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01:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Q Walking Tour Map<\/a> | Q Walking Tour Map to download (Includes Gender Neutral Bathrooms)<\/span><\/p>\n

02:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Q-Campus-Walking-Tour<\/a>|Q Walking Tour Printable File to download<\/span><\/p>\n

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Q Campus Walking Tour @UW<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Updated 6\/9\/2016<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome:<\/span><\/h1>\n

Welcome to the University of Washington.\u00a0 I\u2019m pretty sure you\u2019ve had the obligatory official UW Tour as part of your newbie orientation, so we won\u2019t bore you with another blah, blah, blah tour.\u00a0 Instead, we\u2019re going to Q-dfy you and show you some of the awesome things we\u2019ve done to make your LGBTQ Life or as we like to say on campus, make your Q Life fabulous.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start with the Q Basics.\u00a0 The UW, pronounced U-DUB, was established in 1856 on Denny\u2019s Knoll (aka Denny Knoll) in downtown Seattle.\u00a0 Don\u2019t ask me who Denny was \u2018cause that\u2019s not part of this tour.\u00a0 You\u2019re at a university, go do some research!\u00a0 What is on this tour is that did you know that gay life actually started in downtown Seattle?\u00a0 Yup, it didn\u2019t start on Capitol Hill which is the current gayborhood, but in good ol\u2019 Pioneer Square.<\/p>\n

The Casino was opened in 1930 and was the only place on the west coast where same-sex couples could dance and drag queens ran the show.\u00a0 The Double Header, which still exists, was opened above the Casino in 1934 and which is today probably the oldest gay bar in the USA. Even with the Washington Sodomy Law of 1893 in effect, P-Square was a booming place for gays during the 1950s\/60s.\u00a0 You know how resourceful us gays are, a little bribe here, a little nudge and tug there is all it took to keep the cops away.<\/p>\n

Did you know that Seattle has the 2nd<\/sup> largest Q population in the United States after San Francisco?\u00a0 What do you expect from a city where the current Mayor is openly gay and the county it\u2019s in was named after a known \u201chomosexual.\u201d\u00a0 King County was named after William Rufus de Vane King, an Alabaman politician who briefly served as Vice President under Franklin Pierce.\u00a0 His \u201cinseparable companion\u201d, aka lover, James Buchanan was known as \u201cMiss Nancy\u201d at the White House.<\/p>\n

This tour is going to last a Q hour.\u00a0 What is a Q hour you ask?\u00a0 Well depending on the amount of flirting you do with the campus eye-candy and the bathroom breaks and the \u201chey girl!\u201d meet-ups, it could take a few Q seconds.<\/p>\n

Q Center (The HUB)<\/span><\/h1>\n

Ok, let\u2019s start the tour.\u00a0 Our first stop is the Q Center on the 3rd<\/sup> Floor of the HUB (Husky Union Building). Discussions to build the HUB started in 1919 but only completed in 1949. Between 2010-2012, the entire HUB received a new facelift and the Q Center was plopped right in the middle of it on the 3rd<\/sup> Floor. The Q Center is the HUB of Q Life.\u00a0 This is where you can be yourself and get away from the hectic campus.\u00a0 Come and lounge for a bit or if you need to study or print out your term paper, they\u2019ve got it all for you.\u00a0 There\u2019s a Q library for you as well as Q Advisers and even a Q Mentoring program if you\u2019d like to be paired with a Faculty\/Staff\/Grad.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve got a question, there\u2019s someone here that can probably help.\u00a0 Who knows you might even meet \u201cthe love of your life\u201d here.<\/p>\n

The Dorian Society, the First group in Seattle to support Gay rights was also founded here in 1967.\u00a0 UW\u2019s own professor Nick Heer founded this group whose namesake were the Doric Hellenic warriors of Ancient Greece who considered homosexuality glamourous.\u00a0 The Dorian House began providing counseling services to gay and lesbian students and non-students on Capitol Hill with UW students in 1969. This counseling service later expanded and is now the Seattle Counseling Service that resides on Capitol Hill.\u00a0 It was probably during this time when the gays began moving up to Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n

