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A Georgetown University graduate promoted the use of data and litigation to advance LGBTQ+ rights during a Feb. 24 event hosted by Georgetown University Pride and the Georgetown University Student Association’s Federal and D.C. Relations Committee.

GU Graduate Calls For Incorporation of LGBTQ+ Advocacy in Public Policy Careers

By Annie Quimby, Hoya Staff Writer February 27, 2025

A Georgetown University graduate advocated for the use of data and litigation to advance LGBTQ+ rights during an event Feb. 24.  Juan Pablo Delgado (GRD ’19), the speaker and founder of Visible,...

Nora Toscano/The Hoya | GU Pride hosted a vigil to honor transgender lives lost from October 2023 to September 2024 on Nov. 20, the Transgender Day of Remembrance.

GU Pride Hosts Transgender Day of Remembrance Vigil

By Nora Toscano, Academics Desk Editor November 21, 2024

GU Pride, a student organization that represents the LGBTQ+ community at Georgetown University, hosted a vigil Nov. 20, the Transgender Day of Remembrance, to honor transgender lives lost from October...

Alexander Brown/The Hoya | The Georgetown Resident Assistant Coalition (GRAC) and Georgetown University completed its third and fourth rounds of bargaining for the tentative contract on Oct. 21 and Oct. 30, respectively.

National Hispanic Heritage Month Begins With Campus Celebration

By Anna Lim, Hoya Staff Writer September 20, 2024

Campus-wide celebrations for National Hispanic Heritage Month began Sept. 15 and will feature events hosted by Georgetown University departments and student organizations that center on Hispanic and Latino...

Courtesy of Josie Balistreri | The first student drag show, Mx. Georgetown, presented six drag queens and kings in a pageant format competing for the title of Mx. Georgetown with a talent portion and a lip-sync battle included in the show.

Inaugural Mx. Georgetown Features Drag, Celebrates Queer Community

By Caroline Rareshide and Maren Fagan April 16, 2024

Georgetown University’s inaugural student drag competition, Mx. Georgetown, saw a drag king use an acronym to explain why most of his School of Foreign Service (SFS) friends are single. “My SFS...

ASHLEY CHEN/THE HOYA | The Office of Planning and Facilities Management began identifying 40 new single-stall, gender-neutral bathrooms in buildings across campus.

GU Establishes 40 Gender-Neutral Bathrooms

By Myroslav February 7, 2019

Georgetown University began designating 40 single-stall, gender-neutral bathrooms in public buildings throughout campus, an initiative pushed by members of LGBTQ student advocacy groups. Before the...

ANNE STONECIPHER/THE HOYA The LGBTQ Resource Center is sponsoring OUTtober, a month-long program seeking to address emerging issues faced by members of the LGBTQ community through a series of keynote speakers and on-campus events.

OUTober Encourages Renewed Activism

By Sana Rahman October 12, 2018

The LGBTQ Resource Center is celebrating its 10th anniversary with OUTober, an annual monthlong programming series honoring the LGBTQ community, this month. This year’s theme, “Looking Forward,”...

Students Call to Defund Love Saxa

Students Call to Defund Love Saxa

By Isabelle Groenewegen October 20, 2017

Students opposed to the student group Love Saxa plan to present a petition to the Student Activities Commission on Monday, demanding the advisory board strip the group of its funding and no longer grant...

VIEWPOINT: Coming Out for Change, 10 Years Later and Every Day

By Jennifer Nguyen September 26, 2017

When I attended Georgetown nearly a decade ago, the university’s relationship with LGBTQ students had been contentious for decades — a history rife with denied institutional funding for GUPride, subsequent...

Police Investigates Local Hate Crime

By Lisa Burgoa November 4, 2016

A potential hate crime in which a perpetrator assaulted and used homophobic language against a Georgetown student off campus the night of Oct. 31 is being investigated by the Georgetown University Police...

District Officials Ban Travel to Anti-LGBTQ States

By Aly Pachter and Matthew Riley April 8, 2016

Washington, D.C. legislators and Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) have introduced legislation banning city-funded travel to states with laws discriminating against LGBTQ individuals. Bowser signed an order March...

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GU Pride organized a celebration of Coming Out Day in Red Square last Friday to kick off the 11th annual OUTober, which includes 15 other events organized by the LGBTQ Resource Center throughout October and the first three weeks of November.

OUTober Programming Focuses on Trans Rights

By Lisa Burgoa October 16, 2015

OUTober, a six-week long celebration of the LGBTQ community organized by the LGBTQ Resource Center and GU Pride, returned to campus this month in its 11th annual iteration with increased programming...

In Transition, But Incomplete

By City News Editor May 15, 2015

On her first day of classes at Georgetown in 2012, one of Celeste Chisholm’s (COL ’15) professors called her “Jonathan.” Chisholm corrected the professor, explaining that she prefers to be called...

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