Pride Month 2025
Happy Pride Month! June is a time to commemorate gay liberation during the Stonewall riots and to celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer pride. In CLA, we seek to create safe and supportive environments that foster pride, growth, and joy. We are honored to shine a light on the following stories about LGBTQ+ experiences and research.
People and Research in LGBTQ+ Studies in CLA
PhD student Moriah Shumpert (Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies) explores time slippages in Black queer art, building an archive that connects past, present, and future freedoms.
Joseph teaches feminist, Marxist, poststructuralist, and queer theory, cultural studies methods, and LGBT Studies.
In his new book, professor Paul Goren (Department of Political Science) argues that scholars have underestimated the role abortion and gay rights play in the American public’s political divisions.
Read "Abortion, Gay Rights & Authoritarianism: Paul Goren on His New Book"
Celebrating the legacy of scholar and activist Jesús Estrada-Pérez, this fund provides fellowships for graduate students whose work engages some aspect of queer Latinx artistic production, cultural studies, social justice issues, and related interdisciplinary theories.
Learn With Us
1000-level
AMES 1917W: Playing with Genders: How Arts Inform Our Everyday Genders, a Case Study in Japanese Arts
GWSS 1001: Gender, Power, and Everyday Life
GWSS 1006: Skin, Sex, and Genes
3000-level
CNRC 3601W: Sexuality and Gender in Ancient Greece and Rome
ENGL 3045: Cinematic Seductions: Sex, Gender, Desire
ENGL 3352: Weird Books by Women and Gender-variant Writers
FREN 3431: Gender and Sexuality in Francophone Literature and Cinema
GWSS 3402: Pleasure, Intimacy and Violence
1000-level
AMST 1401: Comparative Genders and Sexualities
GWSS 1001: Gender, Power, and Everyday Life
3000-level
GLBT 3502: Transgender Studies Now
GWSS 3003: Gender and Global Politics
GWSS 3408: Women and Gender in Modern America
4000-level
SOC 4133: Sociology of Gender, Sex, and Crime
SOC 4551: Sociology of Sexualities
5000-level
Spotlight on Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies
CLA’s Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) promotes feminist scholarship, teaching, and programming that centers on the relationship between knowledge, power, and social justice. We push against established boundaries while providing a rich and rigorous education that asks students to view the world around them with a curious yet critical lens.
The department offers an undergraduate major and minor in GWSS, an undergraduate minor in GLBT studies, a doctoral degree in feminist studies, and a graduate minor in feminist and critical sexuality studies.
LGBTQ+ Resources at the U
The Gender and Sexuality Center for Queer and Trans Life provides education, advocacy, outreach, and support to students, staff, faculty, alum and community members. We strive to create a campus climate where more inclusive understandings of gender and sexuality foster a sense of belonging for all.
Learn more about the Gender and Sexuality Center for Queer and Trans Life (GSC) here.
The QSCC is a student cultural center that aims to promote awareness of queer issues on campus as well as provide aid to students in need.
Learn more about the Queer Student Cultural Center (QSCC) here.
Pride @ Work is the UofM’s affinity group for LGBTQIA employees. Join this incredible group of LGBTQIA employees who link together across the University of Minnesota to engage in social and professional networking, creating campus-wide change, and discussing critical topics that impact LGBTQIA employees.
The University of Minnesota Alumni Association (UMAA) Pride Network works with the UofM Gender and Sexuality Center for Queer and Trans Life to strengthen the bond between LGBTQIA+ alumni, students and the University of Minnesota.
The Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection is the largest archival repository of LGBTQ history in the Midwest. It features over 500 collections of queer and trans archival materials accessible to the public, including the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project (TTOHP), which documents the lives and activism of transgender and gender non-conforming people.
Learn more about the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection here.
UofM Bookstores Pride
Discover LGBTQ+ books and authors in the UofM Bookstores' featured Pride collection, with over 60 curated titles.
UMN Pride
The Twin Cities campus is ranked one of the "Top 25 LGBTQ-Friendly Colleges & Universities" in the nation by Campus Pride, earning a score of 4.5 out of 5 for institutional support, housing and residence life, academic life, campus safety, counseling, and recruitment and retention efforts.
Visit the UMN Pride webpage to learn more about the University's commitment to advocating for equity and fostering a sense of belonging for people of all sexualities and gender identities and to stay up to date with pride events from the UofM.
