Student Organizations
USC has numerous LGBTQ+ undergraduate and graduate student organizations and opportunities to get involved. LGBTQ+ inclusion on campus is in large part due to the large-scale and thought-provoking programs and events coordinated by students. Please note: because student organizations are led and run by students, not every student organization listed below may be active each academic year.
LGBTQ+ undergraduate student organizations range from student assemblies to academic school-specific LGBTQ+ orgs.
Many LGBTQ+ graduate student organizations are affiliated with specific professional schools but USC also features organizations open to any USC graduate student.
USC Keck has organizations open to both graduate students at Keck School of Medicine and Keck employees.
Undergraduate Student Organizations
The mission of the Student Assembly for Gender Empowerment is to program events to address emerging feminist concerns of students, faculty, and staff. SAGE seeks to uplift all voices oppressed by the patriarchy in dynamic, critical ways.
We are a queer and trans inclusive organization working towards intersectional, collective liberation.
The First-year Advocacy Board (FAB) (est. 2005) is an immersion program for first-year freshman and transfer LGBTQ+ students to assist with the transition from high school to college and to provide support through social, academic and excursion events. Membership elects their own executive board and coordinates their own events to build a stronger sense of community for LGBTQ+ first-year students.
Queers in Engineering, Science, and Technology (QuEST) is a network of LGBTQ+ identified students studying a STEM field for both undergraduate and graduate students. We are a Viterbi organization, but welcome all queer STEM majors as well as allies. We host professional networking events, study nights, and discussions about overcoming the challenges of being out in STEM fields.
Queer Student in Cinematic Arts is a student community for all SCA and USC LGBTQ+ students and allies interested in fully connecting, celebrating, and representing the diversity of the queer community within all divisions of the School of Cinematic Arts. QSCA is an organization for both undergraduate and graduate students.
Graduate Student Organizations
The Queer Graduate Alliance provides a forum for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Ally graduate students to gather for social and professional development events, and to increase the engagement of the USC graduate student community issues of importance to LGBTQ individuals.
USC’s Marshall Pride provides professional development, social networking, and advocacy opportunities to all Marshall graduate students, faculty, staff, and alumni. The organization serves as a forum to address the unique professional concerns of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender graduate business students.
OUTLaw is an organization for students of all sexual orientations, whose primary purpose is to connect the LGBT and ally communities within the law school with the greater Los Angeles communities.
Queer Student in Cinematic Arts is a student community for all SCA and USC LGBTQ+ students and allies interested in fully connecting, celebrating, and representing the diversity of the queer community within all divisions of the School of Cinematic Arts. QSCA is an organization for both undergraduate and graduate students.
Queers in Engineering, Science, and Technology (QuEST) is a network of LGBTQ+ identified students studying a STEM field for both undergraduate and graduate students. We are a Viterbi organization, but welcome all queer STEM majors as well as allies. We host professional networking events, study nights, and discussions about overcoming the challenges of being out in STEM fields.
Keck School of Medicine
Keck Pride committee helps design and implement strategies to foster a welcoming environment for LGBTQ patients, families, and employees throughout Keck Medicine of USC. We are comprised of staff, faculty, and students from across the medical enterprise, including Keck Hospital of USC, USC Norris Cancer Hospital, USC Verdugo Hills Hospital, USC Ambulatory Care Clinics, Keck School of Medicine, and more.