About 100 University of Michigan students, faculty and community members gathered in the Ross School of Business Thursday evening for OUTx, a presentation event featuring five Queer business-affiliated speakers sharing their experiences navigating coming out and how their lives changed as a result.
The event was hosted by Out for Business — a student organization empowering LGBTQ+ students in business — as part of a school-wide effort to highlight the LGBTQ+ community within the Business School.
Business graduate students Jovanny Casillas, OFB co-president, and Prashant Kandoi, OFB vice president of events, opened the event, where Kandoi described the purpose behind this year’s theme, “We’re still here.”
“When we say we’re still here, we’re not saying everything is fine,” Kandoi said. “We’re saying something far more defiant: that visibility can…