The Dorian Society made way for other LGBTQ groups to form.\u00a0 In 1969 came the Gay Student Association & the Gay Liberation Front-The more radical student group.\u00a0 The Gay Liberation Front even though it was a more radical group opened the first Gay Community Center in 1971 with the help of the Seattle Gay Alliance and the Gay Student Organization.<\/p>\n

Department of Minority Affairs and Diversity (Mary Gates Hall)<\/span><\/h1>\n

As you have already guess from the name, Mary Gates Hall arises from the Mary Gates Endowments for Students bestowed to the UW from the Microsoft clan.\u00a0 That includes the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates Sr. & Mary Gates and of course Paul Allen. Once called the Physics Building, now hosts the Office of the Dean and the Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity (OMAD). OMAD began with the first #BlackLivesMatter movement at UW when the Black Student Union (BSU) and their supporters staged a sit-in at the office of UW President Charles Odegaard and submitted a list of demands among which was the demand to increase minority student enrollment at UW and to establish a Black studies program here.<\/p>\n

OMAD also established the various UW Faculty\/Staff Affinity Groups of which Q Faculty, Staff and Allies (QFSA) is a part of and guided by the Diversity Blueprint which is a 4 year initiative with six goals encompassing major areas of emphasis for diversity: leadership and governance; student, faculty and staff diversity; curriculum and research; and institutional and classroom climate.<\/p>\n

Botany Greenhouse<\/span><\/h1>\n

Our next stop is the Botany Greenhouse.\u00a0 As people of impeccable taste in fashion and design, once you buy a house, you\u2019ll realize that besides interior design, you\u2019ll start being a regular at the neighborhood greenhouse.\u00a0 Plus, it\u2019s pretty and calming among the flowers, that is until the Corpse Flower or Amorphophallus titanium; the name makes me giggle because all I see is \u201camor phallus titanium\u201d \u00a0lol;\u00a0 begins to bloom. Native to the Indonesian Island of Sumatra, the blooms smell of rotting flesh to attract carrion beetles & flies to pollinate the plant. Anyways, take a whiff and let\u2019s move to our next stop. It isn\u2019t the Garden of Allah which was a famous drag show cabaret in Pioneer Square opened in 1946 but it will keep you entertained for a bit.<\/p>\n

Performance Art Center (Meany Hall)<\/span><\/h1>\n

Any Q Tour would not be complete without showcasing a performance art hall.\u00a0 Meany Hall can set up to 1,206 people.\u00a0 It hosted the Seattle Men\u2019s Chorus\u2019 first Holiday performance in 1980.\u00a0 Diverse Harmony, the nation\u2019s first gay-straight youth chorus alliance that is based in Seattle has also performed in this hall.\u00a0 Who knows you might see the next new music group like Nirvana, Sound Garden, Foo Fighters just to name a few bands from Seattle.\u00a0 Mackelmore & Ryan Lewis are also Washington natives..\u00a0 Ryan actually graduated from the UW while Mackelmore got his from the Evergreen State College. You might also see Jinkx Monsoon from RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race, who lives in Seattle and is a NW native.<\/p>\n

Henry Art Gallery<\/span><\/h1>\n

Besides the Performance Art Center, we have the Henry Art Gallery just right next to it.\u00a0 We\u2019ve had many a great q Celebes come from Seattle.\u00a0 Frances Farmer was a famous actress of the 30s\/40s that went to the UW.\u00a0 We have our famous Dale Chuhuly glass sculptor who hails from Seattle.\u00a0 Bruce Lee also went to the UW.<\/p>\n

