Wednesday marked the beginning of October, a month that has become synonymous with Queer Awareness here at Columbia. We asked asked representatives of groups advocating for queer issues on campus for their perspectives.

Miranda Elliot, QuAM Co-Chair: "Queer Awareness Month is a month devoted to queer events, we have events pretty much every day, and the goal is to raise awareness and also to call attention to communities that aren’t necessarily well-represented."

Learned Foote, CQA Social Chair: "I think this is a great place to be, in New York City at Columbia. It’s a school that gives us tons of resources, you have an amazing student body, so I’d say that people are aware of LGBTQ people, they know them in their classes so I think that they’re very aware."

Madeleine Lloyd-Davies, QuAM Co-Chair: "We really want to see a lot of people at our events who we don’t know and we want to get their input and see how we can make this community even more integrated with the greater Columbia community."

QuAM, the Queer Alliance and other LGBT groups on campus will host a series of events throughout October to celebrate Queer Awareness Month.