Article: Stanford Queer Awareness days begin

Ilena C. George
University Wire
04-16-2003
(The Stanford Daily) (U-WIRE) STANFORD, Calif. -- Wednesday, Queer Awareness Days begins with silence at Stanford University.

"We're kicking off QuAD this year with National Day of Silence, an annual national event which has been growing in size since 1996," said sophomore Adam Forest, a staff member at the Lesbian / Gay / Bisexual / Transgender Community Resource Center. "Participating students on campus will be wearing NDOS T-shirts and will attempt to remain silent for the day in an effort to mark the silence forced upon the LGBT community by a largely unaccepting cultural climate."

Participants and organizers feel QuAD is an important way to ...

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