GLBT student groups offer support year-round

June 2011 is GLBT Awareness Month. But IU has plenty of opportunities to get involved in the GLBT community year-round, no matter your sexual orientation. Here’s just a few of them.

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Student Support Services
From its office on Seventh Street, the GLBT SSS offers counseling, resources and information to GLBT students and allies. It’s a center for GLBT groups, programs and activities and features a library that houses over 3,000 books, DVDs and CDs.
— http://www.indiana.edu/~glbt/

OUT
OUT is IU’s official GLBT Student Union and the University’s largest and oldest GLBT student group. Each year, OUT organizes events from as small as weekly group movie outings at the Whittenberger Auditorium to as large as Miss Gay Indiana University, one of the country’s largest drag competitions.
—http://www.indiana.edu/~out/

OUT @ Kelley
Out at Kelley caters to the GLBT community within the Kelley School of Business, as well as students in the School of Professional and Environmental Affairs, the Liberal Arts Management Program and the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation. The group focuses on networking and addressing student attitudes specifically
in Kelley.
—http://www.iub.edu/~oak/

Outlaw
Outlaw is an alliance of GLBT and straight students promoting equal rights and protection against discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender. Outlaw also works with various organizations to advance equal rights and create dialogue in the legal community about
GLBT issues.  
—http://www.law.indiana.edu/students/activities/lambda/index.shtml

BlaqueOUT
IU’s newest GLBT group, BlaqueOUT, is a reconstitution of an older, now-defunct GLBT group called Blacks Like Us. The group offers support for students who are both a minority and a member of the GLBT community, as well as their friends and family.

Keshet
Sponsored by the Helen G. Simon Hillel Center, Keshet is an organization for cultural and religious GLBT Jewish students. The organization offers movie nights, bagel brunches and Queer coffee klastches while shining a light on Jewish issues in the GLBT community.
—http://www.iuhillel.org/groups/keshet.php

SAGE
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Equality (SAGE) is a student organization that advocates for equal rights for all sexual orientations and gender identities. SAGE reaches out to campus groups of all kinds to build bridges and alliances to create a larger movement.
—www.indiana.edu/~glbt/sage/

NOGLSTP at IU
NOGLSTP stands for the National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals. While the organization focuses on those in the science and technology fields, it places emphasis on inclusivity and concerns of discrimination in all forms. NOGLSTP organizes an empowerment group called Get Real About Discrimination that meets every Friday in the Persimmon Room in the Indiana Memorial Union.
—http://www.noglstp.net/iu/