Dear White People and Bad Hair.Simien received the Point Foundation’s Horizon Award at the organization’s virtual Los Angeles gala over the weekend.
The foundation is the nation’s largest scholarship fund for LGBTQ+ college students, supporting 134 of them in the 2020-2021 academic year, the most in any year to date.
Many of the students have lost the support of their families or communities simply because of who they are.Simien noted that when he was attending Chapman University in Orange, Calif., where he graduated in 2005, he was struggling to come out, even to himself.
Now the Point Foundation and similar organizations are showing that being queer is something positive, he said.“Now being queer is what makes you special — it’s like a.