Skip to main content

Community Blog

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

sign post line art

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...

February 25, 2016, teampoint

The Woman In A Tie: Embracing My Butch Identity

By Point Scholar Sarah Bacot It was near the end of the interview when the request came: “You know,...

Read More

February 03, 2016, teampoint

Weaving A Coming Out Safety Net

by HSBC Point Scholar Angelique Gonzalez When it comes to allyship in the LGBTQ community, I’ve...

Read More

January 14, 2016, teampoint

Making a Fresh Start (With Help!)

For many of us, New Years Day is an opportunity for a fresh start. Whether it’s a resolution to be...

Read More

November 24, 2015, teampoint

10,000 Days of Graditude

On November 14th of this year, I passed a milestone. Although my birthday is in June and receiving...

Read More

October 08, 2015, maryschan

A New Community

Upon arriving in New Haven seven weeks ago, one of the only things of which I felt certain was the...

Read More

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,...

Read More

January 08, 2015, teampoint

Scholar Ashley Burnside Makes Big Changes in Her Community

As a Point Scholar, each academic year I devise a Community Service Project I can undertake to...

Read More

September 24, 2013, teampoint

Scholar Cary Crall Reflects on Conference for Gay & Lesbian Mormons

When my Mormon ancestors first trekked the thousands of miles from the Eastern United States to...

Read More

September 09, 2013, teampoint

Zoë Reidinger Helps LGBTQ Asylum Seekers

Point Scholars are required to complete an annual Community Service Project (CSP) that will...

Read More

Join the Mailing List