UB, UB, You Can’t Hide! UB, UB, Where’s Your Pride?
The University at Buffalo (UB) used to have a policy of allowing oppressed groups of students to have their own spaces on campus. That policy was won in stages through decades of activism and struggle in the mid to late 20th century. During the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021, the university took advantage of the physical absence of students from the campus to begin closing these student-run spaces until only one was left — the LGBTQIA2S+ community space known as SU 373 (Student Union room 373).