When someone walks into the GLBT Center, they are greeted with brochures, free contraceptives and a small library. Similarly, the GLBT Center’s website features events, education and resources.
Events & Organizations
There are many organizations that act as resources for students in the GLBT umbrella. The GLBT Community Alliance meets every Tuesday at 7 p.m. in 3285 Talley. T-Files, a safe space for anyone that is gender nonconforming, questioning or transgender, has meetings on the first Wednesday of every month at 6 p.m. in the center, but participants must check in first.
Additionally, there are organizations such as Queer People of Color, Graduate Students and Young Professionals Network, and out in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics which focus on specific groups of people and their individual situations. Likewise, there are organizations for current faculty, staff and alumni.
“Many of these events provide community, which is very hard to find when the majority of campus is not in this umbrella,” said J Hallen, a junior studying business administration and the president elect of GLBTCA. “It’s important for people to gain support and friends among communities of people that are facing the same discrimination and issues that they are.”
To hear about more organizations and events, Hallen and the current president of GLBTCA, Armando Cardoso, a senior studying middle grades education, urge anyone interested to get more information by coming to the GLBT Center.
Education
The GLBT Center hosts informative workshops, such as an upcoming workshop Saturday for “voice training for trans individuals that are MTF (Male to Female),” explained GLBT Center student assistant, Ashton B. Teach, a junior studying political science.
Teach said that this specific workshop “focuses on MTF trans individuals because when FTM (Female to Male) individuals undergo transitioning, it often involves using the hormone testosterone, and the hormones themselves change the man’s voice to be more masculine. But if an MTF individual undergoes transitioning with testosterone blockers and estrogen, it doesn’t make their voice any higher. Voice training helps with passing.”
Every year, the center hosts multiple Trans* 101 and Project SAFE Ally Workshops to educate participants on issues GLBT individuals face and how to be more inclusive.
Some of the upcoming workshops that will be hosted before the semester ends are Interpersonal & Sexual Violence in the GLBT Community on Tuesday at 9 a.m. in 4140 Talley and GLBT-Inclusive Healthy Relationships on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. in the GLBT Center Lounge.
Additionally, anyone can request educational presentations and workshops through the GLBT Center’s website. Also, there is a GLBT Advocate Program to keep faculty and staff learning, engaged and showing support. The Advocate Program is a new initiative for the 2015-16 school year and requires members to complete at least one workshop and attend at least one GLBT event each year.
Resources
Every Tuesday from 2-4 p.m. there is drop-in counseling at the center. Kelly McConkey, a counselor at the center, said she believes that the drop-in counseling “expands reach to the students because not everyone automatically knows about or feels comfortable coming to the center.”
Alyssa Hartzheim, a freshman studying zoology, believes that “there is a good variety of resources that are good for any comfort level — from those who want to self-learn to those who want to communicate with others.”
Other important resources include sexual health resources. The GLBT website has information on STD testing sites and PrEP, a medicine that helps prevent an individual from getting HIV. Throughout the year, there have been free and confidential testing sites set up in Talley Student Union and the next date for this service will be April 27 in 4132 Talley from 1 to 4 p.m.
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