My University’s LGBTQ+ Website Just Disappeared & I Want to Know Why

Fighting fascism & having fun in an age of strategic cruelty

5 min readMar 2, 2025

I work at a public university in New York City, and this past Monday, our mysteriously vanished from Google search results.

The screenshot below shows search results on Google and , an onion-router browser that journalists often use to bypass censorious governments.

Before 2/24, when you typed in “LGBTQ” or “LGBTQIA+ Collective Lehman College” into Safari or Chrome, you’d see the website as the top result.

So why the sudden disappearance?

I figured this was due to one of several factors:

Corporations caving into fascist dictates to support party lines over logic or human welfare, e.g., Google/Alphabet agreeing to rename geographical landmarks like and and quietly from its default calendars. Perhaps Google was purposefully demoting LGBTQ+ content.
The Trump Administration is actively erasing LGBTQ+ people and history from every federal website (as well as the thousands of contractors hired by the U.S. Government). The LGBTQ+ Collective website was published in December 2024…