Gender Equity Resource Center

The Gender Recognition and Lived Name policy, or GRLN, will ensure all University of California students, faculty and affiliates can self-identify their gender identities and lived names on university-issued identification as of Oct. 8

Confetti, music, rainbows and hundreds of thousands of people filled San Francisco’s Market Street for the Pride Parade on Sunday. UC Berkeley students, alumni, professors and community members joined together as a contingent and walked in the parade showing their LGBTQ+ pride.

Broadly, the liberal community on campus can be a haven for LGBTQ+ students and community members. However, the plethora of LGBTQ+ individuals does not make campus immune to issues of transphobia or general dismissal of nonbinary people’s identities.

In the late 1960s, then-student at UC Berkeley Bob Plantz read an article in an underground newspaper, the Berkeley Barb, featuring two unidentified men embracing one another. The article was intended to promote openness surrounding gay identities.

Graduating LGBTQ+ students joined together with friends and family at UC Berkeley’s 23rd annual Lavender Graduation on Friday.

The campus Gender Equity Resource Center hosted a free introduction to self-defense workshop with IMPACT Bay Area on Friday.

Situated in the Bay Area — a place renowned for its vibrant LGBTQ+ community — UC Berkeley is home to a significant LGBTQ+ presence of its own.

While growing up in foster care and group homes, Oakland resident Vincent Ray Williams III, born HIV-positive and pansexual, alleged he was stigmatized, outcasted and physically abused when people "caught wind" of his sexual identity.

The UC Berkeley community and the city of Berkeley marked International Women’s Day Tuesday by recognizing activists both locally and internationally.