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Letter from Bonnie Johnson: What is the PRIDElist?

BONNIE JOHNSON Pride Center Coordinator Happy October AKA Halloween Month AKA LGBTQ+ History Month! I am so proud to share the 2019 PRIDElist in this special edition issue of the Daily Beacon.

“What is the PRIDElist?” you may be asking.

The PRIDElist, sponsored by the Pride Center, is intended to raise the visibility of the LGBTQ+ community and its allies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Complementing our campus focus on mattering and belonging, our goal is to ensure that our LGBTQ+ students feel welcome, supported, and at home here on Rocky Top. This list, with 1,609 signatures, is a labor of love from the entire UT community and represents many areas within our community. The names listed here are from faculty, staff, current students, and alums who want our LGBTQ+ students to know that they are not alone during

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their time here at Rocky Top. It is important to note that the PRIDElist is not the only way that folks show their support for the community—allyship looks different for every person depending on their identities and life experiences. However, the PRIDElist is our campus’ first large-scale visibility initiative for the LGBTQ+ community, a feat worth celebrating, and we thank all those who participated for their engagement.

I wasn’t sure what to think when I brought this the PRIDElist as a Big Orange Idea to the Daily Beacon staff, but they responded back with such enthusiasm and fervor, including their amazing idea of making this October issue all about our community.

I hope this special edition issue fills your heart, educates your soul, and prompts reflection on about the beautiful, diverse LGBTQ+ community here at UT and the part that each of us play in making our campus welcoming to all and hostile to none. Vol is a Verb! Have a great October ahead, and I hope to see you at one of

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Three figures to remember this LGBTQ+ History Month EVAN MAYS Staff Writer LGBTQ+ history is rich with stories of perseverance, courage and the strength to overcome. The stories that collaboratively make up LGBTQ+ history are sources of inspiration and hope for millions all over the world.

Here are three historical figures from LGBTQ+ history that you should know about.

Marsha P. Johnson Marsha P. Johnson, an American gay rights activist and self-described drag queen, was a revolutionary in her time.

She is well-known for being a key-player in the Stonewall Riots, a major event in the early days of the gay rights movement. Some speculate that she was the main catalyst for the Stonewall Riot, having thrown a shot glass against a mirror, becoming known as the “shot glass heard round the world.”

Johnson and her best friend Sylvia Rivera, another key activist in the early days of the gay rights movement, created S.T.A.R. (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries), an organization centered on protecting gay and transgender youth.

Johnson was found dead floating in the Hudson river in 1992. Despite injuries to her head and a lack of evidence pointing at suicidal ten-

dencies, police ruled her death a suicide Johnson was a revolutionary long before it was acceptable to be one. She was a black, transgender, queer woman and unapologetic.

She was a staple of the New York City gay community and has cemented her name in queer history.

For more information on Marsha P. Johnson, watch “The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson,” a Netflix original documentary.

Harvey Milk Harvey Milk was the first non-incumbent openly gay man elected to office in the United States.

Despite not being openly gay or politically active until he was 40, Milk became one of the most prominent LGBTQ+ figures of the 20th century.

Milk made his name by leading the charge against big corporations, assisting unions in boycotts and doing his best to ensure gay San Franciscans got a fair shot at employment.

After several failed elections and a devastating break-up with his longtime boyfriend, Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Alongside Milk, a single Mom, a Chinese-American and an African-American woman were all elected. Additionally, a former police officer Dan White served on the Board with Milk.

Milk made a major ally out of the mayor of

San Francisco at the time, Mayor Moscone. Together, they worked on passing several pieces of major legislation.

Months after being sworn in, Dan White announced his resignation from the Board. Soon after, however, White expressed interest in being reinstated. After some consideration, Mayor Moscone rejected his request.

On November 27th, 1978, hours before Moscone was set to announce Dan White’s replacement, White breached security at the San Francisco City Hall. He went to Moscone’s office and shot him five times, including two gunshots to the head. He then went to Harvey Milk’s office and shot him five times as well.

Dianne Feinstein, the current senator from California who was a City Supervisor at that point, heard the gunshots and rushed to Milk’s office. She found him bleeding to death, and despite her efforts, Milk died that day.

His legacy lives on though, and it is a powerful legacy: one of fighting for equal rights across the country.

