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Timeline
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- Marco Muñoz was hired as RCSGD Program Coordinator
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- Summer 2021: RCSGD Director position becomes vacant
- Summer 2021: RCSGD Program Coordinator position becomes vacant
- Summer 2021: Interim Program Coordinator, Sky Limon, is hired
- Fall 2021: Return to campus after remote learning
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Fall 2021: Search for new RCSGD director begins
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November 2021: Quinn Rioz was hired as the new RCSGD Director
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Fall 2021: Search for new RCSGD associate director begins
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Fall 2021: Sky Limon was hired as the new RCSGD Associate Director
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Fall 2021: Interim Program Coordinator, Marco Munoz, is hired
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- RCSGD and the Dean of Students hosted a town hall to review the RCSGD 2017 demands
- All of the demands were met except the creation of a free standing building for the Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity
- Associated Students Queer Commission (QComm) became Associated Students Trans & Queer Commission (TQComm)
- In March 2020, COVID-19 was declared a pandemic and a stay-at-home order was issued by California and remote learning began
- Winter 2020 - Spring 2020 - RCSGD received funding from the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in response to the 2014 UCSB Campus Climate Survey 2014 LGBTQ committee to hire a Graduate Fellow for Education Initiatives to create the Queer & Trans 101 module
- Fall 2020 - Grad Assistant for Education Initiatives was created
- RCSGD and the Dean of Students hosted a town hall to review the RCSGD 2017 demands
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- Winter 2019 - New Associate Director, Quinn Rioz was hired
- Spring 2019
- Associated Students Queer Commission (QComm) set aside new funding of $15,00 for RCSGD programming
- RCSGD was able to host MJ Rodriguez, Ongina, Latrice Royale, Robyn Ochs, Susan Stryker, and Ryan Cassata
- RCSGD Safe Zone trainings were rebranded to Queer Trans Identities & Experiences Seminars (QTie Seminars or QTies)
- Associated Students Queer Commission (QComm) set aside new funding of $15,00 for RCSGD programming
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- Summer 2018: Craig Leets is hired as the new RCSGD Director
- Fall 2018: Dwayne Mosbey is hired as the new RCSGD Program Coordinator
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- November 2017:
- RCSGD Associate Director position becomes vacant
- RCSGD Program Coordinator position becomes vacant
- RCSGD Director position becomes vacant
- RCSGD department is left with no full time career staff
- Students present a list of demands:
- Demand to be separate from WGSE and report as an independent department
- Provide transparency as to why the center does not have any full time staff
- Split the WGSE budget between WGSE and the RCSGD
- Provide more LGBTQIA+ education to campus
- Provide more LGBTQIA+ Services
- Have a freestanding building for the RCSGD
- November 2017:
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- 15th Annual Lavender Graduation (keynote: Bambi Salcedo)
- Gender-inclusive bathrooms start appearing across campus
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- First UCSB Queer Pride Parade
- 18th Annual Queer Wedding officiated by Vice Chancellor Michael Young
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- Moved to the 3rd floor of the Student Resource Building (SRB) when the SRB opened
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- First full-time Assistant Director of LGBT Resources hired
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- Name changed to Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity
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- Winter 1999:
- Campus Protests occurred “for the protection and growth of Ethnic and Queer studies on campus” with over 1,500 students that took over the Chancellor's office
- Student Resource Center (SRB) built as a result of this. Originally, this building was supposed to house Student Organizations, but as the previous generations of students graduated and left, the University went ahead and housed UC Offices, leaving Student Organizations without a formal space.
- Campus Protests occurred “for the protection and growth of Ethnic and Queer studies on campus” with over 1,500 students that took over the Chancellor's office
- June 1999:
- La Familia de Colores student organization was started
- Lavender Graduation started
- Fall 1999:
- The Queer Resource Center opened on the 3rd floor of the UCEN.
- First LGBTQ Coordinator, Debbie Bazarsky, was hired
- Winter 1999:
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- LGBTQ demands & needs were presented
- October:
- “the day after the vigil for Matthew Sheppard, the Queer Peer Intern spoke to the Chancellor about the lack of support for LGBT students at UCSB and the need for allies. Soon after the Chancellor and Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs pledge funds for a LGBT Coordinator and small operating budget.”
- Queer Student Union requests a space again, supported by the women’s center
- Also propose a Matthew Shepard scholarship for queer students
- October:
- LGBTQ demands & needs were presented
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- UCSB hosts first UC LGBT Conference
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Formal bid for a LGBTQIA+ space was made
- Done by student LGBA, GLB Graduate Student Network, LGB Faculty Group, LGB Staff Association, University Committee on LGBT Concerns, the rap groups and LGBs of Color.
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Letter to Vice Chancellor was sent
- Proposing to move the MCC to the renovated UCEN, and their old space be given to “various organizations concerned with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual issues”
- Existing orgs at the time: Graduate Student Network, faculty and staff group, recently formed University Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Concern Groups create demands:
- Increase in LGBTQ orientation materials
- Curriculum changes to include more LGBTQ+ affirmative materials
- Family housing inclusion for same-sex couples
- Staff LGBTQ+ inclusivity training
- A place to meet
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A faculty, staff and student LGB awareness group was formed in 1989 and one of their first goals was the creation of a LGB Center at UCSB
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Homophobic posters put around campus