Various university programs and student organizations show FAU’s support of the LGBT community — but despite this, the university still has room for improvement.
Lambda United and the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs held a vigil Thursday on Florida Atlantic’s boca Raton campus to grieve for the 49 people killed and 53 wounded in Sunday’s mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando.
After a shooting at the Orlando gay nightclub Pulse left 50 people dead and 53 more injured, members of the Florida Atlantic community have gathered together in the wake of the largest mass shooting in American history.
Alumna Hila Case never considered herself a male, even though her birth certificate said otherwise. In 2012, one semester into her graduate bioengineering program at Florida Atlantic, Case made the decision to transition fully into a woman.
FAU’s LAMBDA United and LGBTQ Resource Center hosted a masquerade ball Friday night to give students a chance to celebrate diversity and defy gender roles, encouraging students to be whomever they wanted -- judgement free -- for a night.
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All judgment was tossed aside as Florida Atlantic University students of all orientation...
