Happy 2024 Pride Month! In honor of Pride, we have compiled a list of resources for celebrating and supporting our LGBTQIA+ community. Below, you will find resources, information, and events, from Boston University, the greater Boston community and beyond.
We recognize that this is not an exhaustive list, and we are always willing to add more resources, information and events. Please email GMS Community Relations Specialist Sarah Rowan at srowan@bu.eduif you have a resource you would like us to include below.
Resources at Boston University
BU Out List
The BU Out List is a collaboration between the BU LGBTQIA+ Faculty & Staff Community Network and Q; the Queer Activist Collective. Their objective is topromote visibility, connectedness, and sharing of resources among LGBTQIA+ faculty, staff, students, and the larger Boston University community.
This is a public list of clinicians, faculty, practitioners, researchers, staff, students, and trainees across BUMC and BMC who identify as LGBTQ+ or as allies for the LGBTQ+ community. The primary mission of the OUT & Ally List is to serve as a resource for BUMC LGBTQ+ students seeking mentorship, guidance, or academic and non-academic support. Additionally, the List enables BUMC community members to build connections and network around LGBTQ+ issues more broadly.
Offered through the GMS C3 Community Catalyst Center, the gPLUS network seeks to promote a deeper sense of belonging and celebrate the multiple identities among LGBTQIA+ students across GMS programs.
Curated by BU’s Queer Activist Collective, this document outlines how to change your name in Boston University systems, including on Blackboard and Zoom.
The Queer Activist Collective (“Q”) is Boston University’s largest LGBTQ+ student organization dedicated to promoting awareness, visibility, and full inclusion of the LGBTQ+ community. They strive to connect and provide BU community members with the resources, support, and community they need and deserve and host weekly programming that include events such as mental health workshops, sexual health workshops, BU faculty & staff panels, Know Your Rights workshops, game nights, allyship workshops, charity drag shows, and much more. Check Q out here.
Q also has numerous comprehensive LGBTQ+ resource guides – you can access them here.
BU Medical Campus Pride
The goal of BUMC Pride is to provide a safe, supportive environment for LGBTQIA+ students, faculty and staff on the medical campus. The organization showcases the diversity of the medical campus community, educates future and current health professionals on the social issues and health concerns of the LGBTQIA+ community and offers opportunities for professional and personal development. Learn more here.
BU Diversity & Inclusion
Boston University Diversity & Inclusion (BU D&I) works closely, and collaboratively, with academic leaders in all 17 schools and colleges, countless centers and institutes, as well as administrative units across the University to build a positive and inclusive campus environment, to help ensure that not only are we more diverse but also that pathways to success and participation are open to every member of the BU community.
Dr. Carl Streed, Jr. is an Assistant Professor at Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine and the Research Lead for the GenderCare Center at Boston Medical Center. After attending medical school and residency in Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins he completed a fellowship in General Internal Medicine at Brigham & Women’s. Nationally, he has chaired the American Medical Association Advisory Committee on LGBTQ Issues, served on the board of GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ Equality, and currently serves as the President-Elect of the US Professional Association for Transgender Health. Learn more about Dr. Streed here.
LGBTQIA+ Faculty & Staff Community Network
The LGBTQIA+ Faculty & Staff Community Network at Boston University seeks to promote a deeper sense of community and celebrate identity among LGBTQIA+ faculty and staff across Boston University, with over 200 members and growing. Learn more about the network and sign up for the mailing list here.
Resources and Organizations Around Boston and Beyond
Creating LGBTQIA+ Friendly Communities in Healthcare & Education
Inclusive, welcoming, patient-centered healthcare should be afforded to people from all walks of life, especially those who often feel marginalized due to their sexual orientation or gender identity. This EduMed.org resource outlines the challenges we face and the steps we can take to bridge the LGBTQIA+ health gap from the classroom to the clinic. Learn more.
BAGLY
The Boston Alliance of LGBTQ+ Youth (BAGLY) was formed in 1980 and is a youth-led, adult-supported organization committed to social justice, and creating, sustaining and advocating for programs, policies and services for the LGBTQ+ youth community.
BAGLY believes in a world that is more equitable and safe for LGBTQ+ youth and prioritizes the needs of LGBTQ+ youth of color, trans and gender non-conforming youth, and homeless LGBTQ+ youth. Learn more.
Gay for Good (Boston Chapter)
Gay For Good aims to energize and mobilize the LGBTQ community to interact with the greater community by volunteering time to various social welfare and environmental service projects. Each month, Gay For Good Boston selects a different non-profit to donate our time for a community service project. Learn more.
Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth
The Commission is an independent state agency that helps all youth thrive.Learn more.
Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition
MTPC works to ensure the wellbeing, safety, and lived equity of all trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive community members in Massachusetts.Learn more.
Greater Boston PFLAG
The Greater Boston PFLAG is a group of parents, families, friends, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people who help change attitudes and create an environment of understanding so that LGBTQ family members and friends can live in a world that is safe and inclusive. Learn more here.
Creating Trans Affirming Spaces -- Using Gender Appropriate Language
In this foundational module, learners will acquire skills and best practices to communicate in ways that are affirming to transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) patients to mitigate the traumatic effects of misgendering patients. Learn more here.
The Trevor Project
Founded in 1998 by the creators of the Academy Award-winning short film TREVOR, The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people under 25. Learn more.
Boston Public Library We Are Pride Booklist
The Boston Public Library publishes its We Are Pride booklist each year, including books for all ages that concern the diverse experiences of the LGBTQ+ community. This year’s list includes 75 books. Access the full list here.
