Join us every other Friday, from 12 – 1 p.m. for community building, strategizing, and lots of LGBTQ+ joy! All are welcome. Email nrodriguez@peralta.edu for the Zoom Link.

More to come soon!

• Oakland LGBTQ Community Center
• Pacific Center for Human Growth
• Rainbow Community Center
• Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center
• LGBT Center
• LGBT Resources Website
• Turn Out
• CUAV
• Gender Spectrum
• PFLAG SF
• BAAITS (Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits)
• El/La Para TransLatinas
• QWOCMAP (Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project)
• Lavender Phoenix
• Sogorea Te
• Instituto Familiar de la Raza
• Trikone
• GLBTQ+ Asian Pacific Alliance
• The LGBT Asylum Project
• Black Brothers Esteem (A San Francisco AIDS Foundation program)
• Rafiki Coalition
• Lyon-Martin Community Health Services
• San Francisco AIDS Foundation
• San Francisco Community Health Center
• Tom Waddell Health Center – Transgender Clinic
• LYRIC Center for LGBTQQ+ Youth
• Gender Health SF
• The LGBTQ Perinatal Wellness Center
• The Lotus Collaborative
• Native American Health Center
• Increasing access and defending housing for diverse, vulnerable, low-income populations in San Francisco.

• OutLoud Sports
• OutLoud Sports is the nation’s original LGBTQAI+ and Allies recreational sports league, founded in 2007 and proudly representing over 60,000+ Queer+ & allied athletes across the US.
• James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center
• The James C. Hormel LGBTQIA+ Center is the gateway to the Library’s broader collections documenting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual and allies’ history and culture, with a special emphasis on the San Francisco Bay Area.
• Frameline
• Frameline’s mission is to change the world through the power of queer cinema. As a media arts nonprofit, Frameline’s programs connect filmmakers and audiences in the Bay Area and around the world.
• GLBT Historical Society
• The GLBT Historical Society collects, preserves, exhibits and makes accessible to the public materials and knowledge to support and promote understanding of LGBTQ history, culture and arts in all their diversity.
• QCC Center promotes social justice and the creative and financial development of queer artists and culture makers. We steward artists whose programs nourish, connect, and mobilize trans & queer communities in San Francisco and its diaspora.
• Nice Queer Pals (NQP)
• “Nice Queer Pals” is a grassroots, volunteer-led nonprofit project providing support and community for queer women and non-binary folks. We provide health and wellness resources and education through our weekly sports events and socials in San Mateo County, provide engaging online discussions, train people in leadership skills, bring in guest speakers to educate the community on the breadth of LGBTQ+ identities and issues, host a Discord server, and provide a positive space for folks to be themselves.
• Oaklash
• Oaklash is dedicated to building new and ever-expanding stages to showcase & elevate Bay Area queer talent. Our programming aims to create safe and accessible environments that celebrate the queer community, especially queer and trans people of color. Our organization was created to showcase performances that are boundary pushing, provocative, and unique to the sensibility of the Bay Area. We aim to stay true to the history of Oakland as a home to creative renaissance rooted in diversity. We hope that by amplifying and supporting the queer art community in the Bay Area, we can emphasize the need for investment in the arts in the face of systemic racism, growing economic disparities, and the Bay Area housing crisis.
• Peacock Rebellion
• We’re a SF Bay Area based, queer and trans Black, Indigenous, and people of color (QTBIPOC) crew of artist-activist-healers. Best known for Brouhaha, our comedy training program; Liberating Ourselves Locally, our former maker space, and Liberate 23rd Ave., the first queer and trans BIPOC -centered land trust in the US, we make sassy sexy art to help build social justice futures, with an emphasis on healing justice and disability justice.
• Queer Ancestors Project
• The Queer Ancestors Project is devoted to forging sturdy relationships between LGBTQI people and our ancestors. Using history as a linchpin, we build community by providing Queer and Trans artists, age 18 to 26, free interdisciplinary workshops in printmaking, writing, and Queer history.
• Queens of the Castro
• (Queens of the Castro) bring(s) drag to schools and universities throughout California.  Their mission is “To mentor, empower, support and create safer spaces for LGBTQ+ youth ages 16 – 25.” Draglab: drag mentorship program
• Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
• The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence® are a leading-edge Order of queer and trans nuns. We believe all people have a right to express their unique joy and beauty. Since our first appearance in San Francisco on Easter Sunday, 1979, the Sisters have devoted ourselves to community service, ministry and outreach to those on the edges, and to promoting human rights, respect for diversity and spiritual enlightenment. We use humor and irreverent wit to expose the forces of bigotry, complacency and guilt that chain the human spirit.
• Sundance Association for Country-Western Dancing
• The Sundance Association for Country-Western Dancing provides education in and programs for country-western dancing for the LGBT+ community. As an all-volunteer and community-supported nonprofit organization, the Sundance Association fosters individual growth and passion, encourages volunteerism and philanthropic giving, and strives to create an inclusive and welcoming community.
• Theatre Rhinoceros
• Theatre Rhinoceros fosters a bold and inclusive community of artists and arts supporters who develop and produce theatre that enlightens, challenges, and brings joy to our diverse global community. We strive to be a leader in LGBTQ+ storytelling that encourages and empowers artists and patrons to fight for a more just, equitable, and inclusive world where all are welcome and have a voice.
• The Stonewall Project
• The Stonewall Project supports folks who have concerns about their drug and alcohol use and are thinking about making changes. Our harm reduction counseling services center queer, gay, bisexual, and same-gender-loving men; trans and nonbinary folks; and other men who have sex with men.
• TransLife
• Support group and community for transgender and gender-fluid individuals.
• San Francisco Hiking Club
• The San Francisco Hiking Club organizes hikes and similar outings for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer people, and their friends.

