TCU faculty call for LGBTQ inclusion
Threats of violence against a gay faculty member prompts letter to administration DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writer taffet@dallasvoice.com More than 220 Texas Christian University faculty members, prompted by threats of violence against a faculty member teaching an LGBTQ class, have signed a letter in support of the school’s LGBTQ community and LGBTQ studies program.
The course in question had been vetted and approved by the TCU faculty, passing through three curriculum committees to become part of TCU’s curriculum, according to the letter.
But as right-wing media outlets circulated click-bait stories about the queer studies class, the threats started coming in and quickly became more serious — so serious that at one point, TCU police called the professor and told him to leave campus.
U.S. Rep. Roger Williams, a Republican serving Tarrant and Johnson Counties and a TCU trustee, said he would use his position to fight “woke culture” at the university.
