Five College Organizations
Five College Queer Groups Getting it Together Facebook Group
Amherst College
Queer Resource Center
Jxhn Martin, Director
Queer Resource Center, Keefe Campus Center 2nd Floor
jmartin@amherst.edu
QTPOC: Queer Trans People of Color
Queer Resource Center, 213 Keefe Campus Center
qrc@amherst.edu
Pioneer Valley QPOC facebook group for a Five College Community
TransActive: Five College Trans Support Group
Queer Resource Center, Keefe Campus Center 2nd Floor
TransActive facebook Group
Pride Alliance
The Amherst queer and trans student group
pridealliance@amherst.edu
Pride Alliance Facebook Group
Hampshire College
Queer Community Alliance
Contact: Emily Rimmer, erimmer@hampshire.edu
The Queer Community Alliance seeks to foster awareness of LGBTQ issues and to create a comfortable space for their discussion through social events and political activism both at Hampshire and in the community at large.
Holyoke Community College
Queer/Straight Alliance
Our purpose is to support all gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and straight ally persons, and to help in the elimination, through education, of homophobia and heterosexism on the HCC campus by bringing together the LGBT and straight communities.
http://www.hcc.edu/campus-life/student-clubs/identity-clubs/queer-straight-alliance
Mount Holyoke College
Jeannette Marks House
Provides a safe space and community center for lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning and allied students at Mount Holyoke. Located at 5 Faculty Lane, the space is used by members of the community for meetings, events, and a resource library.
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/facilities/marks_house.html
CoGA (Coalition for Gender Awareness)
Supports and affirms the various gender identities existing within the Mount Holyoke community through the cultivation of a safe space, educational outreach, advocacy, and visibility.
FAMILIA
A confidential support network that serves self-identified LGBTQ people of color in the 5-college community. FAMILIA aims to increase the visibility of LGBTQQ people of color in the 5-colleges and to increase awareness in the 5-college community about issues affecting LGBTQQ people of color by creating a space for open dialogue.
Mount Holyoke Lyon's Pride
A group for Mount Holyoke LGBT alumnae/alumni and their partners.
True Colors
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/org/colors
The Mount Holyoke LGBT and ally student group.
Smith College
Gender Action and Advocacy Alliance
Resource Center for Sexuality and Gender
Basement of Wesley House
Jenny Kurtz, Advisor // jkurtz2@smith.edu
Prism: Queer Students of Color
A Smith College organization for LGBTQ people of color.
http://sophia.smith.edu/prism/
Smith Q&A
group working for the in the inclusion of trans* women at Smith
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Smith-QA/580489428637114
Spectrum (LGBTQQ Alliance)
http://sophia.smith.edu/spectrum
spectrum@smith.edu
A political and social organization for all Smith students.
University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Stonewall Center
Crampton House, SW; 256 Sunset Avenue phone: 413-545-4824
stonewall@stuaf.umass.edu
Stonewall provides information and referral services, educational and cultural programming, a Speakers Bureau, a weekly events listserv, a free lending library, support for individuals who experience harassment and discrimination, and advocacy for LGBT people at UMass Amherst. Volunteer opportunities are available.
Queer-E list-serv
A comprehensive guide to queer events in the Pioneer Valley and specifically within the Five College Consortium. You may also utilize this by publicizing your event. Please sign up for Queer-E by e-mail Genny Beemyn at genny@stuaf.umass.edu with "subscribe" as the subject line.
UMass Pride Alliance
https://www.facebook.com/umasspride
The undergraduate LGBTQIA and allies student group at UMass Amherst, the Pride Alliance sponsors regular social events, including QueerFest each spring. The group meets every week, often in the Stonewall Center, during the school year. Look for them on Facebook and Tumblr.
The Center for Women and Community
180 Infirmary Way, New Africa House
413-545-0883; // ewcmail@admin.umass.edu; http://www.umass.edu/ewc
24-hour rape crisis hotline: 413-545-0800
The Center for Women and Community provides free, confidential crisis services, counseling and support groups for victims of sexual and relationship violence for people of all gender identities and expressions. The services offered through the center are available not only to our campus community but also to those from the Five Colleges, area residents and teens.
UMass & Amherst College students on their way to Creating Change 2014