Q. We have set up
a newsletter committee for our LGBT office but we need a name! Any
suggestions?
A.. Here are
names of newsletters that are produced at various campuses. Liberate
one of these for your own use or perhaps use these as inspiration
to come up with a unique name for your own campus newsletter.
UC Davis: "Rainbow Connection".
The monthly calendar that accompanies it is called 'On The QT'--
no knows exactly what the QT stands for--the best explanation so
far is "Queer Time."
U of Minnesota-Duluth: "The Pulse"
-- "it's our claim to consistent awareness and to have "the pulse
of the queer community at all times!"
Pennsylvania State University: "OutRider"
-- a term for a journalist or any person that is on the frontier
lands spreading the news.
Iowa State University: "The Set," but
no one in the student group can remember why that is the name. Perhaps
the name of their listserv would double as a newsletter name: QUOC
(Queers Unite On Campus).
Metropolitan State College of Denver: "Out
Around Campus".
Duke University: "Out Lines"
NYU: "QueeRead: By, For, and About
theNYU Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Ally Communities."
Univ. of Maryland College Park: "Queer View
Mirror"
Washington State University: "OutSpoken"
-- replaced their old newsletter, "Breaking the Silence."
Univ. of California -Riverside: "OUTLander,"
because we are the "UCR Highlanders," historically, also called
"Dish."
Univ. of California - San Diego: "The
Rainbow Newsletter."
Texas A&M University: "OUTtakes."
Other titles (campus not specified):
- "OUTburst"
- "Ten Percenters"
- "Out on Campus"
A suggestion by Shaun Travers: if you have something
that feels consistent with the way things are, or reinforces pre-existing
identifiers with your office/organization, go with that. It keeps
things simple, which makes things easier for everyone as far as
identification... "Oh that must be an LGBT publication..."
Compiled by David
Barnett, based on contributions to campusdir-l from Allison
Subasic, Nancy Jean Tubbs, Shaun Travers, Christina Gonzalez, Melynda
Huskey, Luke Jensen, Lee Swain, Kerry Poynter, Karen Bensen , Johnny
D. Rogers, Erik Malewski, and Angela Nichols
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