Handouts for Trainings
What You Need To Know
Ways You Can Help
What You Can Do
What Does the Law Say
Ten suggestions for reducing homophobia in your environment
The Truth about Sexual Orientation
Heterosexual Questionaire
Definitions
Official Position Statements from Professional organizations related to GLBT Youth
National Association of School Psychologists
http://www.nasponline.org/information/pospaper_glb.html
American Psychological Association:
http://www.apa.org/ed/hlgbschclim.html
National Mental Health Association:
http://www.nmha.org/pbedu/backtoschool/bullyingGayYouth.cfm
National Organizations
PFLAG National is a national non-profit organization with over 80,000 members and supporters and more than 460 affiliates in the United States. This vast grassroots network is cultivated, resourced and serviced by the PFLAG national office, located in Washington, DC, the national Board of Directors and 14 Regional Directors.
http://www.pflag.org/
Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (COLAGE) is the only national and international organization in the world specifically supporting young people with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender parents.
http://www.colage.org/
LLEGO is a National Latina/o Lesbian, Gay Bisexual & Transgender Organization. It is the only national nonprofit organization devoted to organize Latina/o Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) communities on a local, regional, national and international level, addressing the need to overcome social, health, and political barriers faced due to sexual orientation, gender identity and ethnic background.
http://www.llego.org/
GLSEN National is a Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network.
Note: Unfortunately this web site is not up all the time. I will leave it up for a while. Let me know if it continues to be down.
http://www.glsen.org/templates/index.html
National Youth Advocacy Coalition (NYAC) is a social justice organization that advocates for and with young people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning (LGBTQ) in an effort to end discrimination against these youth and to ensure their physical and emotional well being.
http://www.nyacyouth.org/
Partners Against Hate is collaboration among the Anti-Defamation League, the Leadership Conference Education Fund, and the Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence. The purpose of the collaboration is to provide the public with hate crime-related information, resources, news reports, and effective counteraction tools in the fight against youth-initiated hate violence.
http://www.partnersagainsthate.org/
The Southern Poverty Law Center's Tolerance Project encourages people from all walks of life to "fight hate and promote tolerance."
http://www.tolerance.org/
The Safe Schools Coalition is a Public-Private Partnership in Support of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth is to help schools - at home and all over the world - become safe places where every family can belong, where every educator can teach, and where every child can learn, regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation.
http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/
Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is a web site with the latest on national political issues affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans, this is the place to be. It's here where you will learn what's happening and just how easy it is to take action.
http://www.hrc.org/
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) is the national progressive organization working for the civil rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people, with the vision and commitment to building a powerful political movement.
http://www.ngltf.org/about/work.htm
ACLU- The American Civil Liberties Union is the major organization working to preserve first amendment rights.
http://www.aclu.org
GLADD- The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation is a media watchdog group.
http://www.gladd.org
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund is the major organization fighting for LGBT rights in the courts.
http://www.lambdalegal.org
State Organizations
Asians and Friends of NC (AFNC) is a non-profit organization founded in 1999 by some gay and lesbian Asians and non-Asians in the Triangle. AFNC is dedicated to bring together Asians, Asian-Americans, and non-Asians interested in developing an understanding and appreciation of Asian cultures, to foster and promote an increased understanding between gay and lesbian Asians and non-Asians, and to create friendship through cultural, social and educational activities.
http://www.asiansandfriends.org/
Equality NC is a statewide organization dedicated to securing equality and justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.
http://www.equalitync.org/
NC Pride contains information about North Carolina's Annual Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Pride Parade and Festival, as well as a directory of participating organizations in North Carolina.
http://www.ncpride.org/pride/index.shtml
North Carolina Lambda Youth Network (NCLYN) is a youth-led statewide leadership development network for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allied (lgbta) young people, ages 13 to 24.
http://www.nclyn.org/
Regional Organizations
The Crape Myrtle Festival is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization, which has raised over $650,000 for HIV/AIDS and other health concerns of the Triangle gay and lesbian community, ranks as one of the top fund raisers in the Research Triangle area.
http://www.crapemyrtlefest.org/
GLSEN Triangle is a regional chapter of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, the leading national organization fighting to end anti-gay harassment and discrimination leveled against students and school personnel in K-12 schools. Serving the greater Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Triangle area of North Carolina, we are a coalition of educators, parents, students, and community members - LGBT and straight allies - dedicated to ensuring that our schools teach respect for all.
http://www.glsentriangle.org/
The Front Page is a resource directory for the Carolinas' Gay & Lesbian Communities.
http://www.frontpagenews.com/resources/resource-religious.shtml
PFLAG Triangle is is an all volunteer, not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping parents and their gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning (lgbtq) children understand each other.
http://www.pflagtriangle.org/
ASPYN- A Safer Place Youth Network is a coalition of gay,lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and allied youth, ages 13-23, and adults working together to make Wake County a safe, healthy, and life affirming place for lgbtqa youth.
http://www.tcworks.org/aspyn/default.htm
Triangle Community Works is a coalition of organizations, individuals, and projects serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and allied communities in the Research Triangle Park area (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill) of North Carolina.
http://www.tcworks.org
Resources for GSAs
http://www.gsanetwork.org/resources/index.html
