LGBTQ

IvyQ conference brings together modern activism, history

Columbia hosted the second IvyQ conference for LGBTQ students and their straight allies at Ivy League schools last weekend.

Web exclusive: Don’t break the bond

Fraternities shouldn't be punished for the misdeeds of a few.

DADT was a blessing in disguise

The DADT repeal may help the military, but it only hurts humans.

Adolescence tough for LGBTQ

While psychologists have progressed past viewing certain sexual orientations as disordered, students grappling with sexual identity often encounter unique mental health issues.

Plans for Ivy League queer conference in the works

Representatives from Columbia and other Ivy League schools convened in Lerner Hall this weekend to plan autumn’s inaugural Queer Ivy League Conference, and to share their perspectives on how to address queer-related issues.

Queer Groups to Create Student Resource Guide

After long discussing creating a resource guide for current, incoming, and prospective Barnard and Columbia queer students, Everyone Allied Against Homophobia is spearheading the effort.

O'Donnell Engages on Politics, Identity

While marching in the Gay Pride Parade in 1998, local State Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell (D-69th district) was asked, “Are you really gay?”
O’Donnell—who at the time had set out on his first run for public office—had to bring over his partner “and make out with him in front of ten or fifteen people” just to prove it, he told a circle of students gathered for a Thursday evening event sponsored by Barnard’s LGBT group, Q.

Letters To the Editor

Suggestions for Greener Columbia, Restrictions on Buses and Leaf Blowers

To the Editor:

Getting Beyond Gay Marriage

Imagining a future for myself was one of the hardest things to do when I was first coming out of the closet.

Cleaner LGBTQ Lounge Opened to All

Columbia’s once nationally symbolic and controversial LGBTQ lounge is more accessible to the entire student body than ever before.