From our friends at GayInAthens.com

Students in University of Georgia instructor Jamie Landau’s “Visual Mediated Rhetoric of Gender and Sexuality” class recently created projects that visually display LGBT life in Athens, Georgia. I had the opportunity to speak to Landau’s SPCM 3310 class earlier this summer about what it means to be a gay blogger. The students were well educated on issues of communication within the LGBT community and offered up a number of thought-provoking questions and suggestions for this Web site. (Like, “How do you decide what to put on the Web site?” and “When do you step in and moderate user interaction?”)

Two of the students groups submitted their projects to GayInAthens.com. Below are the results. The first group filmed “a transformation from ‘man’ to ‘woman.’” The second group created a rendition of Charles Ebbet’s world-famous “Lunch Atop A Skyscraper” photograph.

Group 1: Transformation

Group 2: LGBT-Themed Rendition of Charles Ebbet’s “Lunch Atop A Skyscraper”

Group 3: Mock Lesbian Wedding

Group leader Jonas Hopkins says, "We will be holding a joint wedding reception for a lesbian couple and a heterosexual couple at the University of Georgia Arch on July 31st (that’s this Friday), at 6pm. It is our belief that showing these two couples adjacent to one another will close the social space between college heterosexual and lesbian women on campus and possibly lead to a change of stereotypes and our main goal acceptance on the basis of orientation in our state and our community. Faculty and students from UGA’s Speech Communication Department as well as members of the LGBTQ community from all over Athens will be in attendance!"