LGBTQ+
Before classes began for Fall Semester 2024, the ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Queer Plus (LGBTQ+) Center welcomed the university's LGBTQ+ community back to campus with a Fall Kickoff event.
¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ Ph.D. candidates Beau Shaniuk and Dana Oleskiewicz provide a historical context for the transgender experience and discuss the challenges the community faces in light of the increasing number of anti-trans bills being introduced across the country.
As a spouse, a mother and a member of ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ's LGBTQ+ community, Meghan Schwind shares her thoughts for Women's History Month on challenges women face and her hopes for rising generations of women.
Members of ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ's LGBTQ+ community and their allies used The Rock to share a call for kindness.
Graduating senior Delia Brennan applies she learns in the classroom to help survivors of trauma and promote activism in her community.
A groundbreaking interorganizational initiative led by ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ's College of Public Health aims to identify and address the most pressing needs of the LGBTQ+ community in Greater Cleveland.
Born five decades ago as the Kent Gay Liberation Front at ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ, PRIDE! Kent is the country’s oldest continuously operating LGBTQ student organizations. This campus organization owes its existence in large part to the boldness and courage of one person, Dolores Noll, Ph.D.
¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ has partnered with Greater Akron community organizations to conduct the first comprehensive and specific LGBTQ+ Community Needs Assessment (CNA). Efforts of this assessment focus on producing a better-informed public health system and improving the health and well-being of the LGBTQ+ community members.