsoring the author and novelist E. Lynn Harris. Harris has written many best sellers, and wrote the foreword for the book, "On The Down Low," about the lives of "straight" black men who sleep with men.

Wednesday, students will be able to ask any questions they want of a panel of students for an event called "Guess Who's Gay" at 7:30 p.m. in Colonial Hall. At the end of the night, the students will guess who is lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or straight. The audience member who guesses the most correctly will receive a gift certificate to the Tech Bookstore.

"The 'Guess Who's Gay' event is being put on to address all of the stereotypes," Bookbinder said. "I think it's going to be really interesting and I think a lot of people are excited about it."

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