Virginia Tech's annual Pride Week celebrates LGBTQ+ community

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Virginia Tech's annual Pride Week celebrates LGBTQ+ community

Ally Hessenius, news writer Apr 5, 2022 0

Virginia Tech’s Pride Week, an annual celebration of the LGBTQ+ community, began on Friday, April 1, and concludes on Sunday, April 10.

“Pride Week, simply put, is a weeklong series of events on the Virginia Tech campus meant to celebrate, educate and provide space and resources to the Virginia Tech community,” said Ashleigh “Bing” Bingham, the director of the LGBTQ+ Resource Center.

Pride Week takes place in April so that the Virginia Tech community can celebrate Pride within the academic calendar, since Pride Month takes place nationally in June.

The history of Pride Week at Virginia Tech stems from a point in time when the campus did not allow a place for LGBTQ+ students to gather. According to a piece in the Newman Library collective on LGBTQ+ history on campus, the first Gay Alliance group was approved in 1971 by the student constitutional affairs board, making it an official campus organization.

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