UMass Boston Held ‘Lavender Graduation’ Featuring Drag Performers
“Our mission includes raising awareness about issues impacting gender and sexual minority communities while promoting understanding, inclusivity, and allyship across campus”
Separate graduation ceremonies for certain identity groups are embraced by the left, but the very idea of it flies in the face of civil rights.
Campus Reform reports:
UMass Boston Lavender Graduation to feature drag performers, celebrate ‘pride’
The University of Massachusetts Boston celebrated its segregated graduation ceremony for LGBT-identifying students with drag performances this month.
On Monday, the university’s Queer Student Center promoted the “Lavender Graduation” ceremony, scheduled for May 13, in an Instagram post.
“Let’s celebrate our LGBTQ+ graduates with drag performances, delicious food, and a night filled with pride,” the center writes in the post. “[D]on’t forget to bring your pride!”
UMass Boston has hosted its “Lavender Graduation” for the past several years, as Campus Reform has reported.
According to its web page, the Queer Student Center is “dedicated to the educational, social, and personal growth of gender and sexual minority students at UMass Boston.”
“Our mission includes raising awareness about issues impacting gender and sexual minority communities while promoting understanding, inclusivity, and allyship across campus,” it continues.
This semester, the center has hosted events on “Transgender Day of Visibility,” “LGBTQ+ Day of Celebration” and “Story Circle: Shared Journeys of Identity and Growth.”
Many universities host identity-based graduation ceremonies to conclude the academic year.
UC Davis is sponsoring a ceremony next month for students who identify as part of the “African diaspora.”
“This graduation is different from the UC Davis colleges’ commencement, as it is a culturally relevant and inclusive ceremony celebrating the Black community,” a description says.
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Who the hell pays for these separate graduations. U Mass is a state school. I’d say cut their budget but it is MA.
How many alphabet people with diplomas in real subjects and with real free-market job prospects participated in the lavender ceremony?
I know I would not have in my day, even though my course of study was nonsense, (telecommunications)
How Jim Crow of them – separate but equal.
There’s a difference. The alphabet crowd demanded it.
Does anyone else understand that the assault on segmented groups, ceremonies and celebrations will result in a bland homogenization of everything?
Maybe not allowing them in publicly funded entities is acceptable, but the insertion of “everyone is to be treated exactly the same way regardless of *any* circumstance” is an infringement on rights of association and the ability of a person to choose who (s)he wishes to associate with or not associate with.
Should private associations be forced to admit those who don’t share its principles or goals? Just wondering.
Identity groups have the right to association, but no right to subsidization. As long as they completely pay their own way, they can be as crazy and degenerate as they wish.