Three New England universities make Campus Pride’s ‘Best of the Best’ list
Campus Pride, the national, higher education resource for LGBTQ+ leadership development, diversity inclusion and advocacy, is announcing today their "Best of the Best Colleges and Universities" for LGBTQ+ students.
UConn student government calls for campus-wide LGBTQ policy review
University of Connecticut's undergraduate student government is calling for sweeping LGBTQ policy advancements across campus. Last week, the university's student senate passed "A Statement of Position Regarding the Rights of Queer and...
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."
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...
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+...
First two transgender women of color begin teaching at Harvard Law School
This month, Anya Marino and Alejandra Caraballo became the first two transgender women of color to teach at Harvard Law School, according to a report in The 19th.
UConn receives two additional social justice mini-grants from Campus Pride
Student programs at the University of Connecticut received two of the 10 social justice mini-grants that Campus Pride distributed to schools across the the United States in a second round of 2021...
Boston College students call for university to address Vatican’s statement against LGBTQ civil unions
Boston College's undergraduate GLBTQ+ Leadership Council (GLC) issued a petition in solidarity against the Vatican's recent statement opposing same-sex civil unions. The petition calls for the private, Jesuit university to "clarify their...
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,...
NCAA honors Bridgewater State Univ. as LGBTQ Athletics Dept. of the Year
The National Collegiate Athletic Association has recognized the Bay State's own Bridgewater State University's athletics department as its Division III LGBTQ Athletics Department of the Year.
In their...
