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Georgetown Hires New Associate Director for LGBTQ Resource Center

Georgetown Hires New Associate Director for LGBTQ Resource Center

By Karenna Warden April 29, 2023

The LGBTQ Resource Center announced its new associate program director on April 13.   Activist and educator Riley Jelenick, who comes to Georgetown with previous experience in developing...

VIEWPOINT: Reject Religious Homophobia

VIEWPOINT: Reject Religious Homophobia

By Maddie Naisbitt February 10, 2023

CW: This article references/discusses homophobia.. Please refer to the end of the article for on- and off-campus resources.  “Being homosexual isn’t a crime” should not be a revolutionary...

FAILOR: Take Inspiration From Georgetown’s Queer History

FAILOR: Take Inspiration From Georgetown’s Queer History

By Matt Failor September 9, 2021

Fourteen years ago this October, the president of Georgetown University, John J. DeGioia (CAS ’79, GRD ’95), addressed a packed ICC auditorium and publicly gave in: Georgetown would become the first...

GUWC and LGBTQ Resource Centers To Join Office of Equity and Inclusion as Director Retires

GUWC and LGBTQ Resource Centers To Join Office of Equity and Inclusion as Director Retires

By Baylee Jones and Claire Stowe December 4, 2020

Sivagami “Shiva” Subarraman, executive director of the Georgetown University Women’s Center and LGBTQ Resource Center, is retiring from both positions at the end of the year, initiating a restructuring...

MICHAEL HOWARTH FOR THE HOYA | Director for Dharmic Life Brahmachari Sharan, Senior Research Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs Jerry McGlone S.J., Saisha Mediratta (SFS ’20) and Mariah Johnson (COL ’21), from left, spoke at a panel on the intersection of religious belief and sexuality.

Faith Communities Fail To Fully Dialogue on Sexuality, Panel Says

By Kelly Anderson November 8, 2019

Religious communities inadequately confront sexuality, alienating their members, students and religious leaders said at a Nov. 6 panel hosted by the LGBTQ Resource Center and Campus Ministry.  The...

ASHLEY CHEN/THE HOYA | The Office of Planning and Facilities Management began identifying 40 new single-stall, gender-neutral bathrooms in buildings across campus.

GU Establishes 40 Gender-Neutral Bathrooms

By Myroslav February 7, 2019

Georgetown University began designating 40 single-stall, gender-neutral bathrooms in public buildings throughout campus, an initiative pushed by members of LGBTQ student advocacy groups. Before the...

DENNIS KIM FOR THE HOYA Former Georgetown University Senior Vice President of Development Dan Porterfield (COL 83) (left) and Provosts distinguished Professor of History and African-American Studies Marcia Chatelain (right) discussed student involvement in the creation and expansion of the LGBTQ resource center at an event honoring the centers 10th anniversary Oct. 15.

LGBTQ Resource Center Owes Success to Student Activism, University Official Says

By Olivia Eggers October 18, 2018

Student activists brought about the establishment of the LGBTQ Resource Center and their energy helped sustain the center, Dan Porterfield (COL ’83), Georgetown University’s former senior vice...

VIEWPOINT: Coming Out for Change, 10 Years Later and Every Day

By Jennifer Nguyen September 26, 2017

When I attended Georgetown nearly a decade ago, the university’s relationship with LGBTQ students had been contentious for decades — a history rife with denied institutional funding for GUPride, subsequent...

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The eighth annual Lavender Graduation, an effort to recognize the LGBTQ community at Georgetown, was held in the Healy Family Student Center on Wednesday.

Lavender Graduation Honors LGBTQ Community, Allies

By Charles Trepany April 29, 2016

The LGBTQ Resource Center and the Tagliabue Initiative for LGBTQ Life hosted the eighth annual Lavender Graduation, which seeks to celebrate the contributions and stories of Georgetown’s graduating...

Hold the Door Open

Hold the Door Open

By The Editorial Board October 16, 2015

Last Friday, hundreds of students donned their orange “I am” T-shirts for Coming Out Day in a celebration of gender and sexual identity. With Coming Out Day and a number of other events sponsored by...

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GU Pride organized a celebration of Coming Out Day in Red Square last Friday to kick off the 11th annual OUTober, which includes 15 other events organized by the LGBTQ Resource Center throughout October and the first three weeks of November.

OUTober Programming Focuses on Trans Rights

By Lisa Burgoa October 16, 2015

OUTober, a six-week long celebration of the LGBTQ community organized by the LGBTQ Resource Center and GU Pride, returned to campus this month in its 11th annual iteration with increased programming...

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Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson said the university is no longer considering a consolidated diversity center at a town hall.

Center Consolidation Off the Table

By Jack Bennett November 14, 2014

The university is no longer considering a consolidation of the Center for Multicultural Equity and Access, LGBTQ Resource Center and Women’s Center after overwhelmingly negative student feedback, Vice...

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