Pride Month is the latest casualty in higher education’s broad retreat from political controversy, at least at some institutions.
While numerous colleges and corporations blasted out messages supportive of the LGBTQ+ community on social media and held related events at the beginning of June, a few others quietly distanced themselves. Several posted and then deleted Pride Month messages on social media. Others have dropped out of local Pride events or issued directives preventing LGBTQ+ Pride flags from flying on campus.
Those moves come amid heightened scrutiny of the LGBTQ+ community under the Trump administration as well as new state laws and system policies that restrict colleges from weighing in on issues such as gender and sexuality. In the last two years, more institutions have adopted institutional neutrality policies.
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