UW Counseling Center (Schmitz Hall)<\/span><\/h1>\n

One of the things you\u2019ll notice about the UW is that is an enormous campus.\u00a0 Sometimes you may feel like you\u2019re just a tiny fish in this big pond.\u00a0\u00a0 Combined with Seattle\u2019s \u201cWinter Blues\u201d which starts in October when the sun hibernates for a few months until March, you may need to visit or talk to someone at the UW Counseling Center.\u00a0 It\u2019s normal and most non-Washingtonians are sometimes shocked to realize how much it does affect them.\u00a0 In winter time, you may want to join the local SkiBuddies.org group and do some winter sports; take on snowboarding or cross-country or skiing to help you get outside.\u00a0 Just like in the Wizard of Oz, you need to not go to sleep and hibernate in the winter time because it will take you down.\u00a0 Fight it, meet up with people at the Q Center and begin to enjoy the rain and just be \u201cSinging in the Rain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s Center (Cunningham Hall)<\/span><\/h1>\n

The Women\u2019s Center is housed in the first building built for women in Washington in 1909.\u00a0 It has been instrumental in helping women\u2019s suffrage in this state.\u00a0 Washington was the fifth state in the union to allow women to vote in 1910. If you think the Seattle Seahawks is the best team in Washington, you haven\u2019t seen our women\u2019s basketball team, the fierce Seattle Storm, play.\u00a0 Since their beginning in 2000, they\u2019ve made it to the WNBA Playoffs in 11\/16 seasons ending in 2015 and actually winning the championship in 2010 & 2004.\u00a0 Our own Megan Rapinoe who plays for the Seattle Reign FC helped the US team win the Women\u2019s World Cup in 2015. Speaking of women, did you know that Barack Obama\u2019s mother attended the University of Washington and so our 44th<\/sup> President actually lived in Seattle during this time before they moved back to Hawaii.<\/p>\n

Burke Museum History & Culture<\/span><\/h1>\n

Hailed as the oldest public museum in Washington the Burke Museum is a research and collections based museum with over 16 million objects.\u00a0 It currently houses the 60 million year old remains of the largest snake in the world, measuring 48 feet long and weighing close to 2500 lbs.\u00a0 If you want to know about the history of Washington, go to the Burke to see over 500 million years of geological history from lethal lava to rampaging reptiles or immerse yourself in the culture of the native people of the Pacific Northwest. Dixie Lee Ray, who was our 17th<\/sup> Governor of Washington, was a professor from the UW and was also rumored to have been family.<\/p>\n

The Quad \/ Music, Art & Communications Building<\/span><\/h1>\n

The most beautiful and elegant space on the UW Campus has to be also the place where you\u2019ll find what\u2019s most important things regarding Q Culture:\u00a0 Music, Art & Communications.\u00a0 In late march, the Yoshino cherry trees blossom for around 3 weeks. During this time you\u2019ll see tons of gaiety among the pretty pink flowers. Artists will be aplenty.\u00a0 You\u2019ll see artists painting in the Quad and haunting music from the Music building like sirens seeking their muses. In the Communications Building houses also the Daily Newspaper which keeps the student population informed.\u00a0 In 1967 the Daily did a series on the gay community which was one of the first time that gays were put in a positive light.\u00a0 Dan Savage who is a Gay columnist also hails from Seattle.\u00a0 He became popular with Savage Love which he started as a column in the Seattle Stranger Newspaper.\u00a0 Savage Love was a Sex Advice Column by a Gay to heterosexuals.\u00a0 He also started the It Gets Better Project.<\/p>\n

Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (Padelford Hall)<\/span><\/h1>\n

If you have a chance, take a class in the Sexuality and Queer Studies.\u00a0 You can even obtain a graduate level certificate in it or one of the few Feminist Graduate Program leading to a Ph.D.\u00a0 Reach in and bring out your lumbersexual self because Seattle and UW will change you and soon, you\u2019ll be talking about equality, organic and protection of we, the minority.<\/p>\n

