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“See, God loves the gays!” Brooke Eden, a queer country star, exclaimed on stage as the rain cleared up at Palm Peach Pride, which took place Sunday, March 24, in Lake Worth Beach. Located in Bryant Park, the event welcomed thousands of members and allies of the LGBTQ+ community to celebrate Pride.
Michael Alroy, a transgender man from South Africa now residing in Israel, believes in developing tolerance and recognition of “the other.”
Memory work is resistance, and that is what makes history for the LGBTQ+ community so important.
Last September, 24 prominent members of the FAU student body and myself participated in a trip visiting Israel-Palestine to learn about the conflict.
One of the biggest events of the year for the LGBTQ+ community in Palm Beach County is fast approaching. Palm Beach Pride, run by Compass LGBTQ+ Community Center, will be taking place Saturday, March 23 and Sunday, March 24, at Bryant Park in Lake Worth Beach.
When FAU officially opened in fall 1964, university life in America was just beginning to step out of the stupors of the Silent Generation of the 1950s. That summer students from northern colleges took part in “Freedom Summer” where hundreds of students traveled south to help register Southern Black people to vote.
“Cunts for Communism.”
The New Play Festival is set to take the stage this weekend at FAU. A highlight of the annual event is the Fair Play Initiative – a program dedicated to fostering the creation and advancement of LGBTQ narratives in theater.
Cold hard cash.
That’s what Youth Action Fund is giving out to assist young people in their activism.
Unlike the upcoming rematch between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, this year’s student government election for president and vice president won’t be a nail-biter. Stefan Andjelkovic and Sophia Lindgren are running unopposed.
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