(4/4) We are grateful to the donors who supported this initiative and proud of the students who turned an evening of placement and a day of conversation into an act of courage and visibility.
(3/4) That is part of the project. Visibility makes LGBTQ+ presence undeniable. It also makes visible the resistance to that presence. Both realities clarify why this work matters.
(2/4) And on Yik Yak (an anonymous social media platform) the response unfolded as we expected. Some students wrote that the flags made their day. Others posted hostility.
Monday night Queer Memory Project students placed 500 Pride flags across campus. They were distributed along walkways, inside classrooms. Some at heights that required creativity & commitment. The strategy was deliberate. Visibility is about presence embedded in everyday life. Everywhere. (1/4)
Big news from the Queer Memory Project! Student research has led to our first major breakthrough: identifying an alum of the UE who worked on one of our AIDS Memorial Quilt panels.
Interview plans are underway. More to come.
Visibility as protest. Presence as power.
Digging through old issues of The Crescent, students found one of the earliest mentions of queer life at UE. In the 1980s, what had long been invisible started to appear in print.
Meet the changemakers! This semester’s Queer Memory Project team is uncovering LGBTQ+ history at UE through archives, memories, and stories. Stay tuned as their work unfolds.
When symbols of queer life are painted over, it’s not just images that disappear. It’s an attempt to erase queer presence. But memory resists erasure. It lives in stories, archives, and the work of students today.
In the 1990s, UE students stitched panels for the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Now a new generation is uncovering LGBTQ history at UE — building toward a 2027 homecoming when the quilt panels return. Where queer history, student voices, and justice meet.
