The LGBTQ+ Trans Closet is a free service open to all Marshall University students with a primary focus on our trans community. The closet offers a safe and welcoming environment where students can try on and browse clothing that accommodates all gender expressions.
Alternative Services: If you are interested in using the Trans Closet or are interested in learning more about it, please email the contacts listed below with the subject line “LGBTQ+ Stitch Fit” with the following included in the email contents: what style, sizes, and types of clothing you would like to receive. The contact will then set up a meeting time for you to try on and select the clothing. A total of three outfits will be preset and picked out for you based on the description in your email.
Stitch Fit Contacts:
Shaunte Polk (She/Her): polk4@marshall.edu
Destiny Tomblin (They/Them): tomblin89@marshall.edu
Mak Wheeler (She/Her): wheeler152@marshall.edu
Our inventory includes, but is not limited to:
- Casual Clothing
- Jewelry
- Formal Clothing
- Shoes
- Swimwear
- Make-up
- Chest Binders
- Perfume and more
The Trans Closet is open every weekday (excluding University holidays) from 8:30AM to 5:00 PM.
All of our items are new or gently used and have been donated by Marshall University students, faculty, staff and the Huntington community.
*Marshall University student I.D. is required upon entering.
Our office library offers a wide variety of books, magazines, and films on a number of topics relating to the LGBTQ+ community.
These topics include:
- Coming out stories
- Biographies
- Poetry
- Essay collections
- Subcultural concerns
- Self-help
- LGBTQ+ fiction
Our magazine selection varies from year to year but includes issues of The Advocate, Curve, Girlfriends, A&U, & OUT Magazine.
NOTE | When you borrow a book or movie: the item is yours, but it is also ours. We own all these things as a community, so if you lose or damage an item you deprive others of that media, so please make sure to take extra care of all items.
*Marshall University student I.D. will be needed to check out any item.
- Coming out
- Dealing with interpersonal, religious, or family rejection
- Resources
- Help with workplace or school challenges
- Dealing with internalized homophobia
- Finding an accepting community
Queer to Slay Support Group meetings are held regularly in the LGBTQ+ Office.
Queer-to-Slay
Queer-to-Slay is a campus support group organized and ran by the LGBTQ+ Office’s Graduate Assistant Destiny Tomblin. This service is for LGBTQ+ individuals who want to join in a safe and welcome space to talk about their day-to-day lives, as well as their experiences as a part of the LGBTQ+ community. Destiny is trained in confidentiality and HIPPA, so all things discussed in Queer-to-Slay are confidential to those in the room. It is also an educational group, where members learn about psychological concepts and coping mechanisms through group talk and learn to apply these concepts to their real life situations. Destiny’s contact information can be found on the “contact us” page. If you would like to receive email updates regarding Queer-to-Slay, please send a request to Destiny via the email listed on “contact us.”
Meetings for the current semester have not been scheduled. Once a day and time has been chosen, it will be sent via email as well as added here on this webpage.