Cal @ SF Pride Parade Sun 6/29
Join the Cal Alumni Association (CAA) and the Gender Equity Resource Center and show your pride
Explore 10 LGBTQ+ landmarks on campus
Via Berkeley Library
LGBTQIA+ Resources on Campus
Via Berkeley Life
GLBT Historical Society Museum
GenEq recommended activity.
Rainbow Honor Walk
GenEq recommended activity
Tenderloin Museum Monthly LGBTIA+ History Walking Tour “Unspeakable Vice: Valley of the Queens”
GenEq recommended activity.
This Pride Month, recognize the historical and current contributions of LGBTQ+ people and communities.
Pride is many things. It is a celebration of queer and trans identities, histories, cultures, and communities. It is about the promotion of social justice movements and civil rights victories.
Celebration as resistance
On June 28, 1970, the first Pride marches commemorated the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, in which LGBTQ+ patrons of the Stonewall Inn, including key leaders such as Stormé DeLarverie, Marsha P. Johnson, and Sylvia Rivera, fought against police brutality. These marches brought LGBTQ+ communities together to demonstrate for equal rights and continue fighting against discrimination. In the face of institutional violence and erasure, Pride was, and still is, resistance through visibility, joy, and celebration.
General Resources
- Gender Equity Resource Center (GenEq): Serves students, faculty, staff, post doc and alumni
- Increasing access to gender-inclusive restrooms along with the ongoing development of a new inclusive restrooms map
Student Resources
- Student-led peer support and resources, including the Trans Student Wellness Initiative (collaboration with the Multicultural Community Center), Queer Cal Pals, and the Queer Alliance Resource Center
- Name & Gender Change Workshops with Berkeley Law student advocates and East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC) – watch for Fall and Spring Clinic dates
- Support groups for queer and trans students, as well as Transgender and Gender Diverse Care provided through University Health Services (UHS)
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- Let's Talk Drop-In Consultations are informal, brief, free consultations with UHS mental health counselors. They do not require any insurance or paperwork.
- Transition Care Intake Form & Gender Affirming Closet (Forms open in Fall 2024): These two collaborations between GenEq, QARC and TSWI aim to provide support to access gender affirming clothes, request gender affirming materials, and request funds for medical procedures.
- Gender affirming and queer-friendly on-campus housing
Student Groups
- Queer Issues in Public Policy (QuIPP)
- Queering Public Health
Faculty and Staff Resources
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LavenderCal: a member-based organization working to build community and belonging among all LGBTQ+ staff, faculty, postdocs, and visiting scholars at UC Berkeley
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QTBIPOC Staff & Faculty Listserv: Intended for folx that identify as QTBIPOC staff and faculty so we ask that folx honor it as a virtual affinity space. Join the mailing list!
Taskforces and Advisory Bodies
- Chancellor's Advisory Committee on the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ+) Communities at Cal: Heightening the visibility of the contributions and concerns of LGBTQ+ staff, faculty, and students among Berkeley’s initiatives for diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice.
Faculty
Berkeley Life Blog
Read/Watch
Events
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June 1-30, 2025: The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is presenting an exhibition of work from its eclectic art and film collection entitled To Exalt the Ephemeral: The (Im)permanent Collection at BAMPFA, which highlights artworks that engage with the theme of ephemerality—including several important, rarely seen works by some of the most iconic LGBTQ+ artists of the past hundred years, such as Nayland Blake, Félix González-Torres, and Bill T. Jones.
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June 1-30, 2025 at 4127 18th Street, San Francisco: Free Day at GLBT Historical Society Museum. Located in the heart of the Castro (accessible via BART + Muni), it is the first stand-alone museum of LGBTQ history and culture in the United States. Free Day June 4, 2025 from 11 am-5 pm. Discounted student tickets other days. GenEq recommended activity.
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June 1-19, 2025 at 19th and Castro St in San Francisco: Rainbow Honor Walk. Self-guided walking tour celebrating the historic impact of LGBTQ+ pioneers with commemorative plaques in the heart of the Castro district (accessible via BART + Muni). GenEq recommended activity.
- June 6, 13, 19, 20, 21 and 27, 2025: Transgender District Events."Drag Me Downtown" pop-up drag events at different downtown businesses featuring food and drinks. "Fresh Meat Festival" events featuring edgy, exquisite, extraordinary dance, theater and live music. GenEq recommended activity.
- June 23 3:30 pm via Zoom: Humans Who Teach: How to Love Ourselves and Others. Author and scholar, Dr. Shamari Reid, PhD, will lead an interactive presentation. Made for educators, open to all.
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June 28, 2025: Tenderloin Museum Monthly LGBTIA+ History Walking Tour “Unspeakable Vice: Valley of the Queens”, includes walking tour and museum visit (easily accessible via BART). GenEq recommended activity.
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June 29, 2025 (stay tuned for exact time) at 114 Main Street San Francisco: Cal @ SF Pride Parade. Join the Cal Alumni Association (CAA) and the Gender Equity Resource Center and show your pride as we march in the annual San Francisco Pride Parade!
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July 6, 2025 at 7 pm at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive: Film Screening: That Cold Day in the Park
Celebrating Queer Identities & Trajectories in Sport Panel
The recap video above highlights the "Celebrating Queer Identities & Trajectories in Sport" panel event hosted by Bears United and Cal SAAC for Cal Athletics staff, student-athletes, and coaches. Panelists included Dr. Marissa Nichols, PhD, Associate Athletics Director of Student-Athlete Development; Jai Jones, LCSW, Counselor and Co-Chair of the UHS Transgender Care Team; Kai Felton, MA, Special Assistant to the Head Coach of Cal Women’s Basketball; and Isabel King, Cal Lacrosse Student-Athlete and Vice President of Bears United. Follow Bears United on Instagram!
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