Gender & LGBTQIA Center

More than 30 students, alumni and staff gathered March 11 for Elon’s second annual LGBTQIA career panel.

The associate professor of English and coordinator of the university's African & African-American Studies program proposed, organized, chaired and presented research in Black female resistance with Elon University senior strategic communications major Raven Bennett.

LGBTQIA alumni return for this annual program on helping LGBTQIA students and employees navigate their professional careers and personal identities.

Join the fireside chat in the McBride Gathering Space of the Numen Lumen Pavilion about Elon's efforts to create an inclusive campus and disrupt bias and hate in our community. 

MIMA SIMIĆ: Croatian writer, film critic, activist, media personality, and Croatian LGBT person of the decade.  Mima will talk on "LGBT Politics and Activist Strategies of Media Subversion,” discussing how she and other activists and organizations have used strategies of media subversion to affect public and social attitudes on homosexuality and gender in Croatia. Katherine McFarland Bruce, Elon visiting assistant professor of sociology, will join Mima and compare and discuss LGBT activism in the United States, specifically the South. 

Art History Speaker Series, Tuesday March 11, 6pm, La Rose Digital Theater (KOBC 101)

Three outstanding members of the Elon community were honored with the LGBTQIA Community Enrichment Awards during an event Nov. 10 in McKinnon Hall.

The constitutional law expert will argue in McCrary Theatre of the dangers in someone downplaying his or her differences based on race, gender, sexual orientation, religion and disability in order to fit into American society.

A new resource room in Moseley Center will serve as a place for the Elon community to engage intellectually and socially around gender and LGBTQIA topics.

Elon's new Gender & LGBTQIA Center advances campus climate for LGBTQIA students by premiering the student-decorated, student-operated Gender & LGBTQIA Resource Room.