Arturo Jacobo is no stranger to battling injustices within a heteronormative and racist society. His viewpoint on racism within the gay community and the homophobia that is present in mainstream culture forced him to stand up for everyone in the communities that he represents. I sat down wit…
Larry Daves strives to use his intersecting identities to educate others on racism and homophobia. As the Program Coordinator of Sorority & Fraternity life at LMU, he takes pride in helping his students learn more about issues outside their inner circles while showing to the world that G…
Alex Lee has grown up learning how to embrace his intersecting identities as a gay Korean-American male. The lively and bubbly senior marketing major discussed his life with me and how he tries to stay true to himself.
Sam Cassidy lives her life as an openly trans woman who advocates for those like her. The junior film production and psychology double major fought to stay true to herself and believes that there is a need for bridges to be built between marginalized groups.
Lauren Moreno serves as the director of LGBT Student Services at LMU. They have been brave in coming out in the face of opposition, especially when it came to reconciling their faith with their sexuality. Moreno recently came out with their gender-neutral pronouns and stands with their stude…
Professor Martina G. Ramirez is the Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence and professor of biology at LMU, as well as an LMU alumna (Biology, 1981). Ramirez has fought her whole life to be true to herself and I sat down with her to talk about her life story as an openly transgender woman.
Anthony Bodlovic is an art therapist and director of Marital and Family Therapy at LMU. The art therapist uses his work to express his queerness and he has also helped empathize with his patients that are dealing with queer issues such as coming out. Being raised by Croatian immigrants, Bodl…
Celine Alvarado is an empowered lesbian who has a deep understanding of her own queerness. The senior communication studies major who is the president of LMU’s Gender-Sexuality Alliance took time to tell me how she understands herself in relation to a heteronormative world.
Professor Jeffrey Wilson experienced many difficulties growing up gay in the deep South and his life story highlights the drastic differences in coming out back in the 1970s compared to today.
Anya Michele owns her queerness in a unique way. Growing up Catholic in New Orleans, the freshman psychology and women's and gender studies double major desires to make sense of her intersecting identities to help other young queer women who share the same experiences as her.
Sara Cunningham is a mother, writer and gay rights activist who is trying to educate conservative religious communities through her organization Free Mom Hugs, which consists of LGBTQ+ affirming parents and allies. Cunningham drew national attention when she posted on Facebook that she would…
This semester I took on a project that would focus on queer people’s experience at LMU through interviews. In these interviews, I found nothing but lessons and wisdom that queer people can use today to better their own lives and to help them know that they are not alone in their queer experi…
The lines between edgy and offensive jokes are thin, but when I read an Instagram post by Barstool LMU the line was clearly crossed. The post was a Snapchat screenshot with the caption “Socrates f----d little boys. We’re about to do the same to some queers on Leavey field. Y’all should come …
When I first heard the word LGBT as a child, I never once thought that there were more variants to the queer community than what was placed in that acronym. The binary was clear to me. I thought gay men marry men, lesbians marry women, bisexual people have the choice of both and trans men an…
California was shocked as openly gay Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell) decided to shelf Assembly Bill 2943, a bill that would label paid conversion therapy as a fraudulent business practice under the state's consumer protection law.
Toned abs, mountainous biceps and a tabletop ass; what do these qualities all have in common, you might ask? Well, they are the triforce of the picture-perfect gay male.
