{"id":32957,"date":"2026-05-11T09:25:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/?p=32957"},"modified":"2026-05-11T09:25:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:25:30","slug":"attend-our-lavender-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/attend-our-lavender-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Attend our Lavender Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty, staff, and students are cordially invited to attend our Lavender Celebration to honor our LGBTQ+ students graduating this year. We will celebrate our students on Tuesday, May 12th at 3 pm in the Miller Room.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The first <span class=\"il\">lavender<\/span> graduation was held in 1995 at the University of Michigan. Now, more than 50 colleges and universities across the country celebrate with ceremonies and celebrations.\u00a0 We thank the Office of Diversity Initiatives for their support for this event. If you have any questions, please <a href=\"mailto:helen.davis@wilkes.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">email Dr. Helen Davis.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty, staff, and students are cordially invited to attend our Lavender Celebration to honor our LGBTQ+ students graduating this year. We will celebrate our students on Tuesday, May 12th at 3 pm in the Miller Room.\u00a0 The first lavender graduation was held in 1995 at the University of Michigan. Now, more than 50 colleges and&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/attend-our-lavender-celebration\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Attend our Lavender Celebration<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32971,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32957\/revisions\/32971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}