News and Events
January 2020 at the LGBTQ Center
WEDNESDAY 01/15
Center After Dark
5:00pm - 8:00pm at the LGBTQ Center
Come by the LGBTQ Center Wednesday evenings between 5:00pm and 8:00pm for a casual social featuring games, crafts, and movies. The Center will provide free snacks - feel free to bring board games, add to the snack selection, and to invite your LGBTIQA+ or affirming friends.
The theme is: Playstation!
November at the LGBTQ Center: Intersex Solidarity, Mikael Owunna, Transgender Remembrance
FRIDAY 11/01
QGAPS + Lambda Social
6:00pm - 7:30pm at Tru Deli and Wine Bar
114 Henderson St, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
QGAPS Social is a bi-monthly gathering for LGBTQIA+ graduate and professional students. It's a chance for folks to connect, come together, and build community. Friends and family are welcome to join!
National Coming Out Day 2019
National Coming Out Day commemorates the October 11, 1987 Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, which called for President Ronald Reagan to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
October at the LGBTQ Center: National Coming Out Day, Ace and Aro Pride
October is Relationship Violence Awareness Month
September at the LGBTQ Center: Bi Visibility and Pride Parade
Highlights this month include Bisexual and Visibility, the Pride: Durham Parade, an LGBTQ Speaker Series event on Socioeconomic Status and Chronic Stress, and the first QTPOC + QGAPS social of the year.
TUESDAY 9/03
Trans Talk Tuesday
6:15pm - 7:15pm at Caribou Coffee, 1408 E Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Aluminate Volume 7: 2018-2019
Aluminate Volume 7 looks back at a successful 2018-2019 academic year featuring collaboration with student organizations, University departments, dedicated volunteers, and alums* like you.
Contents
- Pride Week at Carolina 2019
- Safe Zone Programming Milestones
- Graduate and Professional Student Programming
- LGBTQ Center Advancement Council
- Lavender Graduation 2019 with keynote Joy Messinger
- Carolina Pride Alumni Network
- Thank You to Our Partners
August 2019 at the LGBTQ Center
Tue 8/06 & 20: Trans Talk Tuesday
6:15pm - 7:15pm at Caribou Coffee, 1408 E Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Trans Talk Tuesday is a peer support/discussion group for people who identify as transgender, gender non-conforming, or who are questioning their gender. This space is meant to provide community and connection among folks on the basis of gender identity.
Pride Month in the Triangle
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month (LGBT Pride Month) is currently celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall uprising in Greenwich Village. The Stonewall uprising was a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States.
Announcing 2019 Lavender Graduation Keynote Speaker: Joy Messinger (UNC 2010)
We are honored that Joy Messinger has accepted our invitation to address over thirty graduating LGBTIQA+ or allied students, their affirming loved ones, and friends of the LGBTQ Center next Sunday at Carolina's 13th annual Lavender Graduation.
Joy Messinger, MSW, MPH is a Chicago-based reproductive, birth, and social justice advocate who earned her MPH in Health Behavior and Health Education from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, and a Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Leadership from the UNC School of Social Work in 2010.
Employee Forum Resolution 19-03 Concerning State Health Plan Coverage
At the April 3, 2019 meeting of the UNC-Chapel Hill Employee Forum, members approved Resolution 19-03 Concerning State Health Plan Coverage. Read the resolution in full below. (Source: https://employeeforum.unc.edu/resolutions/resolution-19-03-v2/)
Resolution Text
RESOLUTION OF THE EMPLOYEE FORUM
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
April 3, 2019