Lavender Graduation Celebration
What is a Lavender Graduation?
Lavender Graduation events intend to honor graduating seniors that identify as LGBTQ+ and allies for their contributions to the Geneseo community. These programs also recognize the resilience and advocacy demonstrated by LGBTQ+ students in light of unique experiences and potential obstacles within higher education.
This year's Lavender Graduation Celebration will take place in the Doty Recital Hall on Tuesday, May 14, 2024 from 4:30pm–5:30pm. Refreshments will be served after the ceremony in Doty Lobby.
Please RSVP by Tuesday, April 30, 2024.
Register for 2023 Lavender Graduation
Graduating seniors are welcome to invite friends or family to the ceremony. You can either forward the link to the registration form in the button above so individual may RSVP for themselves or you may indicate how many guests will be present; for the latter, please indicate the total number of people in your party in the appropriate field in the registration link.
We encourage you to attend in-person. If you cannot attend in-person, you can register for the livestream webinar that will be posted soon.
More information about the history of Lavender Graduation on a national scale can be found using the link below. Here you can find the Human Rights Campaign Lavender Graduation webpage.
When is this year's Lavender Graduation Celebration?
The Annual Lavender Graduation Celebration is traditionally hosted in May in the Doty Recital Hall.
This year's Lavender Graduation Celebration will be in-person and take place on Tuesday, May 14, 2024 in the Doty Recital Hall from 4:30pm-5:30pm. Light refreshments will be served after the ceremony.
Please RSVP above for this event by Tuesday, April 30, 2024.
Awards Presented at the Event
The Lavender Graduation Celebration Planning Committee is also excited to share nomination submission forms for three awards that will be presented at the Lavender Graduation Celebration to honor a student, a faculty or staff member, and an alum for their contributions to social justice. Award recipients will be selected by the Lavender Graduation Celebration Planning Committee and notified prior to the event. Nominations are due on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Below are the links to the nomination forms, each with additional information about the specific award criteria:
Troy Keith Student Leadership Award |
Rainbow Revolutionary Distinguished Alumni Award |
Faculty/Staff Award |
Award recipients were selected by the Lavender Graduation Celebration Planning Committee and presented to awardees at the reception.
Previous award recipients:
Lavender Student Leadership Award2018 Troy Keith |
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Troy Keith Student Leadership Award2019 Vanessa Cepeda
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Faculty/Staff Award2017 Dr. Jennifer Katz, Dept of Psychology
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Rainbow Revolutionary Distinguished Alumni Award2017 Ceridwen Troy (2007)
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Feel free to send questions regarding the Lavender Graduation Celebration to the Assistant Director of Multicultural Affairs for LGBTQ+ Life, Genevieve Labe, at glabe@geneseo.edu.