History
Between 1970 and today, there have been many milestones that marked our progression into the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center.
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1970
Gay Liberation Front formed as NIU’s first student organization supporting LGBT persons.
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1979
With recommendations from NIU’s Women’s Programming Committee, Provost Wendell Harris created University Resources for Women located in Swen Parson Hall.
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1980
During fall 1980, a task force proposed to then President William Monat a concept for an advisory group on issues important to women that would become the NIU Presidential Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW).
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1981
Board of Regents established the Office of University Resources for Women and moved to the Wirtz House. The location is now known as Martin Luther King Commons.
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1990
Office of University Resources for Women moved to 105 Normal Road.
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1990-1991
NIU’s Gay Liberation Front submitted proposal to then President John LaTourette requesting a Presidential Commission on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Concerns.
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1992
NIU established The Task Force on Discrimination Based on Sexual orientation.
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2003
Campus climate survey by The Task Force on Discrimination Based on Sexual orientation led to opening of NIU’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center.
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2005
Office of University Resources for Women became Women’s Resource Center.
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2009
Women’s Resource Center celebrated its 30th anniversary with a new logo and campus/community-wide book donation project.
Arndt House 1990 - Spring 2014 (as Women’s Resource Center) -
2013
Photo project celebrated 10th anniversary of LGBT Resource Center.
LGBT RC Celebrates 10 Years, Spring 2013 -
2013-2014
Women’s Resource Center and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center merge into the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center.
Gender and Sexuality Resource Center, Summer 2014
Contact Us
Gender and Sexuality Resource Center105 Normal Road
DeKalb, IL 60115
815-753-4772
gsrc@niu.edu
