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IMAGE: Provided A native of Pennsylvania and 1983 graduate of the College of Agricultural Sciences, Conrad said his gift to the Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity was inspired by his lifetime journey as a gay man and by his dedication to supporting the LGBTQ+ community. As a first-generation student coming from a small, rural community, Conrad faced many challenges in his undergraduate experience, compounded by his experiences struggling with his sexuality and negative stigmas about the LGB...

Carmen Vázquez, a Force on L.G.B.T.Q. Issues, Dies at 72 Often outspoken, she was a fixture in advocacy groups in San Francisco and New York. She died of Covid-19. Carmen Vázquez was called “one of the most brilliant activists” in the L.G.B.T.Q. rights movement.Credit...National L.G.B.T.Q. Task Force Published Feb. 5, 2021Updated Feb. 12, 2021 This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others . It was 1996, and President...

by Frederica Mathewes-Green I collect bumper stickers. I keep a notepad on my dashboard, and when I spot a new one, I jot it down. I like bumper stickers because they’re such a curious form of communication. Necessarily brief, every word, even every letter, must count. They’re the Morse code of culture. Over the years I’ve seen a number of stickers that I’ve learned represent gay pride. There’s the Greek lambda symbol, the first letter of the word for homosexual. The...

Painting pictures of the past Tom Ellis spent much of his life in New York and Los Angeles as an activist supporting LGBTQ rights, and an artist. He returned to his hometown of Iola six years ago and is about half finished writing his autobiography. He has plenty of colorful stories to tell. Artist and activist Tom Ellis takes a break to smoke a hard-earned cigar. Photo by Trevor Hoag / Iola Register Tom Ellis has seen it all. An artist and activist all his life, th...