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University of Toledo to offer scholarship for LGBT students.

There’s a unique scholarship for LGBT students who want to attend the University of Toledo. It’s called the Anaya/Arroyo Scholarship, for undergrads who identify as LGBT. It honors Dr. Rane Arroyo a former UT English professor and former student Troy Anaya Jr.

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The Point Foundation continues its tradition of educating LGBT students with A-list celebrity support.

More than 450 guests and celebrities filled the Beverly Hilton Hotel to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) students at Point Honors Los Angeles. Point Foundation (Point), the evening’s beneficiary, is the nation’s largest scholarship-granting organization for LGBTQ students. The gala evening also included an announcement by Wells Fargo of $1.8 million in continued support for Point.

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Old-timey words for queer people for LGBT History month.

People have come up with some interesting terms to describe gay and bisexual people over the last few centuries. While I could fill up a lake with slang terms for queer people, I find the non-slang terms more interesting because it means that someone was taking us seriously, but sometimes from a strange point of view.

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30 years of being “open and affirming” to people of any and all sexual orientations.

The Year 1987 saw President Ronald Reagan challenge Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin wall. Microsoft released Windows 2.0, the Dow Jones broke the 2,500 mark for the first time, and a church in Boulder crossed a threshold no congregation of its denomination in the state had bridged before.

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San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus kicks off southern states tour.

Thomas Kennard is among the handful of transgender singers in the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus — and proud to be one of its lowest basses. “People say, ‘I thought you would be a tenor,’” Kennard says, demonstrating the guttural depths of his range.