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 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.

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.

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.

“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… […]

“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 […]

“Two Gay student groups, charging discrimination, are taking Georgetown University to court.”

“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.”