“I think [Boston is] an amazing, amazing college town, I’d say the best in the U.S.,” Kelly said. “But my perception was that it was going to be a little too young post-grad.”

“To me, it was a limitation of addressing [LGBTQ+] needs by tagging it on to the AHANA context,” Lewis-Mosley said. “They have a big enough endowment to where they could have broadened meeting the needs of both our AHANA legacy and established an even broader in development for the LGBTQI community.”

“This was someone's big idea … and now it's become something that's tangible and possible,” Louis said. “BC has incredible resources—use those resources. Come up with the idea and make the plan.”

“It’s such a special place to both of us and just to be married there was even more special, and have all the people around who we cared about, and try to do all those little traditions from Boston College and bring that into our wedding as well,” Erin said.

“Both lecturing and discussion-based classes work, just as a professor you have to find your own authentic way of teaching,” Serazio said. “But if either side is not bringing energy, focus, curiosity, and passion, that doesn't work. It has to be both.”