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The Suffolk Journal

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The Suffolk Journal

Some bathrooms on campus are gender inclusive, but dorms lack options for genderqueer and trans students

Some bathrooms on campus are gender inclusive, but dorms lack options for genderqueer and trans students

Katherine Yearwood April 22, 2015

While many people have been conditioned to use pronouns including he, she, his, and hers to identify others, such terms do not encompass a wide range of people. For those who do not identify as a certain...

Indiana Governor Mike Pence speaking at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference.
By Flickr user Gage Skidmore

Massachusetts should ban state related travel to Indiana

April 8, 2015

When Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed SB 101, also known as the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, he signed a law so vague it could be interpreted for discriminatory purposes. Unlike the religious freedom...

By Flickr user Jason Scott

Beyond the Constitution: Why a Supreme Court ruling won’t bring LGBTQ justice

Dani Marrero February 4, 2015

When the U.S. Supreme Court announced last month it would decide whether same-sex marriage is protected by the Constitution, I was underwhelmed at the news. In the “suggested” related articles on the...

Following FDA reform, student still plans to continue LGBTQ campaign

Following FDA reform, student still plans to continue LGBTQ campaign

Dani Marrero January 11, 2015

After a recent Federal Drug Administration decision to lift its lifetime ban on men who have had sex with men from donating blood, Suffolk junior Wyatt Costello still plans to meet with SGA and discuss...

By Flickr user Vanessa Tiagnanelli

Poet Lauren Zuniga celebrates LGBTQ History Month with Suffolk

October 15, 2014

By Karina Santiago In honor of National Coming Out Day, The Office of Diversity Services and The Rainbow Alliance hosted a poetry workshop as well as a performance by Lauren Zuniga, one of the top five...

by Flickr user Bart Vis

Supreme Court still not doing enough for gay marriage

Alexa Gagosz October 15, 2014

by Alexa Gagosz Many are saying that the Supreme Court’s decision to not review same-sex marriage rulings has “lit a fuse to a powder keg culturally that is going to have ramifications for years...

(Left to Right): Managing Director of Alumni Engagement Elizabeth Conley, 
Director of Diversity Services Jacinda Felix Haro, SUHA President Lidia Zayas, Javier Pagan, and Rainbow Alliance President Amy Kerr. 
(Thalia Yunen/News Editor)

Pagan talks intersections of identity and career

Thalia Yunen October 8, 2014

Javier Pagan, one of the first Boston Police officers to assist at the Boston Marathon bombings, a LGBTQ liaison for the Boston Police Department, and alumnus of Suffolk University came to campus to speak...

(Courtesy of Diversity Services Facebook and Gina DeMatteo/Journal Contributor)

Rainbow sprinkles for Rainbow Alliance

October 8, 2014

By Gina DeMatteo Around 100 students, both members and non-members of the Rainbow Alliance, came to celebrate and chat together in honor of the start of LGBTQ history month. Surrounded by ice cream,...

(Photo by Jonathan Acosta Abi Hassan)

Gender-neutral bathrooms at Suffolk inclusive to all

September 17, 2014

By Nikki Ellis The number of gender-neutral and multi-stall bathrooms has grown in just the past few years, at work places, city facilities and on college campuses. There are more than 150 schools...

(Photo by Jonathan Acosta Abi Hassan)

Gender-neutral bathrooms reduce gender-spectrum anxieties

Dani Marrero September 17, 2014

We all have that childhood anecdote of accidentally walking into the “wrong” restroom at a restaurant, realizing it once we are five steps in, and then quickly running out, hoping no one noticed. Last...

(Photo by Flickr user Underground Crush)

Same love, same rights, same support

Dani Marrero February 5, 2014

When Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ single “Same Love” was released in 2012, the song’s message spread rapidly across LGBTQ organizations’ social media, posted with shared surprise that a mainstream...

Maine Congressman Mike Michaud
(Photo by Flickr user U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Northeast Region)

National accomplishments for LGBTQ, U.S. making strides

Dani Marrero November 13, 2013

This November has been a historic month for the LGBTQ movement in the U.S., and it is barely halfway done. As victories have been found in all corners of the country, Americans are celebrating the new...

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