The UCLA Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Campus Resource Center provides a comprehensive range of education, information and advocacy services and works to create and maintain an open, safe and inclusive environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, intersex, transgender, queer, questioning, and same-gender-loving students, faculty, and staff, their families and friends, and the entire campus community.

The UCLA Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Campus Resource Center envisions lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, questioning, and same-gender-loving people and our allies as fully included and affirmed in every aspect of the UCLA community where justice, equality and respect for all prevail.

We recognize that sexual orientation and gender identity work through and are influenced by race/ethnicity, gender, culture, age, ability status, class, faith, and other social characteristics. In keeping with the ideals of UCLA to provide leadership and service, we commit to justice, equality, and respect for all persons in all of our endeavors. We acknowledge that:

• all sexual and gender identities are valued equally and seen as contributions to the diversity of the campus as a whole
• every member of the student body, staff, and faculty may know about the Center, understand our purpose and/or activities and use us as a resource
• the UCLA LGBT Resource Center must be a model for other universities in providing services to our LGBT population
• students must feel free to contribute to the UCLA community regardless and inclusive of sexual or gender identity
• staff and faculty must experience no employment discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity and must not fear coming out because of possible repercussion to employment status or to future opportunities
• the Center encourages a collaborative sense of community among LGBT students, staff, faculty, and alumni

Staff

Emily Rokosch, Director
Peter Carley, Counselor in Residence
Paul Santos, Graduate Intern
Joey Hernandez, Student Assistant
Mikael Miller, Student Assistant
Sanaaz Showghi, Student Assistant
Adelin Lo, Student Assistant

Click HERE to meet the Staff!

The UCLA LGBT campus Resource Center was borne of a long history of queer activism at UCLA, from Evelyn Hooker’s research in the 1950s to the formation of the Gay Liberation Front in 1969.

In 1974 the first Gay Awareness Week was held hosted with such speakers as Rita Mae Brown, Harry Hay, and Charlotte Bunch. In 1976 UCLA Chancellor Charles E. Young directed departments and programs not to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, one of the first such administrative orders by the head of an American university, and in the same year, the first course in lesbian, gay, and bisexual studies was offered at UCLA and taught by Peter Thorslev.

In 1979 UCLA students published the first edition of Ten Percent, which predated Frontiers as a Los Angeles gay newspaper. Also in 1979 a gay film festival was held at UCLA, organized by John Ramirez and Stuart Timmons, and grew to become OutFest..

In 1989 both the UCLA Lesbian and Gay Faculty/Staff Network and the Lambda Alumni Association were founded., and in 1990 the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Lesbian and Gay Issues was established. In 1991 Curt Shepard developed the proposal to establish an LGB student resource center which opened its doors in 1995 under the direction of doctoral student Charles Outcalt.

In 1997, after the center moved from a small closet in Haines Hall to 440 square feet in Kinsey Hall, Dr. Ronni Sanlo, founder of Lavender Graduation, was recruited from the University of Michigan to grow the UCLA LGBT Center. In 1998, the first UCLA Lavender Graduation was celebrated. In September of 2003 the UCLA LGBT Campus Resource Center moved into a 1600 square foot space in the Student Activities Center, formerly the Men’s Gym.

Though we started in a closet - didn't we all - in Haines Hall in 1995, then moved to 400 square feet in Kinsey Hall, you can find the Center nowadays in the 1600 square foot suite B36 in the Student Activities Center. Thanks to the support of the university, generous donors, and grants, the new UCLA LGBT Campus Resource Center now includes the David Bohnett Cyber Center and an extensive library collection. Feel free to come check out our center whether you just want to hang out, check your e-mail, or watch one of our noon-time movie showings.