LGBTQ+ History Month
LGBTQ+ History Month 2025 Calendar of Events
The call for programs has closed; if you would like your program to be added to the LGBTQ+ History Month 2025 digital calendar, please email mica-office@umd.edu.
Program and Event Calendar
Week 1
🗓️ Date: Wednesday, October 1st, 2025
🕕 Time: 6:00 – 7:30 PM
📍 Location: Tawes Hall 0223
As a collaborative effort between the Asian American Student Union, Pride Alliance, and Pride Alliance subgroups Campus Queers and Allies & QASA (Queer Asian Student Alliance), we are beginning a series of educational workshops focused on addressing different aspects of the LGBTQ+ experience! Join us for our first workshop all about LGBTQ+ identities, communities, and spaces!
This event is being sponsored by the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
📱For more events and updates, follow us: @umcpaasu | @pridealliance_umd | @qasaumd | @cqa_umd
Please email prideallianceumd@gmail.com with any questions or accommodation requests.
🗓️ Date: Wednesday, October 1st, 2025
🕕 Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM
📍Location: Grand Ballroom, Adele H. Stamp Student Union
Grad Game Night will be an opportunity for graduate students from across the university to gather, share space, get creative, and socialize! The room will be set up with 8-9 round tables, each with a different game or set of games for people to engage with.
📱For more events and updates, follow us at @lgbtqequity.
Please email lgbtq@umd.edu with any questions or accommodation requests.
🗓️ Date: Thursday, October 2nd, 2025
🕗 Time: 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
📍Location: Front of Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center Building
Stop by for a sweet treat and support DECO at our first fundraiser! Find us at our bake sale and pick from our selection of chocolate chip cookies, sugar cookies, regular flan, and choco flan 🍮✨ We’ll be in front of ESJ!
📱For more events and updates, follow us: @decoloresumd
🗓️ Date: Friday, October 3rd, 2025
🕑 Time: 2:00 – 6:00 PM
📍 Location: Susquehanna Hall 4131
Part of the Campouflage series of events, this is the second in a series called Couture as Ceremony. Continue building your powerful accessory, regalia element, or drag centerpiece. This session is for sewing, gluing, fitting, and celebrating what’s coming together. Participants are invited to share stories or context about their piece as they work
📱For more events and updates, follow us: @umd.indigenous.futures.lab
Week 2
🗓️ Date: Friday, October 10th, 2025
🕑 Time: 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM
📍Location: Susquehanna Hall 4131
Join us for a creative and empowering evening exploring nail art and press-ons as more than just fashion. We’ll discuss femme as a weapon and the ways aesthetics can serve as both armor and self-expression. Come ready to design, decorate, and reflect on how beauty practices can become powerful tools of identity and resistance.
This event is being sponsored by the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
📱For more events and updates, follow us: @umd.indigenous.futures.lab
Week 3
🗓️ Date: Thursday, October 16th, 2025
🕕 Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM
📍Location: McKeldin Library 4109
Join us for a screening of I Saw the TV Glow with a discussion moderated by the LGBTQ+ Equity Center! Popcorn and sodas will be provided. This film screening is a part of the UMD Libraries' Library of the Macabre: Researching Horror in Popular Culture programming for October's Scholarship as Conversation series. This event is limited to 25 attendees, so be sure to register in advance!
➡️ RSVP: go.umd.edu/TVGlowRSVP
⚠️ Content Warning: This movie deals heavily with existential crises.
📱For more events and updates, follow us: @lgbtqequity | @umdlibraries
Please email lgbtq@umd.edu with any questions or accommodation requests.
🗓️ Date: Friday, October 17th, 2025
🕗 Time: 2:00 – 8:00 PM
📍Location: Susquehanna Hall 4131
As part of the Campouflage series for the semester, join us for the second part of the Adornment, Armor, and Edge workshops. Design jewelry, neckwear, chains, or other sacred accessories. Choose aesthetics that feel ceremonial, punk, metal, subtle, or storied.
This event is being sponsored by the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
📱For more events and updates, follow us: @umd.indigenous.futures.lab
🗓️ Date: Friday, October 17th, 2025
🕕 Time: 6:00 – 9:00 PM (tentative)
📍 Location: Marie Mount Hall 2411 (tentative)
Sometimes the "queer dream" is just to relax, especially amidst the everyday chaos of queer existence under certain policies. Take a break from it all with QASA, as we provide cute crafting supplies and a free queer movie screening (TBD) to usher you into the weekend.
