LGBTQ+ Supports

LGBTQ+ Supports

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Harvard University Resources 

  • University-Wide Offices and Organizations 

    Harvard University provides resources for affiliates, including LGBTQIA+ students, faculty, and staff. These include but are not limited to:  

    • LGBTQ+ Health Support at HUHS offers a number of services for the Harvard community around matters such as sexual orientation and coming out, gender identity, transitioning and gender affirmation, sexuality and sexual health, fertility and reproductive health, and physical and mental wellness.
    • LGBTQ+ Travel Guidance & Resources (GSS) offers a world of resources and help for LGBTQ+ travelers, wherever you’re headed. Depending on the destination, LGBTQ+ travelers may encounter unique challenges abroad.
    • Harvard Law School LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic engages in impact litigation, legislative and policy advocacy, and direct representation on behalf of the LGBTQ+ community, with a particular focus on issues affecting underrepresented groups within the LGBTQ+ umbrella. 
    • Harvard LGBTQ+ Faculty and Staff Resource Group (QERG) (behind HarvardKey) works to ensure that Harvard is a welcoming and inclusive workplace for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary, and queer employees.
    • Harvard Gender & Sexuality Caucus has been working for the bisexual, gay, lesbian, trans and queer alumni, students, faculty, and staff of the Harvard University community since 1984.  

  • Student Organizations 

    Self-organized student organizations welcome all students, including LGBTQ+ students and allies, and exist across the University and its Schools.  

    • HBS’s PRIDE, a Student Club at Harvard Business School, is an association of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ+) MBA students and partners. 
    • Harvard College/Harvard Foundation serves Harvard College by cultivating a community where each person is treated with equal dignity and respect. The Foundation does this by overseeing programs and initiatives that uplift the individual lived experiences of community members while encouraging connections across various perspectives, values, and personal journeys.
    • Harvard College Queer Students Association (QSA) is a resource organization concerned with improving the visibility, strength, and support of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and allied students, initiatives, organizations, and communities, in recognition of the marginalization that exists as the result of stigmatized identities. 
    • LGBTQ@GSAS, a Harvard Griffin GSAS Student Group, provides a community and safe space for Harvard Griffin GSAS students who self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or those who self-identify as LGBTQ allies. 
    • HKS’s LGBTQ Caucus supports LGBTQ+ students through community building, professional development, and campus-wide inclusion efforts. 
    • HLS’s Lambda is a community of LGBTQ+ students at Harvard Law School.
    • TransHarvard is a student-run organization whose mission is to foster spaces that welcome all Trans+ folks and encourage allyship in the classroom, in sports, and in society.
    • Harvard Undergraduate Queer Advocates (HUQAD) is concerned with advocating for Queer-affirming policies at a local and state legislature level.
    • Queers in Design aims to uplift the practices, voices, and stories of LGBTQIA+ identifying students at Harvard Graduate School of Design, and to make visible the intersections of LGBTQIA+ communities lived experiences and their academic and professional practice.

  • Peer Counseling Groups for Undergraduates  

    Undergraduate peer counseling groups welcome all students, including LGBTQ+ students.  

    • Indigo peer counseling includes sexuality, gender, and other identities. 
    • Room 13 is a confidential, non-judgmental, non-directive peer counseling service for Harvard undergraduates on gender, identity, socioeconomic status, alcohol and drugs, grief, relationships, eating, health, school, and anything else. 

    • Contact Peer Counseling is a nonjudgmental and confidential peer counseling service for Harvard undergraduates. Contact is here to talk about any issue including LGBTQIA+ identities, all genders, sexes, sexualities, and relationships.  

       

Off-Campus and Community Resources 

Boston and Cambridge have a host of resources and organizations dedicated to the LGBTQIA+ community, including but not limited to:  

  • Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth (BAGLY) is a youth-led, adult-supported social support organization committed to social justice, and creating, sustaining and advocating for programs, policies and services for the LGBTQ youth community. 
  • Boston Pride For The People is a volunteer-led organization that plans activities and events that celebrate the rich diversity, culture, and intersectionality of the LGBTQ+ community. 
  • Trans Resistance MA advocates for the safety, joy, and liberation of Trans, Queer, Black, Indigenous People of Color (TQBIPOC), and organize an annual March & Festival in June that returns to the authentic origins of pride.
  • City of Cambridge LGBTQ+ Commission advocates for a culture of respect and to monitor progress toward equality of all persons regarding sexual orientation and gender identity.
  • 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. 
  • Mass.gov LGBTQ Resources is a frequently updated, comprehensive list of LGBTQ resources for youth throughout the state of Massachusetts. 
  • Immigration Equality is America’s leading LGBTQ and HIV-positive immigrant rights organization.
  • Boston Glass offers a range of services to LGBTQ+ youth of color and their allies in the Greater Boston area.
  • The Network La Red is a survivor-led, social justice organization that works to end partner abuse in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, kink, polyamorous, and queer communities.
  • MCAD is the independent state agency that enforces the Massachusetts anti-discrimination laws by investigating complaints of discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodations, and other aspects of everyday life.
  • Health Care