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LGBTQIA+

How to celebrate Pride Month in your neighborhood

Video: Queer & Black: Politics, Identities & Movement

Striving Towards Health Equity: Understanding the Impact of Discrimination on LGBTQ+ Communities

Center for LGBTQIA+ Health Equity – USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work

The Center for LGBTQIA+ Health Equity (CLHE) was created to lead scientific inquiry into the physical, emotional, and social health of LGBTQ+ youth, adults and families, and guide best practices for achieving health equity for this population.

USC Lambda LGBTQ+ Alumni Association: this is a university wide org that provides programming, networking and scholarships, (all available to our students). Lambda just celebrated its 30th anniversary and has many valuable resources, including the annual Lavender Graduation.

USC ONE Archives: You may already know about this amazing org, which houses the largest LGBTQ+ archive collection in the world, and located a few blocks from campus. Also many useful programs and resources for students, faculty and staff.

Explore

LGBTQ+ Glossary Terms Page

Pronouns Matter

Professional Resources

APA Guidelines for working with Transgender and gender non-conforming individuals

Resources for Community

Center for LGBTQ+ Health Equity (CLHE)

Human Rights Campaign LGBTQ+ Rights Page

GLTBQ Legal Advocates and Defenders

LGBTQ+ Center Directory

It Gets Better Project

The It Gets Better Project’s mission is to uplift, empower, and connect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) youth around the globe.

The Trevor Project

LGBTQ Hotline

NEWS

The program provides a full range of gender-affirming healthcare services for transgender, nonbinary and gender-diverse adult patients in a safe and supportive environment. Read Full Article

USC is stepping up to show much-needed support for this year’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Pride Month. The annual June event takes place as more than 400 anti-LGBTQ+ bills are being introduced or passed in state legislatures across the country. Read Full Article.

As the USC Veterans Resource Center’s first full-time supervisor, Janine Williams is very intentional about creating programming and community for a variety of individuals in the service, particularly women and gender-expansive students. Read Full Article.

Engage

 

Dr. Edward Alessi reviews his qualitative research with LGBTQ+ migrants, an especially vulnerable subgroup of both the LGBTQ+ and migrant populations, and highlights themes of the research as well as outlining next steps for identifying and addressing social and health inequalities for this population.

 

Dr. Jama Shelton’s scholarship investigates the experience of homelessness among LGBTQ youth and young adults and the service providers with whom they work, in order to drive policy and programmatic interventions to address youth homelessness in the U.S. and abroad.

 

Dr. Toomey discusses his recent findings which suggest the tenants of the “It Gets Better” Campaign may not be the most effective coping strategy for LGBT teens facing bullying.