LGBT community

PSU hosts a poetry slam in honor of Transgender Day of Visibility

Allyson Ifergan | Staff Writer What better way to welcome Trans Day of Visibility than with poetry? On Mar. 11, 2025, the Pride Student Union welcomed students to compete in a Poetry Slam at BBC’s Wolfe University Center.  Art and writing are creative mediums through which members of the LGBTQIA+ community can freely express themselves […]

Is a right-wing dystopia forming in Florida?

Mariantonia Mejia | Staff Writer On September 6th of this year, the Miami-Dade school board voted to designate October as LGBTQ History Month.  Those there to witness the decision saw the Proud Boys protesting outside the building in shirts that linked the queer community to pedophiles. This tense and hateful tone carried on throughout the […]

Rugby player ‘stays true’ to herself as a member of the LGBT community

Nicholas Poblete // Staff Writer Selected by USA Rugby as a Collegiate All-American student-athlete for the 2014-15 season alongside 54 other student-athletes, Ashaunte Stroman is a four-year member of the women’s rugby club. The senior majoring in psychology and physical therapy is also openly homosexual. Stroman said she was only 6 years old when she […]

FIUPD undergoes diversity training to better serve LGBTQA community

Written by: MaryBeth Loretta/ Contributing Writer In a political climate where LGBTQA rights have been in the spotlight, the FIU Police Department has paid attention. Alexander Casas, Chief of the FIU Police Department, said that recent attention to LGBTQA issues is the primary reason for its recent training on how to approach and better communicate […]

Sexual orientation and its place in college applications

Contributing writer Ashley Viera discusses sexual orientation and its place in college applications.

Practice what you preach: tolerance

Staff writer Raul Herrera believes people are only tolerant when it is convenient for them.

UNDOCUMENTED – Pulitzer Prize winner discusses immigration

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas told his story as undocumented immigrant Monday, Oct. 1, on an event held at the Biscayne Bay Campus.

Public Reason – June 5, 2012

Discussion on undocumented students and the obstacles towards legal status with host Jonathan Szydlo and co-host/producer Jasmyn Elliott.

Potential DREAM Act recipients wait for chance to attend college

Facing political turmoil and economic hardships, Lorena Sanchez and her family escaped an uncertain future in Uruguay to come to America.

Attorney to speak to international students on visas

Attorney to speak on H1-B visas

DREAM Act success in California, Florida next?

A bill that helps illegal immigrants get funding for college education has seen recent success in California but has been stunted in Florida by political opposition.
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