Two Boston University students have recently created a petition to change the bathrooms in the Community Service Center at the George Sherman Union to be non-gendered bathrooms.
The online petition...
I want to end my time as an LGBT columnist for The Daily Free Press by talking about my own personal identity. As I have mentioned in some of my past articles, I identify as queer. That might be a label...
Friday was the National Day of Silence. For those of you who don’t know, the Day of Silence is a day where students remain silent to call attention to anti-LGBT bullying and harassment in schools.
National...
On Friday, I left the comfort and predictability of the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders office where I intern to attend the True Colors Annual Conference in Connecticut, an LGBT-centered event....
We arrived in Detroit at 11 p.m. on the night of March 7 after an 18-hour drive with a few road bumps. There were 11 of us, mostly strangers at the beginning of the trip.
Detroit is home to over 40,000...
As the country becomes more and more progressive on same-sex rights and accepting of queer people, LGBTQ+ people are increasingly seeing themselves represented in the media.
I’ll be honest — I don’t...
Everyone wants to feel safe as they do their business in public restrooms. Everyone. This includes both cisgender people (people who identify with the gender they were assigned to at birth) and transgender...
America — politically at least — has been making huge strides forward when it comes to LGBT rights and same-sex marriage issues. Same-sex marriage is now legal in 37 states. However, some states have...
Many people have a hard time wrapping their head around the concept of bisexuality. I don’t understand why it’s so astonishing and impossible that people could like and be sexually attracted to more...
I was perusing Facebook and stumbled upon this article shared by a friend entitled “Middle School tries to sneak in ‘gay’ assembly — but MassResistance intervenes!” I was led to a webpage with...
All semester, I have been sharing my opinions on various public health problems and why they are so important. For my last column of the semester, I am going to tackle a bigger question: why do we need...
Monday was World AIDS Day. Modern medicine in the United States has removed most of the fear factor that comes with Autoimmune Deficiency Syndrome. A lot of people aren’t as well informed about it, because...
