Student Organizations

LGBTQIA+ Student Organizations at UCSB

RCSGD Resources for Student Organizations

Support for LGBTQIA+ Student Organizations

Whether you are thinking of starting an LGBTQIA+ 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 Program Coordinator.

Lounge reservation for Student Organizations

To reserve the RCSGD lounge for your QT related event/meeting please fill out the RCSGD Lounge Reservation Request. Reservations request are for after center hours.

Queer Trans Leadership Council (QTLC)

The Queer Trans Leadership Council is a group made up of the RCSGD Program Coordinator, Outreach Coordinator, and representatives from active LGBTQIA+ student Organizations. 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 LGBTQIA+ student organization and are interested in joining QTLC, please email our Program Coordinator.

LGBTQIA+ Student Organization List

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 Program Coordinator.

La Familia de Colores

La Familia de Colores is a LGBTQ organization that actively seeks to create a safe space and gain awareness in the Latin@/Chican@ community at UCSB. Our objective is to fill the gap and intersect the two communities.
La Familia de Colores is currently active! Find them on Instagram: @la.familiade.colores.ucsb

Queer and Trans Community (QTC)

A group of students who share a common interest in cultivating, nurturing, and enriching the queer experience at UCSB. We are advocates for queer/trans perspectives and we 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 active! Find them on Instagram: @queer.trans.community

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. We 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

Queer/Trans Grad Student Union

The QT GSU aims to provide community, mentorship, advocacy, and professional development to LGTBQIA+ graduate students at UCSB.
Website: https://qtgsuucsb.wordpress.com/
Contact: ucsb.qtgsu@gmail.com

Associated Students Trans and Queer Commission

Queer Commission is our campus financier of other student organizations. As an Associated Students entity, they vote on funding requests and also speak for the campus queer community on current events.
Contact: qcomm@as.ucsb.edu
Website: https://qcomm.as.ucsb.edu/

Historical LGBTQIA+ Organizations

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. The mission is to create visibility and promote information/cultural concerns for this underrepresented group. Black Quare is open to student staff, faculty, and community members.
This student organization is currently inactive. If you would like to restart this organization, please contact the RCSGD staff for assistance.

Friendly Undergraduate Queers In It Together (FUQIT)

We seek to provide a welcoming place for UCSB queers and allies to socialize and form strong community bonds. Our 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.

Keshet at UCSB

Keshet is a safe space that works for the equality of all LGBTQ+ Jews in Jewish life! At UCSB, our Keshet will be a safe place for LGBTQ+ Jews to hang out and have a fun time! We will also plan and host events that celebrate our identities! Anyone is welcome to come to our meetings and events and we look forward to meeting everyone!
Facebook: @ucsbkeshet
Contact: ucsbkeshet@gmail.com
Discord: https://discord.gg/eXyEAzf

QAPI (Queer Asian Pacific Islanders)

QAPI 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.

S.A.S.S. (Society for Accessible and Safe Spaces)

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 inseperable.
This student organization is currently inactive. If you would like to restart this organization, please contact the RCSGD staff for assistance.

Trans Social Group

A social group open to 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

Our mission is to support students who may identify within the intersections of being undocumented and LGBTQ+ here at UCSB and the greater community. 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.