There are many student-run LGBTQ and allied groups , with new groups starting all the time. Yale College has several and each graduate and professional school typically has groups specific to their school.
The Yale LGBTQ Center offers a variety of social gatherings and events throughout the year such as Beyond the Binary, W{holy] Queer, movie nights or film screenings, community meals, parties like Monster Mash and Pride Prom, book talks, etc. In addition, there are events planned throughout the semester, such as academic workshops, lectures, game nights, and more. We have a Pride committee, a Gender Resources committee, and a Intercultural Collaborations committee that also coordinate events in addition to our affiliated groups. October is LGBTQ History Month and we begin observing Pride@Yale in April, so many programs happen in these months. To learn more about what is happening, we recommend you join our Newsletter.
Unfortunately, yes, as with most institutions across the country. One can report a bias incident to the Yale LGBTQ Center, to your respective college deans, the Yale Police Department, the Office of Institutional Equity and Accessibility, or any other cultural center.
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Equal Opportunity and Nondiscrimination at Yale University: The university is committed to basing judgments concerning the admission, education, and employment of individuals upon their qualifications and abilities and seeks to attract to its faculty, staff, and student body qualified persons from a broad range of backgrounds and perspectives. In accordance with this policy and as delineated by federal and Connecticut law, Yale does not discriminate in admissions, educational programs, or employment against any individual on account of that individual’s sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, age, disability, status as a special disabled veteran, veteran of the Vietnam era or other covered veteran. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 protects people from sex discrimination in educational programs and activities at institutions that receive federal financial assistance. Inquiries concerning this policy may be referred to the Office of Institutional Equity & Accessibility. Inquiries may also be made to the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, OCR.DC@ed.gov. See Yale’s full Equal Opportunity & Nondiscrimination Statement.
Yes. The Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale offers a variety of courses and an undergraduate major (BA). The Program establishes gender and sexuality as fundamental categories of social and cultural analysis. Drawing on history, literature, cultural studies, social science, and science, it offers interdisciplinary perspectives from which to study the diversity of human experience. Gender—the social meaning of the distinction between the sexes—and sexuality—sexual identities, discourses, and institutions—are studied as they intersect with class, race, ethnicity, nationality, and transnational movements. In addition, there is LGBT Studies interdisciplinary committee that works to support WGSS.
Yale offers both mixed-gender and single-gender housing, with most undergraduate residential colleges featuring a mix of both, often having single-sex suites on mixed-gender floors. Students can also request to live in gender-inclusive housing and can request single-gender bathrooms and floors as an accommodation. More information can be found at Undergraduate Housing.
The Yale Graduate Housing office is responsible for providing graduate housing options on and around the Yale campus and manages a limited number of on-campus, Yale owned and operated dormitories and apartments. ES Harkness Hall: A specific graduate housing building that has mixed-gender floors, with the exception of one all-male and one all-female floor. For inquiries on housing options, visit Graduate Housing.
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Yale housing policy prioritizes student choice and does not assign students to mixed-gender suites against their will.
Most university buildings have a single-occupant restroom. Many dormitory restrooms are mixed-gender Yale housing policy prioritizes student choice and does not assign students to mixed-gender suites against their will.