LGBTQI

A Safe Zone workshop is scheduled from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 16, in Sarratt Student Center, rooms 216/220. The workshop is open to Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff and members of the Nashville community. Register for the workshop here. The Safe Zone program aims to… Read More

(image courtesy of Office of LGBTQI Life) The Office of LGBTQI Life’s Home for the Holidays celebration is scheduled from noon to 2 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6, at the K.C. Potter Center. All members of the Vanderbilt community are invited to attend. Basic food items will be provided, but… Read More

Vanderbilt University Divinity School students will work with religious and community service organizations to develop resources on issues surrounding religious beliefs and sexual orientation, thanks to a new grant from the Arcus Foundation, with support from the Carpenter Foundation. Read More

Trans@VU is a web resource for trans*, gender-variant and gender-questioning people and their allies at Vanderbilt University. Read More

The Safe Zone workshop is a three-hour interactive workshop that encourages student, faculty and staff to explore their personal identities, cultural identities, privilege and what it means to be an Ally. Read More

International Transgender Day of Remembrance occurs annually on Nov. 20. It is a day to memorialize those who have been killed as a result of anti-transgender violence, as well as perform acts to bring attention to the continued violence endured by the transgender community. Please join Vanderbilt LGBTQI Life, the… Read More

Vanderbilt’s Office of LGBTQI Life will host a gathering for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning and intersex faculty and staff on Thursday, Oct. 24. The event will be from 5 to 7 p.m. in Alumni Hall, Room 206. The aim of the gathering is for LGBTQI faculty… Read More

Laverne Cox, who plays Sophia Burset, an incarcerated transgender woman of color on the Netflix original series Orange is the New Black, will be the featured speaker as part of this year’s National Coming Out Week events at Vanderbilt University. Cox will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16, in… Read More

Vanderbilt’s Office of LGBTQI Life has several events planned for its Welcome Week, Sept. 9-13. Read More

Adale Sholock is the new director of the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center, while Chris Purcell joins Vanderbilt as director of the Office of LGBTQI Life. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has again been recognized as a leader in LGBT health care equality by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Healthcare Equality Index (HEI). Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center and two of its employees have been recognized for contributions to the LGBT business community in Nashville. Read More

(iStockphoto) International Education Week is a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange. This year, International Education Week is being celebrated at Vanderbilt Nov. 5–14 with 19 programs sponsored by… Read More

Every year the LGBTQI Life staff plans and coordinates National Coming Out Week, a week-long celebration of LGBTQI individuals and history. This event helps to show our LGBTQI students, faculty, and staff the acceptance and support that we know is part of our Vanderbilt Community. This year National Coming Out… Read More

A tradition among first-year students to read and discuss a common text has inspired a campuswide initiative called “Human Identities: Global, Local, Personal,” designed to raise nuanced dialogue about gender and sexuality across the Vanderbilt community. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s commitment to meeting the needs of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community has been recognized with certification awarded to the institution by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) as a Healthcare Equality Index (HEI) “Leader in Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Healthcare.”… Read More

International Education Week at Vanderbilt is Nov. 2-16. The week-long series of events are co-sponsored by International Student and Scholar Services, Global Education Office, and Vanderbilt International Office in coordination with Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center, Holocaust Lecture… Read More

Watch video of Jay Michaelson, executive director of Nehirim (a nonprofit which builds community for LGBT Jews, partners and allies), speaking Aug. 4 on “Queer Scholarship and Queer Activism: Liminality, Identity and the Plight of the ‘Good Gays.’” In cooperation with the Human Rights Campaign, the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender,… Read More

Feminist theologian Mary E. Hunt spoke Aug. 1 as part of the Summer Institute for Seminary Students, sponsored by the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender and Sexuality and the Human Rights Campaign. Watch video of Hunt, co-founder and co-director of the Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual, speaking on… Read More

Watch video of a Feb. 8 talk by Mandy Carter, one of the leading African American lesbian activists in the country. In “Justice or Just Us?” she discusses the LGBTQI movement’s difficulty in acknowledging paths blazed by the women’s movement and the Black Civil Rights movement, challenging everyone to… Read More