Beyond black and white

Caitlin Price / Staff Writer
Ashley Luthern / For The Post
The Post
Athens, Ohio

When Cory Frederick’s mother dressed Cory in a pink, yellow and blue Easter jumper as a kid, she knew that look didn’t fit her child’s character. Cory “looked like a pumpkin” and knew it didn’t fit, either.

After a 10-year transformation, Cory transitioned from the little girl in the jumper to his current masculine identity.

Cory Frederick, an Ohio University junior geology major, is a transgendered person, one of several on campus that comprise the “T” in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender — LGBT — community.

Frederick and other members of the LGBT community on campus and their allies will hold an informational program called Trans 101: Understanding the “T,” as part of Pride Week at 8 tonight in Baker 354.

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Mark Moffett Jr. GLBTQ Scholarship Fundraising Concert

Tonight the Ohio State University is having their second annual concert to raise endowment funds for a scholarship given to GLBTQ music majors. The scholarship is named in memory of the late classical pianist who lived and worked in New York and Columbus.

Featuring faculty, students and alumni from the OSU School of Music.

OU finds itself among most gay-friendly campuses

In 2006 LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) professionals and academics working with a national non-profit called Campus Pride compiled a list of America's top LGBT-friendly campuses. The list included Ohio University, putting the school on the map for potential students and faculty seeking an academic institution with a vibrant queer social and activist community.

According to many students, OU has definitely earned this reputation, but that doesn't mean the situation here is picture-perfect.

Students say there are bound to be bad apples when so many young people from different backgrounds live and learn in once place.

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