LGBTQI

• AAAA - Furries at UCLA Furries at UCLA, or the Anthropomorphic Animal Appreciation Association, aims to bridge the larger furry community as a whole (fans of anthropomorphic animals) to the UCLA campus. Through education on topics related to, and community building centered around, the furry fandom, we aim to destigmatize the pop-culture reputation of furries.
• Alpha Omega Tampon Alpha Omega Tampon (AOT) is a "sorority" (satire) group for anyone who identifies as a woman or as part of the LGBTQ+ community. We are committed to fostering a welcoming social space for our members to meet and befriend like-minded peers.
• BroadSpectrum Statement of purpose: Broad Spectrum is a social support network for LGBTQIA2S+ students and allies. Broad Spectrum strives to promote education and understanding of culture and issues within the LGBTQIA2S+ community with a focus on an inclusive, culturally-sensitive nursing environment. Mission statement: Broad Spectrum works toward a more inclusive and accepting environment for LGBTQIA2S+ students, faculty and patients through education, support, social action, and advocacy. Broad Spectrum provides a platform for students to advocate the needs of LGBTQIA2S+ patients through equality in nursing care. Broad Spectrum fosters a greater sense of community for LGBTQIA2S+ identified students, faculty, and allies within the SON and between SON and the broader UCLA student body through education, outreach, and community service.
• Dukeminier Awards Journal of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law Each year, scholars, lawyers, judges, and law students throughout the United States publish hundreds of articles concerning various aspects of sexual orientation and gender identity law. The Williams Institute and the UCLA School of Law students who staff the journal have initiated The Dukeminier Awards to acknowledge and distribute the best of these articles. The goals of the prizes are to encourage scholars to begin or continue writing about sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy; provide valuable recognition and support for scholars, law students, and lawyers who write in this area; and provide easy access to each year’s best scholarly materials for those outside of legal academia, including lawyers, judges, other legal actors, and policy makers.
• Gamers without Labels @ UCLA Gamers without Labels at UCLA is a student-run organization focused on fostering and focusing on a safe space for students who are passionate about gaming and identify as a marginalized gender. This club recognizes the need for an inclusive environment that highlights and amplifies the voices of these students. This club provides opportunities for professional development and social bonding events to appeal to both the casual and competitive gamers.
• Gender Affirming Care Student Interest Group Gender-affirming care for transgender/genderdiverse individuals is a journey. Across the spectrum of medical and surgical care exists many options that help to address gender dysphoria in these individuals. This interest group serves to create a space specifically focused on the broad spectrum of specialty and subspecialty roles that collectively work to provide important treatments, procedures, surgical options, therapy, and medical care for our transgender/genderdiverse patient population along various paths in their journey to gender affirmation. For students interested and committed to providing gender-affirming care as a future physician, this club seeks to highlight the many different specialties that play a unique role in providing essential gender-affirming care along the way, from gender-affirming therapy (psychiatry), to behavioral voice-modulating therapy (SLP within ENT), voice surgeons (ENT), craniofacial/chest surgery (plastics), bottom surgery (urology), hormonal therapy (endocrine), hair transplants (dermatology), primary care and much more.
• Lavender Alliance Lavender Alliance at UCLA is a student organization aspiring to promote the representation of UCLA students, faculties, and alumni from Greater China Area or of Chinese descent who identify as members of the LGBTQ+ community. Our organization recognizes the intersectionality of the group that we are striving to serve, and we hope to uplift the life and voice of our members by providing a platform for people to connect, network, and develop a community.
• Lavender Health Alliance Lavender Health Alliance is dedicated to providing support, community, and resources for LGBTQ+ pre-health students and increasing awareness of inequalities facing LGBTQ+ folks in healthcare, higher education, and the sciences. LHA aims to build a community of LGBTQ+ or allied undergraduate and graduate students interested in our cause through mentorship and to provide related volunteer opportunities in the greater Los Angeles Area, both for the betterment of the community and for the development of academic and holistic excellence in future healthcare providers.
• LGBTQ Staff and Faculty Association at UCLA The LGBTQ Staff and Faculty Association exists to support and promote 2SLGBTQIA+ staff and faculty on campus, by offering networking opportunities, advocacy, and visibility to develop and maintain a culture of equity and inclusion at UCLA and beyond.
• Luskin Pride Luskin Pride serves to encourage education, social justice, and activism around issues affecting the LGBTQI community. The student organization also exists to provide a welcoming and inclusive community for LGBTQI students and allies in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.
• Out @ Fielding This organization serves queer graduate students who attend the Fielding School of Public Health to serve as space for students to discuss any issues that LGBTQIA+ students may be facing. Students will be able to create connections among their peers and stay connected with other queer students within UCLA. This organization will also help create connections with other LGBTQIA+ organizations to garner a wider net of professional connections.
• OUTLaw OUTLaw is established for the express purposes of: providing a social network for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA) law students at UCLA; organizing career, education, and academic oriented events for the benefit of LGBTQIA law students at UCLA; encouraging LGBTQIA prospective students to pursue a course of study at UCLA School of Law; ensuring the visibility of LGBTQIA law students at UCLA; and generally promoting the interests of LGBTQIA law students at UCLA.