Bayard Rustin Many people may not know who Bayard Rustin, one of the most influential figures in the Civil Rights Movement, is. That’s because, due to controversy surrounding his sexuality, Rustin worked mostly behind the scenes.

Rustin was the right-hand man to Martin Luther King Jr. and a powerful force behind the

planning and organization of civil rights events like the March on Washington in 1963.

However, throughout his career as a civil rights activist, Rustin was constantly criticized for his sexual orientation. Politicians against the Civil Rights Movement used Rustin’s sexuality against him, King and others, while other civil rights activists used his sexuality as a reason not to give him credit for his hard work.

By the 1980s, Rustin began working for the first time to advance gay rights. When making a speech in 1986, Rustin said “Today, blacks are no longer the litmus paper or the barometer of social change. Blacks are in every segment of society and there are laws that help to protect them from racial discrimination. The new [explicit] are gays … It is in this sense that gay people are the new barometer for social change. …

The question of social change should be framed with the most vulnerable group in mind: gay people.”

Though Rustin died in 1987 from a perforated appendix, his legacy lives on today.

In 2013, President Obama posthumously awarded Rustin the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest award a civilian can get in the U.S.

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One may not imagine that a link exists between horticulture and standing up for fair sex education — but Cole Tipton is living evidence that a connection between these seemingly unrelated topics exists.

Tipton, a senior double majoring in sociology and gender studies, came to UT because they wanted to study agriculture.

Particularly, they were focused on public horticulture.

However, with time, Tipton realized that their interest in the subject derived not from the substance of the subject itself but the role that it played in helping people.

“I realized my interest really wasn’t so much in the horticulture part, as much as, the public part and really working with the public and really working to address what I would call now systemic issues that plague individuals,” Tipton said.

After this discovery, Tipton switched their major and also became involved with extracurriculars that supported this passion they hold for helping others.

In particular, Tipton, who identifies as queer, began working with organizations that empower the LGBTQ+ community.

Tipton was involved with the Pride Center for three semesters. However, they explained that the role was quite a difficult one at the time; the Pride Center was in the midst of chaos following the defunding of the center that had occurred just before Tipton came to UT. Because the center had fallen out of favor with administration, it was up to students to keep it running.

Towards the beginning of their collegiate career, Tipton also become involved with Sexual Empowerment and Awareness at Tennessee (SEAT), the student organization that plans UT’s annual Sex Week, an event which aims to educate students on sexual health.

Here, Tipton truly developed their passion for sex education and became one of the leading members of the organization; Tipton served as co-chair of SEAT last year.

Tipton explained why fostering sex education is so important and empowering for the LGBTQ+ community on campus.

“The overlap is understanding that LGBT students are erased through Tennessee’s sex ed curriculum and then that we’re moving in to say, ‘hey this is an essential part of any sex ed curriculum,’ kind of explains why SEAT and Sex Week holds a certain appeal for queer students,” Tipton said.

Throughout their time in SEAT, Tipton

Cole Tipton, senior studying sociology and women, gender and sexuality studies.

Courtesy of Cole Tipton has helped to reconstruct the organization.

After the Tennessee Comptroller’s Report, which outlined the state’s disapproval of Sex Week, was released last year, Tipton worked to ensure that everything within SEAT ran efficiently and smoothly; there was no room for mistakes, they explained. Tipton helped to rewrite the organization’s constitution and overall made SEAT a more democratic entity.

In addition to double majoring and being very involved on campus, Tipton also

One thing that amazes me about Cole is their ability to make any space feel like a safe space.

Taylor Washington Tipton’s Friend

fosters their interest in horticulture with a part-time job as a florist. The occupation grants them an opportunity to get a break from schoolwork through a creative outlet, Tipton explained.

“That’s like my great break from everything, because I get to go and do some floral design and just do something that’s totally different than being on campus and academia and a good artistic relief,” Tipton said.

In their free time, Tipton also likes to participate in drag performances, lead games of gender bingo and do other advocacy work related to sex education and

the LGBTQ+ community.

After they graduate, Tipton plans to go to graduate school to study social work, where they will continue working towards their goal of leading and helping others as much as possible.

One of Tipton’s personal friends, Taylor Washington, highlighted Tipton’s leadership qualities. A leader herself, Washington is in the same honors cohort as Tipton, and she is also the president of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.

“Cole is able to lead in a way that makes you want to follow because you know they care about you as a person and because you know they will act strategically and in the best interest of the organization,” Washington said. “One thing that amazes me about Cole is their ability to make any space feel like a safe space.”

