Showing posts with label organization spotlight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label organization spotlight. Show all posts

Friday, February 18, 2011

Organization Spotlight: The National Association of Lesbian and Gay Bisexual and Transgender Addiction Professionals

NALGAP; The National Association of Lesbian and Gay Bisexual and Transgender Addiction Professionals is a membership organization founded in 1979 and dedicated to the prevention and treatment of alcoholism, substance abuse, and other addictions in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer communities.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Organization Spotlight: National Education Association GLBT Caucus

The National Education Association Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Caucus (NEA GLBT) works to provide GLBT teachers, education support professionals, and students, with safe schools free of anti-GLBT bias and intolerance, and to provide sound education programs for all students.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Organization Spotlight: Publishing Triangle

The Publishing Triangle works to create support and a sense of community for lesbian and gay people in the publishing industry. They offer forums, as well as networking and social opportunities, for members. In addition they sponsor programs to increase awareness of and appreciation for lesbian and gay literature.

Friday, April 2, 2010

Organization Spotlight: LGBT Aging Project

The LGBT Aging Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender elders have equal access to the life-prolonging benefits, protections, services and institutions that their heterosexual neighbors take for granted.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Organization Spotlight: Equality Across America

Equality Across America exists to support grassroots organizing across the United States to achieve full equality for the LGBT community.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Organization Spotlight: Lavender Light

Lavender Light is a mixed chorus (women and men). Although the group encompasses many ethnic and spiritual backgrounds, the choir provides a special ministry to black lesbians and gays, who have historically been pressured by their communities to choose between their blackness and their gayness.

Monday, March 15, 2010

Organization Spotlight: Shades of Yellow

Shades of Yellow (SOY) is a nonprofit Hmong LGBTQ organization that provides support, education, and advocacy to Hmong LGBTQ and allies. We are committed to creating a community that is aware of the issues that Hmong LGBTQ face.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Organization Spotlight: LGBT Humanist Council

The LGBT Humanist Council, a project of the American Humanist Association, is a forum for LGBT humanists from across the country to exchange ideas on local organizing, find support in coming out as LGBT (and a humanist), and to speak out with once voice on issues of concern to the LGBT-humanist community!

Monday, March 8, 2010

Organization Spotlight: Catholics for Marriage Equality

Catholics for Marriage Equality [C4ME] encompasses faithful Roman Catholics throughout the United States who through prayerful discernment are supporting civil marriage for same-sex couples.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

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.

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Organization Spotlight: Gay Mens Health Crisis

Gay Mens Health Crisis (GMHC) is the world’s first and leading provider of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and advocacy.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Organization Spotlight: NoLose

NOLOSE is a volunteer-run organization dedicated to ending the oppression of fat people and creating vibrant fat queer culture.

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Organization Spotlight: All Our Arts

All Out Arts is dedicated to the belief that diversity enriches us all, and that the LGBT community has a unique perspective of the world that should be expressed and celebrated through the arts.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Organization Spotlight: Gender JUST

Gender JUST (Gender Justice United for Societal Transformation) is a multi-racial, multi-ethnic, and multi-generational grassroots organization of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Allied (LGBTQA) young people, LGBTQA people of color, and grassroots folks developing leadership and building power through organizing.

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Organization Spotlight: Gay and Lesbian Armenian Society

The Gay and Lesbian Armenian Society (GALAS) is on a mission to foster acceptance and promote equality of its gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender membership by empowering the members and enriching their lives.

Friday, February 5, 2010

Organization Spotlight: Gay Asian Pacific Support Network

The Gay Asian Pacific Support Network (GAPSN) is an organization for gay and bisexual Asian Pacific men to meet, voice concerns, foster self-empowerment, and advocate issues of significance to the community.

Monday, February 1, 2010

Organization Spotlight: Gay and Lesbian International Sport Association

The Gay and Lesbian International Sport Association (GLISA) is an international association of LGBT sport organizations from around the world.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Organization Spotlight: The International Association of Gay/Lesbian Country Western Dance Clubs

The International Association of Gay/Lesbian Country Western Dance Clubs promotes country western dancing, activities and music to all persons without regard to age, sex, gender or gender identity, religion, national or cultural origin, sexual orientation, disability or HIV status.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Organization Spotlight: Call To Action

Call To Action is a Catholic movement working for equality and justice in the Church and society.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Organization Spotlight: Mr Gay Competition

The Mr Gay Competition is an international nonprofit with an annual competition to select a gay man who will serve as an ambassador for the gay community. The mission is for the winner to advocate international equal rights by confirming the essential nature and contributions of gay men to a healthy society where "gay" is not a stereotype.