Maybe it's a little step, but for the first time, UMD's Music Department is sponsoring a recital of queer-identified faculty.
Derek Bromme, Elizabeth Fisher, Elias Mokole and Tom Hamilton of UWS are performing tonight at 7:30 at the Weber Music Hall in The Rainbow Connection Concert.
Maybe it's just a little step, but it's put smiles on the faces of faculty and students alike. Mokole says it's opened up a lot of new conversations among staff and the students are really excited about tonight's concert.
Maybe it's a little step, but it's still progress and still represents a campus community pushing through discomfort on different levels. "It felt a little uncomfortable at first," admits Mokole. "But life at universities for all of us is about going out of our comfort zone."
We kiss in a shadow We hide from the moon Our meetings are few And over too soon We speak in a whisper Afraid to be heard When people are near We speak not a word Alone in our secret Together we sigh For one smiling day to be free To kiss in the sunlight And say to the sky: "Behold and believe what you see! Behold how my lover loves me!"
~ We Kiss in a Shadow by Oscar Hammerstein II & Richard Rodgers
