Students distribute LGBT Pride flags, protest Pence’s commencement speech

Lucas Masin-Moyer | Friday, April 21, 2017

Students passionate about LGBT voices at Notre Dame are coming together in an effort to find ways to protest this year’s Commencement speaker, Vice President Mike Pence. Fifth-year student Bryan Ricketts said this campaign is in response to the “hostility” Pence has expressed toward LGBT rights. “He’s, in the past, been against same-sex marriage because it harms people, which is demonstrably