• Openhouse
• Openhouse enables San Francisco Bay Area LGBTQ+ seniors to overcome the unique challenges they face as they age by providing housing, direct services and community programs.
• Housing assistance
• Aging & disability resources
• Case management
• Mental health
• Taja’s Coalition
• THP (TAJA’s Housing Program) was initially started by CEO Akira Jackson to meet the needs of the TGNB community facing homelessness in the city of San Francisco. The program has been expanded to include three distinct arms to help protect TGNB housing and to provide an equitable living for all community members.
• Jazzie’s Place
• Jazzie’s Place is part of the Delores Street Community Services Shelter. Jazzie’s Place has 24 beds to serve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender homeless adults who are seeking shelter beds. Jazzie’s Place is unique in that if offers sectioned rooms for male/male-identified useeers, female/female-identified users and gender non conforming, male or female users.
• BISHOP

• Trans Lifeline
• The Trevor Project

What is Title IX?

Most people think Title IX is just for schools with Athletics, but did you know that Title IX also promotes and opens the door for women and girls pursuing math and science?  It requires fair treatment for pregnant and parenting students, and protects all students from bullying and sexual harassment, among other things.

• 1 minute video about Title IX.  KNOW YOUR IX
• Unclear about Affirmative Consent? TEA CONSENT
• Understanding Sexual Violence: Myths and Facts about Sexual Violence
• How to report: Complaint and Investigation Procedures for Employees and Student

Policies and Procedures:

• Complaint and Investigation Procedures for Employees and Students
• Administrative Procedure 3540: Sexual and Other Assaults on Campus
• Standard of Conduct and Complaint Process

If you have been harassed or discriminated against based on your sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression on campus, please contact Title IX Coordinator, Dr. Mildred Lewis, Vice President of Student Services.

Click here for more information on Title IX.

The Peralta Community College District is committed to equal opportunity in educational programs, employment, and access to all institutional programs and activities.

ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE 3410 NONDISCRIMINATION

Educational Programs and other Services

The District shall provide access to its services, classes and programs without regard to, national origin, religion, age, sex or gender, gender identification, race or ethnicity, color, medical condition, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy or because he/she is perceived to have one or more of the foregoing characteristics, or based on association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics.

1. All classes, including credit, noncredit and not-for-credit, shall be conducted without regard to the gender of the student enrolled in the classes. As defined in the Penal Code, “gender” means sex, and includes a person’s gender identity and gender-related appearance and behavior whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth.
2. The District shall not prohibit any student from enrolling in any class or course on the basis of gender.
3. Academic staff, including but not limited to counselors, instructors and administrators shall not offer program guidance to students which differs on the basis of gender.
4. Insofar as practicable, the District shall offer opportunities for participation in athletics equally to male and female students.

Employment

The District shall provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, gender identification, age, sexual orientation, or military and veteran status.

1. All employment decisions, including but not limited to hiring, retention, assignment, transfer, evaluation, dismissal, compensation, and advancement for all position classifications shall be based on job-related criteria as well as be responsive to the District’s needs.
2. The District shall provide timely professional and staff development activities and training to promote understanding of diversity.
3. It is unlawful to discriminate against a person who serves in an unpaid internship or any other limited-duration program to provide unpaid work experience in the selection, termination, training, or other terms and treatment of that person on any the basis of their race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, or military and veteran status