Gender & Sexuality Resources
Gender & Sexuality Resources
Gender and Sexuality Resources is the department within the Center for Diversity and Inclusion at Johns Hopkins working to build an equitable and supportive Hopkins community for people of all sexual orientations and gender identities. You’re invited to explore our site or email us to ask any questions. You can also connect with us via Instagram, the LGBTQ at JHU Discord, or by joining our mailing list!
What We Do
We work towards our mission through co-curricular education, access and retention initiatives, and community-building that center the needs and experiences of LGBTQ+ communities at Hopkins.
Values
We work towards building solidarity across communities with differing identities and lived experiences so that we can continue to grow in our understanding of the ways our struggles and experiences are both unique and overlapping. When we center those in our communities who are most marginalized, we are all uplifted and able to thrive.
We recognize that sexual, gender, and romantic identities do not exist in isolation. Rather, our experiences of these identities are informed by the other social identities we hold. As Audre Lorde wrote, “there is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”
When we center those in our communities who are most marginalized, we are all uplifted and able to thrive.
News & Announcements
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A path to authenticity
Paula Neira, the program director of LGBTQ+ Equity and Education at Johns Hopkins Medicine, shares her journey from a dream job in the Navy to a life of service, purpose, and impact beyond
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A great fit for Hopkins community
Homewood's new Gender Affirming Closet offers free clothing, accessories, makeup, and resources to support gender identity expression and exploration
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All Johns Hopkins insurance plans will be updated and aligned to offer a broad range of care, and enterprise systems have been updated to allow individuals to use chosen names
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Despite distance, LGBTQ Life helps students stay close
Disruption to semester and effects of social distancing make the office's services and events more important than ever, says LGBTQ Life Director Demere Woolway
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Libraries acquire rare copy of seminal 19th-century essay
'A Problem in Greek Ethics' by poet John Addington Symonds helped set the stage for the modern gay-rights movement
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Ballroom glitz
Performers battled, catwalked, and vogued at the George Peabody Library, a grand venue for an event that honored the nearly century-old tradition of the ballroom community