The Lambda 10 Project is an American national clearinghouse of information about

LGBT LGBTQ people are individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning. Many variants of the initialism are used; LGBTQIA+ people incorporates intersex, asexual, aromantic, agender, and other individuals. The gro ...

issues in American

fraternities and sororities In North America, fraternities and sororities ( and ) are social clubs at colleges and universities. They are sometimes collectively referred to as Greek life or Greek-letter organizations, as well as collegiate fraternities or collegiate sorori ...

. The organization works "to heighten the visibility of LGBTQ Greek members and offers educational resources related to

sexual orientation Sexual orientation is an enduring personal pattern of romantic attraction or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender. Patterns ar ...

and the fraternity and sorority experience.

History

In the 1990s, Shane Windmeyer, assistant director of student activities at the

University of North Carolina at Charlotte The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte, or simply Charlotte) is a public research university in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. UNC Charlotte offers 24 doctoral, 66 master's, and 79 bachelor's degree programs thr ...

began speaking at colleges about LGBTQ issues in fraternities and sororities. In 1995, Windmeyer formed and became the coordinator of The Lambda 10 Project at

Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington (IU Bloomington, Indiana University, IU, IUB, or Indiana) is a public university, public research university in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. It is the flagship university, flagship campus of Indiana Univer ...

; it is currently housed in the IU Office of Student Ethics and Anti-harassment Programs and is overseen by the Lambda 10 Steering Committee. Lambda 10 Project is an educational initiative of

Campus Pride Campus Pride is an American national nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded by M. Chad Wilson, Sarah E. Holmes and Shane L. Windmeyer in 2001 which serves lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) and ally student leaders and/or campus o ...

, a national

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organization.

Activities

The Lambda 10 Project provides an index of lecturers available for events; lists of Internet forums concerning LGBT Greek life; and a repository of magazine articles, websites, and pertinent news stories. Working with the LGBT publisher

Alyson Publications Alyson Books, formerly known as Alyson Publications, was a book publishing house which specialized in LGBT fiction and non-fiction. Former publisher Don Weise described it as "the world's oldest and largest publisher of LGBT literature" and "the ...

, the Lambda 10 Project compiled and released four

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homosexual Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior between people of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions" exc ...

and

bisexual Bisexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior toward both males and females. It may also be defined as the attraction to more than one gender, to people of both the same and different gender, or the attraction t ...

students' Greek experiences, edited for Windmeyer, including ''Out on Fraternity Row: Personal Accounts of Being Gay in a College Fraternity'' in 1998. This was the first book to explore "the collective experience of sexual identity and fraternity life". It shared both homophobia and acceptance within Greek life.

Publications

*Windmeyer, Shane L., and Freeman, Pamela (eds.). ''Out on Fraternity Row: Personal Accounts of Being Gay in a College Fraternity''. Alyson Publications, 1998. *, Kim and Stevens, Annie ( eds.). ''Out & About Campus: Personal Accounts by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender College Students''. Alyson Publications, 2000. *Windmeyer, Shane L. and Freeman, Pamela W. (eds.). ''Secret Sisters: Stories of Being Lesbian and Bisexual in a College Sorority''. Alyson Publications, 2001. *Windmeyer, Shane L. ''Brotherhood: Gay Life in College Fraternities''. Alyson Books, 2005.

References

External links

The Lambda 10 Project
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History

Activities

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