📱For more events and updates, follow us: @qasaumd
🗓️ Date: Friday, October 17th, 2025
🕗 Time: 8:00 – 10:00 PM
📍Location: Hoff Theater, Adele H. Stamp Student Union
Get ready to Time Warp back to Hoff! Step into the strange and spectacular with The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a cult classic where the audience is part of the show. Dress up, shout out, and dance along with this interactive screening that brings fans together for a night of chaos, comedy, and community at Hoff.
📱For more events and updates, follow us: @see_umd
Week 4
🗓️ Date: Monday, October 20th, 2025
🕢 Time: 7:00 – 8:00 PM
📍Location: Thurgood Marshall Hall (tentative)
Come learn, discuss, and investigate our nation's most pressing queer policy issues during a night of new friends and laughter. This will be the Queer Policy Terps first official meeting of the academic year and is open to ALL students regardless of your major and/or sexual orientation/gender identity. This forum will operate as an introduction for members as well as club personnel into what policy topics and problems we want to focus on during this academic year. Come one, come all, and experience a night filled with big dreams about our shared queer future.
Please email jmckay8@terpmail.umd.edu with any questions or accommodation requests.
🗓️ Date: Tuesday, October 21st, 2025
🕒 Time: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
📍Location: The Board and Brew, Varsity College Park
Come raise a glass with the Lambda Pride Alumni Network at our Annual Fall Happy Hour on October 21st! This is a great chance to reconnect with LGBTQ+ Terp alumni, staff, faculty, and students while building your local Terp community.
🗓️ Date: Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025
🕒 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 PM
📍Location: Marie Mount Hall 2411
Curious about gender affirming healthcare? Join the UHC Gender Affirming Care Team to learn about your healthcare options on and off campus!
📱For more events and updates, follow us: @lgbtqequity | @umdhealthcenter
Please email lgbtq@umd.edu with any questions or accommodation requests.
🗓️ Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2025
🕕 Time: 3:00 – 7:00 PM
📍Location: The Atrium, Adele H. Stamp Student Union
The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is excited to announce our 50th Anniversary celebration Still Here: The Evolution and Moment of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. The event will include an informational session on the opening of the WGSS Archiving Project, Lightning Reflections from alums, and a roundtable discussion with some of the founding women who contributed their time and scholarship to developing the University’s first Women’s Studies program and evolving them into the department we are today. A detailed agenda will be shared on this page soon.
📱For more events and updates, follow us: @harriettubmanwgss
🗓️ Date: Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025
🕔 Time: 5:00 – 7:00 PM
📍Location: Grand Ballroom, Adele H. Stamp Student Union
Participants will work in groups and be assigned a specific task or category, such as snacks, hygiene items, self-care notes, or other essentials, which will come together to create care packages for LGBTQ+ homeless or at-risk youth. In addition to assembling the packages, attendees will have the opportunity to design and personalize the tote bags, as well as include handwritten letters of encouragement.
🗓️ Date: Thursday, October 23rd, 2025
🕕 Time: 5:00 – 7:00 PM
📍Location: Glenn Martin Hall 1202
Hear from LGBTQ+ alumni from UMD’s Clark School of Engineering and CMNS as they share their journeys in STEM, insights on building inclusive workplaces, and advice for current students. Open to all students, alumni, and allies!
This event is being sponsored by the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences.
📱For more events and updates, follow us: @umdclarkschool
🗓️ Date: Friday, October 24th, 2025
🕑 Time: 2:00 – 6:00 PM
📍Location: Susquehanna Hall 4131
Take a break and build your own rest kit! Students will get to create personalized face mask blends using herbs, clays, and oils, while also engaging in reflection through a zine/journal and care card station. Come chill, recharge, and create space for rest and self-care.
This event is being sponsored by the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
📱For more events and updates, follow us: @umd.indigenous.futures.lab
Week 5
🗓️ Date: Monday, October 27th, 2025
🕕 Time: 6:00 – 9:00 PM
📍Location: Grand Ballroom, Adele H. Stamp Student Union
Spook N' Slay is the Pride Alliance's annual Halloween-themed costume & drag contest, fostering community and pride in identity, creativity, and artistry for the LGBTQ+ community at UMD. Come out for an evening of food, community, and the chance to witness or show off your best costumes and performances! Fill out the interest form at https://go.umd.edu/SNS25 🦇🌈
This event is being sponsored by the Pepsi Enhancement Fund.
📱For more events and updates, follow us: @pridealliance_umd | @hausofterp
Please email prideallianceumd@gmail.com with any questions or accommodation requests.
