A group of 18 students from schools across Fresno State were hooded with rainbow banners today in a first for Fresno State: a lesbian, gay, bi, transgender and questioning graduation ceremony.
“I was really inspired because I noticed a lot of openly gay people, but we didn’t have a ceremony of our own, a reception of our own,” says Curtis Ortega with Fresno State’s United Student Pride Club. “We were kind of there as openly gay students, but I felt we needed our own expression and graduation ceremony.”