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Lex McMenamin with photographs by Megan May in Sarasota, Florida

Say gay: feminist magazine reclaims Charlie Kirk-style campus tours after Florida DEI cuts

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Sarah Leonard, Lux Magazine’s editor-in-chief; Noella Williams, Lux’s college tour coordinator; and Nya Jacobson, president of the LGBTQIA+ student club, Queery, at New College of Florida. Composite: Megan May/The Guardian

On a Tuesday night, at Florida’s only public liberal arts college, a small group of students gathered in a classroom to discuss issues deemed “controversial” on state campuses: transgender rights, feminism, immigration. But perhaps what they wanted to address most was how to combat despair.

“It’s important to stand and resist,” said Nya Jacobson, a New College of Florida senior. “But this place is a lost cause.”

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