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Rickey Layfield, graduate adult and higher education student, discusses the first openly gay NFL footballer, Michael Sam, Wednesday in the Holmes Student Center. Layfield was presenting at Inside the Fishbowl.

Fishbowl shows growing acceptance of LGBT people

By Rhea Riley | April 24, 2014

Inside the Fishbowl, an LGBTQ Awareness Month event, brought to light the LGBT community’s growing acceptance in music and professional sports.The event, hosted by the LGBT and Women’s Resource Center, was held Wednesday in the Heritage Room of the...

Speaker shares identity struggle

Speaker shares identity struggle

By Alex LaBee | April 16, 2014

Athlete and activist Kye Allums speaks about the obstacles of being a transgender person Tuesday in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center. Allums said being assigned a gender at birth does not implicitly mean all people identify with their assigned sex. Allums is a public speaker and founder of the I Am Enough project, a storytelling platform dedicated to encouraging self-love for everyone on the gender spectrum.