Announcements
If you are looking to legally change your name and/or change your name and/or gender marker on a Massachusetts driver's license or birth certificate, a how-to guide is available on our website.
Events
Look for a wide range of events starting in late January, including an open house in our new location in Goodell, an ice skating night, and workshops on LGBTQIA+ rights under the new presidential administration.
Support Groups
The Stonewall-sponsored support groups will resume meeting when the spring semester begins in February. Information on local LGBTQIA+ support groups can be found on our website here.
Resources
The Stonewall Center has a resource guide for incoming LGBTQIA+ students. Scan the QR Code or access it here.
The Stonewall Center has a resource guide for LGBTQIA+ students and for families with LGBTQIA+ children moving to Western Mass. The guide can be accessed here.
The Stonewall Center's LGBTQIA+ allyship web course is available for UMass staff, faculty, and students
The course offers an independent, self-paced learning experience around the foundations of sexuality, gender, gender identity, and allyship. It is designed for UMass Amherst faculty, staff, and students to learn about strategies and resources to support LGBTQIA+ people. Faculty and staff who complete the training can receive a placard for their office that states that “this is a welcoming space for LGBTQIA+ people” and be listed on the Stonewall Center’s website as having taken the course. People can enroll here.
Our Mission
The mission of the Stonewall Center is to provide support, resources, programming and advocacy for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, asexual (LGBTQIA) and allied students, staff, and faculty at UMass Amherst and for the surrounding area. We also seek to educate the campus and local community about heterosexism, genderism, racism, transmisogyny, and other forms of oppression and intersectionalities. We do this in order to strengthen and sustain an inclusive climate for LGBTQIA+ and LGBTQIA+-supportive individuals. We work closely with other campus departments, offices, and local organizations to foster student learning, development, and leadership and to support individual academic success while building LGBTQIA+ communities and enhancing the lives of people of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
