Love, Hope, and Listening: An Oral History of LGBTQ Topics and Responses at Hope College

The intent of this project is to provide the Hope College community with an informative compilation of documents and interview testimonies about LGBTQ topics on campus over the years. The local collection of archived reports, nonfiction books, student projects, and newspaper articles covering LGBTQ topics would benefit from a current addition. There is not a readily available resource that references all of these genres of information, as my project intends to do. Such an addition would have a two-fold purpose: first, to refresh the campus’s memory of Hope College\u27s LGBTQ history and, secondly, to record current perspectives on LGBTQ people and realities at Hope