Explaining the Latest Texas Anti-Transgender Directive
From BU Today by Alene Bouranova, 2021
The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) this week opened its first investigation into the family of a transgender teenager who received gender-affirming medical treatment under a new directive from Texas Governor Greg Abbott that has sparked a nationwide outcry and condemnation from President Biden.
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My Coming Out Story: Ethan Sobel
From BU Today by Alene Bouranova, 2021
BU Hillel managing director on how a conference for gay Jewish college students changed his life.
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How To Be an Ally to Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming People in the BU Community
From BU Today by Evan Gilbert. November 16, 2020
For LGBTQIA+ Month, we’re including some info on Transgender Awareness, which is celebrated in November.
“Transgender Awareness Week is a week when transgender people and their allies take action to bring attention to the community by educating the public about who transgender people are, sharing stories and experiences, and advancing advocacy around the issues of prejudice, discrimination, and violence that affect the transgender community.” (GLAAD)
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Crystal Williams Promoted to New Position with Focus on Building Community
From BU Today by Joel Brown, 2020
Citing her leadership of BU’s Day of Collective Engagement: Racism and Antiracism, Our Realities and Our Roles, the University announced on Tuesday that Crystal Williams has been promoted to the new post of Vice President & Associate Provost for Community and Inclusion.
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New Medical Campus OUT & Ally List Helps Make Connections among LGBTQ+ Community
From BU Today by Joel Brown, 2020
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New Medical Campus OUT & Ally List Helps Make Connections among LGBTQ+ Community
From BU Today by Joel Brown, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic caused a lot of Pride events to go virtual this month, but the BU Medical Campus LGBTQ+ community can celebrate a project designed to be online.
The new OUT & Ally list is a directory of clinicians, faculty, practitioners, researchers, staff, students, and trainees across the Medical Campus who identify as LGBTQ+ or as allies for the LGBTQ+ community.
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BU Cited For Role in Boston’s LGBT History
From BU Today by Amy Laskowski, 2019
You may have noticed a banner hanging in a George Sherman Union window that reads “LGBTQ history was made in this building.” It was placed there this month to commemorate BU’s role in the city’s gay rights movement: the GSU was the meeting spot of the first organized gay student group in the area, the Boston University Student Homophile League, which began during the 1969–1970 school year.
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The Key to BU’s Diversity Efforts? Powerful Allies
From BU Today by Doug Most, 2019
David Coleman isn’t black. He isn’t gay. He isn’t transgender or disabled. He is a white, gray-haired infectious disease physician, a Boston University Medical School professor and chair of medicine. He is also exactly the type of person Crystal Williams, the University’s first associate provost for diversity and inclusion, is seeking more of.
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BU’s New LGBTQIA Task Force for Staff and Faculty
From BU Today by Doug Most, 2018
In an effort to make Boston University more LGBTQIA-inclusive for faculty and staff, a new task force has begun studying and collecting ideas about what other universities are doing, with the aim of drafting a plan for BU to improve programming, recruitment, retention, professional development, and network-building for the University community.
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