• OutWrite Newsmagazine OutWrite Newsmagazine is the official queer newsmagazine of the University of California, Los Angeles. OutWrite strives to build a growing educational platform through a multi-media approach that uplifts and empowers the often silenced voices of the incredibly diverse queer community. We aim to challenge dominant cisheteronormative narratives through an unapologetically anti-queerphobic, anti-racist, and progressive lens. OutWrite was established in 1979 under its original title TenPercent, becoming the first queer college publication in the country. The name TenPercent was chosen from the Alfred Kinsey’s study Sexual Behavior in the Human Male which stated that 10% of men identified as homosexual. In 2005, the newsmagazine’s staff petitioned to change the name to OutWrite to decenter the white, cis, gay male identity and use a name which better represents the queer community’s vast spectrum of identities. Throughout the years, the newsmagazine referred to itself as a "gay and lesbian" newsmagazine, slowly adding more identities to its moniker just as the mainstream community did in the late 20th century. Our label has since been changed to "queer" newsmagazine to recognize both the importance of inclusivity in our community and the inherent radical nature of our mission; queer is a verb and political statement as much as it is an umbrella descriptor encompassing the ever-growing LGBTQ+ acronym. OutWrite is proud to transform and adapt itself to better represent and serve queer people, changing its own identity as our community grows and changes.
• Pride Alliance at DGSOM Pride Alliance is a support network for UCLA medical students, residents and faculty who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, asexual, two-spirit, questioning, and allies. Our mission is based on three pillars: Networking: As a student and faculty organization, we strive to provide networking and educational opportunities to connect with health professionals and students. We will facilitate mentoring and both personal and professional growth opportunities for students, faculty, and staff members. Advocacy: As a student organization, we strive to educate the School of Medicine and university communities about health issues facing LGBTQ+ patients and advocate on their behalf for competent and compassionate care. We believe that all physicians, future physicians, and medical personnel should know the health inequities faced by LGBTQ+ communities. Service: The LGBTQ+ community is predisposed to experience health disparities such as with mental health, cancer, and access. It is up to us as future health care professionals to address them. We will work closely with the LGBTQ+ community in Los Angeles and at UCLA to address these disparities.
• Q-Scholars Q-Scholars of UCLA strives to give Queer undergraduate students the opportunity to engage in and present research that focuses on Queer themes and issues. As an organization, Q-Scholars challenges convention by ensuring that queer students have a safe space to present queer issues that typically do not have an active platform in academia. It is our hope that queer students develop a profound interest in queer centric research and go on to make major research contributions to the Queer community.
• QTPOCC The Queer and Trans People of Color Collective is an intentional space by and for people of color in the queer community on the law school campus. We specifically welcome people who identify as a racial minority under the LGBTQIA umbrella. Although UCLA has a true reputation of inclusivity for racial minorities and queer folks, we are focused on creating a space for those who are at the intersection of being a queer or trans person of color. As QTPOC, we are already minorities in almost every space, but the legal field in particular highlights our lack of representation. The particular adversity we face allows very few of us to clear the hurdles of entry to this powerful institution. As we overcome these challenges and more of us enter the legal profession, we established the Queer and Trans People of Color Collective to provide a welcome home for those who come after us so that we may work together to carry our community forward.
• Queer Alliance Queer Alliance at UCLA was formed to provide a bridge between all progressive LGBTQ+ organizations dealing with issues that touch people who are traditionally disadvantaged on the basis of sexual orientation, romantic attraction, gender expression, and/or gender identity. Queer Alliance recognizes the existence of past conflicts and tension amongst groups of various cultures and seeks to address these issues by serving as a bastion of greater understanding to which all interested parties can look towards as an example of the true spirit of cooperation through facilitation. The alliance looks forwards to maintaining its commitment to respect, understanding, equity, and equality while underscoring the need for the eradication of heteronormativity, queerphobia, and cisheterosexism outside and within the community at UCLA. These goals are achieved by fostering spaces wherein community can thrive, and engaging in social programming and advocacy efforts.
• Queer Prelaw Society The mission of this organization is to provide an opportunity to connect queer students applying - or thinking of applying - to law school with like minded individuals as well as resources regarding the law school application process. SImilarly, the organization hopes to provide a space for Queer students to make connections with one another, and build lasting friendships.
• ShaQTI at UCLA ShaQTI aims to create a safe, diverse, and inclusive space for South Asian students identifying as a part of the LGBTQIA+ community and their allies at UCLA. We are open to all students to find community, express themselves, build connections with one another through events/meetings, and advocate for the upliftment of the LGBTQIA+ community as a whole on campus.
• Transgender UCLA Pride Transgender UCLA Pride (TransUP) is a social space for trans, nonbinary, genderfluid, genderqueer, agender, intersex, and gender questioning undergraduate and graduate students of the UCLA community, as well as UCLA affiliated faculty. We also have mentorship and advocacy branches. Email us to be added to our email list for meeting time/location info, and to be added to our Discord chat!