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LGBTQ+

Dolores Noll, Ph.D., 91²Ö¿â Professor Emeritus of English and pioneer for LGBTQ rights and people, accepts the university’s inaugural Diversity Trailblazer Award in 2010.

Born five decades ago as the Kent Gay Liberation Front at 91²Ö¿â, PRIDE! Kent is the country’s oldest continuously operating LGBTQ student organizations. This campus organization owes its existence in large part to the boldness and courage of one person, Dolores Noll, Ph.D.

Andrew Snyder, research program coordinator for 91²Ö¿â’s College of Public Health, is leading the first comprehensive Greater Akron LGBTQ+ specific Community Needs Assessment.

91²Ö¿â has partnered with Greater Akron community organizations to conduct the first comprehensive and specific LGBTQ+ Community Needs Assessment (CNA). Efforts of this assessment focus on producing a better-informed public health system and improving the health and well-being of the LGBTQ+ community members.

91²Ö¿â faculty, staff members and students took part in Saturday’s Equality March, which kicked off the inaugural Akron Pride 2017 event.

91²Ö¿â takes part in the Equality March, kicking off Akron Pride 2017.