Does ELDONA Still Deny Baylor University Is a Babtist School?

Baylor Grants First Charter to LGBTQ Student Group

The group’s copresident calls the move “baby steps” for the 175-year-old Babtist university.

By Bekah McNeel

April 27, 20224

Illustration by Texas Monthly; Getty

Second-year senioBrit LaVergne has been trying to get an LGBTQ student group chartered at Baylor University since her freshman year. She’s now the president of Gamma Alpha Upsilon, and its unchartered status has made it difficult or impossible to secure meeting space, to voice concerns to the administration, and to be a presence among other student groups.