Welcome to LGBTQ Alumni Association!
The purpose of our group is to help encourage connections among our alumni and to offer opportunities and support to current LGBTQ students. To learn more about how to get involved with this alumni association, please join our mailing list by CLICKING HERE
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BOARD MEMBERS
President: Jenna Pel (’13)
Vice President: Clay Zakarian (’12)
Secretary:Frank Martinez
Treasurer: Stacy Peterson (’08)
Director, Scholarship & Emergency Crisis Aid: Kelli Vorish (’09)
Director, Events & Community Liaison: Emily Hum
Director, Sponsorship & Membership: Glynda McGinnis
Director, Social Media & Marketing: Christina Ferraz
Chair, Red Dinner 5: Lizeth Jaramillo
Chair, Ad Hoc Committee: Shawn Kuehn (’10|’13)
Events and Programs
Join your fellow Rainbow Coogs this fall at our upcoming events!
Thursday, October 17 – Fall Mixer at Revelry – 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Saturday, November 2 – UH/UCF Watch Party @ Big City Wings Time TBD
Saturday, November 9 – Community Service Day at UH Libraries to assist with LGBTQ Archives in Special Collections – 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
This scholarship aims to encourage LGBTQ students to pursue studies at the University through this Scholarship Program. Each scholarship is a one-time award paid each semester or one award paid in the Fall semester (if the student is graduating in the fall semester). Applications for the 2020 UH LGBTQ Alumni Association academic scholarship will open in January 2020.
We have always celebrated Cougar Pride!
In 1976, the University of Houston’s Gay Activist Alliance organized a Pride event to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion in New York City. Although it is sometimes dismissed as “just a march”, fliers and other promotional pieces clearly identified it as a parade. There were no marching bands, floats or banners, and most of the participants had been recruited during the previous year by pioneering Houston activist Ray Hill whom attended the University of Houston.
Since then, Houston’s Pride Parade has grown to become the fourth-largest in the country (and the 15th largest in the world) with an estimated attendance of 700,000 in 2017.
Red Dinner is the UH LGBTQ Alumni Association’s annual fundraising gala. In its previous 4 editions, the event has raised over $100,000 for LGBTQ+ students. Stay tuned for exciting details about Red Dinner 5. The event will take place in Spring 2020