Hall Health Mental Clinic (Hall Health)<\/span><\/h1>\n

The hardest times for most LGBTQ people are during their first years of college.\u00a0 This is the first time that they\u2019re away from home and so there is a sense of freedom, but with that is also a sense of loneliness. You\u2019re moving away from friends and family and are for the first time away from your safety net.\u00a0 It\u2019s a new chapter in your life and sometimes it can be very daunting.\u00a0 Hall Health is here to help you some of those life transitions. Besides helping you with those \u201coops I did it again moments\u201d with their Hall Health STI\/HIV testing, they can help if you just want to talk about transgender\/LGBTQ issues.\u00a0 Let them be your safety net until you can get back to enjoying your Q Life at UDUB.<\/p>\n

Off-Campus Notable Mentions<\/span><\/h1>\n

Now that you\u2019ve been acquainted with some campus Q notables, don\u2019t forget to check out some of the Q notables that are off campus.\u00a0 What Q man would be whole without the IMA which is our university gym.\u00a0 Lots of eye-candy to help motivate you to work out that body.\u00a0 There are also some fun classes and not to mention Skating Fridays.\u00a0 Close to the IMA is the Waterfront Activity Center (WAC) where you can rent out some canoes\/rowboats and go rowing on Lake Washington.\u00a0 You\u2019ll go through the UW Washington Park Arboretum. Be careful when you row your boat close to shore on the northwest end of the park because you may see some nude sun bathers.\u00a0 Unless it is a sanctioned event like the Fremont Solstice Parade where you\u2019ll see blocks of nude cyclists, there is Washington State\u2019s indecent exposure law against \u201cobscene\u201d behavior so you may get arrested for partaking.<\/p>\n

Besides the outdoor activities, there are also several child care centers that will help if you have kids.\u00a0 If you decide to adopt or foster a kid, Washington State has hundreds of LGBTQ parents.\u00a0 It has the only LGBTQ Adoption\/Foster care Advocacy group in the nation called, Families Like Ours.\u00a0 Once you get your kid take them to the UW Medicine\u2019s Center for Adoption Medicine at Roosevelt Medical Center.<\/p>\n

Last of least, if you want the comradery of a fraternity, join the Delta Lambda Phi Fraternity for your Q Frat experience.<\/p>\n

Thank you for taking our Q Tour.\u00a0 If you notice any misinformation, please let us know.\u00a0 If you\u2019d like us to add a stop on the tour, please send us a note.<\/p>\n

-Welcome to the University of Washington<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

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Site Stops (See our Website for Contact Info):<\/span><\/h1>\n

http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/diversity\/affinity\/glbtqfs\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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  1. The HUB | Q Center<\/li>\n
  2. Mary Gates Hall | Department of Minority Affairs and Diversity \/ Affinity Groups<\/li>\n
  3. Botany Greenhouse<\/li>\n
  4. Meany Hall | Performance Art Center<\/li>\n
  5. Henry Art Gallery<\/li>\n
  6. Schmitz Hall | UW Counseling Center<\/li>\n
  7. Cunningham Hall | Women\u2019s Center<\/li>\n
  8. Burke Museum History & Culture<\/li>\n
  9. The Quad | Art Building, Music Building & Communications Building<\/li>\n
  10. Padelford Hall | Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS)<\/li>\n
  11. Hall Health | Hall Health Mental Health Clinic<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Off-Campus Notable Mention<\/span><\/h1>\n
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    1. IMA | WAC | Washington Park Arboretum<\/li>\n
    2. Washington Park Arboretum<\/li>\n
    3. Child Care Centers\n
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      1. Radford Court, Laurel Village & West Campus<\/li>\n
      2. UW Children\u2019s Center at Harborview Medical Center<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
      3. Center for Adoption Medicine @ Roosevelt Medical Center<\/li>\n
      4. Delta Lambda Phi<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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