2010 POINT SCHOLARS

Kyle Inselman

Wells Fargo Point Scholar

University of Colorado at Boulder

Film Studies

Kyle grew up in Eugene, Oregon, but even in that liberal climate he was not met with acceptance when he came out as transgender. At home he was not allowed to express his gender identity, and his Catholic high school, though sympathetic, did not allow any LGBTQ student groups for support. Despite this, he organized Day of Silence annually and worked to connect Catholic social justice to queer activism. He was finally able to begin his transition almost four years after coming out, when he moved out of state to attend the University of Colorado at Boulder. He immediately immersed himself in the campus queer community, already facilitating the transgender support group not even two months after he arrived. Throughout his three years in college, he has held leadership positions in five LGBTQ student groups and organizations, as well as volunteered to organize events with the university’s GLBT Resource Center, for which he now works as a student staff person. He has also served as an executive board member of his school’s chapter of Phi Sigma Pi National Honor Fraternity and is a member of a cross-campus organization advocating for transgender issues in universities throughout the state of Colorado. Now in his senior year, Kyle is finishing his BFA in Film Studies with a minor in Linguistics and certificate in LGBT Studies. After graduation, he plans to combine his passions for activism and film to advocate for and give voice to LGBTQ people by exploring personal narratives of their everyday lives, as well as continuing his work within local LGBTQ communities and beyond."