Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning+ (LGBT+)

What is Safe Zone?

• Safe Zone stickers indicate faculty/staff who have undergone at least one beginner’s level LGBTQ+ sensitivity training session. These individuals have committed to being an understanding and non-judgmental listener for anyone who needs to discuss their experience.
• This sticker indicates that the person has received Safe Zone training. (See attached image)

Safe Zone Allies

• How to be an Ally

Dahlonega 

• Downtown Office Building: 1st and 3rd floor, and room 233
• Dunlap Hall: 219
• Hoag Student Center: 404 & 405
• Library Technology Center: 136 & 137
• Memorial Hall 128
• Plant Operations: 145 & 146
• Stewart Center: 312, 310, 307, 243
• Student Recreation Center: 205

Gainesville 

• Administration: 126
• Hugh Mills Physical Education Complex: 118
• Library: 113 (labeled Faculty/Staff)
• Science: 140, 141, 235, & 236 (all labeled Faculty/Staff)
• Strickland 182A
• Student Center 122, 158 (labeled Faculty/Staff), & 159 (labeled Faculty/Staff)
• Testing Center: All restrooms in facility are all gender
• Watkins: 123 (labeled Faculty/Staff), 124 (labeled Faculty/Staff), & 198

Oconee

• Administration 116
• Building 200: 200
• Building 500: 579
• Facilities Building

Cumming

• None

Blue Ridge

• Main Building: 1st floor

Scholarships & Resources for LGBT+ Students

Transgender First Scholarship

Affordable College Online: College LGBT+ Scholarships

• The TREVOR Project
  • Suicide hotline/text line, digital support for LGBTQ youth
• The LGBT Hotline
  • Completely anonymous hotline for LGBTQ-identifying people
• Lost & Found
  • Safe housing, job training, mental health support and more for queer youth
• It Gets Better Project
  • A digital space for LGBTQ people to be reminded that it gets better for us! 

• First City Pride
  • Programming and an educational space to support the queer community, meant for the queer community
• Love Positive Counseling
  • A LGBTQ-focused counseling center
• Trans Housing Atlanta
• Pride Mind
  • Another Atlanta-based LGBTQ-focused counseling service company

• LGBTQ Near Me
  • Continuously updated list of resources, sorted by location
• Turn2Me
  • Vetted list of support groups for various issues
• GA Mental Health Warmline
  • Not specifically LGBTQ-focused.