Organization Spotlight: LGBT US Peace Corps Alumni

The LGBT US Peace Corps Alumni is for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender people and others who are Peace Corps volunteer alumni, current volunteers, former and current staff members and friends.

Simply Click to Funnel 1 Million Dollars to LGBT Charity

The 'Chase Bank Community Giving' contest is in the final voting round and the organization with the most votes will win 1 million dollars, the subsequent five will receive 100,000 dollars. Of the top 100 organizations voted in so far, three are LGBT. Choose your favorite one and make sure that an LGBT organization receives the funds.

Select from the following three LGBT organizations:

*The Matthew Shepard Foundation

*The Trevor Project

*GLSEN (Gay/Lesbian, Straight Education Network)

Please head over to the facebook contest to place your vote between Jan 15-22nd.

Organization Spotlight: Gay Lesbian Medical Association

GLMA's mission is to ensure equality in health care for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals and health care providers.

Web Spotlight: Sleep With The Right People

Sleep With The Right People represents an alliance between two powerful groups: the LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bi-sexual Transgender) community and UNITE HERE (the union representing more than 100,000 hotel and restaurant workers). Both face similar struggles in their quest for fair and equal treatment of all individuals.

Web Spotlight: BFLAG

BFLAG stands for Blind, Friends, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People. The organization is a voice and a place to empower those who are visually impaired and also LGBT. The organization seeks to provide resources and information in an accessible way and also make sure that institutions serving the blind are aware and sensitive to issues of the LGBT community.
http://www.bflag.org/

Web Spotlight: Gay & Lesbian Atheists & Humanists

Today's web spotlight and shout out goes to the Gay & Lesbian Atheists & Humanists (GALAH). There is much misunderstanding and hate directed at both gays and atheists/agnostics, this organization serves as a double minority seeking to create awareness. The organization offers a voice for LGBT people who are atheists, agnostics, humanists and/or skeptics. They have meetings in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington D.C. and also offer a newsletter as well as interesting articles.

Check out GALAH.

Web Spotlight: Iranian Queer Railroad

"The Iranian Queer Railroad is a new organization working to create a simple structure and focus upon supporting Iranian queers to be safe on their journey and to arrive in a new country to live and be free.

The Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th century Black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and mainly to Canada with the aid of abolitionists who were sympathetic to their cause. In Canada they had their freedom. In the past few years one of our major activities was about asylum seekers who must escape Iran due to their sexual orientation and we will continue this work under IRQR. Iranian queer refugees are resettling in Canada, and also in United States and in parts of Europe."