Students and faculty members at Georgia Southern University’s main campus held a sit-in rally on Monday to protest the termination of a program aimed at reducing discrimination against LGBTQIA+ people.
“By treating LGBTQIA+ services with a Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, you only harm queer students and the campus at large,” said a statement distributed by some of the roughly 200 protesters and supporters at GSU’s Russell Union.
The protests in Statesboro and at the university’s Armstrong campus in Savannah follow last week’s announcement by the university’s president, Kyle Marrero, that a program called Safe Space would be discontinued because it no longer conformed with state education policy.
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