🗓️ Date: October 30th, 2025
🕙 Time: 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM
📍Location: The Gallery, Adele H. Stamp Student Union
We Will Not Be Silent: Art Transforming Rape Culture features four artists whose sensorial works invite viewers to feel the realities of surviving violence, generating possibilities for a future rooted in their experiences and identities, including as queer, trans, multi-racial, disabled, Indigenous, Mexican, and Black. Each artist’s work will be displayed alongside their contributions to the Monument Quilt, a public art project by and for survivors of sexual violence. In the spirit of the now concluded Quilt, a series of imaginative banners about a future without sexual violence, made by UMD students through the LGBTQ+ Equity Center and coursework, will be on view.
⚠️ Content Warning: This exhibition includes artwork and narratives that address sexual violence and survivorship. The content may be triggering or distressing for some viewers.
📱For more events and updates, follow us: @stampgalleryumd
🗓️ Date: Thursday, October 30th, 2025
🕒 Time: 3:00 – 5:00 PM
📍Location: Marie Mount Hall 2411
Come to the Equity Center to play Queer the Turtle, UMD's now-fancily-printed Apples-to-Apples style game we created together last fall! This event is a continuation of the Gayme Break event series we had last fall, but you don't need to have attended those to come have fun at this event.
📱For more events and updates, follow us at @lgbtqequity.
Please email lgbtq@umd.edu with any questions or accommodation requests.
🗓️ Date: Thursday, October 30th, 2025
🕒 Time: 3:00 – 5:00 PM
📍Location: Hornbake Library
Join librarians from Special Collections & University Archives to talk about the importance of zines in tracing counter-narratives and learn about queer history on campus. We'll be using the Hornbake printing press along with copies of queer archival materials to create our own zines and collages!
📱For more events and updates, follow us: @umd_archives | @mspal.umd | @hornbakelibrary
🗓️ Date: Friday, October 31st, 2025
🕗 Time: 2:00 – 6:00 PM
📍Location: Susquehanna Hall 4131
Participants choose and decorate stilettos/old shoes or begin moccasins. Come celebrate Halloween + 2 years of The Lab. Costumes encouraged. Community affirmation wall or card station, zine page, or time capsule entry: “Where will the lab be at 5 years old?”
This event is being sponsored by the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
📱For more events and updates, follow us: @umd.indigenous.futures.lab
2025 Theme: Dreaming Together for Queer Futures
For us, dreaming has always been more than rest—it has been survival, imagination, and resistance. Queer dreaming exists across generations: in whispered hopes, in coded language passed in bars and ballrooms, in the brave declarations of those who demanded to be seen. We dream not only of safety, but of possibility. In dreaming together, we create a lineage of vision that connects our past, sustains our present, and propels us toward the futures we deserve.
Even in difficult times, we keep dreaming. Hold each other close, protect one another fiercely, and imagine boldly. “Dreaming together” means envisioning a queer future where joy, safety, and belonging are not exceptions but expectations. It means drawing strength from intergenerational wisdom, embracing fluidity, and daring to see beyond today’s limitations. Queer utopias may feel far away, but each act of care, each fight for justice, and each celebration of identity brings them closer.
This month, we celebrate the dreams that brought us here and commit to the ones that will carry us forward. The fight for liberation continues, but so does the brilliance of queer imagination—reminding us that the future we dream of is already within our reach.
Other LGBTQ+ Programming at UMD
These meetings and resources have been taking place throughout the year at UMD and will continue even after Pride Month!
Weekly meetings of LGBTQ+ Student Groups
There are nine student-facilitated LGBTQ+ student discussion groups that have meetings weekly or biweekly, most of which take place in the LGBTQ+ Equity Center (2218 Marie Mount Hall). Head over to the Student Groups webpage run by LGBTQ+ Equity Center webpage for an up-to-date list of their meeting times and locations.
Counseling Resources
The Counseling Center is a safe and inclusive space where counselors provide support to students from underrepresented populations.
Rainbow Walk-In
Free unscheduled time with a counselor is available to LGBT students. Find more information about Drop-In Hour: Safe and Inclusive Support on the Counseling Center website.
Group Counseling
The Student of Color LGBTQ+ Support Group is open to undergraduate and graduate students of Color who represent the sexual orientation and gender continuum. Members of the group are invited to participate in co-creating a space to discuss identity, coming out, transitioning, relationships, struggles, victories, and more - a space to decompress, share what's on your mind, and find support.
The LGBTQIA+ Support Group provides a co-created space for non-heterosexual (e.g., bi, asexual, queer, lesbian, gay) and gender expansive (e.g., transgender, genderqueer, agender, gender non-conforming) undergraduate and graduate students to engage in discussions around their identities, coming out and/or transitioning experiences, relationships, families, as well as struggles and victories.