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Student Life & Arts

Drew Celebrates Trans Day of Visibility and Empowerment

April 11, 2021April 11, 2021

Wed., March 21 was International Trans Day of Visibility, a day meant to celebrate transgender, non-binary and gender non-conforming  people and raise awareness of the discrimination and issues that the trans community…

Opinions

The Great Thing About Love, Simon

April 20, 2018April 20, 2018

By Diana Karamourtopoulos SPOILER ALERT! If you haven’t seen “Love, Simon” then go see it, right now. “Love, Simon” is a win for the LGBTQ+ community, providing them with much needed representation…

Conversion Therapy is the Real Issue to be Fixed

February 9, 2018February 9, 2018

By Kassel Franco Garibay Every single person that identifies as LGBTQ has a different story. These stories all tend to include a process of coming to terms with the fact that they…

Politics

Candidates Make History in 2017 Election

November 17, 2017November 17, 2017

by Michael McCurry The 2017 elections provided big wins for the Democratic Party. With the victories of Phil Murphy in the New Jersey Governor race and Ralph Northam in the hotly contested…

Lead Editorial

Why National Coming Out Day is a Straight Holiday

October 13, 2017October 13, 2017

Coming Out is a dangerous and detrimental social construct created by and for the pleasure of straight people. National Coming Out Day is a cheap and shallow opportunity for self-declared allies to…

Student Life & Arts

LGBT History Month at Drew

October 13, 2017October 13, 2017

by Brittany Greve, Contributing Writer LGBT History Month is a month-long annual observance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history and the history of the gay rights movements. But here at Drew,…

LGBT Rights

February 3, 2017February 3, 2017

By T.J. Chiang I hope that this piece will offer some hope in light of recent events. It seems that Trump won’t do anything to strip LGBT rights away, yet, as demonstrated…

The Forest Celebrates LGBT History Month: Student Government shows strong interest in re-forming “The Alliance”

October 21, 2016February 3, 2017

By Aliyah Rose Kiesler Drew’s Student Government has recently received a large amount of negative feedback regarding the lack of any form of GSA or LGBTQ+ Alliance groups on campus despite Drew’s…

The Importance of Words

October 21, 2016October 20, 2016

By Hannah Kohn   On Wednesday, three events took place which I only later realized were related. I went to the “Fireside Chat with Sam Killerman,” an LGBTQ* advocate and educator. One…

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The Drew Acorn is Drew University’s student-run newspaper. Established in 1928, the Acorn covers campus life and news, as well as events in Madison and the surrounding area that are of interest to our student body. If you’re interested in writing for the Acorn, get in touch at thedrewacorn@gmail.com, or join on path.drew.edu.

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