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Are you an incoming student, transfer student, or returning student looking to make connections, form lifelong friendships, and get involved on campus? The LGBTQ Program Office is your one-stop shop!

Request a Peer Mentor.Get connected with a peer mentor who will welcome you to UW-Stout and introduce you to people and places around campus. To get started, click here.
Become a Peer Mentor.If you're a returning student who would like to share your knowledge of the UW-Stout and Menomonie communities with an incoming student, click here.

Become a member of the Gender & Sexuality Alliance (GSA), Stout's official LGBTQ/Ally student organization!

Join Open Door, for disc ussion and support around LGBTQ issues. Check out the posters around campus for day/time/location.

Join a Safe Space Training student panel, and share your experience as a person who identifies as bisexual, transgender, lesbian, gay, queer, questioning, or any other sexual/gender identity

Additional opportunities and events coming up this spring include:

·Check out the Ally Initiatives "Intersections" film series, featuring 13 fantastic films in 10 weeks. LGBT films cosponsored by GSA and the LGBTQ Program Office include:
- "Bullied," Tuesday, February 21 at 6:30pm in the Great Hall (MSC), followed by remarks and Q&A with special guest Jamie Nabozny!
-"Brother Outsider," Wednesday, February 22 at 6:30pm in the Badger Room (MSC)
-"Beginners," Wednesday, April 11 at 6:30pm in Ballroom C (MSC)

·Participate in filming an "It Gets Better" video; contact GSA for more info.

·Don't miss UW-Stout's annual Kitanahpalooza drag show, featuring professional drag queens and kings of the Chippewa Valley. Help out as an organizer, join the set-up committee, or just show up for the fun at 7pm on April 12 in the Great Hall of the MSC.

·Watch for Day of Silence events in April, including spoken word by Andrea Gibson and Salt Lines!

·Join the GSA's Relay for Life team to help raise money for the American Cancer Society.

Whether you're new to campus or returning, opportunities for involvement and connection are endless. Contact Julie Miller (millerjul@uwstout.edu), LGBTQ Program Coordinator, to get started!