LGBTQA Resource Center

🌈 Celebrate Love and Diversity this Pride Month!🌈

Join us in honoring acceptance, equality, and the beautiful spectrum of identities that make our community shine. Let’s come together with pride and joy!

🌈 Celebrate Love and Diversity this Pride Month!🌈

Join us in honoring acceptance, equality, and the beautiful spectrum of identities that make our community shine. Let’s come together with pride and joy!

This past weekend the LGBT*QA Resource Center participated in our annual Multicultural Center graduation ceremony. ✨
Our graduate assistants, Yazmin and Janae’, were proud to honor our upcoming Lavender graduates and the new inductees of Lambda Lavender Honor Society with their graduation memorabilia. 🪻
We would like to give a special thanks to Michelle Janisz, our staff speaker, for her words of wisdom and support to the lovely graduates. 🎓
And congratulations to Percival Hillanbrand on winning an award on behalf of the LGBT*QA Resource Center for being our MVP. 🏆
And once again congratulations to Chingonx Afrocentric Qu**rs on winning an award based on their accomplishments as an organization. ✨🥹

We would like to congratulate our new Vice President of CAQ, Mia Diaz, for becoming a member of Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority Inc. 💕✨
We are proud of your hardworking and dedication and can’t wait to see the amazing things you and your sisters will do within the organization.💜

We are sad to see Pride Month go. 🥹
Before it ends join us this upcoming Tuesday for our Loud & Proud Cookie Decorating contest with the Gwendolyn Brooks Cultural Center ✨
Let’s see who can better express their identity on a cookie to win a prize! There will be refreshments. 🌈

Join us this Thursday as we collaborate with the Women’s Center for “Rainbow Rhythms”! 🌈🎶 Come learn about Q***r and Women artists and participate in Trivia to earn a prize. ✨ There will be food! 😉

This past Monday OSE had their Leadership Awards Gala and our organizations were thankful to be nominated and WON! 🥇 ✨
CAQ was honored to receive the “Inclusive Community Award” during their FIRST year being a standing organization. CAQ is dedicated to creating a welcoming and diverse space for individuals to feel welcome. 🥹
The new President of CAQ, Samantha Hernandez, received The Patience Thomas Emerging Student Leader Award! ✨We are proud of all her hard work and dedication to not only CAQ but her coursework and other organizations! 🎉
And a special congratulations to our fellow Graduate Assistant, Janae’ Patterson, for winning the Outstanding Graduate Assistant Practitioner award. All of her hard work and dedication has not been unnoticed. ☺️
Thank you for recognizing our efforts and for joining us on this journey toward a more inclusive commuty!

“Pride Festival: “Q***r Joy” Countdown 🌈
1 Day, 39 Minutes ⏰
Swipe right to see who will be performing at the Pride Festival THIS Sunday! ✨
Come in your best Pride gear as we will be having a 360 camera booth 🤳Can’t wait to see you there! 👀

“Pride Festival: “Q***r Joy” Countdown 🤩
2 Days, 1 Hour, 35 Minutes ⏰
As the time counts down we would like to reveal some of our sponsors for the Pride Festival. 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Come out and see what they have to offer THIS Sunday ✨

Join us for our first EVER Pride Festival on the Multicultural Center Lawn THIS Sunday! 🌈 This years theme is “Q***r Joy”.
Get ready to wave your rainbow flags and celebrate, love, acceptance, and diversity at this highly anticipated event! Whether you identify with as LGBT*QA or simply want to show your support as an ally; this event welcomes all with open arms! 🥹✨

Ahhh! Drag BINGO was such a success this past Saturday! We would like to thank Lagoona Bloo, UUB, & Unity for collaborating with us on the event. 🥹 And we would like to thank everyone that came that made the event special; especially all the Mom’s that attended 🫶🏾✨
Now are you all ready to see what we have planned next for Pride Month 👀👂

We will be hosting our annual Gaymer Night in the Digital Rec. 👾We heard and would be competing in a Mario Cart competition 👂. Please don’t forget to do the Digital Rec agreement on STARS. ‼️

The LGBT*QA Resource Center is proud to announce our annual (Bi)ce Cream & Pan Pizza Palooza this upcoming Tuesday. 🍦 The event is structured to educate participants about the discourse between bisexuality and pansexuality within the 2SLGBT*QIA+ community while enjoying some delicious treats. 🍕 Ice cream, pizza, and conversation.

