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The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center enriches the experience, fosters success, celebrates victories, and affirms the existence of Penn's LGBTQ+ undergraduates, professional and graduate students, staff, faculty, and alumni using the lenses of social justice and intersectionality.

 Through education, support, and advocacy, the Center cultivates a campus climate where all students, regardless of their gender or sexual identity, can live authentically.

LGBT Center Fall 2023 Hours

Monday – Thursday: 10am-10pm
Friday: 10am-5pm
Saturday: 12pm-6pm
Sunday: 12pm-8pm

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LGBT Center Book Registry

The LGBT Center has served the Penn community for over four decades, providing a welcoming space and invaluable resources for LGBTQ students. However, our library has not kept up with the pace of progress. The median publication date of our books is 1998, meaning much of our collection is sadly out of date. With your generous donation, we can bring our library into the 21st century by stocking the shelves with contemporary works on queer and trans issues. This will enable emerging scholars to stay at the cutting edge of LGBTQ research and allow students their first introduction to queer literature and culture to access modern, relevant, and engaging materials. Your support will help the LGBT Center continue to foster a dynamic intellectual community on campus. Please give today! 

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Fall Semester Room Reservations Now Open!

Room reservations at the LGBT Center are open! Starting today, reservations are open on a 90-day cycling basis so people can plan ahead. We’ve also updated our room reservation rates and done a slight overhaul to the reservation intake form so we can better serve you!
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  • Internship opportunity! ⤵️ NOTE — the links were accidentally reversed! Use the link listed as for Penn Students if you’re a high schooler, and vice versa. Thanks for your patience! OurSpace (@NetterCenter_OurSpace) is seeking interns for the...
  • 🏳️‍⚧️ Get to know @PennNonCis! 🏳️‍⚧️ Swipe through this post (and/or keep reading below) to learn about the group’s upcoming meetings and events (including a trip to the Philly Trans March on October 7!) Slide Descriptions [created...
  • 🏳️‍🌈 Thank you so much to everyone who joined us at our Open House last week! 🏳️‍⚧️ We had the best time welcoming everyone to the LGBT Center and celebrating the start of the 2023-2024 school...
  • Come enjoy a free community dinner this Friday, September 29! 🌈 Join us at the LGBT Center (3907 Spruce St) from 6-8 pm on 9/29 for our first Family Dinner of the school year. Family Dinner is...
  • It’s time for a virtual Kiki 🥰🌈 🔗 LINK: www.bit.ly/virtualkiki (Also in our bio — @pennlgbt) Join us virtually on Tuesday, September 26 at 5 pm to hang with your fellow LGBTQ+ community members as...
  • Welcome to the LGBT Center! 🥳🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Video transcript is pasted below and continued in the comments ⤵️ MALIK (Associate Director): I just want to take a moment to make sure you know who we all are, working...
  • We have SO many fun activities at the LGBT Center Open House today (including a visit from our resident pup, Sunset Blush!!) Be sure to stop by the LGBT Center today (9/21) anytime before 5:30 pm...
  • Bisexual Visibility Day is coming up on Saturday, September 23, and you’re invited to celebrate with the LGBT Center! 🩷💜💙 Stop by the Center anytime between 3-7 pm on Saturday to pick up some bisexual-themed swag...
  • Join @QBlack.UPenn for their first event of the year -- the QBlack Social! The social is being held on Friday, September 22nd from 6-8 pm in the LGBT Center Goodhand Room (3907 Spruce St, in the...
  • Join the LGBT Center for our official open house!! 🏡 🌈 We’re so excited to welcome the community into our beautiful space and celebrate the start of the semester. ALL are welcome to join us —...
  • Want to help trans and gender-non-conforming folks get legal name changes? ✨ Join a team of students organized by Penn Carey Law’s Transgender Empowerment and Advocacy (TEA) pro bono group that is building a brand-new iPhone...
  • 🏳️‍⚧️ Get excited for a mixer TONIGHT for the trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming community at Penn! 🏳️‍⚧️ Stop by the LGBT Center (3907 Spruce St) between 6-7:30 pm tonight (September 19) and get to know...
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The LGBT Center welcomes folks to use our space, pending staff availability for off-hours requests. We continue to require masks indoors and strongly encourage individually boxed or wrapped food. Questions? Please write to our Building Coordinator, Loran Grishow-Schade (loran@upenn.edu).
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