LGBTQ+ Resources Moved from Mission Page, Website to be Reorganized

Kyla Guilfoil Managing Editor/Sports Editor

Over the last few weeks, students have noticed a number of LGBTQ+ resources removed from the mission statement page on the Manhattan College website causing concern to grow around campus. However, the college’s administration said this is not an indication of any negative changes regard- ing their support of LGBTQ+ students, staff or faculty.

Previously, under the page entitled “LGBTQ+ and the Catholic Church’’ on the mission statement section of the college’s website, there were over a dozen links and resources concerning positive relations between the LGBTQ+ community and the Catholic Church. A student noticed that these resources were removed from the page and alerted Tiffany French, a senior programmer analyst and co-chair of MC’s LGBTQ+ Task Force.

French worked alongside Rocco Marinaccio, co-chair to the LGBTQ+ Task Force and English professor, and said that they have had students come to them with concerns that LGBTQ+ support would diminish on campus following the change to the mission page. In particular, some students worried the Rainbow Jaspers, the college’s LGBTQ+ club, would be disbanded.

“We’ve had some questions from students who noticed this and asked if the removal of the LGBTQ+ resources from the mission page meant that there was some kind of larger movement to shut down the community on campus,” Marinaccio told The Quadrangle.

“The Rainbow Jaspers have ex- pressed on more than one occasion concerns that the club might be shut down. There’s no chance of that.”

French said that the pair immediately reached out administrators to try to figure out why the material was removed. Thankfully, French said, the re-

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