Join us THIS Saturday for our annual Drag Bingo with Unity and UUB featuring THE Lagoona Bloo! ✨ Come out, have fun, and win some prizes while enjoying a performance from the queen herself! ✨🥹

Guess who’s collaborating again?! Join us for Cocktail Safety 101 event THIS Tuesday in the Lincoln Room ✨ Prepare yourself by educating yourself and keeping yourself safe! And if you attend you will receive a free goodie 😉

Are you a student that has a small business in the Macomb area? Are you looking for a place to showcase your business and sell your products? DM us we have a opportunity for you!✨

THIS Monday the longest standing LGBT*QA social organization will be having election at 6pm! 🗳️ Have you ever wanted to help plan fun and interactive events? Are you looking for professional development opportunities? 🧐 Come with a quick speech on why you want to join Unitys EBoard and we hope to see you there! ✨

Join us and Chingonx Afrocentric Qu**rs for a movie showing of “Moonlight”. 🎥 Come out and see how Little navigates defining his sexuality while going through puberty. ✨📸 Bring your own blanket as we will be showing the movie outside on the lawn!

Join us for our annual Drag Bingo with Unity and UUB featuring THE Lagoona Bloo! ✨ Come out, have fun, and win some prizes while enjoying a performance from the queen herself! ✨🌈

Join us for a night of inclusive swimming at the Recreational Center! 🏊‍♂️ Come and swim like Micheal Phelps or come play chicken with the Resource Center Graduate Assistants. 🩲🤿

Chingonx Afrocentric Qu**rs will be having a meet and greet study tables session THIS Wednesday. ✨🌈
We can't wait to see you all there.

This Thursday, April 27th at 6pm is Q***r Trivia with Unity! ✨
Lots of snacks and great prizes to win is
We can't wait to see you there at the MCC! ✨🌈

Chingonx Afrocentric Qu**rs are having a meet and greet study tables session THIS Wednesday in the Multicultural Center. ✨
We can't wait to see you all there.🌈

The LGBT*QA Resource Center will be collaborating with the Women’s Center to paint rainbows provided by local Macomb business Crafty Coop. ✨
Please stop by paint and discuss LGBT*QA identities and pronouns. 🌈

Community Service Opportunity
Special Collab Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority Inc.! 🫶🏾
Sunday April 23rd !
Cleaning Union Hill - 12:00pm
Window Painting - 1:30pm
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Dress Accordingly!
Refreshments, Snacks and Succulent Plants Will Be Provided!

Join us this Wednesday at 5pm as we illuminate monumental figures in history who have dispelled the putrid segregational fallacies within our society. ✨
We will have a small walk across campus as a unified entity.🌈
Following the rally, we will have a social hour and refreshments! 🍲
We will meet at the Multicultural Center.

Calle Murray is an annual block party hosted by Casa Latina Cultural Center to celebrate the Latinx and Indigenous cultures. This event brings WIU and the Macomb community in an open and engaging environment, while learning about the rich history and culture of the diverse set of Latinx countries represented by students, staff, and faculty here at Western Illinois University. ✨
This year's theme is "Familias Belong Together," which refers to an advocacy campaign devoted to reuniting immigrant
families that were separated.✨
There will be free food, face painting, bull riding, a special DJ and so much more! Don't miss this special event.🫶🏾

Chingonx Afrocentric Qu**rs are having a meet and greet study tables session THIS Wednesday in the Multicultural Center. ✨
We can’t wait to see you all there. They are currently looking for a Treasurer and Social Media Chair! 🌈

Executive board elections are this Thursday at 6:30 pm! ✨ Nominations for the following positions are still open during the election meeting:
President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer
SGA Senator
We're looking forward to see what this new e-board will look like for next academic vear! 🌈