The event has been set up by the LGBTQ alumni chapter at Fordham University in New York. It is a private, Jesuit institution.
Campus Reform reports the event has two professors to help guests who "feel at risk or under threat" due to the "steps" that the Trump administration has taken since the beginning of this year.
Part of the event's description says quote, "Some LGBTQ+ New Yorkers are renewing their passports and checking out escape routes to other countries, fearing their marriages will be revoked, or their children taken away from them, or other travesties. Some have already left."
Zachary Marschall, editor-in-chief of Campus Reform, says in effect he thinks it's sad that Fordham is supporting the notion that a person gets value from identity rather than merit or character.
"Queer flourishing is a way to make everything about being queer for people who have nothing else going on. From what I understand, the idea of flourishing is connected to the human endeavor to try your hardest and be fully-rounded people who are successful in life, however we measure success. I don't see how sexuality has anything to do with that.”
Fordham's website describes this as a conversation that will be a "proud evening of deeper dialogue and socializing.”
“I think this event we're seeing at Fordham University is an example of higher education telling students they have to saddle their identities to every aspect of their life,” Marschall said.
Marschall said it's concerning to him that Fordham's not teaching students how to flourish as human beings by virtue of their humanity.
"Why does the LGBTQ alumni chapter have to make it about being queer, too? I think this is another example of higher education brainwashing and instilling the wrong values and priorities into the next generation of American leaders."
