LGBTQ student movement
[1] Though the times and places of the student movement vary, the goals are often similar including: abolishing sodomy laws, equality on campuses for LGBTQ students,[2] increasing money for HIV/AIDS research,[3] the legalization of same-sex marriage,[4] to prevent the bullying and suicide of LGBT youth, and gain visibility for LGBTQ people.
LGBT student organizations today have started to involve research to improve the understanding of basic activism ideas.
The LGBT student activists use media to help spread the word about issues in Australia that they deem important to the community such as Same-sex marriage.
Two same-sex couples traveled to Canada in order to be able to marry their partners, and then attempted to get their marriage recognized when they came back to Australia.
These support groups also aim to eradicate bullying and social discrimination LGBTQ+ youth faces, legalization of gay marriage, serving openly in the Indian armed forces, etc.
[2] The move for this is due to the Guangzhou-based Gay and Lesbian Campus Association report that shows that 40% of the mentions within the Chinese textbooks refer to homosexuality as a mental illness.
[8] The current iteration is now called LGBTOUT for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and trans people, of the University of Toronto.
[10] It is the country's oldest continuous running LGBT student organization, which is now called the Glow Centre for Sexual and Gender Diversity.
[12] The University of Western Ontario Homophile Association was start in October 1971, moved off campus in 1974 and eventually disbanded in 2005.
Students staged a walk-out against repealing the 2015 curriculum which included topics like same-sex marriage, consent, and gender identity.
[13] In 2019, the United Conservative party in Alberta announced plans to overturn a law that makes it illegal for teachers to inform parents of their child's attendance in their school's Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) club.
[14] In 2019, a counter-rally was held in support of sexual orientation and gender identity rights in Vancouver on the University of British Columbia's Point Grey campus.
[15] Dozens of student protestors held signs discouraging Smith from speaking claiming his talk was hate speech as it was transphobic.
[17] After hearing about the SHL at Columbia, students at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY began inquiring about starting their own branch on campus.
Jearld Moldenhauer founded the group in 1968 and similar to the experience Donaldson faced at Columbia, students were hesitant to join, and membership remained low.
[19] FREE (Fight Repression of Erotic Expression), founded on May 18, 1969, in Minneapolis's West Bank neighborhood, marks an early effort in the LGBT rights movement.
The group aimed to address discrimination against LGBT individuals through activities such as advocating for same-sex marriage rights and picketing against discriminatory employers.
FREE's members engaged in debates and advocacy, directing their efforts towards both radical change and legal reform within a society that often showed resistance.
This goal stems from studies showing that LGBT college students have higher levels of depression, bullying, and suicide.
[24] In 1972, the Gay Student Union (LGSU) formed at the Claremont Colleges, with meeting space provided at the Monsour Counseling Center.
[27] In 1999 a group of students felt unhappy with the mainly private nature of the LGBT movement so they formed the Spectrum Alliance.
The new found program allows students who desire to obtain a better understanding of LGBT ideals and activism now have the opportunity to do so for course credit.
Numerous studies have concluded that the more interactions undergraduates have with the LGBT community on campus, the more accepting attitudes are in the following ways "1.Same-sex, consensual sex.
These inclusive resources include the creation of gender- neutral housing and bathrooms, educational programming, and creating other initiatives to help foster equality.
Therefore, resulting in lower education outcomes, low self- esteem, and wakened emotional, mental, and physical health.
[34] One of the ways that heterosexism is enabled on college campuses was through heterosexist language and communicated anti-gay sentiments towards LGBTQ people.
Resources have been created to help promote non-hostile environments are initiatives like The Transgender On-Campus NonDiscrimination Project (TONI).
