{"id":30913,"date":"2024-03-27T14:38:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T18:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=30913"},"modified":"2024-06-11T16:47:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T20:47:37","slug":"lgbtqia-furman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/lgbtqia-furman\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA+ @ Furman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our new<\/span> LGBTQIA+ @Furman<\/a> timeline illustrates and celebrates the contributions, achievements and legacies our LGBTQIA+ community has made to enrich Furman\u2019s institutional history. Browsers will find an assemblage of photographs, newspapers and periodical articles, and ephemeral materials by, for and about Furman\u2019s queer community. It begins in the 1970s, when campus conversations and debates were taking place on the topic of homosexuality, and runs up to current events, such as last year\u2019s May Experience Queer Histories (San Francisco) Study Away trip.<\/span><\/p>\n

Through an interactive website, the Furman Libraries have documented important aspects of LGBTQIA+ lives and experiences on our campus. To capture the diversity of personal achievements and milestones, we arranged the timeline by using the resources in Special Collections and Archives and by consulting widely with faculty members in the Women\u2019s, Gender and Sexuality Studies program.<\/span><\/p>\n

We encourage our readers to think of this timeline as a loving space in which folks from all gender and sexual identities can celebrate the impact they have made and are presently making at Furman and in society at large. We hope this timeline will be a point to connect students and faculty, alumni, parents and friends with this part of Furman\u2019s history and to help us all reflect on whose experiences are included and documented in our institutional memory \u2013 and whose experiences are still left out.<\/span><\/p>\n

The launching of the site is timely, as we feel it is critical that we continue to support the present- day LGBTQIA+ community at Furman in the face of ongoing challenges to LGBTQIA+ rights, realities and representation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Special thanks for the creation of this project go to Furman professors Nick Radel, Savita Nair and Scott Henderson, and the staff of the Digital Collections Center in the Libraries.<\/span><\/p>\n

We recognize that this work is very much an ongoing project, and that alumni from many eras also have important stories to tell. If you have anecdotes, stories, documents or other points of interest that could add to this growing timeline, we welcome hearing from you. Please reach out and connect with us at nashieli.marcano@furman.edu<\/a> or <\/span>jeffrey.makala@furman.edu<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

View the timeline at: <\/i><\/b>BIT.LY\/LGBTQIAtimeline<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From a 1970 Talk-A-Topic panel about homosexuality, to Furman’s offering of benefits to domestic partners in 2001, to the university’s first drag show and rising student support, a new visual timeline tells the story of the LGBTQIA+ community on campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":295,"featured_media":30914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2663,1963,2660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","category-furman-magazine","category-spring-2024"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30913"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32641,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30913\/revisions\/32641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}