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What you need to know about gender affirming care: The what, the where and the ways it affects the OSU community

What you need to know about gender affirming care: The what, the where and the ways it affects the OSU community

Riley LeCocq, News Reporter
June 6, 2023

From routine physicals, to sexual health care and beginning transition or continuing transition, access to gender affirming care aims to make healthcare  inclusive for all at Oregon State University while...

A staged image of a hand making a heart in front of a transgender flag photographed on June 1 in the SEC Plaza.

“We’re still demanding our rights”: As Pride Month begins the fight for equality does not stop

Sydni Zidarevich, Justice, Equity and Diversity Beat Reporter
June 5, 2023

Despite an increased recognition of LGBTQ+ rights, the fight for equal rights is not yet over.  The Stonewall Uprising began in a gay club, the Stonewall Inn, located in Greenwich Village in New York...

OSU researchers are studying better ways to treat LGBTQ+ cancer survivors

OSU researchers are studying better ways to treat LGBTQ+ cancer survivors

Gabriel Braukman, News Contributor
May 1, 2023

With the hope of shining a light on often overlooked cancer survivors, researchers from Oregon State University are conducting the Thriving Together study, an after-cancer project focusing on gender...

Master’s student in gender studies, G Koffink (any/all) helps to set up the memorial table on Nov. 21 in the SEC for those lost in the recent Colorado Springs shooting. The shooting occurred in Colorado Springs on Nov. 19-20, with five people being killed and 17 more injured.

Club Q victims are memorialized by OSU’s queer community

Haley Stark, Reporter
November 22, 2022

In light of the shootings at Club Q in Colorado Springs last Saturday, Queers Studies, the Hattie Redmond Women and Gender Center and the Pride Center held a vigil in honor of the victims. Gathered...

Elijah Stucki is the executive director for Mid Willamette Trans Support Network and has been volunteering for the network since 2017. Mid Willamette Trans Support Network has a community at The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Corvallis, Ore.

OSU alumna-activist, Albany Pride founder speak on PRIDE

Zeva Rosenbaum, News Contributor
June 6, 2022

While Corvallis, Ore. is not throwing an official Pride celebration, Albany Pride will hold their Pride event at 10 a.m. on June 25 at Albany City Hall Plaza, where participants can find LGBTQIA+ owned...

Studio Art major Lee Niemi poses inside the Pride Center at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore. on May 17. Niemi is a student worker at the OSU Pride Center which celebrated its 20th year anniversary last year.

“The most powerful sense of relief I’ve felt in my life:” Trans Pride Center representative discusses LGBTQIA+ life

Zeva Rosenbaum, News Contributor
June 6, 2022

Lee Niemi, a community relations representative at the Oregon State University Pride Center, said he joined the queer community after learning most people didn’t feel the same way as him.  “I’ve...

Third-year Marine Studies major and Leadership Liaison for the Pride Center Marin Monteith wipes the rain away from the Queer History Month signs located throughought the Corvallis, Ore. campus on Oct. 21. Monteith is in charge of posting and taking down of the signs alongside the rest of their Pride Center peers.

‘Queer Joy’ timeline walk celebrates the close of Queer History Month

Riley LeCocq, News Contributor
October 27, 2021

Oregon State University's Pride Center celebrates triumphs in queer history with a campus timeline walk displayed throughout campus Monday through Friday until Oct. 31. The Pride Center, one of OSU’s...

Cultivating Change is a national organization which seeks to build community among LGBTQ+ agriculturalists. 

OSU leading in Cultivating Change as first chapter on West Coast

Cara Nixon, News Contributor
April 26, 2021

Oregon State University was once Oregon Agricultural College--so Cultivating Change organizers say it’s fitting it would lead as the first chapter of an agriculture-based LGBTQ+ organization on the West...

On Oct. 2, 2019, the Pride Center relaunched their Ill Go With You campaign. This campaign, which originally launched in May, 2016 is meant to show support for non-cisgender people who wish to use the bathroom matching their gender identity and feel safe while doing so. 

OSU celebrates Queer History Month

Tanveer Sandhu, News Contributor
October 7, 2019

First celebrated in 1994, Queer History Month coincides with “National Coming Out Day”—a celebration of coming out as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or as an ally—held annually on Oct....

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