LGBTQ+ Campus Preview: 01 August 2025

The LGBTQ+ Campus Preview

The LGBTQ+ Resources Center staff have curated a list of our community events and opportunities in the upcoming month. Keep reading to find exciting and engaging activities!

Table Of Contents

1. Welcome and Welcome Back to Campus
2. LGBTQ+ Peer Mentoring Program
3. First-Year Students: Opportunity
4. Center Internship Program
5. QT BIPOC Initiative
6. Trans Clothing Closet Resource
7. Queer Buddy System

Welcome and Welcome Back to Campus

We hope you had a restful summer and that you are taking care. We are excited to see you all, whether that is again or for the first time!

If you haven't been to visit us (in Student Union Building I, Suite 2200) recently, our summer hours are Tuesday - Thursday 11am-4pm, but we will be closed for Center Staff Training from 19 August until the first day of classes (25 August) when we will get back to our regular hours of Monday - Friday 9am-5pm.

We will be sharing more events and opportunties as classes kick off, but we wanted to highlight our Fall Lavender Orientation, happening Wednesday 27 August 5-6:30pm. Read more and register below.

If you haven't joined the  LGBTQ+ Resources Center’s Mason 360 group yet, make sure you become a member so you don't miss out throughout the year!

LGBTQ+ Peer Mentoring Program

If you are interested in being paired with one of our LGBTQ+ Peer Mentors in Fall 2025, let us know here: Mentee Interest Form

If you are interested in applying TO BE one of our LGBTQ+ Peer Mentors for the 2025-2026 academic year, let us know here: Peer Mentor Interest Form

QT BIPOC Initiative

First piloted in Fall 2023, our QT BIPOC Initiative works to build community in GMU’s campus community for Queer and/or Trans Black, Indigenous, and People of Color folks.

In partnership with undergraduate center interns who are hired, trained, and compensated by the LGBTQ+ Resources Center, our continued focus in the 2025-2026 academic year is building community via regular meet-ups, visibility, and outreach to other student groups so GMU students, faculty, and staff who are QT BIPOC, and people who support them, can have space and find each other.

We are lucky to also work with Juton Myers in African and African American Studies Program, who serves as an advisor to the group, and is deeply invested in this work.

When our QT BIPOC Center Interns start in August, we will be able to share our schedule for regular meet-ups. If you have any questions or want to reach out sooner, you can email them at qtpoc@gmu.edu or connect on Instagram @qtbipoc_gmu

Center Internship Program

Like the LGBTQ+ Resources Center, our Center Internship Program cultivates the success, retention, and well-being of George Mason students. Our work is deeply collaborative and rooted in intersectional approaches. We build identity-affirming programs, develop leaders, provide critical resources, and foster a culture of meaningful community and allyship, at George Mason.

Center Intern Learning Outcomes  

As a result of participating in this internship program, Center Interns will develop and practice the following skills:

• Building an affirming support network
• Stewarding a community space
• Designing and delivering programs or projects
• Using and sharing inclusive language and practices

Time Commitment

The undergraduate Center Intern position is designed for a 5 hour per week work commitment (Graduate and Doctoral-level positions will have higher engagement levels). This time includes regular meetings with their supervisor, regular meetings with their teams, and larger Center All Teams professional development opportunities. Outside of meetings, they will focus on their team projects and/or programs which may occur during the evening or weekend. All hours will be recorded for accountability.

• Internship appointments last one academic year, but the scholarship will be awarded semesterly.
• There is no expectation that interns work over breaks or during finals, besides being available the week prior to the semester for training.
• Center Interns cannot also hold another role in the LGBTQ+ Resources Center (i.e. Center Coordinator)

Trans Clothing Closet Resource

The Trans Clothing Closet Resource (TCCR) was created in 2019 for transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming students to access free clothing and accessories. No one has to prove they are “trans enough” to use the closet.

The Trans Clothing Closet Resource is IN our LGBTQ+ Resources Center, in Student Union Building (SUB) I, Suite 2200. When the Center is open, so is the TCCR.

We are generally overstocked, so stop by and get a new fit.

Read more on the LGBTQ+ Resources Center TCCR Webpage, or you can follow us at our new Instagram account, specifically for the Trans Clothing Closet Resource for the most up to date information, @transclothingclosetresource!

Queer Buddy System

We're excited to continue to offer our Queer Buddy System Discord server, a resource available to students seeking community virtually! If you haven't already, be sure to open the verification channel and fill out the form required to gain access to all channels of the Queer Buddy System server.