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“Homosexuals Should Even Sit Behind a Wall” – Lech Walesa, March 2013

Ryland Roberts and Dan Maurer
September 25, 2023

Gibson’s Silence on LWH Tells Us All We Need To Know

Chuck Sipps, Arts and Life Editor
January 22, 2019
NEIU student Patrick Mercader stares at the pitch-black screens in Lech Walesa Hall. The screens were used to showcase the artwork from NEIU students and faculty protesting Lech Walesas name after Walesa said homophobic comments.

President Gibson: Art installation in Lech Walesa Hall ‘has now run its course’

Cecilia G. Hernandez, Writer
August 27, 2018
A display shows a bronze bust and Walesas written letters to NEIU.

Lech Walesa Hall: His name, here to stay

Sara Nesis, Writer
February 7, 2017
Lech Walesa, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 and a former President of Poland, has had to fend off accusations that he was a paid communist informant.

Was Lech Walesa a Paid Communist Informant?

Christopher Starnawski, Staff writer
March 15, 2016
Chakira Hamilton

Lech Walesa’s Anti-Gay Comments Hit Home

Melissa Brand , Senior Staff Writer
March 26, 2013
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