Washington also stated that Tipton’s reasons for leading are what sets them apart from other student leaders.

“They lead with their heart and their head which many leaders on campus struggle with,” Washington said.

Overall, Tipton hopes that their time leading at UT made the existence of the Pride Center and SEAT more possible; however, they also believe that it will take the work of those to come in the future to truly help the center and SEAT flourish.

“Personally, I’m hoping that my time here has made it easier for both of these entities to exist on campus,” Tipton said, “but I’m just a small, one person who can only make so much noise on my own.”

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From Hill to Hill: Weather you like it or not

EVAN NEWELL Opinions Editor

We like to criticize all sorts of people for the way they do their job, even when it’s a job we couldn’t do ourselves.

College professors, starting quarterbacks and famous politicians are all likely targets of this high-minded disapproval.

We sit by as mere audience members, whether in the classroom, in a stadium or on the couch, and judge them with disdain, pretending like we could do any better.

Few people get this treatment more often or more widely than meteorologists.

It’s a group that so many of us love to hate.

Sometimes they’ll do things that inconvenience us — predicting a snowstorm that never happens or broadcasting a tornado warning that interrupts the Masters tournament and what do we do in return?

We go after them.

When people get upset, meteorologists have to endure harassment on social media, sarcastic memes at their expense and even death threats just for doing their jobs.

Seems a little harsh, right?

I think so. Even without our criticism, meteorologists have an incredibly hard job.

They have to take all sorts of atmospheric data — temperature, pressure, humidity, wind speed — and use supercomputers to run predictive, mathematical models.

They can only collect so much data, and the atmosphere is always changing, so there’s a lot of uncertainty in this process.

Somehow, though, they still manage to make pretty reliable predictions for what the weather will be like for the next few days.

So why do we impose such high standards on people we have no business criticizing? Why the innate urge to condemn these data-savvy sky watchers?

We can never know for sure, of course, but I don’t think it’s because we’re actually mad at them. Instead, I think it has more

to do with the fact that weather makes us uncomfortable.

I don’t mean that it makes us physically uncomfortable (even though these 90-degree October days certainly do). I mean the weather makes us psychologically uncomfortable because trying to predict it is so complex.

We generally like when things are predictable, especially something as impactful as the weather. We make plans based largely on the weather forecast, and a surprise thunderstorm or an unexpectedly cold day can really put a damper on things.

Because of this, coming to terms with the fact that the weather is so tremendously complex — unknowable, even — can be frustrating. It’s a prime case of just how fallible and limited human beings are, and we seem to cope with our discomfort

Wrapping your head around ideas that say the world isn’t as simple as you thought is uncomfortable, and it can make some people get defensive.

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by lashing out at meteorologists.

But that’s kind of ridiculous, isn’t it?

Meteorologists know better than anyone that predicting the weather is a complicated, daunting challenge, and they’ve devoted their careers to helping the rest of us deal with this complexity. But we see them as a symbol of humanity’s limited abilities, and so they pay the price.

So, what can this tell us about the world outside of meteorology? Well, there may be a larger pattern at play here.

Let’s take a look at UT’s Office for Diversity and Inclusion, another group that received lots of criticism. In 2016, this office got a lot of flak from the state legislature for some of their programs and initiatives around pronouns, holidays and sex education.

The legislature didn’t just express their criticism with some angry tweets or emails. Instead, they took it a step further and passed a bill to defund the office

It’s impossible to know for sure why the legislators were so critical. Everyone has their reasons, and I don’t want to ignore that, but I think they might have been treating that office the way the rest of us treat meteorologists.

When you get down to it, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion (and its more recent incarnation as the Office of Diversity and Engagement) really represented one thing — complexity.

It acknowledged some reasonably complicated truths, like the fact that we don’t always look alike or believe the same things, or the fact that sometimes people aren’t straight or cis-gender, or the fact that welcoming marginalized groups requires resources and hard decisions.

But this kind of complexity, to people who grew up in an era with much less of it, could understandably be difficult to deal with. Wrapping your head around ideas that say the world isn’t as simple as you thought is uncomfortable, and it can make some people get defensive.

Personally, I’m not so sure that the legislature was truly attacking the Office of Diversity and Inclusion or even the communities that it serves — at least, not directly. I think it might have been more of an attack of the growing complexities of the modern world.

