UMD LGBTQ+ community, allies celebrate culture, discuss Trump’s threats at Q’mmunity Kiki
This university’s LGBTQ+ Equity Center hosted the kiki, which are social gatherings rooted in Black and brown LGBTQ+ ballroom culture.
Award-winning writer shares journey as a Black LGBTQ+ author at UMD event
At a talk hosted by the LGBTQ+ Equity Center, Saeed Jones detailed his literary career and growing up in the South.
UMD community members reflect on Supreme Court arguments about gender-affirming care case
In the case, petitioners allege that a Tennessee law that bans gender-affirming care for minors violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
UMD SGA allocates more than $1,700 in additional funding for gender-affirming care items
The bill continues a spring 2023 program where SGA allocated $1,500 to the LGBTQ+ Equity Center for gender-affirming care items.
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.