The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Straight Alliance (GLBTSA) of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the largest LGBTIQ student organization in the Southeastern United States.
[1] GLBTSA sponsors the annual Southeast Regional Unity Conference as well as Lambda magazine, the nation's oldest LGBTIQ student publication.
[2] The general body holds weekly meetings as well as guest speakers, drag shows, retreats, trips, and service projects.
GLBTSA has three additional programs: Colors (monthly discussions), Committee for a Queerer Carolina (activism), and Fruit Bowl (social).
During the 1987–1988 school year, two members of Student Congress, H.F. Watts and David McNeill, led an effort to defund the Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association.
[8][9] Two juniors, Alice Newton and Jon Harper, started the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender – Straight Alliance (GLBT-SA) in the spring of 2002.
[10] On April 15, 2010, GLBT-SA voted to officially change its name to the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Straight Alliance (though the dash had fallen out of use many months prior).
Other notable changes included bringing back the Committee for a Queerer Carolina, expanding the social group Women Loving Women (and renaming it The Fruit Bowl), and giving the presidents of Duke University's Blue Devils United and North Carolina State University's GLBT-Community Alliance honorary, non-voting positions on the GLBTSA Executive Board.
SAGA refers especially to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Pansexual, Transgender / Trans*, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, and different-gendered populations, as well as other sexual and gender minorities.
"LAMBDA is UNC-Chapel Hill's Lesbian-, Gay-, Bisexual-, Transgender-, Intersex- and Queer-affirming publication, providing a progressive outlet for news, analysis, opinion and dialogue.