Harvard Law instructor repeatedly cc’d on anti-LGBTQ, -trans bomb threats
Harvard Law School instructor and civil rights attorney Alejandra Caraballo, a clinical instructor at Harvard Law's Cyberlaw Clinic, has been cc'd on some three dozen emails containing bomb threats this year. Caraballo,...
Brown University newspaper reports 38% of students identify as not straight
A recent report in The Brown Daily Herald, Brown University's student newspaper, reported that 38 percent of the Providence, Rhode Island's Ivy League student body identify as other than "straight."
Tufts athletics community forms group for LGBTQ+ and ally student-athletes
The athletics community at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. has officially formed a chapter of Athlete Ally, "a national nonprofit organization dedicated to the advocacy for LGBTQIA+ student-athletes," according to Tufts University...
Boston College under pressure to create an LGBTQ+ student center
In the wake of Boston University administration's recent announcement of their new, professionally staffed LGBTQIA+ student resource center as a first step to becoming more proactively inclusive, attention has returned to calls...
UNH law students walkout over anti-trans messages from campus groups
To protest recent transphobic messaging from two on-campus groups at the University of New Hampshire, students at the school's Franklin Pierce School of Law staged a walkout and rally with more than 100...
Boston University administration to open LGBTQ+ student resource center
In response to a student task force report showing nearly 80 percent of LGBTQ students felt "some level of unwelcome" at Boston University, the school's administration is creating a professionally staffed LGBTQIA+...
Wellesley College students vote in favor of admitting transgender men
Students at Wellesley College voted on Tuesday in favor of opening the traditionally women's school to all nonbinary and transgender applicants, including trans men. Currently, "the college allows admission to anyone who...
SpeakOUT Boston opens 6th annual LGBTQ+ college scholarship program
SpeakOUT Boston, the nation’s first LGBTQ+ speakers bureau, has announced their sixth annual scholarship competition for LGBTQ+ students living in New England. To apply, students submit an essay, a letter of recommendation...
Boatslip in Provincetown named one of best gay bars in America by Esquire
The Boatslip resort in Provincetown, Mass. has been named one of the 32 best gay bars in America by Esquire magazine.
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Harvard student life and LGBTQ+ sports group host first trans+ community fête
Last week, hundreds of students and affiliates at Harvard University gathered at the Cambridge, Mass. campus's Cabot House Theater for the school's first Trans+ Community Celebration.
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