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Murray community celebrates Pride

Gray Hawkins, Staff Writer September 23, 2024

Murray residents enjoyed a fun-filled day of LGBTQ+ pride festivities on Saturday, Sept. 21. Charlie Heeke, vice president of the Murray KY Pride board,...

Murray's pride festival begins tonight and will host events throughout the weekend.

Murray pride festival kicks off

Gray Hawkins, Staff Writer September 20, 2024

The Murray Pride festival kicks off tonight at 6 p.m., Corvette Lanes will host a family bowling night at 1415 Main St.  The festivities will resume...

Willie Carver's poetry book "Gay Poems for Red States" released in 2023 after Carver quit his job as a teacher.

Poet explores injustice and anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination in book

Gray Hawkins, Staff Writer April 25, 2024

Murray State’s latest guest author shared a glimpse into his life as a gay educator in the Appalachian south and the strong connection between queer...

'The Laramie Project' follows the aftermath of Matthew Shepard's, a gay college student, murder. Photo provided by R. Wayne Shields-Hogue.

‘The Laramie Project’ stresses importance of community acceptance

Gray Hawkins, Staff Writer March 7, 2024

This past weekend, the department of global languages and theatre arts presented “The Laramie Project,”  a true story of LGBTQ+ history, small-town...

The ADVANCE lecture will highlight LGBT+ support in STEM (Photo courtesy of ADVANCE).

ADVANCE set to host LGBT+ focused lecture

Jill Smith, Senior writer February 9, 2023

Murray State ADVANCE will welcome Ramon Barthelemy on Feb. 22 to present “Queering STEM: A History of the Queer Rights in the USA and LGBT+ Advocacy...

News Brief: Pride Center finds new home

News Brief: Pride Center finds new home

Jillian Smith, Staff Writer December 1, 2022

The Pride Center relocated its office to room N101 Oakley Applied Science to provide students with more space and better accessibility. “The number...

The Pride Center is located in Blackburn Science Building Room 243. (Dionte Berry/The News)

News Brief: Ally Hour serves to make campus more inclusive

Jill Smith, Staff Writer November 17, 2022

Ally Hour is a new initiative from the Pride Center that aims to collaborate with faculty and staff on campus to create safe spaces for LGBTQ+ students...

Alliance members voted Julian Lamson (left) and Jocie Pry (right) as their LGBT Prom royalty. (Photo courtesy of Julian Lamson).

LGBT Prom helps students create new memories

Ava Chuppe, Staff Writer November 17, 2022

Students gathered for the first in-person LGBT Prom event in three years in the Curris Center Small Ballroom on Thursday, Nov. 10. The event was held...

(Photo courtesy of Murray State)

Pride List highlights LGBT community on campus

July 12, 2021

Dionte Berry News Editor [email protected] As campus plans to return to normal operations for the fall semester, so does student life on campus....

Autumn Brown/The News ----for art work

University prepares for LGBT+ Pride Week

September 26, 2019

Iris Snapp Contributing Writer [email protected] For the second year in a row the Murray State LGBTQ+ community will celebrate Pride Week,...

Chick-fil-A celebrated its grand opening on campus on Sept. 25. (Richard Thompson/The News)

Chick-fil-A celebrates grand opening on campus

September 26, 2019

Daniella Tebib News Editor [email protected] Breanna Harris Contributing Writer [email protected] Chick-fil-A celebrated its grand...

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