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Mo Heart, a drag queen from season 10 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, performs her first set of the night at the drag
show. 
PHOTO: LUKE SANELLI ’26/THE HAWK

‘It’s so good to see queerness free’

Liv Bielawski ’27 and Sophia Galante ’26 April 24, 2024
Annual drag show provides sense of community
graphic of an LGBTQIA+ pride flag with text reading "Beyond the Binary"

Inclusion doesn’t ‘stop at the bathroom’

Allie Miller April 17, 2024
Trans inclusion advocacy group works to increase all-gender bathrooms on campus
graphic of an LGBTQIA+ pride flag with text reading "Beyond the Binary"

‘Pioneers of fashion’

Allie Miller, Editor-in-Chief April 10, 2024
LGBTQIA+ members signify identity by clothing choices
group photo of The cast of “She Kills Monsters” poses after performing on their opening night, April 4

Last ACT: Elements of Theater group take their final bows

Gavin Kuebler April 10, 2024

Elements of Theater, a University City-based club, hosted its final show, “She Kills Monsters,” April 6 and 7 before retiring the club at the end of the academic year due to most UCity undergraduate...

Katie MacTurk ’09, M.S. ’11 and Megan MacTurk ’09 with their children.
PHOTO: TARA BETH PHOTOGRAPHY/COURTESY OF MEGAN MACTURK ’09

Hawkmate heteronormativity raises inclusion concerns

Hannah Pajtis February 21, 2024

While the university’s Feb. 4 Hawkmates Mass was a celebration for some, for others it was a painful reminder of how LGBTQIA+ couples who also met at St. Joe’s are not always included in such events. At...

graphic of an LGBTQIA+ pride flag with text reading "Beyond the Binary"

‘St. Joe’s saved my life’: Supportive community sparks alum’s writing career

Allie Miller February 14, 2024

When David Jackson Ambrose, M.A. ’15 graduated from St. Joe’s Writing Studies Program after already having a career in social work, he had no idea what lay ahead. He didn’t expect this future:...

graphic of an LGBTQIA+ pride flag with text reading "Beyond the Binary"

Chest binding helps student feel at home in their body

Allie Miller February 7, 2024

I have spent much of my life simultaneously loving and hating that my large chest is the first thing many people notice about me. After coming out as bisexual in 2021 and changing my pronouns...

graphic of an LGBTQIA+ pride flag with text reading "Beyond the Binary"

2023 marks 50-year anniversary of removal of homosexuality from disorders handbook

Allie Miller December 6, 2023

Fifty years ago this year, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) made a historic decision to remove homosexuality from the second edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders...

Allie Miller ’24 on 13th Street Oct. 20.
PHOTO COURTESY OF ALLIE MILLER ’24/THE HAWK

‘Deep-seated racism in the Gayborhood’

Allie Miller November 29, 2023
Neighborhood history ignores queer people of color
Rebecca Fisher, co-founder of Beyond the Bell Tours, guiding a tour in front of Philly AIDS Thrift @ Giovanni’s Room.
PHOTO: KELLY SHANNON ’24/THE HAWK

Tour showcases untold stories of LGBTQIA+ community in Philadelphia

Kiley O'Brien November 15, 2022

The Center for Inclusion and Diversity (CID) partnered with Beyond the Bell Tours on Nov. 12 to offer St. Joe’s students an educational tour about the history of the LGBTQIA+ community in the Gayborhood...

A table with selected archive items from the Unity Month exhibit on the first floor of Post Learning Commons.
PHOTO: KELLY SHANNON ’24/THE HAWK

The Alliance celebrates three decades at St. Joe’s with Unity Month exhibit 

Allie Miller October 18, 2022

An exhibit titled “Celebrating 30 Years of the Alliance,” a faculty and staff LGBTQIA+ support group, opens Oct. 21 in the Post Learning Commons. The exhibit includes t-shirts, posters, pins and...

HB1557 attacks LGBTQIA+ youth

HB1557 attacks LGBTQIA+ youth

The Hawk Staff March 30, 2022

How the “Don’t Say Gay” bill is harmful Florida Bill HB1557, “Parental Rights to Education,” dubbed by critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill,  was signed into law on March 28 by...

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