A university in Alabama has quietly shut down a program aimed at supporting LGBTQ students.

The Mitchell-West Center for Social Inclusion opened on the campus of the University of North Alabama in Florence in 2019, thanks to a donation from Elliott Mitchell and Clark West.

“The students benefitted from the center enormously,” said Mitchell, one of the founding donors and namesakes of the center, along with his husband. “But the community outside the university also benefited because it had such a big reach.”

The Mitchell-West Center worked to address challenges like suicide prevention and food insecurity , as well as to provide resources and support for LGBTQ and other underrepresented students.

But in the years since the center opened, both Alabama and Donald Trump have declared war

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