Student organization for LGBT community resurfaces at MCTC
Students involved in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community started a new student advocacy and outreach group, filling an absence of organizations dedicated to gay rights causes at MCTC.
The new group, PRIDE (People for Respect, Integrity, Diversity & Equality), has already planned its first event called “Erasing Hate.” Set for Tues., Oct. 12, from 2:30 to 4 p.m. in L.3000, students will participate in a community discussion about how to transform hate into values of compassion and tolerance.
The Matthew Shepard Foundation is coordinating similar community discussions across the country. The foundation’s namesake, Matthew Shepard, who was gay, was found beaten and tied to a fence unconscious in rural Wyoming. Shepard later died. As punishment, juries gave two young men, Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson, two consecutive life sentences for the bias-motivated murder of Shepard.
For more information about the community discussions can be viewed at www.matthewshepard.org/home/community-discussions. For more information about the event at MCTC, those interested can contact PRIDE’s advisor, KateLynn Hibbard, at (612) 659-6049.
