Recently our campus has been under attack from homophobic legislators who take issue with our CollegeReads! program for assigning the award winning graphic novel Fun Home, which depicts the experiences of a young woman's struggle with her sexual identity, particularly coming out to her family as a lesbian. State Legislators like Garry Smith have called the book "Gay Propaganda" and "Pornographic". They take issue with the inclusion of experiences and voices outside the confines of the hetero-nor...
Recently our campus has been under attack from homophobic legislators who take issue with our CollegeReads! program for assigning the award winning graphic novel Fun Home, which depicts the experiences of a young woman's struggle with her sexual identity, particularly coming out to her family as a lesbian. State Legislators like Garry Smith have called the book "Gay Propaganda" and "Pornographic". They take issue with the inclusion of experiences and voices outside the confines of the hetero-normative. We, as an institution of higher learning, have a duty to include and explore the experiences of ALL people, including LGBTQ people, people of color, and women.
Please join #FightforCofC, and many other participating groups, in gathering to celebrate our LGBTQ classmates, colleagues, and friends. Please join us in declaring with one voice that we are committed to making this campus a safe space for them to learn, to grow, to flourish. Please join us in sending the message that we reject the delusional, homophobic rhetoric that has been spewing from the Statehouse recently.
We will rally at NOON on Monday, the 21st of April, in the Cougar Mall. Please bring your passion, your poems, your speeches, your rainbow flags, your pink fatigues and bandannas.