Student Organizations

Student groups affiliated with the center are aimed at creating spaces for LGBTQ+ students at Penn. Please see a current list of organizations below. Student leaders can apply for program funding to support on-campus events that are LGBTQ+ focused, especially those promoting collaboration among LGBTQ+ groups. The LGBT Center is committed to support student groups with guidance, programming execution, space, and financial support.

The LGBT Center is here to support both active student groups, new student groups, and students interested in re-activating student groups. Have questions? Reach out to Associate Director, Kristal Castro at kriscas8@upenn.edu.

PennClubs is managed by the Office of Student Affairs (OSA). For additional questions regarding OSA changes, policies, or general support visit their website: https://osa.universitylife.upenn.edu/startclb/.

ACTIVE Student Groups

Athlete Ally

A Penn chapter of Athlete Ally, a nonprofit LGBTQ athletic advocacy group focusing on making athletic communities more inclusive and less discriminatory and helping athletes to advocate for LGBTQ equality.

Upennathleteally@gmail.com

GSE Pride Alliance

GSE Pride Alliance is a student organization that aims to create a welcoming, supportive, and safe environment for LGBTQQIAPP (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, pansexual and polyamorous) and allied students, faculty and staff in Penn GSE. We facilitate open and honest dialogue around gender and sexuality issues in education, and provide educational and social programming for all. GSE Pride Alliance hopes to encourage positive social change in GSE and beyond, by promoting our four core tenets of advocacy, academic dialogue, education and community outreach.

penngse.pridealliance@gmail.com

Lambda Alliance

Lambda Alliance is the coalition dedicated to the promotion and representation of LGBTQ+ interests for Penn undergraduates. By facilitating communication, collaboration, and efficiency among its constituent groups, the wider student and Philadelphia communities, and the University administration, the Lambda Alliance seeks to overcome the barriers facing the LGBTQ+ student community of today.

lambdaalliance.upenn@gmail.com

Lambda Grads

Lambda Grads is the umbrella LGBTQ+ organization for graduate and professional students at Penn. They organize a wide range of professional, academic, and community-building programming throughout the year in order to bring about greater awareness to LGBTQ+ issues and interests.

lambdagrads@gmail.com

Lambda Law

Lambda Law is open to students, faculty, and staff of the Law School. Lambda Law meets regularly for social events and political activities. They work to represent LGBTQ+ concerns in academia and in the wider community.

pennlawlambda@gmail.com

LGBTQIA

LGBTQIA Students in Biomedical Graduate Studies ( LTBGS+) seeks to foster the formation of an inclusive community for LGBTQ+ graduate students in the Biomedical Graduate Studies (BGS) program. They strive to provide access to seminars from LGBTQ+ biomedical profes-sionals who will discuss their experiences as LGBTQ+ individuals in scientific careers. They also hope to sponsor seminars based around LGBTQ+ health issues (such as transgender health, HIV/AIDs education, and PrEP) from professionals with experience in working in these areas.

ltbgs.penn@gmail.com

Out For Business

Out For Business is Wharton’s LGBTQ+ club for MBA and PhD students, faculty, and staff. Out4Biz aims to create an open and inclusive community that fosters the development and success of LGBTQ+ people and LGBTQ+ allies in business.Any outreach and follow-up will be treated with 100% strict confidentiality.

out4business@wharton.upenn.edu

Official Website

oSTEM

oSTEM at Penn is a chapter of Out in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics, the national student society dedicated to increasing participation of people who identify with LGBTQ+ communities in disciplines related to science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM).

pennostem@gmail.com

Penn Dental Pride Alliance

Penn Dental Pride Alliance’s mission is to unify and support LGBTQ+ dental students, faculty, administration, staff, and their supporters. Their goal is to achieve this through school-wide diversity and inclusion efforts, consistent educational programming, and entertaining events that enrich our community.

lgbtq.penndental@gmail.com

Penn Med Pride

Penn Med Pride is Penn Med’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer student and student allies organization. This group is committed to increasing visibility of LGBTQ+ people at Penn Med; educating the Penn Med community about LGBTQ+ health best practices; promoting LGBTQ+ health related community outreach; providing opportunities for professional development; and cultivating our vibrant community of LGBTQ+ students, faculty, staff and allies at Penn Med.

