By Marissa Mooney |Staff Writer| The Pride Center presented one of their Coming Out events, “Coming Out in Words” on Wednesday, Oct. 17 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Student Union. Throughout campus, the Pride Center advertises its events for the month of October in conjunction with the National Coming Out Day on Oct. 11. The Santos Manuel Student Union was turned into an open forum of storytelling, spoken word and other forms of creative expression to commemorate the Coming Out occasion. According to the CSUSB Pride Center coming out is “the process of accepting one’s sexuality or gender identity, as well as the process of revealing one’s sexuality or gender identity to … [Read more...] about LGBTQQIA community comes “Out in Words”
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Bullied students take action
By Amanda Wigley |Staff Writer| National Anti-bullying Awareness Month kicked off with students sharing their experiences. This month kicked off bringing awareness to people across the nation that bullying is a very serious issue. “One incident of bullying [occurs] every seven minutes,” according to an article in the Huffington Post by Irene Monroe, the nationally-known African-American lesbian activist. When you think of bullying, you may think it only happens to younger students. But sadly it happens to students of all ages and levels. A CSUSB student was brave enough to tell his very personal story and I would like to share it with my readers so they can see just how … [Read more...] about Bullied students take action