On Wednesday, March 8, the Iowa legislature passed a bill banning gender-affirming care for transgender and gender non-conforming children in the state.
If the governor signs the bill into law, the...
On Wednesday, March 8, the Iowa legislature passed a bill banning gender-affirming care for transgender and gender non-conforming children in the state. If the governor signs the bill into law, the bill...
Augustana held an LGBT+ training session with Clock, Inc. in the Brunner Theater Center on Monday, Oct. 11. The presentation was advertised in an email to students as an opportunity to learn about the...
Cancel culture has gone too far. We need to learn to forgive and allow growth to occur. We also need to permit points of view that we do not agree with to be acknowledged. People will never be perfect,...
On Thursday, Oct. 10, Beto O’Rourke, a Democratic presidential candidate, boldly claimed that religious institutions should lose their tax-exemptions if they do not support same-sex marriages. While...
I'm just like Simon. For the most part, my life is totally normal. In high school, I glared at the 7 a.m. alarm, shuffled to school half asleep and drove through the suburbs with my friends at night, head...
LGBT activist, speaker, writer, and filmmaker Shane Bitney Crone shared his inspiring life story to Augustana students on Wednesday, Nov 30th in Gavel Room 3.
Born in the small conservative town of Kalispell,...
Members of the Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) met in Andreen on Tuesday, Nov. 22 to start the tradition of a GSA Thanksgiving dinner. Students brought foods like brownies, flautas, ravioli, and spaghetti...
Fundamental misunderstandings of what First Amendment rights actually do for citizens in practice contributes in a big way to the perpetuation of ignorance and bigotry, both on our campus and nationally.
Cries...
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. You’re scrolling through Facebook, when suddenly you see a post beginning with a phrase like, “Hi friends, I need to talk to you about a thing.”
You click...
Doing the right thing can be difficult or unpopular. Yet the state of Illinois has joined the right side of history by legalizing same-sex marriage. Illinois is the 16th state to do so.
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