For Pride Month, a Look Back at Duke’s LGBTQ+ Community

For 30 years, the Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity (not always its name) has served Duke University’s LGBTQ+ community. Its creation is just one of the ways that the university has supported gender diversity over the years.

In 1994, Duke became one of the first Southern employers to make benefits available to same-sex partners. In 1996, John Howard was hired as the first director of the Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity, which was