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[Identification of item], in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Center of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records #40433, University Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Records transferred from the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Center in June 2014 (RT 20140610.1) and June 2016 (RT 20160624.1).

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: Ann Cooper, February 2015; Jennifer Coggins, February 2017.

Encoded by: Ann Cooper, February 2015

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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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• Association of Women Students (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). Women's Forum.
• B-GLAD (Student group)
• Bisexuals.
• Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association.
• College students--Housing--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• College students--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• College students--Sexual behavior.
• Education, Higher--Social aspects.
• Gays.
• Lesbians.
• Sexual minority students.
• Student housing--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• Transgender people.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Student housing.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Students--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Center.

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.

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).

• Digital folders (DF-40433/1-3) available in the Carolina Digital Repository.
• Image folders (PF-40433/1-2)
• Oversize papers (OPF-40433/1)