{"id":67198,"date":"2017-10-03T15:13:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T01:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=67198"},"modified":"2020-03-13T12:56:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T22:56:09","slug":"hilo-lgbtq-center-one-year-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/10\/03\/hilo-lgbtq-center-one-year-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo <abbr title=\"Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer\/Questioning, and others\">LGBTQ+<\/abbr> Center celebrates one-year anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_67227\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67227\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hilo-lgbtq-anniversary2.jpg\" alt=\"Smiling women standing at a counseling center table\" width=\"676\" height=\"451\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hilo-lgbtq-anniversary2.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hilo-lgbtq-anniversary2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67227\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo senior Kimiko Taguchi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67226\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67226\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hilo-lgbtq-anniversary1-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"a smiling woman sitting at a Title IX table\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-67226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hilo-lgbtq-anniversary1-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hilo-lgbtq-anniversary1.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo senior Kimiko Taguchi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/studentaffairs\/lgbtq\/\"><abbr title=\"lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual, queer, and others\">LGBTQ&#43;<\/abbr> Center<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> celebrated its one-year anniversary in September with a Rainbow Sherbet Social at the Campus Center Plaza. All students and faculty were welcome to this event, which included rainbow sherbet, music, a slideshow featuring pictures of previous events and conversation.<\/p>\n<p>The focus of the celebration was &ldquo;what it means to be an ally.&rdquo; Everyone who showed up to the third-floor Campus Center event was asked to sign in and write down on a strip of paper how allies can help to improve the issues faced by the <abbr>LGBTQ&#43;<\/abbr> community.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67228\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67228\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hilo-lgbtq-anniversary3-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"Four women sitting at a table for the women\u02bbs center\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-67228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hilo-lgbtq-anniversary3-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hilo-lgbtq-anniversary3.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo senior Kimiko Taguchi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the first year since its creation, the <abbr>LGBTQ&#43;<\/abbr> center has hosted and participated in many events on campus including Hilo Pride Parade, the social justice film series, and Coming Out Day. These events were a great success for the center, with large numbers of students and community members in attendance. As a result, the <abbr>LGBTQ&#43;<\/abbr> community was able to spread awareness and create a more inclusive community.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;<abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo <abbr>LGBTQ&#43;<\/abbr> Center is committed to creating a campus that honors and celebrates diversity regardless of sex, race, gender, or gender identity,&rdquo; says <strong>Laura Sherwood<\/strong>, the center\u2019s coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the event and the <abbr title=\"lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual, queer, and others>LGBTQ&#43;<\/abbr> Center at <a href=\"http:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/news\/stories\/2017\/09\/29\/uh-hilo-lqbtq-center-celebrates-one-year-anniversary-with-events-and-trainings\/\"><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo Stories<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;A <em><a href=\"http:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/news\/stories\/\"><abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo Stories<\/a><\/em> article written by <strong>Jamie Josephson<\/strong>, a public information intern in the Office of the Chancellor.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Susan Enright<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The focus of the celebration was &ldquo;what it means to be an ally.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":67227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[690,14,907],"class_list":["post-67198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-lgbtq","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-hilo-stories","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hilo-lgbtq-anniversary2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67198"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113585,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67198\/revisions\/113585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}