The LGBTQ+ Resource Center is open Monday - Friday 9am-5pm. We are requiring masks and asking people to not eat in the space. We highly encourage students to get tested and to stay home if you are feeling sick.
For up-to-date information and resources re: COVID19, please visit UArizona COVID-19 page.
The LGBTQ+ Resource Center serves as a hub for many of the LGBTQ+ initiatives on campus with a priority to centering QTPOC (Queer and Trans People of Color) students. Our space provides students with a connecting point for LGBTQ+ people and programming. Hundreds of students study, eat their lunch, host student organization meetings, and socialize here—it is their home away from home!
The LGBTQ+ Resource Center works to build, sustain, and strengthen a safe, inclusive, and open environment for students, faculty, staff, appointed professionals, alumni, parents, and guests of all gender and sexual identities. The LGBTQ+ RC focuses on building an anti-colonial, anti-racist space and shaping programs that center students the most oppressed, working to meet their physical, educational, and emotional needs.
To better serve students who identify as LGBTQ+, The University of Arizona established the Office of LGBTQ Affairs in 2007. This decision was brought about after nearly twenty years of advocacy by LGBTQ+ students, faculty, and staff. They devoted hour-upon-hour to promote equity in University policies and practices. They worked equally as tirelessly to sponsor educational opportunities to build an inclusive campus climate for LGBTQ+ populations.
In recognition of the significant needs of this marginalized community, the President’s LGBT Advisory Council recommended that President Shelton hire a Director of LGBTQ Affairs, which he did in 2007. The council also recognized that to achieve our goal of becoming a top ten public research institutions, we need to be able to retain world-class faculty and staff, and therefore we must be inclusive of LGBTQ+ colleagues.
