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Students take to Wescoe Beach to celebrate Bi Visibility Day
▶ HAILEY DIXON
@_hailey_dixon
The University's Center for Sexuality and Gender Diversity tabled on of Wescoe Beach, handing out buttons, flags and other information to let students know about their program.
n Friday, students celebrated Bi Visibility Day to raise awareness about the LGBTQ+ community on campus.
"Students from the LGBTQ+ community are invisible on this campus," said Chloe Secor, graduate
The center hopes to start a dialogue and encourage people to be proactive in supporting LGBTQ+ people on campus.
assistant for the Center for Sexuality and Gender Diversity. "We are getting their concerns heard this way."
"I think that's where we need to be right now, and bring opportunities to the LGBTQ+ community," Secor said.
LGBTQ+ history is celebrated through the month of October, and the last week of October is asexual awareness week.
Many students are glad that the University's programs hold events like the one on Friday.
The month of November is trans awareness.
Students from the LGBTQ+ community are invisible on this campus."
Chloe Secor Graduate assistant
graphic design, said that because they grew up in a small town, they like seeing people being open about the LGBTQ+ community at the University.
Sam Ritchie, a junior from Minneapolis studying
"Our society is so heteronormative," said Molly Kaup, a senior from Topeka studying linguistics. "I think it's important that individuals that fall out of the cisgender realm categories are able to show their pride."
—Edited by Chandler Boese
Andrea Ringgenberg/KANSAN Chloe Secor, right, and Carissa Johnson, left, celebrate Bi Visibility Day on Wesco Beach on Sept. 23.
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