Alumni, Professors, & Students
Dan Sealy graduated from HSU in 1975 with a major in Natural Resources and recently finished working for thirty three years with the National Park Service. While he attended HSU he was not out with his sexuality , but then came out after Harvey Milk was assasinated. He idenitifies as Episcopalian and is also on the vestry of a church in Washington D.C., as well as a visitor to St. Albans church in Sunny Brae, CA until he fully moves to Humboldt County. In his interview, Sealy expresses the memories and moments in his life wherein he has experienced homophobia, activism, the aids crisis, the Harvey Milk Assassination, and how his sexuality has changed since his time at HSU.
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Loren Cannon is currently a lecturer at Humboldt State University, and has also earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Arizona State. His classes range from topics on trans lives to environmental ethics. As someone who is a part of the LGBTQ community within Humboldt County, Loren has been involved in numerous events and is currently a part of the AID Life Cycle Fundraiser. During his interview he discusses his experiences as a trans person, encounters with religion, and how they have intersected with his profession on the HSU campus. He offers great insight into some of the topics surrounding the LGBTQ community on campus. In his interview, Professor Cannon brings up the controversal issues of trans acceptance on and off campus, and the accomodations HSU has made for people within minority differing minority groups.
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Mary Bockover has been a professor in the Philosphy Department at Humboldt State University for over twenty years. As an ally to the LGBTQ community, and a past member of the vestry at St. Alban's Episcopal church, she has worked to bridge the gap between both communities. She played a big role in the process to make the St. Alban's church openly welcoming to the LGBTQ community, and has also used these experiences to influence her work at HSU. Professor Bockover discusses many issues within both the religious and LGBTQ community with a genuine knowledge of intersectional feminism and queer theory. With her insights into both HSU and the Humboldt community, Prof. Bockover contributes to an insightful and in depth conversation about Queer Religion @ HSU.
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Jessica Harris is currently a Psychology Major studying at HSU, and is a recently self-identified lesbian, one who has just started attending St. Albans. Humboldt raised, Harris was born in Fortuna, California and currenly resides in Eureka. With many insights into the religious community in Humboldt county, Harris brings some controversial issues and stories to light within her interview. Harris admits that her knowledge of HSU's queer and intersectional activist groups and safe spaces is limited, but her want to know is vast; all the while sharing her own personal experience about her life as a religious student at HSU.
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This page is in no way fully representative of people who identify as queer and relgious at HSU. These are the people who responded to our bulletins and the ones who felt comfortable discussing these parts of their identity. We want to make sure that it is understood by any viewer of this page that many other people exist within these communities, and this is only a brief glance at a small group in Humboldt county. We hope that this exhibit provides at least some sort of insight into a community that often is made invisible through an adeventure through other people's experiences.