Pride Month is largely credited as being started by bisexual activist Brenda Howard. Known as 'The Mother of Pride,' Brenda organized Gay Pride Week and the Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade a year after the Stonewall Riots. This eventually morphed into what we now know as the New York City Pride March and was the catalyst for the formation of similar parades and marches across the world. (Learn More)
The Stonewall Riots, also called the Stonewall Uprising, began in the early hours of June 28, 1969 when New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club located in Greenwich Village in New York City. The raid sparked a riot among bar patrons and neighborhood residents as police roughly hauled employees and patrons out of the bar, leading to six days of protests and violent clashes with law enforcement outside the bar on Christopher Street, in neighboring streets and in nearby Christopher Park. The Stonewall Riots served as a catalyst for the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world.
Out Of Office is Yale SOM's LGBTQ+ student organization. We:
1. Provide a support system for LGBTQ+ students within the SOM community
2. Provide a social network for LGBTQ+ SOM students to interact with the broader Yale community
3. Work as a general information resource on LGBTQ+ issues for the wider SOM community
4. Provide recruiting, networking, and other career development opportunities for LGBTQ+ students
5. Foster an open community of LGBTQ+ students, faculty, professionals, alumni, and allies
The Office of LGBTQ Resources provides services and support for students, faculty and staff across the University, in part by providing training and support for the programing, organizations and initiatives of students, faculty, staff, alumni and the local community.
The Yale LGBTQ Affinity Group was created in 2008 to foster a more welcoming and respectful campus community for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer individuals and their allies with a primary focus on retention and edification of Yale employees. The group is open to all Yale staff, faculty, and postdocs, representing a diverse range of departments and interests at Yale.
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