Unfortunately, just like the meteorologists, that office got caught in the crossfire, even though its entire purpose was to help our campus deal with this complicated world.

The world is only getting more complicated, and there will always be people like meteorologists trying to help shepherd us through the confusing, complex times, so maybe we should give them some slack.

Maybe we should better embrace the people that take on difficult, complex challenges.

We need them more than we’re willing to admit because the world is just complicated — weather you like it or not.

Evan Newell is a senior majoring in chemical engineering. He can be reached at enewell2@vols.utk.edu.

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Tennessee Equality Project works to tackle LGBTQ+ discrimination in small businesses BAILEY FRITZ City Editor

Although Tennessee is a great place for many, some LGBTQ+ community members may face the fears of growing up and existing in a largely conservative and anti-LGBTQ+ state, especially since the University of Tennessee was recently named one of the least LGBTQ+ friendly colleges in the nation.

The Tennessee Equality Project is looking to combat this with an initiative called the Tennessee Open for Business program.

TEP has created Tennesee Open for Business as a free program for small business owners in Tennessee to pledge to not discriminate against their customers or employees based on gender identity or sexual orientation.

After small businesses sign the pledge, they get a listing on the TEP website, a post on Facebook and a window cling for display in their storefront. The program is supported by the Brooks Fund of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee.

Chris Sanders, executive director of the Tennessee Equality Project, spoke about

the motivations of the program.

“We want to encourage particularly small businesses in our state to say publicly that they treat our community equally when they hire people or when they serve customers. In many cases, we don’t know that a business is inclusive unless the owners make it clear. This is an easy way to accomplish that,” Sanders said.

The Tennessee Open for Business program began in December of 2013 because sexual orientation and gender identity are not included in the Tennessee Human Rights act.

“You can be fired from a job or turned away from a business if you are part of the LGBTQ community. So if a small business is inclusive in Tennessee, it has chosen to be so, and we think it is important to encourage that,” Sanders explained.

Leticia Flores, an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at UT, serves as a volunteer with the Tennessee Equality Project where she works to recruit businesses for the Open for Business directory.

“If conscience alone doesn’t convince a business owner to welcome and protect our LGBTQ+ community members, then the almighty dollar often does the

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Gabriela Szymanowska / The Daily Beacon trick. Showing the strength and visibility of the community in terms of how much they can increase or decrease a business’s profits can be done fairly easily with such programs. It’s also really important in that sometimes parents of LGBTQ+ youth want to know where their kids can be safe, and such business logos can help them make decisions like where to go for Valentine’s Day or other events easier,” Flores said. “I have heard from LGBTQ+ people that they really like seeing the Open for Business logos on company websites or their doors — it helps make the community feel safe, loved, valued and respected.”

The Tennessee Open for Business program is working to add businesses in more areas, especially smaller towns in Tennessee where acceptance of LGBTQ+ people is still growing.

“We’re excited that the TEP Knox, Anderson and Blount Counties Committee has done a superb job of recruiting businesses in Knoxville area, so there is plenty of room for growth in big cities and small towns,” Sanders said.

For more information or to learn how businesses can get involved, those interested can reach out to Chris Sanders on the TEP website

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50 years since Stonewall: A timeline for the LGBTQ+ community CAROLINE JORDAN Managing Editor

on June 28, 1969 took matters into their own hands, starting the long and arduous road that would eventually lead to the legalization of same-sex marriages.

On June 28, 1969, New York City’s Stonewall Inn was raided by the police for being an underground bar for the gay community.

The 1960s, an already volatile decade in American history, also was a time when many of these bars experienced prejudice and violence by the New York Police Department. On that day, however, the LGBTQ+ community decided to retaliate.

This night of rioting and subsequent protests was the catalyst for the Pride movement, and 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of this prolific night.

1969- The Stonewall Riots Although how the riot began remains unclear half a century later, the message the LGBTQ+ community sent was clear: They were here to stay.

Because other bars had been raided by the police force, the disruption was becoming a norm for the LGBTQ+ community.

The people socializing at Stonewall

1979- First National March A decade after the infamous riots, the first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay rights took place on October 14, 1979.

“The struggle had been a collection of local ones, but for the first time, it garnered major national attention,” NYCPride said.

