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Spectrum is a registered student organization of Kellogg Community College for LGBTQ+ students and our allies.

The mission of Spectrum is to promote acceptance and understanding in our community through education.

04/20/2026

Congratulations to our winners this year!!! The champions in the most competitive of sports: hot wheels bowling ball, paper plane design, long distance jumping, and starburst to mouth transfer. Truly the pride of our country.

02/22/2026

Some fun from our time at Boost! It was lovely to meet and talk to so many people. If you met US and enjoyed it you can always meet us again by coming to our meetings on Tuesdays 👀.

03/28/2025

We hope to see you there!
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤍🤎

10/11/2022

Hello bruins! Happy national coming out day! Instead of spotlighting a single person, we at spectrum would like to acknowledge that not everyone is ready to come out yet, and this day is dedicated to them!

Please never put someone without their permission, and never pressure someone into coming out.

Lots of love bruins!
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤

10/10/2022

Happy 10th day of ! Today we will be talking about Harvey Milk!

Harvey Bernard Milk was an American politician and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Milk was born and raised in New York where he acknowledged his homosexuality as an adolescent, but chose to pursue sexual relationships with secrecy and discretion well into his adult years. His experience in the counterculture of the 1960s caused him to shed many of his conservative views about individual freedom and the expression of sexuality.

Harvey milk served nearly a year in office before being assassinated by former city supervisor Dan White. During his time in office, Harvey Milk made countless advances towards civil rights and equality, including a bill banning discrimination in public accommodation, of which Dan White was the only vote against it.
Milk was posthumously awarded the presidential medal of freedom by President Obama in 2009, and later in the year, California governor at the time Arnold Schwarzenegger designated May 22 as Harvey Milk Day and inducted Milk in the California Hall of Fame.

10/09/2022

Hey bruins! October nine is dedicated to Andy Warhol! Warhol was an iconic painter who rose to fame during the 50’s and 60’s, and is well known for painting the Campbell soup can and Marylin Diptych. He was also a filmmaker and sculptor. Andy Warhol himself admitted he was gay, and had many male lovers throughout his life. He often made paintings and art of the naked male figure.
In response to being called too flamboyant Warhol stated the following:
"There was nothing I could say to that. It was all too true. So I decided I just wasn't going to care, because those were all the things that I didn't want to change anyway, that I didn't think I 'should' want to change ... Other people could change their attitudes but not me".

10/07/2022

Hey bruins! It’s the final day of the first week of LGBTQ+ history month and we’d like to spotlight Gilbert Baker!
Baker is most well known for designing the modern day pride flag in 1978, refusing to claim it as a copyright as he wanted everyone to have access to it. The museum of modern art in New York City now claims it is one of the most universally recognized symbols along with the Creative Commons logo and the recycling symbol.
In 2003 to celebrate the 25 year anniversary of its creation, Baker created the largest pride flag in the world at the time. It spanned from the Gulf of Mexico to the western keys of Florida in the Atlantic coast. Baker was also a veteran, activist, artist, and drag queen which went by a fitting name: B***y Ross.

10/06/2022

Hey bruins! Today is the sixth day of LGBTQ+ History month! As we near the end of our first full week, I’d like to spotlight a very influential person, Amelio Robles Ávila! Amelio was a a transgender colonel during the Mexican revolution from 1911-1948, and received many honors for his service, including the Mexican Legion of Honor, and the Revolutionary Merit Award.
His gender identity was excepted by his family, society, and the Mexican government. It was told that if anyone referred to Ávila as the female title ‘Doña’, he would threaten them with his pistol.
Amelio lived a relatively untortured life due to the widespread acceptance of his identity, and passed away of old age in 1989.

10/05/2022

It’s October 5th! For this day in LGBTQ history month we chose the world renowned mathematician l Alan Turing for our spotlight today!
Turing is best known for cracking the enigma code during WWII, one big reason the allied forces were able to push back the axis powers.
Turing is also known as the father of artificial intelligence, with his work on the subject being the earliest known experimentation in the field. In 1952 Alan Turing was put on trial by the British government for ‘homosexual acts,’ and was sentenced with forced chemical castration. Turing died only two years later due to cyanide poisoning. His death was ruled a su***de, but could also have been accidental.

It took the British government a further 49 years after his death to pardon Alan Turing of his criminal charges.
The British government then took his case as precedent in pardoning a further 50,000 individuals of charges for homosexuality under what is now called the Turing Law.
Would Turing have lived a full life, who knows what technical advances humanity would have made with his genius?

10/04/2022

It’s the fourth day of LGBTQ+ history month, and today we will be covering American writer and activist James Baldwin!
Author of duck works as “Go Tell it on the mountain”, and “Giovanni’s Room”, Baldwin often had main characters in his works that were openly gay or bisexual.
Not only was Baldwin an accomplished writer, winning six different awards and honors within the span of two decades, James Baldwin was also a civil rights activist who worked with both Martin Luther King jr. And Malcolm X on different projects. Though he wasn’t openly out as gay to anyone, James had written so much about sexuality that the question of his being gay is really more of a heavily implied answer. Baldwin’s legacy of lgbtq writing and activism is still seen today, with many scholarships and awards being named after him, and his quotes being used as rallying cries during the 2020 George Floyd protests. “You cannot change what you do not face.” -James Baldwin

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