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Upset by what they see as unnecessary compromise, several members of Belmont’s LGBTQ organization Bridge Builders are planning on creating a new organization not connected to University Ministries. Sophomores Ryan Marquez and Adam Reid said that they feel that the organization’s current classification as a faith/sexuality organization is not very welcoming to the LGBTQ community at large and that Belmont only recognized Bridge Builders to appease angry students. “We want to m

A day before her convocation Wednesday detailing her experiences in Ferguson, Mo., the Rev. Dr. Pamela Lightsey presented a talk in the Massey Boardroom on a different subject entirely. As a black woman who identifies both as queer and as a Christian, Lightsey is imminently familiar with binaries which seem to be opposed, yet still somehow intersect. Binaries, in this case, is a word used to describe absolute, opposite categories, such as male/female, gay/straight, rich/poor,