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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...

October 14, 2016, teampoint

La discriminación y sus intersecciones

In this post, HBO Point Scholar Daniel Berezowsky discusses the complexities of intersectionality...

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October 05, 2016, teampoint

University of Arizona Trans*Studies Conference

At the beginning of September, the University of Arizona hosted the inaugural Trans*Studies...

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August 11, 2016, teampoint

LEAD & New Directions in LGBTQ Advocacy

A few weeks ago, Point Foundation hosted its Leadership Education & Affinities Development (LEAD)...

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August 04, 2016, teampoint

National Leadership Conference (NLC) 2016

Having grown up in a low-income household, I never had the opportunity to travel very far. In fact,...

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May 13, 2016, Eugene Patron

Fighting for the Global Good: LGBT Refugees and Asylum-Seekers

One of my favorite afternoon activities is my weekly card game. I tend to lose, and I am pretty...

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May 01, 2016, Eugene Patron

Queering Justice

Before I was a Point Scholar, I wasn’t sure that I wanted to come out professionally as a queer...

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April 01, 2016, Eugene Patron

Public Health Spotlight: Sexual Violence Against Bisexual Women

Thanks to the help of a few Point alums, I was published in the Advocate last September with an...

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January 06, 2016, teampoint

Home is Peachy Keen

Though born in the far northern realm of Maine, I was an early transplant to the South. My family...

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December 01, 2015, teampoint

Point Scholars Work to End HIV/AIDS

Point Foundation is honored to partner with the Elton John AIDS Foundation to provide internships...

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November 06, 2015, teampoint

America's Shameful Lesson and How to Learn from It

Last week, thousands of people watched in horror as School Resource Officer Ben Fields violently...

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September 10, 2015, teampoint

Engineering a Better World for the LGBTQ Community

Point Scholar Alexa Groenke, a second year engineering student at the University of California,...

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August 06, 2015, teampoint

From the Courtroom to the Ballroom: The Next Steps of LGBTQ Equality

Photo: Point Scholar Kyle Ranieri (left) celebrates the Supreme Court's ruling that all states must...

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