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Thank you for your donation to last year's National Coming Out Day scholarship campaign! With your generosity, we were able to award a record number of 19 scholarships and are hoping to award even more next year! This year's campaign is off and running and we are hoping to raise $30,000 towards additional student scholarships. If you are able to make a gift this year, please visit our 2023 campaign page at https://buckeyefunder.osu.edu/project/38662.
If you’ve already made your gift, thank you so much for your continued support!
Thank you, again, and GO BUCKS!
Kristina Toliver
President, Scarlet and Gay Alumni Society
Thank you for supporting the National Coming Out Day 2022 campaign for scholarships! Thanks to you we passed our goal and look forward to providing even more scholarships for students in the coming years.
Please watch a special message from The Ohio State University's First Lady Veronica Meinhard.
Thank you,
Kristina Toliver
President, Scarlet and Gay
National Coming Out Day (NCOD) was founded by Robert Eichberg and Jean O’Leary, Gay Rights Advocates in Los Angeles in 1988. The goal was to highlight the act of “coming out” as an activist, basic form of political expression. Believing that homophobia reflects ignorance and that once people realized that their friends, colleagues, family members were lesbian or gay, that homophobic views would diminish. They chose October 11 of every year since it is the anniversary of the 1987 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.
The first notice of NCOD in the Ohio State Lantern appeared on Thursday, October 11, 1990 and it appears here. Yet as early as 1989, LGBTQ students were chalking the sidewalks near Lincoln and Morrill towers to announce NCOD and drew protests covered in the Lantern.
Over the years, the awareness campaign has been led by various groups and offices across the university including the former GLBTSS (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Student Services Office). For last 15 years, Scarlet & Gay: The OSU LGBTQ Alumni Society has underwritten the costs to print the ad primarily through individual contributions and Offices and Organizations.
Thank you to everyone that has supported! In honor of our last day of the campaign and National Coming Out Day, please share with your networks! Let's see how many $10.11 donations we can get today in to celebrate NCOD!
Thank you for your support.
Sincerely,
Kristina Toliver
President, Scarlet and Gay
Thank you to all who have donated to our campaign to raise money for student scholarships! We have hit our goal and are looking to surpass it! We appreciate your kindness and generosity and would like you to meet another one of our scholarship recipients so you can see the impact of your donations! Please meet Olivia Baker and hear her story about how her scholarship helped her focus on the research that she is passionate about in her major of Sociology!
Thank you!
Sincerely,
Kristina Toliver
President, Scarlet and Gay Alumni Society
Thank you for all of the generous donations we have received so far! We are currently at 41% to our goal - almost halfway there!
To our alumni that have donated, a special thank you. We appreciate you giving back to your alma mater and for helping our current Buckeyes thrive during their time at Ohio State. As Jacob says, "Once a Buckeye, always a Buckeye!".
Please continue to share our message with friends and family so we can help to make a positive impact on even more students in the coming years.
Thank you,
Kristina Toliver
Vice President, Scarlet and Gay
Thank you for your donation toward the National Coming Out Day Ad for 2022! We appreciate your generosity and want to share with you what these scholarships mean to those students that receive them. We would like you to meet Riley Bruck, she is the recipient of one of the scholarships awarded with the donations raised through last year's campaign.
Please share this message with friends and family that may be interested in supporting the campaign so that we can continue to provide scholarships to even more students like Riley!
Thank you!
Kristina Toliver
Vice President, Scarlet and Gay
Student's name appears in advertisement to support National Coming Out Day, 10/11.
Name appears in advertisement in recognition of Scarlet and Gay's founding anniversary as a society in 2001 and includes membership in the Alumni Association as an Alumni Donor Member (if you are an alumnus).
Name appears in advertisement in celebration of Ohio Stadium's 100th Anniversary. Includes membership to Scarlet & Gay, The Ohio State University LGBTQ Alumni Society and membership in the Alumni Association as an Alumni Donor Member (if you are an alumnus).
In honor of the first National Coming Out Day in 1988. Name appears in advertisement. Includes Alumni Life Donor membership in the Alumni Association, (if you are an alumnus) and Scarlet & Gay, The Ohio State University LGBTQ Alumni Society.
Name appears in advertisement in recognition of the riots at the Stonewall Inn which began on June 28, 1969 and marked a monumental shift for LGBTQ individuals. Includes Life Donor membership in the Alumni Association (if you are an alumnus) and to Scarlet & Gay, The Ohio State University LGBTQ Alumni Society.
Help us reach our $32,500 match goal by donating 50% of the funds that will be "matched" to award a $2,000 student scholarship! Includes Life Donor membership in the Alumni Association (if you are an alumnus) and to Scarlet & Gay, The Ohio State University LGBTQ Alumni Society (for individuals). Name will appear in advertisement.
Help us reach our $32,500 match goal by donating 100% of the funds that will be "matched" to award two students a $2,000 scholarship! Includes Alumni Life Donor membership in the Alumni Association (if you are an alumnus) and to Scarlet & Gay, The Ohio State University LGBTQ Alumni Society (for individuals). Name will appear in advertisement.
