Morehouse College, the nation’s most well known all-male college for black men, announced this week this week announced a new course focusing on LGBT pop culture, history and society. [Morehouse’s campus newspaper The Maroon Tiger has more details:](http://themaroontiger.com/safespace-sociology-department-offers-new-lgbt-course/) > Having this course is due to Hodge, the Chair of the Morehouse College sociology department. Academic departments often offer special elective courses, such as this, to "allow the department to trial-run a course to strengthen the learning outcomes, judge student interest and clean up any loose ends before submitting it to the official committee for curriculum." Based on Allen’s syllabus and learning outcomes, the course was approved by the division Dean Dr. Clarissa Myrick-Harris and faculty of the department. > > The class has also been cross listed by the African American studies department. > > The course is expected to outline various key concepts in Black feminism and critical cultural theory and methodology. Described as "an interdisciplinary survey of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) culture and politics" in the course’s syllabus, the class will serve as an in-depth look into critical, social and cultural theory that will vastly benefit the Morehouse community. SafeSpace, one of the student coalitions who pushed for the class, has high hopes for the class. "We’re not here to make people feel comfortable, we’re here to make people think and this course will foster a much needed discussion about the Black experience through an LGBT lens here within Morehouse’s walls," SafeSpace’s President, KennethPass told the Maroon Tiger.