Resources
- The Middlebury Open Queer Alliance (MOQA) is an organization for students of ALL genders and sexualities. Its primary goals are 1) pursuing education and activism around queer issues, 2) providing a safe space for queer individuals and allies, 3) coordinating support resources for questioning and closeted students, and 4) organizing social events for Middlebury College’s queer and ally communities. At meetings, members plan activities and events to raise awareness of queer issues on campus and also hold discussions about queerness and all things that intersect with it (race, ethnicity, disability, class, nationality, spirituality, etc.). Weekly meetings are held Sunday at 8 P.M. in the Chellis House (the white house behind Proctor Dining Hall to the right of the Queer Studies House).
- The People’s Gender Council of Middlebury is a grassroots group of Middlebury students, staff, and faculty harnessing the passion of anti-oppression activists and experts to effect broad, systemic, policy-oriented change. It practices coalitional politics in bringing together various groups to pursue issues through a gendered lens: all are highly encouraged to get involved by bringing their ideas to the Council, which seeks to cut through red tape by reaching directly to policymakers.
- Gay and Lesbian Employees at Middlebury (GLEAM) is an informal social and resource group for faculty and staff employees of Middlebury College. GLEAM’s mission is to promote understanding and acceptance of all LGBTQ members of the Middlebury Community.
- The Center for Counseling and Human Relations “is dedicated to providing excellent mental health services to Middlebury students.” While all of their counselors excel at their work in different ways, their website describes Ximena Mejia as having “counseling interests focus[ing] around the intersections of cultural identity, multiculturalism, gender, and sexuality issues.”
- Outright Vermont is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQQ) youth center and state-wide advocacy organization. The Mission of Outright is to build safe, healthy, and supportive environments for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth (ages 13-22). Our goal is to make Vermont the safest, most supportive and empowering state for queer youth in the United States of America.
- RU12? Community Center celebrates, educates, and advocates with and for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Vermonters.
