The Alliance exists to support and advance the UAB Strategic Diversity Plan through inclusion of "the full range of human differences and potential that manifests itself" in individual gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) "members of the campus community" (The University of Alabama at Birmingham Strategic Diversity Plan, March 2007.) Through this, The Alliance seeks to enrich diversity and contribute to a high quality intellectual and cultural educational and work environment for all members of UAB, UAB Hospital, and UAB Health System. Basic to this, the Alliance exists to ensure the equitable treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender faculty and staff and their partners and families by UAB, UAB Hospital, and UAB Health System.