Throughout the month of June, I wrote several columns highlighting certain events in the history of the LGBTQ community that have made an impact on where we are today. It’s been 51 years since the...
Before 1987, homosexuality was considered a diagnosable mental disorder that required psychiatric intervention. The American Psychiatric Association publishes guidelines in a manual, the Diagnostic and...
We’ve come a long way since the first brick was thrown at Stonewall.Fifty-one years ago in Manhattan, New York, at the end of June, a riot broke out in Greenwich Village. In the early morning hours...
LGBTQ youth are three times more likely to attempt suicide than their heterosexual peers. Forty-eight percent of transgender adults reported having made a suicide attempt, according to Encircle’s...
Do you identify as a feminist? Do you identify as LGBTQ+? Are you an ally of the LGBTQ+ community? What is feminism to you? How do you advocate for the issues you support? What change do you hope to see...
Classes surrounding the LGBTQ community have been sparse in the past few years, so Weber State University professors Theresa Kay, Melina Alexander and Richard Price have put into motion the works of a...
Las clases sobre la comunidad LGBTQ han sido escasas en los últimos años. Por eso, los profesores Theresa Kay, Melina Alexander y Richard Price de Weber State University han puesto en marcha la creación...
According to Jayson Stokes, coordinator of the LGBT Resource Center at WSU, individuals within the LGBTQ+ community often experience feelings of isolation.
“It can be very difficult for individuals...
During the past eight months, countless companies and businesses have been adversely affected and forced to move their services to an online market. This move has been particularly difficult for support...
In 1998, Matthew Shepard, a 22-year-old college student, was found tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. He had been burned, beaten and left for dead when a passing bicyclist found him....
From his famous last words, “You’re fired,” on the reality television show “The Apprentice” to becoming President of the United States, Donald J. Trump has defied the rules...
In honor of National Coming Out Day, Weber State’s president of the Gender and Sexuality Alliance organization Kestin Page hosted the second annual Weber State LGBTQ+ pride rally event on Oct. 11.
The...
