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Discover stories about how Point Foundation LGBTQ students, alumni and network are impacting communities world-wide. 

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Discover stories about how Point Foundation LGBTQ students, alumni and network are impacting communities world-wide. 

As campuses across the country enact the anti-LGBTQ, and anti-Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies passed in 2023, 2024 begins with more than 470 proposed anti-LGBTQ bills in state...

December 01, 2022, teampoint

Honoring World AIDS Day

Faces of Point: Jahn Jaramillo Jahn Jaramillo, a Point Flagship Scholar pursuing a PhD in...

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November 15, 2022, teampoint

The Intersection of Indigenous and LGBTQ Identities

For Point Scholars like Z Wilbanks, the personal is very much political. A Two Spirit individual...

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November 09, 2022, teampoint

Out In Higher Education: Building Community & Making Change on Campus

Our closing panel for #OutInHigherEd Week 2022 streamed across Point's social media platforms on...

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October 25, 2022, teampoint

Existing as an Asexual Student

What is Asexuality? For those who don’t know, asexuality is an umbrella term that categorizes...

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August 19, 2022, teampoint

3 Strategies for Managing Stress as an LGBTQ Student

Long-term or chronic student stress can interfere with studying, class attendance, grades, and...

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August 19, 2022, teampoint

Immigration Status & LGBTQ Activism

As if seeking asylum and separating from his family wasn't already a difficult and stressful...

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August 19, 2022, teampoint

Alum Spotlight: Mentorship & Representation

Ten years ago, as part of an exercise at Point’s National Leadership Conference, Adaobi Kanu wrote...

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July 01, 2022, teampoint

What Disability Pride Month Means to Me

What does disability pride mean? Every July, Disability Pride Month commemorates the passage of the...

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April 01, 2022, teampoint

Navigating Your New Queer Independence

As an LGBTQ+ high schooler, it was incredibly difficult to imagine a life beyond those four years....

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March 19, 2020, teampoint

Should I come out in my application?

I was dressed in a navy suit with red corgi socks and a pink bow tie. I had looked at myself in the...

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March 16, 2020, teampoint

Queer Legal Activism in New Haven

On October 7th, the country eagerly awaited oral argument in the Supreme Court case Harris Funeral...

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March 10, 2020, teampoint

I’m Queer and I Know Nothing

Photo: Point Scholar Tayler Hammond receiving her certificate as a Community College Scholarship...

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