Programs and Services

Annual Programming

October: LGBTQA History Month
LGBTQA History Month is a month long observance in October celebrating the achievements of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Ally community. For more information about LGBTQA history, please see the links to the right. If you have historical information related to the LGBTQA Community at UNL, please email lgbtqa@unl.edu.

For more information about this year's History Month festivities, please visit this page.

February: Let Us Eat Cake!
Each February, around the 14th of the month, we have our annual Let Us Eat Cake! event to raise awareness about marriage equity, healthy relationships, and the status of same sex relationships around the globe. And we eat cake!

March: Be the Change Week! The LGBTQA Resource Center has a display in the Rotunda Gallery during the last weekend in March. Other programming also takes place during the week.

April: Lavender Graduation, Louis Crompton Scholarship, and the Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Contributions to the GLBT Community! Lavender graduates (any UNL student graduating during the current academic year can apply to participate in Lavender Graduation, which is held in April each year. Graduates are recognized for their accomplishments and receive a certificate signed by the Chancellor and a rainbow tassel. Each graduate is also able to nominate up to 3 faculty or staff members who they would like recognized for their advocacy or contribution to helping them make it through to graduation (advocate appreciation).

The Louis Crompton Scholarship is a $500 annual scholarship, established in 2009, and is awarded each spring for the upcoming academic year.  Students connected to or contributing to the LGBTQA community at UNL are encouraged to apply. The recipient is announced at Lavender Graduation and the Chancellor's Award reception. Friends and family are encouraged to attend to help celebrate!

The Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Contributions to the GLBT Community was established in 2000 with Dr. Vernon Williams as the first recipient. The student award was established in 2003 with Ryan Fette as the first recipient. The award was established to recognize contributions to the GLBT community that help raise awareness about issues and concerns impacting the LGBTQA community and to help create a more welcoming and inclusive campus environment.

For more information and to find application forms: http://involved.unl.edu/lgbtqa-scholarship-and-awards

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Library

The LGBTQA Resource Center Library has over 700 books, DVDs, VHSs, reference materials, and brochures. All resources analyze or address issues of gender and sexuality, or the intersections of race, gender, class, and sexuality.

Resource Center resources are listed in UNL’s library catalog (online at http://libraries.unl.edu/) and are checked out using your NCard. Books can be checked out for two weeks and DVDs and VHSs for one week. If you aren’t finished with the resources by then, you can re-check them!

Suggestions and Donations
We are always eager to hear suggestions on materials that would make our library better. Unfortunately, we are very limited in what we can purchase, so donations are always accepted. If you have recommendations or would like to donate DVDs, books, magazine, etc., please email lgbtqalibrary@gmail.com.

Library Policies
The LGBTQA Resource Center library follows the Circulation Policies set by UNL Libraries.
http://libraries.unl.edu/circpolall

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Workshops, Presentations, Panels

The LGBTQA Resource Center staff and volunteers offer workshops, presentations, and panels on request. To request one of the following, please email lgbtqa@unl.edu. 

Creating Safer Systems

Ally Development Workshop

OutSpeaking Panel

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