Student Groups Undergraduate Student Organizations
LGBTQ Co-Op
The Co-Op is an umbrella organization that hosts weekly meetings as well as several high profile events throughout the year, including Pride Week, Trans Week, Coming Out Day, and two campus-wide dances. It also provides support for a number of other LGBTQ organizations and, along with Queer Peers, maintains the Queer Resource Center at 305 Crown St. Join the Co-Op mailing list to be kept up to date on undergraduate LGBTQ events and activities. Not-So-Straight Frosh Not-So-Straight Frosh is a social group for LGBTQ first-year students. Contact the LGBTQ Co-Op coordinators for more information, especially if you’re interested in helping coordinate the group. Queer Peers
Queer Peers provides a one-on-one peer counseling service specializing in the needs of LGBTQQ-identified people. A variety of means of contact are provided, including in-person meetings, e-mail, phone, and instant messaging. Queer Peers also hosts special events, including panels and group discussions, in a comfortable, open, and safe environment. PRISM
Weekly discussions are hosted by PRISM, a group founded by Yale undergrads to provide a safe and welcoming space for LGBTQ people of color to meet and discuss issues pertaining to their identities and experiences. Its discussions and events are open to all in the Yale community. Fierce Advocates at Yale
Fierce Advocates is an LGBTQ activist organization that advocates for issues on the campus, local, regional, state, and national levels. Join their mailing list here. Women's Center
Located at 198 Elm Street, next to Durfee's, the Women's Center is a great resource for LBTQ and allied women and feminist GBT men. The Women's Center hosts many LGBTQ events throughout the year and supports a number of LGBTQ groups, including Prism and Sappho. It's staffed all week by student volunteers, who can offer support, advice, and free dental dams and condoms. Bridges Bridges is a social group that provides a safe and affirming place for students to discuss the intersection of spirituality and sexuality/gender identity. Sappho
Sappho is an undergraduate group for lesbian, bisexual, trans, queer, and questioning women that hosts meetings and events and maintains a community blog. GaYalies
A social group for gay, bisexual, trans, queers, and questioning men, GaYalies seeks to encourage a sense of community among men who appreciate men at Yale. GaYalies opens its events to all members of the Yale community.
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Outland
Outland is a group of LGBTQ graduate students that organizes various events during the academic year that are open to all graduate and professional students. LGBTQ Arts
Sign up for the LGBTQ Arts mailing list to find out about social events for graduate-level Architecture, Art, Drama and Music students. PRISM
Weekly discussions are hosted by PRISM, a group founded by Yale undergrads to provide a safe and welcoming space for LGBTQ people of color to meet and discuss issues pertaining to their identities and experiences. Its discussions and events are open to all in the Yale community. Women's Center
Located at 198 Elm Street, next to Durfee's, the Women's Center is a great resource for LBTQ and allied women and feminist GBT men. The Women's Center hosts many LGBTQ events throughout the year and supports a number of LGBTQ groups, including Prism and Sappho. It's staffed all week by student volunteers, who can offer support, advice, and free dental dams and condoms. GaYalies
A social group for gay, bisexual, trans, queers, and questioning men, GaYalies seeks to encourage a sense of community among men who appreciate men at Yale. GaYalies opens its events to all members of the Yale community.
YDS Coalition
The Gay, Lesbian, Straight, Bisexual and Transgendered Coalition is a fellowship of Yale Divinity School students, faculty and staff of all sexual orientations that provides materials and information on GLBT issues, hosts on-going discussion groups, sponsors lectures, panels, worship services, and hosts other educational, social and cultural events.
Outlaws
OutLaws is an organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer members of the Law School community. Outlaws goals are to provide support for and educate the Yale Law School community and beyond about legal issues affecting LGBTQ persons as well as to provide a community for LGBTQ-identified people within YLS. Founded in the early 1970s, OutLaws sponsors speakers, supports activism, hosts social events, and represents Yale Law School at LGBTQ legal conferences and events. OutLaws brings the Law School community’s attention to issues of special concern to LGBTQ students, and serves as a bridge between Yale students, law school alumni, and the legal profession at large.
Out in the Woods
Out in the Woods is a social and advocacy group for LGBTQ students and their allies at FES.
Q+ Gay/Straight Alliance
The mission of Q+ — Yale SOM’s LGBT-straight alliance — is to provide a forum for the exploration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues within the Yale SOM community and future professional settings.
Gay-Straight Medical Alliance
The Gay Straight Medical Alliance at Yale School of Medicine seeks to organize, defend, and serve the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community at Yale's health professional schools, including the school of medicine, school of nursing, PA program, and department of epidemiology and public health.
Queer Grads
Queer.grads is a mailing list that advertising LGBTQ and LGBTQ-friendly events from all of Yale graduate and professional schools. Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity
ODEO provides support for all underrepresented students in the Graduate School. Their offices are in the McDougal center on the first floor of the Hall of Graduate Studies. Graduate Student Life @ the McDougal Center
Graduate Student Life organizes social, arts, cultural, international, sports, spirituality, wellness and family events for all G&Ps and their spouses, partners and families throughout the year. This office advises and supports a variety of grad student groups, and oversees the facilities of the McDougal Center at HGS, where many grad events occur. Yale Office of New Haven and State Affairs
The Office of New Haven and State Affairs website offers useful links for LGBTQ individuals living in New Haven. |