Luke Taylor, Multimedia News Editor
• February 23, 2022
Benjamin Drake, junior history major
“I think that the next university president really needs to be someone that cares for students and student involvement. I think that’s something...
Staff from Eastern’s Center for Gender and Sexual Diversity rolled out the rainbow door for people to sign in recognition of National Coming Out Day.
Each year, members of the LGBTQ+ community use...
For those who may remember my column about being aromantic, you may have seen the part where I mentioned how I’m not asexual. I feel like a lot of people glossed over that part or ignored it. But it’s...
The council of academic affairs approved three new additions to the course offerings at Eastern on Thursday.
American sign language will now be offered as a foreign language class beginning in the Spring...
As part of the Latino Heritage Month events, the Latino Heritage Month committee presented "Latinidad in the LGBTQA+" on Wednesday, which informed attendees about the ways the two communities can come...
In my room, I have a pride flag. It’s a flag that has five stripes: dark green, light green, white, grey and black. When most people see it hanging on my wall, they ignore it or don’t notice it at...
Pride month has rolled around again and with that comes businesses coming out of the woodworks to produce LGBT+ inspired merch from which something often called “rainbow capitalism” is born.
Rainbow...
I remember standing in my living room with goosebumps all over my arm. I watched the interns run to the press while people cheered.
Then the news anchor announced that same-sex marriage is a constitutional...
Since I came out of the closet almost nine years ago, I have experienced and come across several men who are in the closet.
Some of these men are not sure what they are; some are bi and some are flat-out...
Charleston's PFLAG chapter, established in 2015, is a safe place for members of the LGBTQ community to go to for support, education and advocacy.
Co-president Judy Looby said she and her husband became...
Every year in the month of June, the U.S. celebrates LGBT Pride Month to remember and honor the Stonewall Riots in Manhattan in 1969, according to the Library of Congress.
Since 2009, Jessica Ward, director...
The Illinois House of Representatives passed a bill that would require public schools to teach lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) history to school children, grades K-12.
Education majors at...
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