Much like today’s marches for women’s rights, environmental awareness and Pride month in June, members of the LGBTQ+ community and their allies gathered in one place to send a clear message of their unity and demand for equality.

1981- The first cases of HIV/AIDS The 1980s saw an epidemic of what was then called GRID (Gay Related Immune Deficiency), eventually known as AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome).

Because this illness affected gay men the most, the LGBTQ+ community took a big hit in population and morale after

gaining momentum in the 1970s.

“By year’s end, there is a cumulative total of 337 reported cases of individuals with severe immune deficiency in the United States — 321 adults and adolescents and 16 children under age 13. Of those cases, 130 are already dead by December 31,” hiv.gov said.

In an age with slow-moving medical advances, it would be years before a treatment was administered.

According to NYCPride, HIV/AIDS is still the leading cause of death for gay and bisexual men in the United States.

ognized same-sex marriage in the states where it was legal; however, 2015 was the year it was legalized nationwide.

The struggle had been a collection of local ones, but for the first time, it garnered major national attention.

2004- Massachusetts recognizes same-sex marriage In 2000, Vermont became the first state allowing registered civil unions between LGBTQ+ people, but Massachusetts was the first state to pass same-sex marriage laws in the United States on May 17, 2004.

Same-sex civil unions and marriages were still banned in many states, especially in the south, and still would be for over a decade.

2015- Obergefell v. Hodges legalizes same-sex marriage nationwide In 2013, the Federal Government rec-

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46 years after the violent Stonewall Riots, members of the LGBTQ+ community celebrated the legalization of samesex marriage in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Stonewall served as the beginning of a long, sometimes dangerous journey to equality and right to marry their partner of choice.

It was also a historical event and this LGBTQ+ History Month we remember the 50 years that have passed since that night.

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Countinued from page 6 Katherine Roberts Audrey Robinson Julie Roe Mia Romano Shannon Ross-Sheehy Mark Rozanski Kelly Rubin Jada Russell Jennifer Russomanno Jenny Salata Sally Mueller Amanda Samsel Anna Sandelli Jennifer Scagnelli Kyle Schellinger Greg Schweiger Jennie Scott Andrew Seidler Karen Sergent Alex Sharp Andrew Sheehy Jie “Daisy” Shen Derrick Shepard Greg Sherrill Phyliss Shey Ryan Shirah David Shirk Cat Shteynberg Chris Shuping Dylan Siebert Erik Simons Kimberly Sims Helene Sinnreich Kandis Sisson Gary Skolits Izetta Slade Bennett Smith Melissa Smith Chris Smith Melissa Smith Erin Elizabeth Smith Linda Smith Scott Smith Renee Smith Lori Smith Jordan Smith-Porter Lindsey Snow Marsha Spence Donna Spencer Shannon Spencer Courtney Spicer Rob Spirko Jana Spitzer Brooke Squires Sukey Steckel Andrea Stedman Natalie Stepanov Karmen M. Stephenson Dwight Stooksbury Ruby Strange Christopher Strickland Gregory Stuart Kevin Sukanek Molly Sullivan Karen Sullivan-Vance Hannah Swan Brooke Swart Richard Swearingen Shel Swenson Steve Syoen Dawn Szymanski Corinne Tandy

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Dan Stypa Kasey Sueriski Samantha Talarico Alexia Tate Wil Taylor Dalton Teel William Teer Suzanna Theissen Anne Thomas Hannah Thomas Dr. Adrienne Thompson Melissa Tiemeyrr Lorraine Todor Jennifer Tomasetti Claudio Tombazzi Natalie V. Torres, M.S. Robert Trent Keegan Tucker John Tullock Brooke Tybush Melissa Unger Katya van den Berg Molly Vermillion Frankie Wade Ashley Walker Meredith Walkup Danny Waltman Katherin Waxstein Emily Weddle Drew Welch

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Andrew West Justin West Rachel West Jocelyn White Kae White Scotti Whitmire Austin Williams Audrey Williams Elizabeth Williams Chelsea Williams Caleb Williamson Nick Wilson Don Windham Grant Winter Keri Withington Taylor Wolfenbarger Lauren Wolford Hayden Womack Emma Wright Elizabeth Wright Oren Yarbrough Rebecca Ellis Yarosh Trenton Yount Paul Zeger Read the PRIDElist at utdailybeacon.com

Looking back at the history of the Pride Center on campus GABRIELA SZYMANOWSKA Photo Editor The Pride Center will celebrate its 10-year anniversary on Feb. 25, 2020, and it all began with one idea that sparked its start in 2005.

