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Kent State set to host first ever Pride Games

Jenna Francis July 30, 2014

Four campus organizations will join efforts this summer to put on Kent State’s first ever Pride Games.        The Department of Recreational Services, PRIDE! Kent, the Women’s Center and the LGBTQ...

PRIDE! hosts special forum on sexual harassment, assault

Blair Donald April 4, 2014

 Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) coordinator Jennie O’Connell presented statistics about sexual assault and harassment Kent State’s PRIDE! meeting Thursday.“It’s real. It happens,” O’Connell...

PRIDE! to host forum on sexual harassment, assault

Blair Donald April 2, 2014

Kent State’s PRIDE! organization will be hosting a sexual harassment and assault discussion today during its meeting. The meeting will be in room 317 in the Student Center at 9 p.m.PRIDE! announced through...

PRIDE! hosts meeting to inform students about LGBTQ-friendly churches

Ashlyne Wilson March 23, 2014

On Thursday, PRIDE! Kent presented “Open and Affirming Religious Organizations,” a meeting that informed students about churches that accepted the LGBTQ community.“A lot of people within the LGBTQ...

Joyce Ng is a senior English major and columnist for the Daily Kent Stater.  Contact her at jng2@kent.edu.

Opinion: Living with Compassion

Joyce Ng March 9, 2014

Having grown up in a conservative Christian home in a country where homosexual activity is illegal, open conversation about homosexuality was largely absent for most of my life. When I arrived in Kent...

PRIDE! Kent wrote a letter requesting to have Kent State wrestler Sam Wheelers suspension lifted. Wheeler was suspended from the wrestling team after tweeting sexually insensitive statements earlier in the season.

PRIDE! Kent requests Wheeler’s suspension be lifted

Kara Taylor March 6, 2014

Junior wrestler Sam Wheeler’s suspension will not be lifted for this weekend’s MAC wrestling championships despite support from PRIDE! Kent to lift his suspension and support him in his diversity training.PRIDE!...

Jennifer Andres and Anthony DelSignore, founders of a new LGBTQ group on campus, discuss the obstacles of living a LGBTQ lifestyle, Wednesday Feb. 19, 2014 in the student center. The group meets in room 321 every Wednesday from 6:00-7:30 PM.

Clinical group counseling now available for LGBTQ community

Kara Taylor February 24, 2014

Graduate students in the Mental Health Counseling program have created an empowerment group that offers psychological services to students within the LGBTQ community.Students Anthony DelSignore and Jennifer...

Jennifer Hutchinson is a freshman political science major and columnist for the Daily Kent Stater.  Contact her at jhutch2872@gmail.com.

Opinion: Same-sex marriage: the movement of our time

Jennifer Hutchinson February 17, 2014

All eyes are on Virginia as the state attempts to lift its ban on same-sex marriage. The decision was prompted by a federal judge’s ruling that declared the ban unconstitutional.U.S. District Judge Arenda...

LGBTQ Community Smoking Increase

LGBTQ smokers more common than heterosexual smokers

Kara Taylor February 13, 2014

Members of the LGBTQ community smoke more, than their heterosexual peers possibly because of the stresses of discrimination associated with their lifestyle, according to the 2014 Surgeon General's report.However,...

Our View: Creating a safe space for all

DKS Editors January 24, 2014

Transgender people are those who do not identify with the sex they were born as, and the transgender community is one that has long been misunderstood by officials, the media and other Americans alike....

Kieran Raines, an information architecture and knowledge management graduate student, founded Trans*Formers, the transgender organization on campus, last year because of a lack of resources for transgender students.

KSU group aids transgender students

Christina Suttles January 23, 2014

A recent Pew poll revealed that only 8 percent of Americans personally know someone who is transgender. The KSU Trans*Formers work to shed light on a sometimes-misunderstood faction of the university.In...

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