Announcements

Welcome Back, Highlanders!

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• Calling all graduating students! Be honored at the Lambda Celebration, and honor those who got you through.
  • Register as a graduating student to receive your rainbow tassel and lavender cord
  • Honor someone with a "You Got Me Through" Award
  • RSVP for the Lambda Celebration
• RSVP online now for the Lambda Celebration: 30 Years of R'Pride. Join us Tuesday, June 6, 6pm @ HUB 302 South as we celebrate the campus LGBTQ+ community, featuring a keynote by Edwin Ramoran '94. This special 30th Anniversary edition of the Lambda Celebration Celebration is not to be missed, as we look back on our history, recognize LGBTQ+ excellence, and look to the future. Dinner served with online RSVP.
• Newly renovated gender inclusive multi-stall restroom opens at Spieth Hall. Part of a pilot program to expand gender inclusive restrooms across campus, you can read more here. If you wish to recommend a multi-stall restroom for conversion, you may email the LGBTRC director at nancy.tubbs@ucr.edu. Your feedback will be shared with the project team.
• Meet Parker, the center's Trans Support Advocate: Parker, our Trans Group facilitator for the last 5 years, is now holding office hours inside the LGBT Resource Center to provide non-clinical counseling to students accessing the center. Parker can talk through challenges students are experiencing and provide referrals and resources. They will use the Quiet Room for private 1-on-1 meetings with students. Parker will continue to host the Trans Group every Thursday at 2:00pm.
• Spring Center Hours: The center is open from 9am-7pm, Monday-Thursday, 9am-6pm Friday at 245 Costo Hall.
• LGBTQ+ Staff/Faculty Hour: Online the first Tuesday of the month at noon.
• Tuesday Talks: Join a supportive discussion series hosted in the LGBTRC at 245 Costo Hall at 5pm, with new topics every week. Share your thoughts or simply listen to other folks.
• BlaqOUT Discussion Group meets every Wednesday in the LGBTRC at 245 Costo Hall at 3pm (meeting room). The BlaqOUT Discussion Group is for same-gender-loving, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and/or questioning students who identity as Black/African American or of African descent. The group offers a space to come together and discuss community and life issues as well as shared experiences.
• Queer Cinema Nights are hosted every Friday in the LGBTRC at 245 Costo Hall at 6pm, with the gathering beginning at 5:30pm in the Lounge. Discover classic and contemporary "movies in the closet.” Bring some snacks, make some friends, and stay for the discussion about the very best and queerest movies in the community. 
• Check out the UCR Trans Guide, recently updated.

UCR Land Acknowledgement

We at UCR would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of this land, water, and air: the Cahuilla [ka-wee-ahh], Tongva [tong-va], Luiseño [loo-say-ngo], and Serrano [se-ran-oh] peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. Today this meeting place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including UCR faculty, students, and staff, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these homelands.
Download and read the full Land Acknowledgement from UCR Native American Student Programs.