A series of anti-LGBTQ flyers found at Salt Lake Community College's South City campus at the end of Pride month has prompted a discussion about free speech and 'dangerous' rhetoric at the school.
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Students and staff were notified about the unauthorized flyers in SLCC’s weekly newsletter on June 28. The notice didn’t specify the information in the flyers, or where they appeared, but it encouraged anyone who felt harmed by them to reach out to the college’s Center for Health and Counseling, as well as other LGBTQ+ resources, including the GSSRC, located on SLCC’s South City campus.
After meeting with students a day after the newsletter went out, Moosman contacted the school’s administration — which sent him a scanned copy of one of the flyers. Moosman and other GSSRC staff shared the information, and denounced the flyers on their respective Instagram accounts. College officials did not immediately contact the GSSRC or the school’s Queer Student and Employee associations, Owens-Liston said.
While Moosman and other GSSRC members said they were concerned that the flyers’ message could be classified as hate speech, Mumford said the flyers fall under the legal definition of free speech. “What we’re trying to do is elevate other voices so we can help educate and inform people [and] bring more dialogue,” Mumford said. She cited an incident last year, where a student pulled off another student’s hijab — an incident that led to organizing a forum, where a panel discussed the hijab’s cultural significance.
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