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Participants march during the 53rd Annual San Francisco Pride Parade and Celebration in San Francisco on Sunday, June 25, 2023.
Fresno State’s Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) program is offering students the opportunity to explore LGBTQ+ history in San Francisco from April 11-14.
The university will cover a shared hotel room with three students for three nights, an Amtrak round trip from Fresno to San Francisco and tickets to the Tenderloin History Walking Tour & Museum.
The four-day trip will provide an immersive educational experience for students. It will offer an opportunity to learn about the struggles and triumphs that have shaped the LGBTQ+ community.
“It was in San Francisco that our LGBTQ2+ community built community and resisted oppression,” said Dr. Kat Fobear of the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies program. “Students can immerse themselves in that history and see themselves as part of that legacy.”
Participants will stay in the Castro District, considered the heart of LGBTQ+ activism. Students will visit several key LGBTQ+ landmarks such as the San Francisco Public Library’s LGBTQ2+ Archive, the Tenderloin and the location of one of the first recorded LGBTQ+ uprisings: the 1966 Compton Cafeteria riots.
The trip is open to United Student Pride club members and students majoring or minoring in WGSS/LGBTQ2+ Studies. The deadline to sign up is Friday, Feb. 21.
“The LGBTQ+ History Tour of San Francisco is a unique opportunity for our United Student Pride club members and WGSS/LGBTQ2+ Studies majors/minors to learn about LGBTQ2+ history in a place that was the bedrock of the modern LGBTQ2+ rights movement,” Fobear told The Collegian.
For any questions, students can contact Dr. Kat Fobear at katherinefobear@mail.fresnostate.edu or call the WGSS Department at 559.278.2858.