“I think that we have certainly not arrived at a place yet where being attentive to all the things that we need to be attentive to are commonplace.”Īccording to Hackford-Peer, Pride Week provides an opportunity to emphasize queer joy, something that is not celebrated enough. “It’s frustrating to me that we need a Pride Week, but I still think that we do,” Hackford-Peer said. Kim Hackford-Peer, the associate chair of Gender Studies, has been at the U since 2004 and has found Pride Week to be important because it forces the institution to pay attention to queer histories and current issues. To commemorate Pride Week, the LGBT resource center scheduled various events to honor LGBTQ histories, cultures and lives.
Wrapped in the colors of the Progress Pride Flag, the U was a symbol of 2021 Pride Week: Queer at the Intersections. The block U outside of the University of Utah campus store sported some different colors from March 29 to April 3, 2021.
