Involving ourselves in our Community!

There is a lot of "cred" given to artists and authors who create LGBTQ oriented media or who simply claim to be a member of the LGBTQ community. As with any minority group, members of our community generally like to support the efforts of other members of the community to strengthen and enhance all our lives. However, being a part of the LGBTQ community is more to Chris and myself than simply being a gay artist and a bisexual writer -- we involve ourselves in both online and face-to-face organizations to address LGBTQ concerns and issues today.  As we come from very different backgrounds both geographically and socially, our efforts seldom overlap, but when it comes to online community outreach we are of the same mind -- do all we can to get the word out and to support through networking.

With that in mind, I am spreading the word about a very ambitious project conceived by the Clemson Alumni Society for Equality. Our members have funded an annual scholarship for LGBTQ students each year through their generous donations, but we want something more permanent... something that will not be dependent upon the ebb and flow of donations over the long term. As such, we've created an endowment fund for the scholarship which would maintain the scholarship into perpetuity.

Our goal is to create a $50k endowment to support the scholarship, and we have managed to obtain commitments for over $22k in funding. Unfortunately, if we don't obtain a minimum of $25k in funding before the end of the 2015-2016 academic year, the endowment will be forfeit.

Please help fund our scholarship for LGBTQ students attending Clemson University and help us promote diversity support at one of the South's best public universities!