October 2011
6 posts
National Coming Out Day was yesterday! :D
I was going to post something about it yesterday, but I was doing an event with Haven, our LGBT group, and was very busy. Anyway, so a little bit about National Coming Out Day. It is fairly recent. It was founded by Robert Eichberg and Jean O’Leary on October 11, 1988.* Coming out is a very big deal, even though a lot of people don’t think it is. People whose religions think...
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Gay Student Forced from Organization because of... →
This article popped up on my newsfeed on Facebook a couple of minutes ago. My sister posted it as her status. This article is about a homosexual student at Marquette University who was dismissed from his Christian organization for being gay. This student is a friend of my sister’s from a leadership camp that she attended over the summer in Tennessee.
In the article, he asked that his name...
A little spiel about my university's LGBT...
The LGBT organization at my university is called Haven. It is truly a welcoming place. My sister is the president, and she was bouncy for the first 2 or 3 meetings. Literally, she was bouncing. This group is so friendly and fun, but it is also a learning experience. Each meeting has a different theme (Diversity, AIDS/HIV Awareness, etc.) and each time you leave a meeting, you come out with...
It Gets Better
The ‘It Gets Better Project’ is an organization dedicated to showing LGBT teenagers that life does in fact get better. If they are bullied and tormented constantly, their self-esteem is lowered, potentially to the point of suicide. Such was the case of multiple teenagers whose stories made headline news.
What started as a single YouTube video from Dan Savage and his partner, Terry,...