pennmedpride@gmail.com

PrideSVMC (Student Veterinary Medical Community)

PrideSVMC (formerly Broad Spectrum Student Veterinary Medical Association) is the student-run arm of the Pride Veterinary Medical Community. The PrideVMC fosters acceptance and inclusivity for people of all sexual orientations and gender identities within the veterinary profession. PrideVMC offers support and mentorship, and is the fiscal sponsor of the national PrideSVMC. kerryca@vet.upenn.edu

Penn Q&A (Penn Queer and Asian)

Penn Q&A (Penn Queer and Asian) is dedicated to providing a safe space for both support and empowerment of LGBTQ+ individuals in the Asian community at Penn. You don’t have to be queer or Asian to join if you’re interested in addressing issues of the queer Asian community.

pennqanda@gmail.com

QBlack

QBlack is a new student organization on campus that aims to create a social, informational, and comfortable safe space for Black people that identify as queer or as falling under the LGBTQ+ umbrella. This will be a consistent space for our community at Penn to connect through close social gatherings, sex education, and decompressive programming. .

qblack.upenn@gmail.com

QMAP (Queer Muslims and Allies at Penn)

QMAP (Queer Muslims and Allies at Penn) is a student group aimed at providing support for Penn’s LGBTQ+ Muslim community and allies of all faiths, sexual orientations, gender identities, and cultural backgrounds. In their eyes, the term “Muslim” may encompass anyone who identifies with any form of Islam in any capacity, whether religiously, culturally, by familial association, or otherwise. All are welcome.

qmapatpenn@gmail.com

Wharton Alliance

Wharton Alliance is the first LGBTQ+ pre-professional undergraduate organization in the United States. They are dedicated to educating Penn undergraduates about the opportunities that exist in the business world for LGBTQ+ students.

whartonalliance@gmail.com

(Currently) INACTIVE Student Groups

FGLIQ

The purpose of FGLIQ is to provide space for first-generation, low-income, queer undergraduate students, graduate and professional students, and alumni of the University of Pennsylvania. This group will foster connections, and potential networking events, with the goal of creating community and further apprising students and alumni of opportunities, other various communities, and resources that are available. We hope this group can create space for folks to express their stories and experiences, as well as career goals and create connections.

upennfgliq@gmail.com

PennAces

PennAces is a student organization that promotes awareness, education and safety for the asexual community in Philadelphia. Asexuality (not experiencing sexual attraction) is an orientation that is not given enough attention in our society, though 1% of the population openly identifies as asexual.

pennsaces@gmail.com

Penn Non-Cis

Penn Non-Cis is a student-run organization that serves trans students and others in the Penn Community. Non-Cis is short for Non-Cisgender, which is a term that we use to encompass transgender, gender non-conforming, and questioning people.

pennnoncis@gmail.com

NeuroQueer at Penn

NeuroQueer at Penn is a safe space for neurodivergent queer students (both undergrad & grad) to hang out, talk about special interests, get to know each other, and just decompress and take a break from Penn's heteronormative, neurotypical social scene. Note: Neurodivergence includes autism spectrum disorder, adhd, mood disorders (e.g., depression), anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and more. *Self-diagnoses are welcome as we're aware of the existing barriers to obtaining clinical diagnoses that fall under the nd umbrella.* initiatives within Penn Engineering.

Q-INE

Q-INE (pronounced queen) is Penn’s LGBTQ+ interest magazine. We aim to showcase writing, art, photography and much more giving Penn’s queer community an outlet for ex- pression and a platform for interests and concerns. We accept submissions from the entire Penn LGBTQ+ community.

qinemag@gmail.com

QSA (Queer Student Alliance)

QSA (Queer Student Alliance) is a group of undergraduate students who identify as or are supportive of gender identity or sexual minorities. The Queer Student Alliance strives to support these communities through facilitating social and community-oriented activities.

pennqsa@gmail.com