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An organization for straight supportive, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people at UMass. We are student-driven with extensive collaboration with UMass staff and faculty.
QMASS is the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) advocacy group at UMass. The group strives to ensure that GLBT health is covered adequately and appropriately in the medical school curriculum and that UMass creates an open and accepting environment for GLBT healthcare professionals, researchers, staff, students, and patients. We also seek to provide a supportive social network for GLBT people at UMass by publicizing local resources for GLBT people. Our activities include collaborating with professors to integrate GLBT health issues into the medical school curriculum, and organizing events designed to educate and to raise awareness about healthcare issues specific to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered (GLBT) patients. We are involved in community outreach, which includes speaking for PFLAG (Parents, Family, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays). We are part of their Safe Schools Program that is run through the Department of Education. We are also involved with Safe Homes (an organization for troubled GLBT youth) and gay-straight alliances in the local high schools.
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