UMD Pride Month kickoff brings role model to campus

By James Matheson The Office of Multicultural Involvement & Community Advocacy and the LGBTQ+ Equity Center arranged for an activist and host to engage in intergenerational dialogue with a UMD student on Tuesday to celebrate Pride Month on Campus and Transgender Day of Visibility. Rayceen Pendarvis, one of the first openly-gay Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners of Washington, D.C. and a lifelong Washingtonian, answered questions about trans … Continue reading UMD Pride Month kickoff brings role model to campus

Students, faculty discuss supporting trans students at Rainbow Terps luncheon

By Brian Abate Transgender students at the University of Maryland talked about how other members of the UMD community could support them at the Rainbow Terps Luncheon: Supporting #TransTerps at Marie Mount Hall. This event is one of many that Rainbow Terrapin Network, a network of staff, faculty and students on UMD’s campus committed to the inclusion of the LGBT community, is hosting this year. … Continue reading Students, faculty discuss supporting trans students at Rainbow Terps luncheon