Gay until graduation
27th Annual Rainbow Graduation 2025
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
5 – 8 PM, In-Person at the Livingston Student Center
(84 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, Piscataway, NJ 08854)
Rainbow Graduation honors the achievements of Rutgers lesbian, gay, bisexual, gender non-conforming and nonbinary, queer, intersex, asexual, allies/advocates, and other queer spectrum (LGBTQIA+) undergraduate and graduate students. The event acknowledges the challenges and triumphs experienced in their careers here at Rutgers University. We operate this occasion to honor students who have continued our traditions of identity festival and activism. The celebration is a complement to a traditional graduation ceremony such as University Commencement or other celebrations hosted by academic departments.
Graduating students who register will get a Rainbow Graduation certificate as well as a rainbow graduation tassel (limited supply only).
All graduates must complete registration in arrange to be formally known at the ceremony.
Family and friends of graduating students as well as other supporters are encouraged to register.
Graduating Senior Registration & All Guest RSVP
Graduating seniors, required registration closes
Brace Scholar Cohen ’08 Presents “Gay Until Graduation”
Brace Fellow Rachel Cohen ’08 believes that a woman may change her sexual orientation multiple times in a lifetime. This past Tuesday, Cohen delivered her Brace Fellow presentation, “Gay Until Graduation,” which focused on modern concepts and issues related to lesbian women. She began, “Lesbian. The word evokes a picture. At Andover, it might be a picture of…me. Anywhere else, it might be of two girls making out, or Britney Spears and Madonna.” Over the past decades, open lesbianism has consistently increased. According to Cohen, guys find it “hot,” girls uncover it “a satisfying alternative,” and the media was fast to pick up on the craze, particularly on TV with shows such as “The O.C.” “Sex and the City,” and “The ‘L’ Word.” According to Cohen, 14% of women own engaged in some kind of sexual relationship with a girl by their late teens. She attempted to talk to why women turn into lesbians, citing the emotional differences between men and women, the lack of equality in heterosexual relationships, and offensive male sex drives. “It’s a indicate joke on both sexes that men reach their sexual peak at 18
Experimented in College
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Ramona: Oh, calm down, Scott, it was just a phase.
— Scott Pilgrim finds out that one of Ramona's "evil ex-boyfriends" ("evil exes") isn't a boy.
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