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This article discusses the evaluation of the Model Support Group for Students: Gay Lesbian and Bisexual of the Department of Counseling for Student Development at the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras Campus. The sample were students who participated in a group prior to the academic year 2006-2007. The objectives of the evaluation were to corroborate the perception of satisfaction of students with the methodology group and explore their recommendations for the continuity of the group. From an ecological perspective analyzes the situations surrounding this group of students as part of a society homophobic and heterosexist and that the group remains based since its founding in 1989 until the present. The findings reveal a 100% satisfaction of the sample with the support group, which confirms the perception about the validity of the group. It also showed assess the role of facilitators and their peers in the group as well as the recommendation that this group will continue as part of the services of the Department of Counseling for the Student Development.