Librarian at John C. Hodges and previous director of the Pride Center Donna Braquet and professor of informational science Bharat Mehra began a study in fall 2005 asking the campus community what would make the University of Tennessee better for them.

“One thing that kept coming up from people was that it would be good if we had a place because you know you can’t just tell if someone is queer just by looking at them, right? So you can’t always find people in common to talk with or be friends with,” Braquet said.

Following the study, Braquet, Mehra and others created the Commission for LGBT People in 2006, with the aim of creating a space for the LGBTQ+ community at UT. During summer 2008, Interim Chancellor Jan Simek met with the Commission who presented their research. Simek said a space had recently opened in Melrose Hall, 915 Volunteer Blvd., that they could use.

It was almost two years later before the OUTreach: LGBT & Ally Resource Center would officially open, but for Braquet, February 25, 2010 will be a day she won’t forget.

“I remember it really well,” Braquet said.

“It was February, so it was cold, and it snowed part of the day, but then by the time we opened the Center, the sun had come out and over 200

people came that day. I think it was just because people were like, ‘Is this really going to happen?’ because it seemed like something that would never happen here.”

For the next three years, Braquet and others made sure that the space was being used, with staff and faculty volunteering their time to open and close the center, so it was there for students like Allison Heming who came to UT as a graduate student in 2012.

Now a data analyst for the Office of Research and Engagement, Heming found a home at the Center as a student.

“I honestly don’t remember why I went there, which is kind of odd,” Heming said.

“But I think it was just kind of to see the space.

Where I came from as an undergraduate student, we didn’t have anything like that. … I was just trying to find other queer people to establish friendships with, so I ended up going to the Pride Center, and I just never stopped going after that.”

Heming felt that the center had conversations that were important about diversity and inclusion on campus.

“It had all these interesting social justice conversations happening which given what was happening at the time makes a lot of sense,” Heming said. “But what felt very unique for the area and campus — It was just kind of a hub of people who wanted to make UT better, wanted to make Tennessee better.”

In 2013, the university hired Vice Chancellor of Diversity and Inclusion Ricky Hall who asked Braquet to become the director of the Cen-

ter. Just two years later, the center changed its name to the Pride Center.

During fall 2015, Hall asked Braquet to write a small piece for a newsletter about how faculty can be inclusive with pronouns. When the letter was published, media outlets picked up the story and sensationalized the content.

The State Legislature called for an investigation into the situation, leading to a defunding bill, Public Chapter 1066, which redirected $445,000 of funding for the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. The bill did not allow funding or resources to go toward Sex Week, UT could not promote gender neutral pronouns and could not promote or inhibit the celebration of religious holidays.

In support of the Pride Center, UT students held a walkout, a “die-in” on Pedestrian Walkway and a march.

However, on May 23, 2016 Braquet was let go from her position, and the Pride Center was no longer a part of the university, although the space would remain for students.

UT students and alumni jointed together to raise $13,000 for an endowment and students volunteered to keep the center open. In 2017, Chancellor Beverly Davenport hired Bonnie Johnson as the new director of the center. In 2019, the center again received funding and is housed as a part of the Office of Student Life.

As the center celebrates a decade on UT’s campus, both Heming and Braquet see a more stable future for the Center.

“As a staff member, I’m hopeful it means institutional progress,” Heming said. “I’m hope-

Flyers sitting on the counter at the Pride Center at 915 Volunteer Blvd on Monday, Sept. 30, 2019. Gabriela Szymanowska/ The Daily Beacon ful it means a renewed commitment to students of differing sexual orientation and gender identities.”

“I want the Pride Center to just never have to ever think about the possibility of going away,” Braquet said. “I want the students and the staff who work there to only be concerned with how they can do even better and get even bigger and help even more people.”

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LGBTQ+ History Month Event Series

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Taking Mental Health Out of the Closet

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Knoxville’s Queer History

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6 PM in Lindsey Young Auditorium, Hodges Library

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National Coming Out Day Ice Cream Social

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Intergenerational Dialogues in the LGBTQ+ Community

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Take Pride in Your Resume: A Career Readiness Workshop

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Friendsgiving Potluck Dinner

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Transgender Day of Rembrance Vigil

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