Creating Change | Forty Years of LGBTQ Activism at the University of Oregon

Creating Change: Forty Years of LGBTQ Activism at the University of Oregon

2012 marks the twentieth anniversary of the Standing Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Concerns at the University of Oregon. The standing committee...

Gay Blue Jeans Day

Blue Jeans Day is celebrated on college and university campuses across the country as a way to promote equal rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual,...

Gay Student Life on the UO Campus

The first gay organization at the University of Oregon was the Gay People’s Alliance (GPA), founded in 1969, the year of the New York...

Randy Shilts

Award-winning journalist and writer of several books about gay and lesbian life, Randy Shilts (1951–1994) graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree...

The First Openly Gay Person Elected President of the ASUO

By all known accounts, Lynn Pinckney was the first openly gay student to have been elected president of a student body in the United...

David Funk

David Funk, a student leader of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance (GALA) during the mid-1980s, recognized the importance of resources for University of Oregon...

Presidential Task Force

In 1989, an openly gay man ran for student body president of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon (ASUO). During his campaign,...

LGBTQ Life on Campus Today

Today, the University of Oregon has been recognized nationally as one of the Top 25 LGBT-friendly campuses in the United States and was most...