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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...

March 08, 2023, teampoint

Inspiring Inclusion this Women's History Month

Created by activists over 100 years ago, International Women’s Day not only honors the work women...

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March 03, 2023, teampoint

Intersectional Identities in “the Most Homophobic Place on Earth”

Intersectionality is the recognition that everyone has their own unique experiences of...

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February 17, 2023, Sarah Mason

Point Celebrates LGBTQ Student Advocates

With anti-LGBTQ policies and violence on the rise around the country, the US needs LGBTQ leadership...

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February 10, 2023, teampoint

Black Students Create Change for LGBTQ Communities in the Heartland

Black students have faced years of institutional racism, debt, and low rates of degree attainment....

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February 01, 2023, teampoint

4 Black LGBTQ Icons You Should Know

Representation is important. Students seeing other individuals at the same intersections of...

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January 09, 2023, Sarah Mason

Winter 2023 BIPOC Class Breaks Scholarship Record

This January, Point Foundation celebrates the largest class of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People...

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January 09, 2023, teampoint

Defining Mentorship for LGBTQ Students | Point Foundation

Since 2008, every Point Flagship Scholar has been matched with an individual mentor who connects...

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December 07, 2022, teampoint

LGBTQ Scholars: The Leaders of Tomorrow

On Dec. 8, 2022, we celebrated the passage of the Respect for Marriage Act and embraced the effort...

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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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November 03, 2022, Sabine Maxine Lopez

Being the Queer Elder I Needed in College

When I decided to go back to community college in the Fall of 2020 (at the age of 39), I knew my...

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