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Last updated: 10/26/06

     The UMASS Pride Alliance has been in operation for over 30 years. It began in 1970 as the Student Homophile League:
  
     “Organized in the Fall of 1970 the Student Homophile League serves the needs of the homosexual community of the five college area; undergraduates, faculty, and non-students. SHL’s primary function is to offer a supportive atmosphere in which gay people can meet to discuss mutual problems, receive legal advice and medical advice, and participate in encounter groups, consciousness raising sessions, as well as social events. Its secondary function is to educate the community about homosexuality as a lifestyle and refute the myths about gay life. This has been done over the past year by rapping with over a thousand undergraduates in University classes and local organizations. An information center, archives and a library on homosexuality are in the process of being enlarged and are available for use by the entire community. 
The Student Homophile League is working to free the person with a homosexual orientation from the oppression of the heterosexual society and to help realize the revolution within our society that will allow every individual to express all the facets of his/her personality and reach his/her full potential as a human being."

A lot has happened since then! We have been renamed to first the LGBA and then to today's name of the UMass Pride Alliance.

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