Faculty/Staff
All Harvard faculty and staff are welcome to join the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus. Benefits of membership include access to the online membership database and participation in Harvard's large LGBT community. HGLC has thousands of members. You can also sign up for a variety of email lists that will keep you posted on the latest events and activities of the caucus, especially related to campus activism.
Within the Harvard LGBT community, several hundred LGBT faculty and staff from all the Harvard schools are members of HGLC.
You can become a member by applying online at:
http://memdir.org/HGLC/membership.cfm
Over the past two decades, there have been a variety of LGBT-related faculty and staff groups. Currently there are three that focus on organizing LGBT faculty and staff and helping them feel comfortable in the workplace. These are great places to talk about coming out and any other issues of interest to the LGBT community .
Current LGBT Networking/Support Groups
Harvard-Wide LGBT Faculty/Staff Group
This grouped was formed in the fall of 2005 and has an active steering committee comprised of one or two faculty and staff from each of the Harvard Schools. The steering committee organizes meetings about once a quarter that are open to all Harvard faculty and staff. It is currently working with the Harvard administration to clarify various gender identity and benefits policies, especially regarding domestic partnerships. After joining HGLC, members can sign up for the HU faculty/staff email list by logging in to the HGLC membership directory and checking the box next to the staff list on the member's personal HGLC email lists page . Membership on this list includes updates about various lunches and the latest news on HU LGBT policies.
Harvard Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer Women's Lunch is a chance for lesbian/bi/trans/queer women staff and faculty at Harvard to meet informally for lunch and conversation. Lunches take place in the Dudley House private dining room, 12:30-2 p.m. Participants can bring lunch or buy at the cafeteria. E-mail , , or for more information.
Other Women's Discussion Groups
HGLC members can also sign up for the Boston area women's email list as well as the women of the caucus email list by logging in to the HGLC membership directory and checking the corresponding box on the member's HGLC email lists page.
Harvard Business School LGBT Faculty/Staff Discussion Group
The HBS faculty/staff group is a very casual lunch group that meets a few times a year. HGLC members can sign up for the HBS Faculty/Staff email list by logging in to the HGLC membership directory and checking the HBS Faculty and Staff Discussion list at the bottom of the member's personal email lists page.
Harvard Trans Taskforce
The Harvard Transgender Task Force consists of undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff and alumni at Harvard University who are dedicated to improving the lives of transgender (transexual, genderqueer and other gender variant) people and communities across the Harvard campus.
Other email lists and groups of interest
There are also several other lists that may be of interest to Harvard faculty and staff. These lists below are a few of the dozens of email lists HGLC members can sign up for by checking the box associated with each list on the member's personal email lists page in the HGLC membership directory.
- The Boston/Cambridge Chapter email list posts information about local alumni events, including several annual parties open to the entire Harvard community.
- The LBG Campus events list posts information about upcoming on-campus events and occasional multigender faculty/staff lunches.
- The Longwood list posts information about events in the medical area.
Harvard faculty and staff might also be interested in signing up for the MIT LGBT issues group email list. There are several other MIT faculty, staff, student, and alumni groups that many Harvard affiliates have been able to join. Find out more on the LGBT @ MIT web site .
