After President DeGioia’s historic Town Hall, campus newspapers tell the Georgetown community about the President’s commitment to create a “fully-funded and fully-staffed resource center for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning students by fall of” 2008.
Continue Reading“An Open Forum with President John DeGioia”
This is one of the flyers used by the members of the OUT for Change campaign to invite students to the President’s Town Hall.
Continue ReadingOctober 11 Rally
On October 11, 2007, members of the OUT for Change campaign marched from Red Square to Healy Hall to present President DeGioia with their petition and an “I Am” t-shirt. They were barred from entering by campus police.
Continue ReadingUsing Britney Spears to Protest
As part of their creative tactics, members of the OUT for Change campaign created this parody of Britney Spears’ “…Baby One More Time” to demand an LGBTQ Resource Center.
Continue ReadingA Letter to Father Healy (1988)
“I must begin by saying that I feel as though the university created a moral windmill which it has been expensively tilting against for eight years. The whole idea that university ‘recognition’ implies moral acceptance of homosexuality, or anything else for that matter, has no basis in fact or precedent that I am aware of… […]
Continue ReadingGay Dance at GU, 1988
“Seven years into the presidency of Ronald Reagan, ‘most conservative president since Herbert Hoover,’ gay men and lesbian women enthusiastically and sensually danced and drank Coca-Cola products with one other in an undergraduate dormitory formal lounge on the campus of conservative Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. There was even some slow-dancing and kissing.”
Continue ReadingGay Groups Win Georgetown Case
“It is a very, very important victory for people interested in gay rights,” said lawyer Richard Gross, who argued the case before the three-judge panel, “because for the first time a court has said that the elimination of discrimination against gay people is as important as the elimination of discrimination on the basis of race […]
Continue ReadingGay Student Groups Sue Georgetown University
“Two Gay student groups, charging discrimination, are taking Georgetown University to court.”
Continue ReadingGeorgetown First to Recognize Gays
“No other major urban Jesuit college has approved a gay student charter, according to a survey taken by the Georgetown University Director of Student Activities, Debbie Gottfried.”
Continue ReadingOur Story (Publicly) Begins
In 1979, after a few years of unsuccessful attempts to form a student group on campus, LGBTQ students create the first recognized gay student group at a Jesuit University: GPGU (Gay People of GU). The group’s recognition is overturned by Georgetown President Timothy Healy, S.J., four days later.
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