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Lavender Graduation 2010
Date: April 21, 2010 Time: 4:00 PM Location: Pere Marquette Room If you are graduating and interested in participating, please RSVP to: lgbtcenter@gvsu.edu Cultural Context Lavender Graduation is a cultural celebration that recognizes LGBT students of all races and ethnicities and acknowledges their achievements and contributions to the university as students who survived the college experience. Students look forward to this event not only because they share their hopes and dreams with one another, but also because they are officially recognized by the institution for their leadership, success and achievement. Historical Context Lavender Graduation began in 1995 at the University of Michigan in order to honor the accomplishments of LGBT and ally graduates. Ronni Sanlo, the director of the resource center at that time, decided that LGBT students needed their own graduation ceremony like that of other racial and ethnic minorities on campus. Since 1995, campuses across the country began to host their own Lavender Graduations to honor the accomplishments of LGBT graduates. Lavender is also important to LGBT history and culture, as it is a combination of pink and black: the colors of triangles gay men and lesbians, respectively, were required to wear as prisoners in Nazi concentration campus. The LGBT civil rights movement reclaimed these symbols of hatred to create a color of pride and community. |
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