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| Size | 2.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 900 items) |
| Abstract | The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Center was established in 2003 as a unit within the Office of the Dean of Students. In 2006, it became an administratively separate unit reporting directly to the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs. The LGBTQ Center is tasked with providing programs, services, and resources to create a welcoming environment for all members of the UNC-Chapel Hill community. The collection includes administrative records documenting the establishment of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; promotional material for and photographs of some of its activities and events, including a campus campaign for gender neutral housing; video interviews that were conducted as part of a project to record the history of the Center for its ten year anniversary; news clippings related to LGBTQ issues on campus and beyond; newsletters and ephemera from local and national organizations; and records of a few campus organizations that predate the Center, including the Association for Women Students; Bisexuals, Gay Men, Lesbians and Allies for Diversity (B-GLAD); and the Carolina Gay and Lesbian Assocation (CGLA). |
| Creator | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Center. |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. University Archives. |
| Language | English |
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Subject Headings
The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.
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Historical Information
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was established in 2006 but had its origins in the work of a fall 2000 committee appointed by Provost Robert Shelton to review the campus climate in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity. The committee report made several recommendations, one of which was the creation of an Office of LGBTQ Life and Study to provide a focal point for consolidating, publicizing, and integrating social support and academic resources available to the LGBTQ community. The UNC-Chapel Hill LGBTQ Center thus began in the spring of 2003 as the LGBTQ Office in the Office of the Dean of Students.
In July 2006, Provost Shelton and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Peggy Jablonski created two full-time positions (director and assistant director) to lead an administratively separate LGBTQ Center tasked with providing programs, services, and resources to create a welcoming environment for all members of the UNC-Chapel Hill community. The Center remains a partner to the Office of the Dean of Students but reports directly to the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs.
Terri Phoenix has served as the director since 2007.
Citation: "The Report of the Provost's Planning Committee on LGBTQ Climate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill" and LGBTQ Center UNC-Chapel Hill, Center History, https://lgbtq.unc.edu/about-center/center-history.
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Scope and Content
The collection includes administrative records documenting the establishment of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; promotional material for and photographs of some of its activities and events, including a campus campaign for gender neutral housing; video interviews that were conducted as part of a project to record the history of the Center for its ten year anniversary; news clippings related to LGBTQ issues on campus and beyond; newsletters and ephemera from local and national organizations; and records of a few campus organizations that predate the Center, including the Association for Women Students; Bisexuals, Gay Men, Lesbians and Allies for Diversity (B-GLAD); and the Carolina Gay and Lesbian Assocation (CGLA).
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Center Records, 1990, 1997,
2000-2014.
Arrangement: Alphabetical.
The collection includes administrative records documenting the establishment of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; promotional material for and photographs of some of its activities and events, including a campus campaign for gender neutral housing; and video interviews that were conducted as part of a project to record the history of the Center for its ten year anniversary.
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Addition of June 2016, 1975-2009.
Acquisitions information: Addition of June 2016 (RT 20160624.1)
The addition consists of news clippings related to LGBTQ issues on campus and beyond; newsletters and ephemera from local and national organizations; and records documenting a few campus organizations that predate the Center, including the Association for Women Students; Bisexuals, Gay Men, Lesbians and Allies for Diversity (B-GLAD); and the Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association (CGLA).
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Processed by: Ann Cooper, February 2015; Jennifer Coggins, February 2017.
Encoded by: Ann Cooper, February 2015
Diacritics and other special characters have been omitted from this finding aid to facilitate keyword searching in web browsers.
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