Gabriella Pinos/Staff Writer “ALL Are Welcome Here.” The rainbow poster hangs next to Nancy Zlatkin’s door at FIU’s Counseling and Psychological Services. As a psychologist specialized in working with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer students, it’s important for Zlatkin to make them feel secure. “This is the first thing that I want students […]
By Andrea Diaz-Ariza A frequently misunderstood community by many, the transgender and non-binary students took a week to celebrate their identity with pride. FIU has used Trans Awareness Week to open the conversation to what it truly means to be transgender in 2017. On this week, MMC and BBC campuses came together to celebrate transgender […]
By Joseph Geballa Growing up gay can be different for many types of people, but at the end of the day, we share the same struggle and we must share the same mindset and message of, “It does get better, even when it does not look like it.” I am Joseph Geballa, known as Joey, […]
Lucia Plaza/Contributing Writer When asked to picture an LGBTQ person, most people don’t think of a transexual woman or a Hispanic gay man. One may instead picture someone who looks more like Neil Patrick Harris. And while Neil Patrick Harris is a good example of an LGBTQ person, he is not the only kind there […]
Emily Sol/Contributing Writer What is the ‘B’ in LGBTQ? At first glance, this might seem like a pretty straightforward question to most people. It’s almost an involuntary reflex to automatically answer bisexual, however identifying the ‘B’ in LGBTQ goes beyond describing the acronym. While bisexuals make up a slight majority of the LGBTQ community, they […]
Christopher Downs/Staff Writer Frightened, in denial, confused. These were just the many emotions I felt when I knew. Born and raised in a predominantly Christian environment, the term “gay” was never something I would ever have the bravery to speak. At the time, I had no idea what these peculiar feelings were or why they […]
Nazareth Izada/Contributing Writer When I was asked to write this, a close friend of mine had told me to write my coming out story. I was being asked to give a single, defining coming out story, but really you come out countless times as a gay person. You never entirely stop coming out. Your sexual […]
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Andrea Diaz-Ariza/Contributing Writer “Start your engines, squirrel friends!” It’s time for the Drag Race season 9 finale and it is going to leave you gagging, hunty! RuPaul’s Drag Race is a reality competition series where drag queens from across the country prove they are worthy of being crowned “America’s Next Drag Superstar.” Contestants go through […]
