Involvement

LGBTQ+ students and allies are encouraged to take advantage of hundreds of student cohorts and organizations, including many that focus on LGBTQ+ advocacy, mentorship, leadership development and more. 

Student Life Multicultural Center

The Student Life Multicultural Center (SLMCC) provides students of diverse cultural backgrounds and identities with a variety of opportunities for involvement, including leadership groups, cohorts, mentorship programs. The SLMCC also offers a variety signature events for our constituency groups. A number of these opportunities cater directly to the LGBTQ+ community and its allies.

LGBTQ+ cohorts and leadership groups include: 

• LGBTQ*mmunity, provides social support for LGBTQ+ students who are first-years, transfer students, newly out, and/or new to OSU's LGBTQ community.
• QTPOC Collective, providing a space for queer and trans people of color to come together for support and community.
• LGBTQ Leaders Consortium, collaborative meetings between LGBTQ student leaders across campus.
• OSQ Peer Mentor Program, provides support for LGBTQ undergraduate students through 1-on-1 mentoring from LGBTQ peers.

LGBTQ+ Signature Events include:

• Welcome (Back) Mix and Mingle (August)

• LGBTQ History Month (October)

• National Coming Out Day (October)

• Trans Awareness and Empowerment Week (November)

• Queer HoliGay Dinner (December)

• Welcome Back to Spring Fling (January)

• Transgender Day of Visibility (March)

• Gaypril Gayla (April)

• Rainbow Graduation Celebration (May)

• One University, One Pride (June)

LGBTQ Student Organizations

The Ohio State University boasts a number of LGBTQ+ student organizations.

Undergraduate Student Organizations

• Cultivating Change – an LGBTQ+ group for OSU students, staff, and faculty with an interest in food, agriculture, and environmental sciences. Meetings occur on Wednesdays at 7PM. For more info, contact specht.22@osu.edu or krage.6@osu.edu, or join the Cultivating Change groupme.

• Gamma Rho Lambda (GRL) – an all-inclusive sorority dedicated to creating a supportive and nurturing environment for self-expression and personal growth. For more info, contact psi@gammarholambda.org
  
  
• NGPA at OSU – a chapter of the National Gay Pilots Association. For more info, contact buckeyes@ngpa.org
  
  
• Pride – an all-inclusive LGBTQ+ club focused on providing a safe and fun space for students. Pride meets every other Monday at 8 PM. For more info, contact prideosu@gmail.com
  
  
• SHADES – engages people of color at various stages of coming out to understand their identity and make sense of the LGBTQ community. SHADES meets Wednesdays at 8 PM. For more info, contact shades.osu@gmail.com
  
  
• Students for Diversity in Education Through Service (SDES) – provides service and networking opportunities for LGBTQ students and their allies. SDES meets every other Monday at 8 PM. For more info, contact osusdes@gmail.com
  
  
• Trans*Mission – a social group providing a safe space for transgender, non-binary, gender non-conforming, and questioning students and allies to meet. Trans*Mission meets on Thursdays at 7 PM. For more info, contact Julian robbins.391@osu.edu

Graduate/Professional Student Organizations

• Dental Pride Alliance – an organization for LGBTQ students in the College of Dentistry. For more info, contact cardonasoto.1@osu.edu
  
  
• LGBTQ+ and Allies in Medicine – a diverse organization of LGBTQ+ and allied medical students working to educate the medical school community. For more info, contact varna.thayaparan@osumc.edu
  
  
• Out in Nursing – a social organization for LGBTQ student nurses and allies. For more info, contact sherman.1420@osu.edu
  
  
• Out of Office – an organization of business professionals that openly accepts all. For more info, contact posk.1@osu.edu
  

• OutLaws – an organization of Moritz College of Law students, faculty, and staff that promotes understanding of legal issues affecting the LGBTQ community. For more info, contact halter-rainey.1@osu.edu
  
  
• Pride Veterinary Medical Community – aims to foster acceptance and inclusivity for people of all sexual orientations and gender identities within the veterinary profession. For more info, contact Osucvmpride@gmail.com

Alumni Involvement

LGBTQ+ alumni can get involved within the Ohio State community by joining the Scarlet and Gay LGBTQ Alumni Society, which sponsors a scholarship program, hosts events and collaborates with community organizations to promote education and awareness of LGBTQ issues.