"The University of Tennessee's LGBTQ Pride Center came under threat of closing in 2016 after state lawmakers defunded the university's Office for Diversity and Inclusion. Now, openly gay alumni are fighting to save it.

Chad Goldman is a full-time volunteer fundraiser who is leading the effort to raise a private $3 million endowment to keep the Knoxville center's doors open. He said he was infuriated when he found out the diversity office had been defunded, which essentially cut off funds to the Pride Center."

Note from Ron: The Tennessee State Legislators are among the most active anti gay lawmakers in the USA. Under a program of laws called "Don't Say Gay," the state has done all within its power to thwart gay civil rights and freedoms. When I went to school in that state, it was still illegal to teach Darwin's views on evolution. It continues to be one of three states where schools must teach an alterantive religious view of how our world came into existence. For more on the article of raising funds for gay people at UT, Click Here.