LGBTQ+ Center Updates
February 2025
Announcements
Registration for Lavender Graduation is open!
If you’ve earned any degree from WVU in the 2024-2025 academic year, you and your guests are welcome to celebrate with us at the happiest event of the year!
Please RSVP by Friday, April 18.
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Come see us in Room 249 of the Mountainlair
8:15 a.m. - 4:45 p.m. | Monday - Friday
Contact us by phone at 304-293-9594 or by email at lgbtq@mail.wvu.edu
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Upcoming Events
Check out our events page or subscribe to our Google Calendar so you can be the first to receive more information
Dance Your Way To Wellness (With Tinh Dang)
Tuesday, April 8th from 5:30 - 6:30 pm. Mountainlair- Small Gold Ballroom
Tuesday, April 22nd from 5:30 - 6:30 pm. Mountainlair- Mountaineer Room
Want to get grooving in an inclusive environment while building community? Join
the Carruth Center and the LGBTQ+ Center for Dance Your Way to Wellness! This weekly
program will provide a comfortable space for students to practice dance movements
in ways authentic to them to promote physical and mental wellbeing and connect
with themselves and others.
✨This program is open to all students of all identities. No dance experience required,
and all abilities are welcome!✨
Monday, April 14 from 1:00 - 4:00 pm.
Fraternity & Sorority Student Organizations and the LGBTQ+ Center have teamed up to throw a party on the Mountainlair Green!
Teams will make displays to share knowledge about the LGBTQ+ Community while they compete to see who can donate the most food to Project Rainbow, a local nonprofit shelter offering services to unhoused LGBTQ+ People in North Central WV. We’re going to have live music and vendors from WVU & the greater Morgantown area showing what they have to offer students!
LGBTQ+ Student Organizations’ GAY-LA!!
Saturday, April 26 from 7:00-10:00 pm.
The Ballrooms At Towers
Hear Ye Hear Ye!
Join the LGBTQ+ Club, In our 2025 GAYla April 26th 7-10pm @ the blue and gold rooms in Towers! The theme this year is ✨ Medieval Fantasy✨ so don your finest armor and silks! Tickets are on sale now, claim yours here !!
Sunday, April 27 from 3 - 6 p.m.
Mountainlair Ballrooms
All undergraduate and graduate students graduating in May who wish to commemorate
their graduation with friends and family are welcome. Alumni are also invited to
attend.
View more information
here.
Adventure WV: LGBTQ+ & Allies First-Year Trip
July 12th-17th 2025
Odyssey 11b
Adventure WV is partnering with the LGBTQ+ Center to provide an exciting opportunity for first year students in the summer of 2025. Sign up today to reserve your spot!
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Monthly Events
Queer Book Club with Carruth
April 15 from 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Yoga Room on the first floor of the Student Health Building
Relax and discuss this semester's book: Black Water Sister by Zen Cho.
✨Copies of the book are still available for free at the LGBTQ+ Center to all registered participants!✨
Come visit us in the Mountainlair!
Community Corner
Our Place
April 16 from 6 -10 p.m.
The Co-Op at 131 Pleasant St.
Must be 18+
Come together in real time as a community! Talk, eat, dance, hang, and play games in a safe space for all LGBTQ+ people.
Unplugged Workshop with Carruth
Wednesday, April 16th 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Student Health Building
Everyone keeps saying we need to put down the screens and take a break from the internet, but what are you supposed to do with that time? Isn’t part of the point of screen time to fill the yawning chasm of boredom and restlessness? What else could people possibly be doing on a random Wednesday evening? Fear not, friends. A break from the doom scroll has presented itself!
✨Join the Carruth Center for activities that reduce stress, build connections, and give you practical ways to unplug from social media.
WGST Celebration and Recognition Ceremony
Thursday, April 24th from 4:30-6:30 pm.
Downtown Library- Milano Room
The Center for Women's and Gender Studies would like to invite you to celebrate 47 years of women's and gender studies at WVU. We are hosting an event on April 24th to celebrate our continued existence and to recognize the accomplishments of our students and faculty. We would love for you and your faculty to join us. Can you please circulate the attached flyer to your list serves and pass on to any other interested parties?
Faculty, staff, and students are welcome to attend. In these fraught times, it is particularly important to come together as a faculty and enjoy some camaraderie and joy.
The Rack: WVU Student Food Pantry is committed to alleviating hunger and fostering a healthy, inclusive community by providing access to food and essential items for all WVU students.
The Rack has three locations that students can visit once per day, every day as needed. Offerings include fresh produce, perishable and nonperishable food items, and hygiene products—all available to currently enrolled students.
All students are welcome to use The Rack’s services. Just complete the yearly intake form before visiting, or stop by and ask for assistance if you need help getting started.
Gamma Rho Lambda - New In Town?
Anyone interested should email lgbtq@mail.wvu.edu .
An all-inclusive social sorority emphasizing tolerance, diversity, unity, and trust wants to start a chapter at WVU! Gamma Rho Lambda (GRL) welcomes potential members of all genders, sexual and romantic orientations, races, cultures, and abilities, and offers a network of assistance in the areas of scholastic guidance, emotional support, and community service.
WVU Art in the Libraries Graduate Student Exhibits Awards
Submission Deadline: May 15, 2025
WVU Libraries invites graduate students to submit ideas for an exhibit that showcases their scholarship. $500 reward, visual interpretations based on academic or creative research.
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Research