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By H Edwards 26’

H is both a Student Representative for the McMullen Museum and the Policy Coordinator for the Queer Governance Council (QLC) here at Boston College.

Creative minds in the Queer community are no secret. The Gender non-conforming community has always worked to transgress norms and signal to others their queerness and their differentness. This beauty is precisely what the Queer Leaders Council hopes to observe and cherish in the Boston College community. The Queer Leadership Council, formerly known as the GLBTQ+ Leadership Council, started Event Week with a re-naming of its council and ended Pride Week with a Queer film overnight at the McMullen Museum. 

Changing the name to comprise the word Queer was one of profound importance to the community at Boston College. As the primary student organization that exists for LGBTQ+ students, we have the responsibility of channeling a exercise and environment that cherishes unity, acceptance, and look after. QLC believes the identify GLC represents an inequitable centering of cisgender male students who identify as gay and a neglect of women and gender non-conforming students. Through this name change, we recenter the experiences of people of al