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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


The It Gets Better Project promotes activism to inspire struggling LGBT youth. A new Feinberg study has found psychological distress in LGBT adolescents indeed decreases as they age.

Feinberg study shows ‘It gets better’ for LGBT youth

February 19, 2015

For struggling LGBT adolescents, activist and writer Dan Savage and a host of celebrities have promised, “It gets better.” The idea was supported by a recent Feinberg School of Medicine study,...

Norris University Center officials announced in July the building’s third floor multi-stall bathrooms would be converted to gender-open bathrooms. However, University spokesman Al Cubbage said all the new gender-open bathrooms will be single-person bathrooms.

Northwestern plans to create more gender-open bathrooms

September 18, 2014

Northwestern will increase the number of gender-open bathrooms on campus, with two slated to open this month and more planned for buildings currently in renovation. The restrooms, which the University...

Devin Moss, the director of the LGBT Resource Center, left Northwestern last month after working at the University for nearly two years. Moss served as the first full-time employee of the Resource Center.

Devin Moss leaves NU, LGBT Resource Center after nearly two years

August 7, 2014

During his first year on campus, Devin Moss heard one message repeated over and over again: LGBT students exist at Northwestern, but they lack a community that brings them together. So Moss made it...

Swimmer Michael Holtz addresses students at Annenberg Hall Thursday night. Rainbow Alliance sponsored the talk by Holtz, who is openly gay, as its Spring Speaker.

LGBT activist and swimmer talks personal acceptance, LGBT athletes

May 8, 2014

More than 30 individuals gathered on Thursday to hear Michael Holtz, an openly gay swimmer and LGBT activist, talk about the “reinventions” in his life and LGBT issues in athletics. Holtz, who...

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