Posts Tagged LGBT
LGBT Intern Shines at PFLAG Event
Posted by Veronica Richter in Active Citizenship, Students, Video on January 5, 2012
George Murphy, A14, an intern at the Tufts LGBT Center, recently gave the keynote speech at a Parents Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) fundraiser.
His speech highlighted the importance of programs like PFLAG for the LGBT community in creating hope and allies. He disclosed his personal experiences coming out and his commitment to be himself and fight for others to do so as well:
Reflecting on Fall 2011
Posted by Veronica Richter in Student Experience, Students, Video on December 22, 2011
Earlier this semester, we introduced you to the Fall 2011 LGBT Center interns. As the semester comes to close, the interns have released a new video reflecting on their experiences as leaders in the LGBT Center. In one of these videos, Aliandro Brathwaite discusses an event in which Kit Yan visited Tufts and gave students the chance to perform their own spoken-word poetry:
Meet the Interns
Posted by Veronica Richter in Blogs, Social Media, Staff, Student Experience, Students, The Fletcher School, Video on October 18, 2011
The Fletcher School and Tufts’s own LGBT Center have Jumbo love for their interns this fall!
In a series of blog posts, Fletcher School admissions highlights their three interns and welcomes them to the office. One of their Interns, Katie, is a Lebanese Egyptian from Cairo interested in Human Security and NGO & Public Management. She’s extremely excited to be here and said,
Despite being far from Egypt, I felt at home at Fletcher right away. Between the exciting stories my fellow Fletcherians tell, and the numerous courses to choose from, I feel like a kid in a candy shop!
The LGBT Center chose to show their love through a video introducing seven undergraduate and graduate interns as well as two graduate staff assistants and the center director, Tom Bourdon. In the video, the entire staff return the love to their home away from home:
Video filmed, edited, and produced by George Murphy, A14.
Gearing Up for National Coming Out Day
Posted by Veronica Richter in Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Staff, Student Experience, Students, Video on October 11, 2011
Time to dust off your rainbow flags, National Coming Out Day is right around the corner! On the hill, the LGBT Center has planned a number of events leading up to National Coming Out Day like the week of flags, painting the cannon “in a glorious rainbow (THERE WILL BE HELLA GLITTER),” and a feature in the Tufts Daily where “Out and Proud” community members “out themselves.”
Tufts has a rich tradition of supporting the LGBT community — both professors and students rally in support of LGBT students. This love and support is perfectly portrayed in the following “It Gets Better” video by the Fletcher GLBT club and their allies:
It Gets Better
Posted by Eugene Buonaccorsi in Faculty, Staff, Video on August 12, 2011
The Tufts LGBT Center has started to post a series of videos on their YouTube channel as part of the “It Gets Better” project. Each video features an interview with a Tufts faculty or staff member reflecting on their experiences with coming out and embracing their sexuality. Thus far, they have interviewed Michelle Bowdler, senior director of health and wellness services, and Ben Hescott, senior lecturer in computer science.
Check out the “It Gets Better” interviews here and all the rest of the LGBT center’s videos on their YouTube channel
Here is the interview with Ben Hescott
LGBT at Tufts
Posted by Georgy Cohen in Active Citizenship, Faculty, School of Arts and Sciences, School of Engineering, Student Experience, Students, Video on April 25, 2011
In this short video segment, Tom Bourdon, the Director of the LGBT Center at Tufts, talks about diversity and safe space on campus: