Support for Student Organizations Uplifting LGBTQIA+ Initiatives
Whether you are thinking of starting a student group or are an established student organizations looking for support on your work, the RCSGD is happy to help! You are welcome to schedule time with us to learn about previous and current organizations, resources available to organizations across campus, and how the RCSGD can help. We love collaborating with our student groups as well, our work comes from different sides of student life but heads towards the same goal of creating more welcoming spaces for our community members.
To learn more email our Assistant Director for Programs and Leadership: MarcoMunoz@ucsb.edu.
Lounge Reservation for Student Organizations
To reserve the RCSGD lounge for your events and meetings, please fill out the RCSGD Lounge Reservation Request Form.
Reservations requests are for after center hours and not guaranteed as we try our best to accommodate all requests.
Queer Trans Leadership Council (QTLC)
The Queer Trans Leadership Council (QTLC) is a group made up of the RCSGD Assistant Director for Programs and Leadership, RCSGD Community Engagement Coordinator, A.S. Trans and Queer Commission's Internal Coordinator, and representatives from active student organizations uplifting LGBTQIA+ communities and resources.
It's purpose is to inform organizations on RCSGD resources, share updates on their own organization's work, and find helpful collaborations between organizations.
If you are in an student organization centering and supporting LGBTQIA+ students and are interested in joining QTLC, please email our Assistant Director for Programs and Leadership.
RCSGD Affiliated Student Organizations
Looking for student organizations to join or reactivate? Take a look below to see which community space fits what you're looking for!
We try to keep this page as up to date as possible, but if you know of or are in an organization and would like to update some information, please email our Assistant Director for Programs and Leadership.
La Familia De Colores
- La Familia de Colores is a student organization that actively seeks to create a safe space and gain awareness of the Latin@/Chican@ and LGBTQIA+ community at UCSB. Their objective is to fill the gap and intersect the two communities with each other and supporters.
- La Familia de Colores is currently active!
Instagram: @la.familiade.colores.ucsb
Associated Students Trans and Queer Commission
Trans and Queer Commission is an Associated Students entity and a campus collaborator for the RCSGD and organizations supporting LGBTQIA+ initiatives. As an Associated Students entity, they vote on funding requests and also speak for the campus queer community on current events.
Website: https://tqcomm.as.ucsb.edu/
Contact: tqcomm@as.ucsb.edu
Instagram: @ucsbtqc
Black Quare
- Black Quare provides a safe space for folks who identify with the intersection of being both black (of the African diaspora) and of the LGBT community as well as those seeking to engage with and support these communities. The mission is to create visibility and promote information/cultural concerns for underrepresented groups. Black Quare is open to student staff, faculty, and community members.
- This student organization is currently active!
If you would like to contact this organization, please contact the RCSGD staff for assistance.
Out in Stem (OSTEM)
- oSTEM (out in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) is an organization at UCSB and a chapter of oSTEM Incorporated, the national non-profit organization. They aim to promote and support LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) individuals and their allies in their pursuit of STEM fields.
- OSTEM is currently active!
Contact: ostemucsb@gmail.com
Instagram: @ostemucsb
Queer and Trans+ Graduate Student Union
The Queer and Trans Graduate Student Union (QTGSU) aims to provide community, mentorship, advocacy, and professional development to LGTBQIA+ graduate students and all their supporters at UCSB.
Website: https://qtgsuucsb.wordpress.com/
Contact: ucsb.qtgsu@gmail.com
Instagram: @qtgsu.ucsb
Keshet at UCSB
Keshet is a safe space that works for the equality of all students navigating LGBTQ+ experiences in Jewish life! At UCSB, our Keshet will be a safe place for all students to hang out and have a fun time! They will also plan and host events that celebrate our identities! Anyone is welcome to come to our meetings and events and they look forward to meeting everyone!
Facebook: @ucsbkeshet
Contact: ucsbkeshet@gmail.com
Discord: https://discord.gg/eXyEAzf
Instagram: @ucsbkeshet
Historical LGBTQIA+ Organizations
Queer and Trans Community (QTC)
- Queer and Trans Community (QTC) is an open group for students who share a common interest in cultivating, nurturing, and enriching the queer experience at UCSB. They are advocates for queer/trans perspectives and work to ensure that the presence and voices of queer students are recognized and respected by college administration, the student body, and the larger Santa Barbara/Goleta community. Through our active presence and involvement on campus, QTC hopes to confront phobias and heteronormativity while seeking to strengthen the bonds within our community.
- QTC is currently inactive, please contact us for more details.
If you would like to contact this organization, please contact the RCSGD staff for assistance.
Friendly Undergraduate Queers in It Together (FUQIT)
- Friendly Undergraduate Queers in It Together (FUQIT) seeks to provide a welcoming place for UCSB queer/trans+ students and allies to socialize and form strong community bonds. Weekly meetings rotate between crafts, games, and outside activities complete with refreshments. Come out and hang out with FUQIT!
- This student organization is currently inactive.
If you would like to restart this organization, please contact the RCSGD staff for assistance.
Queer and Trans Asian Pacific Islander and Desi (QTAPID)
- Queer and Trans Asian Pacific Islander and Desi (QTAPID) is a safe space for queer identified API and their allies, dedicated to highlighting intersectionality, empowering identity, building community, and fostering friendship.
- This student organization is currently inactive.
If you would like to restart this organization, please contact the RCSGD staff for assistance.
Society for Accessible and Safe Spaces (S.A.S.S.)
- Society for Accessible and Safe Spaces is a transgender, genderqueer, and gender non-conforming support group as well as an advocacy organization aimed at addressing access and safety on campus-owned property. We strive to institute change and incite a discourse that treats economic, racial, and gender issues as inseparable. All students seeking to support their community are welcome!
- This student organization is currently inactive.
If you would like to restart this organization, please contact the RCSGD staff for assistance.
Trans Social Group
- Trans Social Group is open to all undergraduates, graduate students, staff, alumni, and community members to talk and play games!
- This student organization is currently inactive.
If you would like to restart this organization, please contact the RCSGD staff for assistance.
Undocuqueer and Undocutrans Support Group
- Undocuqueer and Undocutrans Support Group's mission is to support students who may identify within the intersections of being undocumented and LGBTQ+ here at UCSB and for the greater community of supporters at UCSB. This support group was created as a response to the historical and systematic lack of support, resources, and advocacy on campus that satisfied the needs of undocumented, queer and trans people of color.
- This student organization is currently inactive.
If you would like to restart this organization, please contact the RCSGD staff for assistance.