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Syracuse Lavender Graduation will honor those who formed a 'positive LGBTQ climate on campus'

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mountaineer:
Syracuse Lavender Graduation will honor those who formed a 'positive LGBTQ climate on campus'
* Syracuse University is organizing a 'Lavender Graduation' for students who identify as 'LGBTQIA,' which will take place on Sunday, April 28.
* The ceremony will recognize graduates 'whose lived experience, scholarship and/or leadership have contributed to a positive LGBTQ climate on campus.'
Brendan McDonald
April 30, 2024, 1:18 pm ET
--- Quote ---Syracuse University in upstate New York is organizing a “Lavender Graduation” for students who identify as “LGBTQIA,” which will take place on Sunday, April 28.

The school’s Lavender Graduation is a rebranding of what was formerly called the “Rainbow Banquet,” which the university held from 2003 to about 2019. The Syracuse LGBTQ Resource Center is organizing this year’s event.

[RELATED: Syracuse U bans Church from school property for upholding Christian sexual beliefs]

“For the sixth consecutive year, we celebrate our queer and trans graduating students (undergraduate and graduate) and their accomplishments through our Lavender Graduation,” Syracuse’s website states. “All graduating undergraduate and graduate students whose lived experience, scholarship and/or leadership have contributed to a positive LGBTQ climate on campus are eligible to be Lavender Graduates.”

According to the same web page, Lavender Graduations typically “celebrate LGBTQIA+ communities at Syracuse University, [SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry] and the city of Syracuse, featuring a dinner, a graduating keynote speaker, graduating LGBTQIA+ student recognition and the presentation of Rainbow Recognition Awards.” ...
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https://www.campusreform.org/article/syracuse-lavender-graduation-will-honor-formed-positive-lgbtq-climate-campus-/25292

rustynail:
Isn't this an affront to a Free Palestine and Hamas?

mountaineer:

--- Quote from: rustynail on April 30, 2024, 11:36:27 pm ---Isn't this an affront to a Free Palestine and Hamas?

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When worlds collide. Maybe the Lavender group will all jump off rooftops in solidarity with the Islamonuts.

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