Due to staffing changes and incoming staff development trainings, our center will be closed on Friday, March 8th and will remain closed until Wednesday, March 27th. Please be patient with us as we revisit our schedule. 

If you have any questions, please email us at i3b@umbc.edu. In the meantime we encourage you to check out our other two i3b spaces, The Gathering Space for Spiritual Well-Being and The Mosaic: Center for Cultural Diversity or our partners at The Women's Center. 

-TPC Staff

In partnership with Student Government Association (SGA) for their Queer Town Hall, our center will be closing at 5:45 p.m. today. We encourage folks to join us to voice any concerns, ideas, and requests you may have in connection to queer students, initiatives, programs, and/or resources. We will reopen at our regularly scheduled hours tomorrow, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024.

If you have any questions, please email us at i3b@umbc.edu. Thank you for your understanding and hope to see you there!

-TPC Staff

Hello community members of TPC,

Next week, on Wednesday February 21st, 2024, from 5:00pm-6:30pm, we will be hosting our first Paws and Reflect workshop!

For the unaware, this workshop is focused on how staff and faculty can better support closeted and questioning individuals. Please see here for a full description. We hope to see you there! Help us to make our campus culture a more supportive and healthy place to be your own authentic selves.

Due to the nature of this program, an RSVP is REQUIRED.

To RSVP, please use the bellow link:

If you need to request a disability-based accommodation or have any questions? Contact us at i3b@umbc.edu. For our uploaded event recordings, attendee lists, works cited, and other materials, please check out our Initiatives for Identity, Inclusion & Belonging (i3b) Events Drive. Materials will be available in this Google Drive within one business week after the event unless otherwise specified.

In celebration and support of The Mosaic's 20th Anniversary event, The Pride Center will be closed after 4:00pm today. If you are able, please join us in celebration of this milestone!

We expect to open tomorrow during our regularly scheduled business hours. Feel free to visit our sister space, The Gathering Space for Spiritual Well-Being or email us at i3b@umbc.edu if you have any questions. We apologize for the inconvenience!

New semester means updated hours! We are so excited to welcome our returning and new guests in the center. Due to our foot traffic increasing 5 times over from the previous semester, we are excited to announce our extended hours for the spring semester. Please check out our hours below.

For any other questions, please email us at i3b@umbc.edu.

Join Paws & Reflect: Gender, Sexuality, and Romantic Exploration for the first workshops highlighting identity exploration and on/off-campus resources, followed by a Q&A with various queer guests. 

Due to the nature of this sensitive topic and in an effort to protect our closeted siblings, an RSVP is REQUIRED. Invitation links will be sent privately via email from one of our facilitators.

If you know someone who is currently struggling with this process, there will also be a referral form released in the coming days for one of our staff members reach out to them. 

Please stay tuned for more details!

A collaboration with The Gathering Space for Spiritual Well-Being, Queerios is a discussion-based group open to all that focuses on the experience of being both queer and religious or spiritual.  Queerios welcomes participation of all kinds and disclosure of any identity is never required to join. This group is not focused on any particular faith-based practice or queer identity but rather a general approach to this unique intersection. Sessions will feature topics that highlight a variety of identities and practices present in the UMBC student body.

Sessions will start with a student facilitator-led activity, and leave plenty of room for discussion, dialogue, and community building. Each week will focus on a different topic! Allies and community members who want to learn how to better support those living at this intersection are welcome to participate.

Please stay tuned for more details!

As we wrap up for the semester, we wanted to share our hours for the remaining days of the semester & Winter Session.

It's that time of year again! The planning process for our 2nd Annual PRIDE Week has officially begun! We are so excited to bring this program back after a successful relaunch in Spring 2023. That being said, in spirit of LGBTQIA2+ Pride we want to make this a bigger, more collaborative effort. 

In order to ensure smooth communication and co-creation of what's to come for PRIDE Week 2024, we have created the Spring 2024 PRIDE Week Partnership Submission Form. Link will also be available via The Pride Center Linktree. 

This year we are open to creating programs for ALL Retrievers and will run from Sunday, April 14th - Saturday, April 20th, 2024. This includes undergraduate/graduate students, staff, faculty, alums, and campus affiliates. Have any questions? Please reach out to i3b@umbc.edu.