"When I arrived at ÌÇÐÄTV¹ÙÍø in 2006 as an undergraduate after 15 years of living in San Francisco, I felt the need to be more visibly gay here than in S.F. Having left the culturally-fertile grounds of LGBTQ+ life in the Castro, I was feeling parched in the Queer desert of Monterey Bay. There was not a single LGBTQ+ student, staff, or faculty organization in sight."