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Coming Out Day
Celebrated at UVM

Liza Kuney & Deborah Lashman

Members of The University of Vemiont community held a two day celebration honoring
National Coming Out Day. Educational and festive events were advertised with bright,
bold banners, balloons, and buttons visible across the campus, imploring the University
community to make campus a safe space for all lesbian, gay, and bisexual people.

The celebration started with a full-page signature—sponsored proclamation in The Cynic
(the UVM student newspaper) on October 10th, bearing witness to hundreds of friends,
allies, and members of the lesbian, gay, and bisexual community. Posters, banners and
pink balloons proclaimed the events and added to the celebratory air of the occasion. Ex-
hibits celebrating and explaining Coming Out Day were set up in the student center and in
the UVM library.

An open mike session on the evening of the 10th, invited local speakers and singers to
share their stories of coming out with the university community. Among the speakers
were Howdy Russell, therapist and former state senate candidate, Dot Brauer, director of
OUTRIGHT, Gene Barfield of the Vermont Chapter of Lesbian & Gay Veterans of
America, Tom Aloisi of GLBA, and Deborah Lashman, editor of Out in the Mountains.
Tammy Maltzan, of the UVM Department of Residential Life, spoke last describing how
“for at least one person on this campus we have made UVM a safe place.” The evening
ended with the singing of We Are a Peaceful Angry People, the Holly Near song that has
become an anthem for the lesbian and gay community.

The following day, Coming Out Day, the north lounge of the student center was filled
with literature tables, videos, and panel discussions on being gay or lesbian in Vermont
and at UVM. The day ended with a Coming Out Day Dance in Billings Hall, sponsored
by GLBA.

The events were sponsored by the UVM Wellness Promotion Program of the Student
Health Center, Student Association, Gay, Lesbian, & Bisexual Alliance (GLBA), Student
Affairs, Orientation & Parent Relations, Psychology Department, Counseling & Testing

Center, Cooperative Christian Ministry, Department of Residential Life, Career Develop-

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