UMD LGBTQ+ community members, allies gather for inaugural Big Queer Photo
This university’s LGBTQ+ Equity Center hosted the event to celebrate the center’s 25th anniversary and bring LGBTQ+ students, faculty and staff together.
UMD SGA votes in support of increasing student fees, funding gender-affirming care
The revenue from the fee increase would assist in funding student groups, according to SGA speaker of the legislature Eliav Hamburger.
UMD’s counseling center needs revamping. Here’s a cost effective way to do it.
Greater access to therapy on campus would give students struggling with mental health an outlet.
UMD LGBTQ+ Equity Center holds lecture on queerness in Haitian vodou
The University of Miami’s Eziaku Nwokocha spoke about the intersection of queerness and Haitian vodou at a virtual lecture on Tuesday.
UMD community reflects on being named nation’s most LGBTQ+-friendly college
The rankings measured how LGBTQ+-friendly colleges are based on academic quality, affordability and the Campus Pride Index.
New LGBTQ+ Equity Center director to focus on fostering community
Oliveira began the position this summer after the university’s diversity, equity and inclusion office conducted a yearlong search for a new director. The center’s former acting director, Shige Sakurai, resigned in 2022.
UMD LGBTQ+ Equity Center director finalists share goals for role
The office searched for a director last spring after former acting director Shige Sakurai departed in February 2022.
Shige Sakurai, acting director of LGBTQ+ Equity Center, to retire after 12 years
Sakurai will retire Feb. 6 and start their new position at the Unitarian Universalist Association on Feb. 7.
DC event honors Transgender Day of Remembrance with moment of silence
The event was shared by this university’s LGBTQ+ Equity Center on social media and aimed to help attendees learn how to be better allies to the transgender community.
UMD’s LGBT Equity Center is now the LGBTQ+ Equity Center
Community members commended the change, calling it a pathway for more inclusivity on campus.