The UCLA Labor Center will hosted the second Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Leadership School, cosponsored by Pride at Work, May 19-21, 2006.

A committee of staff and members from organizations such as AFSCME, CWA, Lambda Legal, SEIU, the South Asian Network, and UNITE HERE, worked with the Labor Center to plan this bilingual institute, which addressed challenges LGBTQ workers face and the connections between all inequities stemming from race, culture, class, national origin, and gender. LGBTQ and straight-ally labor activists developed skills and strategies to organize for equal rights and representation on the job and across the labor movement.

In 2002, the UCLA Labor Center conducted the first LGBTQ Leadership School for a diverse group of emerging leaders from across California. Many graduated to take on leadership roles within their own organizations as well as Pride at Work, the LGBT constituency group of the AFL-CIO.