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People dance at a Pride month celebration hosted by Boston Pride For The People in June 2023. As Boston residents prepare for the city’s Pride month events, they also acknowledge the performative allyship of companies and organizations. TAYLOR COESTER/DFP FILE

Boston celebrates Pride month while weary of corporate support

Charlie Johnson June 14, 2024
As Boston recognizes Pride month in June, there is a cautious eye on how companies and organizations display support for the celebrations.
A LGBTQ flag hangs on a Boston University student’s wall. A Boston University task force released a report in 2018 with recommendations to make the University safer for its LGBTQ faculty and stuff. Three years later, several of the recommendations have yet to be implemented. LIBBY MCCLELLAND/DFP STAFF

Nearly three years later, many recommendations from BU LGBTQIA+ Task Force report have yet to be implemented

Tara Dave February 28, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic slowed the work of the task force down, but the Q-Center has been launched since.
Narek Sahakian / DFP Staff

Don’t Be a Hypocrite: New music? I forgive them for everything now

Viktoria Popovska September 9, 2021
Jumping onto the bandwagon to then ultimately recant everything you previously said isn’t the best option.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

OP-ED: Trans Emergency Fund is doing good work

Editors September 2, 2021
Pride Month came and went, but the work required for true trans liberation is not even close to being over.
Patrons at Club Café in Boston June 2018

LGBTQ+ organizations, bars reflect on importance of queer bars as they reopen

Divya Sood July 1, 2021
Organizations are working to provide community and safe spaces for queer people, especially in the wake of COVID-19.
The BU Out List webpage

BU Out List gives LGBTQ+ faculty and staff visibility, connection

Molly Farrar June 30, 2021
The List hopes to create a community for queer faculty and staff and provide support for queer students.
Plants of BU Instagram Account

New student-led Instagram account features plants and community

Molly Farrar May 16, 2021
@plants.of.bu shares plant tips, tricks and trivia while supporting the BIPOC and queer community.
Yvonne Tang/DFP STAFF

Let’s Talk About: Normalizing travelers overstepping their visas

Mayela Machribie Lumban Gaol April 21, 2021
It’s important to be respectful and adhere to your legal obligations to the country you’re visiting.
The Boston Public Library, a registered Boston landmark. A proposed update to the Massachusetts Constitution would extend landmark preservation privileges to buildings significant to Black and immigrant communities. CHLOE GRINBERG/ DFP FILE

Councilors call for expansion to City’s ‘landmark’ definition

Madison Mercado February 9, 2021
The change — proposed late January — would make it easier for sites significant to Boston’s Black and immigrant communities to be made city landmarks.
A message left by protesters in East Campus at Sunday night's sexual assault protest LILY KEPNER/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Campus Survivors holds sexual assault protest, demands University listen

Lily Kepner February 8, 2021
Nearly a month after BU junior Prisha Kumar’s second open letter condemning the University’s treatment of sexual assault was released to the public — after an initial letter written in June — Kumar and the other co-founders of the @campus.surviors Instagram account organized an on-campus protest, demanding a response from the administration.
Liz Feldman, a Boston University alumna and the executive producer of Netflix’s two-season television series “Dead to Me,” spoke virtually to BU students on Monday about diversity and creativity in the television industry. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Executive producer of ‘Dead to Me’ shares personal story behind television success

Kyla Denisevich December 10, 2020
The Netflix television series “Dead to Me" recently received approval to film a third season. Liz Feldman, creator and executive producer of the series, spoke to BU students via Zoom.
Boston University’s School of Social Work hosted a virtual panel on Nov. 17 to discuss health care equity in the United States and the responsibility of the Biden administration to tackle disparities in health care. CONNOR ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Social workers discuss health care inequalities on ‘vulnerable populations’ post-election

Connor Allen November 24, 2020
Boston University’s School of Social Work held a panel discussion Nov. 17 on health care equity in the United States and the steps that should be taken during the next four years.
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