by Kevin Roberts, ’13 + Alex Kindel, ’14
Organizing for Queer Coalition is undoubtedly one of the most important political and social responsibilities one could fulfill as a student for the queer community at Stanford along with working at the LGBT-CRC, being a QVSO leader, or just being an ally or out and proud LGBTQ person on staff in any dorm or in one’s day to day life—along with a host of other things. However, it is also, like most of those other positions, an exercise in patience and perseverance. I jokingly say that during the weeks leading up to ASSU election season I feel more saliently LGBTQ than any other time of the year because I get the honor of interviewing candidate after candidate who is misinformed, uninformed, or simply ignorant about LGBTQ identity and the diversity between the lived experiences that LGBTQ people face on campus. I also become greatly fatigued though because, even at Stanford—which I have had candidate after candidate remind me is a “really good place to be gay,” there still is much to do concerning the lives of LGBTQ people so that we can have access to equality and freedom between our heterosexual and/or cisgendered peers. Continue reading
