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Southeast Missouri State University administrators have announced the school will reopen an LGBTQ+ resource center after students across campus demanded it.

The center was closed without warning due to lack of staffing and low student usage, according to the administration.

“There wasn’t really much communication on the university’s behalf, so we were kind of like what is going on, why is this happening,” Peyton Redinger, the head of the school’s Pride group, told the local CBS station.

“So me and my executive board set up a petition for students to voice their opinions on it and voice what they were feeling on this and how this will impact their lives.”

And students responded in force, noting that with queer rights under attack nationwide, the resource center was needed more than ever.