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April 21, 2025

WGS Queer Studies Lecture Series: "Adventure Awaits You in Hell: Coming Out in the 90s & the New Queer Radical"

Meliza Bañales

Carson 68
11:00 am – 12:15 pm

Guest Speaker: Meliza Bañales

Bañales (she/they) will guide you through 90s San Francisco, sharing insights into what some have called an "extinct" identity: that of the Queer radical in the United States. Bañales is an author, advocate, and adventurer. Her novel, Life Is Wonderful, People are Terrific, was a 2016 Lambda Literary Finalist. Their root for the underdog: poems was released in 2022.