LGBTQIA+ Alumni Network
As alumni, we share a love of our alma mater, yet we relate to the University in our own personal ways. The LGBTQIA+ Alumni Network invites you to connect with your fellow UNC Charlotte LGBTQIA+ alumni, friends and allies.
Mission Statement
The LGBTQIA+ Alumni Network at UNC Charlotte was established by alumni to build a community, strengthen the bond among LGBTQIA+ alumni, faculty, staff, and advance current and future niners. This will provide a space where LGBTQIA+ alumni can explore and grow their professional and personal development through networking and community building. The network will work together to provide resources, community, and cultivate relationships with the different LGBTQIA+ student organizations on campus.
A NETWORK OF INCLUSIVITY
June is Pride Month, which was established to recognize the impact that LGBTQIA+ individuals have had on our world.
On this page, you’ll find information about ways that you can connect with your fellow UNC Charlotte LGBTQIA+ alumni, friends and allies.
As alumni, we share a love of our alma mater, yet we relate to the University in our own personal ways. The UNC Charlotte Alumni Association invites you to express interest in joining our LGBTQIA+ Alumni Network.
For questions regarding the network, please contact Jessica Dunlow ’12 at jldunlow@charlotte.edu.
NINER NATION SHARING OUR PRIDE
- Building an Inclusive Campus: Pride Month 2021 at UNC Charlotte
- “Ways to Tap into the LGBTQ+ Community,” written by UNC Charlotte student Alyssa Lopez
- LGBTQ exhibit wins second prize in national competition
- Professor’s novel explores LGBTQ history and personal experiences
- Professor named a 2021 Emerging Scholar for research on LGBTQ+ students
- Professor attends White House briefing on bisexuality
- Architecture team’s submission to be donated to LGBT Community Center
Charlotte LGBTQ+ oral histories
Collected by the J. Murrey Atkins Library
The Charlotte Queer Oral History Project was established in 2015 as a community-based project to capture oral histories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people from Charlotte and its surrounding counties. Initial partners included prominent individuals in the region’s LGBTQ community and staff at UNC Charlotte.
The project continues to plan for future additions of oral histories representing a broad range of the region’s LGBTQ+ experience.
PFLAG SCHOLARSHIP
The Nila and Stokley Bailey PFLAG Scholarship Endowment Fund was created in March 1995 with a gift from the late Harold A. Morris of Charlotte in memory of his late foster son, Gary, who died of AIDS-related complications in 1991.
The scholarship seeks to recognize outstanding students who are members of the LGBTQIA+ community, or who actively work within the community, and to encourage continuing education in order to foster a positive image of gay and lesbian people in society.
“Members of the LGBTQ community shouldn’t have to look, sound, talk, or share particular backgrounds to be embraced. Creating an inclusive environment requires action, open communication, and a yearning to learn and grow from one another.
UNC Charlotte leverages diversity and inclusion and creates this environment — in students, in the curriculum, and in communities with which students and alumni might connect.“
– Mike Weir ’12, UNC Charlotte DC Alumni Regional Network
Senior Manager, Policy and Legislative Affairs
National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD)