Pride Alliance sponsors events to promote tolerance

According to Rachel Hoerger ’06, awareness chair of Pride Alliance, Coming Out Week is designed to celebrate and support all members of the LGBTQ community of Amherst, including those unaffiliated with the Pride Alliance. “The main function of Coming Out Week is to make queer students on campus, both those who are out and those who are not � feel comfortable on campus, feel accepted, recognize the pretty strong support system that we have both among students and with faculty and staff and resou