“I hope the homosexuals feel safe now,” said Chancellor Khosla.
Photo by Dylan Schmidt
After months of “complicated and tense” deliberation within UC San Diego Housing, Dining & Hospitality (HDH), OceanView Terrace (OVT) has officially begun “serving cunt” in Winter 2026.
Frequented for its Mediterranean dishes and freshly-baked pizzas, OVT has been praised as a pinnacle of what UCSD’s dining halls can offer; the decision to serve cunt marks a shift in the dining hall’s themed cuisine.
Changes to OVT include new employee uniforms and a “yassified” customer experience, requiring extensive retraining of HDH workers. One OVT worker in support of the change stated, “Cunt is on the menu; it’s what I’m serving.”
HDH also plans to completely renovate OVT’s interior to create a queer-friendly environment. This transformation involves repainting the walls with the lesbian flag color scheme and erecting wax statues of RuPaul across the dining hall. To polish the “aesthetic” design, an undergraduate intern team was hired to add color-changing LED lights and plastic vines hanging from the ceilings. HDH dedicated its entire student employee salary budget to fast-track these renovations in time for Pride Month.
“I actually like the concept of a queer OVT,” stated an anonymous third-year student. “Who would pass up being serenaded by CupcakKe while you eat? Pun intended.”
The move comes in response to nationwide attacks on the LGBTQ+ community. In a press briefing, HDH Executive Director Dr. A.G. Queen explained: “We want to make a more inclusive environment for LGBTQ+ students at UCSD; this means creating a space where students feel free to slay the boots house down. And that’s on periodt [sic].”
This decision has been criticized by the UCSD LGBT Resource Center, who deem it a “performative facade” in the face of an underfunded Critical Gender Studies (CGS) program for the 2026–2027 school year.
“I agree that the new OVT creates a space for queer students, but it simply doesn’t fix the CGS budget and doesn’t actually teach students about queer issues, regardless of how ‘cunty’ the environment is,” Resource Center Director Dan Sherbert said.
The Resource Center argues that the HDH budget could be better spent on increasing access to mental health resources for queer students. “Don’t get me wrong, I’ve watched all 18 seasons of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’, but wax statues don’t make for particularly good therapists,” second-year Lilian Ngo said.
The LGBT Resource Center was also concerned about the optics of the move, stating that publishing images of the new OVT on UCSD websites distracts from queer students’ struggles. They specifically criticized HDH’s decision to plan a Pride Month photoshoot of Chancellor Khosla in the new OVT, personally “serving cunt.”
Despite the pinkwashing controversy, HDH is prepared to replicate the new OVT in other dining halls on campus, so students can “be served cunt regardless of college.”
