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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.
Every time Teddy Valentine hears the song “God Draws Straight” from the musical “Here Lies Love" – he bawls. As a Filipino-American, he feels connected to the “ordinary people who participated in the People Power Revolution and freed themselves from the Marcos regime together.”
Lauren “LG” Gilbert doesn’t consider a performance a success unless she’s pissed off “a right-wing idiot.”
Generation Queer?
According to a recently released survey, 28% of Gen Z adults identify as LGBTQ+ compared to 16% of Millennials. Those numbers are a stark contrast to 4% of Baby Boomers and the Silent Generation who identify as such.
Paige Allen used to visit the LGBTQ+ resource center on the second floor of the Student Union, known as the Center for IDEAs. Allen would see Pride flags hanging down the walls, free condoms, resource pamphlets, and the sound of her friends laughing.
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