(Each Monday during the academic year, I feature a "Campus Highlight": a unique, interesting, and noteworthy student organization, program, or initiative that demonstrates the amazing things college students do each and every day across the country.)
October 11 is National Coming Out Day, which means that this week is Pride Week on many college campuses. For the Campus Highlight this week, I'm choosing to focus on Auburn University's Gay-Straight Alliance. They're a great example of how one student organization can make a huge difference on a campus -- and to individual students. Their "Welcome" message on their website is fantastic; they describe their organization as "just an organization of like-minded students." In fact, they challenge visitors "[not to] think of the Auburn GSA as 'the gay group.' AGSA is an organization of students who happen to be straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. AGSA welcomes anyone interested in issues relating to sexuality and gender, with the caveat that meetings are confidential. This is to ensure the privacy of all of our members."
The Auburn Gay-Straight Alliance is one of the cosponsors of "Auburn Out Loud" on Tuesday as well as other programs during Pride Week. Keep up the great work, Tigers!
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