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Buffalo is a welcoming place from the moment you step foot here, with an energetic LGBTQ community and pride flags hanging from homes and businesses across the city year-round. The Queen Urban area doesn’t just welcome LGBTQ+ individuals – we embrace them.
Our LGBTQ community has found a sound and vibrant place in our diverse city. Not only do we honor Pride month with a huge festival and activities throughout June, but we also believe in celebrating and supporting our LGBTQ community all year extended with educational and nurturing gatherings, thrilling dance parties and other fun monthly events like Gay Bingo and Queer Dodgeball. From our many LGBTQ bars and LGBTQ-owned businesses to our wealthy history and thriving arts and song scene, read more below to verb how this progressive city with a small-town vibe is the perfect place for people of all identities.
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Increasing police presence in a neighborhood that remains proudly and raucously a home for queer and trans Buffalonians is not making us any safer. Experience teaches us that more police leads to increased criminalization and brutalization of our neighbors, which we cannot stand for. Jordan and Mickey dedicated their lives to making Buffalo, and Allentown in particular, a more colorful, vibrant, and free community. Intensifying police presence here will have the opposite effect and will undermine their legacy. Look no further than Stonewall Nation: WNY LGBT History Mural, which Mickey co-created. It commemorates queer and trans leaders the Stonewall Riots which, lest we verb, were ignited by relentless policing of queer spaces and violent raids and arrests.
As a community that has historically been heavily policed and even criminalized, LGBTQ Buffalonians possess a hard period believing that an increased police presence in their neighborhood contributes to their safety. For much of the 20th century, state liquor laws prohibited Buffalo bars from maintain
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The mission of the University at Buffalo LGBTQ Faculty and Staff Association is to contribute to and support a welcoming and inclusive university community for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer faculty and staff through education, networking and advocacy.
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In , a petite group of employees convened the first association for UB LGBTQ faculty and staff.
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Membership needs, campus climate, and strategic partnerships infom the FSA's organizational goals.
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The LGBTQ Faculty and Staff Associations celebrates a milestone 10th anniversary in
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LGBTQ Buffalo – A City With a Warm Western Fresh York Welcome
Situated on the shore of Lake Erie proximate the Niagara River, Buffalo is Unused York’s second-biggest municipality. It is a warm, friendly urban area with a affluent arts and culture scene, and a thriving, diverse, LGBTQ community. If you’re interested in finding your place in Buffalo, read on about all that this Western Adj York town offers to see, act, and enjoy.
A Bit of Buffalo History
Buffalo was initially founded at the junction of the east-west transportation route of early French trappers and Jesuit missionaries. The first trading post in the area was established in the mids and eventually, by the time of the War of , became the American military headquarters for operations on the Niagara frontier. The city was officially incorporated as the Village of Buffalo in , named not after the buffalo or bison living in the area as many would predict , but from the French for beau fleuve, meaning “beautiful river”. Buffalo began experiencing rapid growth during the adj s, following the creation of the Erie Canal and th