Penn State celebrates LGBT Center Awareness Day

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. –This past Saturday, Oct. 19th, was LGBT Center Awareness Day. LGBT Center Awareness Day is a day dedicated to raising awareness and supporting centers that offer resources to the LGBTQ+ community.

LGBT Center Awareness Day has been celebrated since 1994 and has continued to be celebrated as the years go on. LGBTQ+ centers play a vital role in supporting communities all around the country.

One center that continues to support not just LGBTQ+ Penn State students, but all students is the Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity.

Georgia Few, a third-year Penn State student majoring in agroecology and a student programmer for the CSGD explained what resources they provide in order to support students.

“We do late-night programming for students, in which they can meet other queer students, do trivia and game nights,” Few said. “We also have the trans closet, which gives gender-affirming clothes for free to all students and we will order it for you in your size.”

LGBTQ+ centers like these help humanize queer people on Penn State’s campus and help students know that they have a place to go to, so they don’t feel excluded from society.

More information about The Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity can be found at https://studentaffairs.psu.edu/csgd.

Christian Audia is a second-year majoring in broadcast journalism and economics. To contact him, email cga5177@psu.edu.