Campus To Celebrate LGBT Diversity Week

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) population at California State University, Long Beach, is changing.

These days, the campus has more LGBT people of color, more LGBT people with disabilities, more transgender people and more LGBT women, according to Kirstyn Chun, staff psychologist at CSULB’s counseling center and faculty advisor to the LGBT Resource Center. Over the last two years, Chun said she also has noticed growing visibility among LGBT students and faculty in general.

These changes and others are what the LGBT Resource Center hopes to address when it sponsors LGBT Diversity Week 2008 from Monday through Thursday (April 14-17). The series of events are aimed at highlighting diversities among the LGBT community, such as gender/gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, spirituality, immigration status and socio-economic status.

“A lot of times when people talk about diversity, they’ll focus on racial and ethnic diversity and not other kinds of diversity,” Chun said. It is the second year that the LGBT  See Campus To Celebrate LGBT Diversity Week
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