The Fund for Reunion is the Bisexual, Transgender, Gay and Lesbian Alumni (BTGALA) association of Princeton University. It was founded in 1986 and has been active ever since as a voice for the students and alumni of the University. This site attemps to provide you with further information on the Fund as well as provide resources to Princeton's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning alumni as well as her students, faculty, and staff.

Through activities both on and off campus, The Fund for Reunion/Princeton GALA Inc., is devoted to improving the quality of life for lesbian, gay and bisexual people at Princeton University and to strengthening their ties as alumni with each other and with the University.

Incorporated in 1986, the Fund is not for profit, and contributions to it by individuals and corporations are tax exempt.

The goal of the Fund's founders is to make a powerful, positive impact on students both undergraduate and graduate, on alumni regardless of their sexual orientation, and on the University itself. No longer will it be possible to maintain the fiction that gay alumni are few or even nonexistent!

Our goals and how we hope to achieve them

The purposes for which the Corporation is formed...shall be exclusively charitable, educational, scientific and literary...

• To enable the self-affirmation of gay, lesbian, and bisexual people.
• To encourage a sense of shared identity....
• To promote awareness of the rich cultural heritage of gay, lesbian and bisexual culture.
• To maintain a climate of social acceptance of gay, lesbian and bisexual people.
• To make distributions of money and property...to persons who are affiliated with Princeton University as present or former students, faculty and administrators and other staff, and to other organizations, for the accomplishment of the foregoing purposes...

Eventually, we hope to be able to support lesbian and gay scholarship and a campus cultural center. Our current activities are of necessity more modest in scope:

• Maintaining a central office.
• Organizing events at Reunions.
• Soliciting and donating money to the University to support gay, lesbian and bisexual student activities. (By giving through the Fund, donors may remain anonymous, but allow their numbers and Classes to which they belong to be reflected.)
• Giving direct support to undergraduates, graduate students and faculty who are engaged in research and study in gay, lesbian, and bisexual related areas.
• Encouraging the collection by Princeton University of archives from organizations that have been influential in gay, lesbian, bisexual related public policy.

On becoming a member of the Fund

As a member, you will receive newsletters, invitations, and other Fund mailings, if you choose. You will also be entitled to voting priviledges at general meetings, the right to participate in our committee meetings and projects and the right to be elected a Trustee of the Corporation.

Membership is confidential and shall not be contrued as an indication of sexual orientation. Names and addresses of members are not made available to anyone other than the Fund's officers or trustees without members' express written consent.

Mail the following information with your check (payable to ''The Fund for Reunion/Princeton BTGALA'') to:

• The Fund for Reunion/Princeton BTGALA, Inc
  P.O. Box 1481
  Princeton, NJ 08542

Please indicate:

• Name
  Full Mailing Address
  Phone Number
  Email Address

• Alumnus/Alumna (Suggested contribution $25 or more).
  Faculty Member (Suggested contribution $25 or more).
  Staff Member (Suggested contribution $25 or more).
  Current Student Anywhere (Suggested contribution $10 or more).

• Send me newsletters and invitations.
  -or-
• Don't send me mailings.

• Yes/No: I want to volunteer to be involved in the Fund. (Please list areas of interest, such as fundraising, program planning, membership development, networking with other alumni or other alumni groups, support for lesbian/gay/bisexual studies, hosting or coordinating local events, etc.)