LGBTQ+

LGBTQ students and allies painted The Rock

  A group representing Kent State's LGBTQ+ community and its allies painted "Protect Trans Youth" on The Rock on Kent Campus.  The message was shared in response to the Ohio Senate's override of Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of a bill that bans transition-related medical care for transgender minors and restricts trans athlete...

Delia Brennan participating in a demonstration

In the spring, Delia Brennan, a Kent State University senior on-track to graduate in December, completed an internship at Hope & Healing Survivor Resource Center, a rape crisis center and battered women's shelter in Akron, serving Summit and Medina Counties. She provided emotional support through answering calls on their hotline and go...

Andrew Snyder, outreach program director and adjunct faculty member of Kent State University’s College of Public Health, is Principal Investigator for the Greater Cleveland LGBTQ+ Community Needs Assessment.

The Greater Cleveland LGBTQ+ Community Needs Assessment is a groundbreaking interorganizational initiative that aims to identify and address the most pressing needs of the LGBTQ+ community in Greater Cleveland.  The Greater Cleveland LGBTQ+ Community Needs Assessment is being led by Kent State University’s College of Public Health ...

LGBTQ+ Survey Results Released

A survey led by Kent State University's College of Public Health provided dozens of short- and long-term recommendations to improve the lives of LGBTQ+ people living in Greater Akron. In all, the survey noted more than 50 areas for improvement across nine categories. It offered straightforward recommendations such as a...

Front Campus, Architecture Building in the Back

From beginning the thesis process, to starting research, to the final oral defense and end results, students take approximately three semesters to complete a thesis in its entirety for the Senior Honors Thesis/Project. To have their project finalized and submitted to both the Honors College and OhioLINK, they must conduct an oral defe...

Dolores Noll, Ph.D., Kent State University Professor Emeritus of English and pioneer for LGBTQ rights and people, accepts the university’s inaugural Diversity Trailblazer Award in 2010.

Born five decades ago as the Kent Gay Liberation Front at Kent State University, PRIDE! Kent is the country’s oldest continuously operating LGBTQ student organizations. This campus organization owes its existence in large part to the boldness and courage of one person, Dolores Noll, Ph.D.  Noll came to Kent State in 1961 as an instru...

Andrew Snyder, research program coordinator for Kent State University’s College of Public Health, is leading the first comprehensive Greater Akron LGBTQ+ specific Community Needs Assessment.

Kent State University has partnered with Greater Akron community organizations to conduct the first comprehensive and specific LGBTQ+ Community Needs Assessment (CNA). Efforts of this assessment focus on producing a better-informed public health system and improving the health and well-being of the LGBTQ+ community members.  Thanks...

Dr. Dolores Noll, emeritus professor of English and pioneer for LGBTQ+ rights and people, received the Diversity Trailblazer Award in 2010.

It is with heavy and reverent hearts that we share news that Emeritus English Professor Dr. Dolores Noll, trailblazer and pioneer for LGBTQ+ rights and people, passed away at the age of 88 on January 8th. Dolores’s impact is seen today at Kent State University. In the 1970’s she cofounded the Kent Gay Liberation Front, currently known a...

Kent State University faculty, staff members and students took part in Saturday’s Equality March, which kicked off the inaugural Akron Pride 2017 event.

More than two dozen Kent State University faculty, staff members and students took part in Saturday’s Equality March, which kicked off the inaugural Akron Pride 2017 event. This is the first time the city of Akron has sponsored a Pride event, and the university participated as a sponsor for the day’s activities, which begin with the mar...