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The staff of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives wishes everyone a happy holiday season! We are taking a break this week, but please join us on Monday, January 8th, for a new Spartan Story!
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The staff of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives wishes everyone a happy holiday season! We are taking a break this week, but please join us on Monday, January 8th, for a new Spartan Story!
The staff of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives wishes everyone a Happy New Year! We are taking a break this week, but please join us on Monday, January 8th, for a new Spartan Story!
Read this week's Spartan Stories blog about Raymond Taylor by #UNCG PhD student Arlen Hansen! uncghistory.blogspot.com
"Gays Go Home" -- The Strong Hall Protest of 1979
The LGBTQ community of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro has contributed to the reputation for diversity and inclusivity earned by this university. Historically, this reputation was fought for and earned by very brave students, staff, and faculty. This post is in honor of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month, 2015.
About a month after the first official meeting of the Gay Student Union (now the Queer Student Union), which occurred September 25, 1979, the first major anti-LGBTQ incident took place on the campus of UNCG. An educational seminar focusing on homosexuality was organized for the residents of Strong Dormitory. The organizer, graduate counselor Richard Stilley, was concerned about repeated reports of homophobic harassment in the dormitory, and he hoped that a guided conversation between students and faculty would defuse the tension in the halls. The speakers at the presentation, called “Homosexuality and Society,” were Rev. Joseph Flora (faculty advisor for the Gay Student Union and pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Greensboro) and Dr. Thomas K. Fitzgerald (professor of Anthropology at UNCG). The event was to be held at 10:00 pm on November 15, 1979.
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