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Publication: The Daily Texan, University of Texas - Austin, Austin TX.
Editor's Note: This article appears in a package focused on LGBT issues on campus. Click here to read about the Delta Lambda Phi fraternity and issues trangender students face.
On the first day of class, journalism senior lecturer Kate Dawson comes out to her students, usually couching the matter-of-fact introduction of her wife and kids with a joke about their early 8 p.m. bedtimes.
"It would be strange for me to not say," Dawson said. "It's almost like avoiding that I went to Columbia for graduate school, or that I grew up here. It is part of my narrative, and it's not a part that is ever going to change."
Dawson is one of many LGBT professors at UT who find themselves in an entirely new position today than they were in 2014. Same-sex marriage is legal and, since July, UT grants comprehensive health insurance to the spouses of LGBT faculty and staff. While some professors are content with the University's current climate, others continue to see room for improvement.
Dawson said she has...