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Your Family, Friends and Neighbors
This organization provides gender identity and sexual orientation advocacy for Idaho. One can learn about Queer Television, a Tri-States transgender group, a parenting group, and a youth group. Pride events are also listed here.
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Nevada Gay Rodeo Association
This organization creates and promotes rodeos and other events for LGBTQ participants. It also has a store where one can buy rodeo merchandise. There is also a links page that offers more social and other resources for LGBTQ people.
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Build Our Center: because every city needs a center
775-298-1479
Building, connecting, and strengthening LGBTQ community in Northern Nevada toward building a community center. Programs include a fundraiser for charity, a business networking group, and a youth outreach project. The website offers links to resources, among them hotlines, youth groups, higher education, trans and other specific groups and resources, and advocacy, media groups, and health resources.
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Women Singing Out
A web page featuring the singing group and its mission to engage lesbians and friends of lesbians in singing for social change.
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Garden State Equality
973-473-5428
This is a statewide advocacy and educational organization for the LGBTQ community. Now that marriage equality has been legally secured in the state, the organization focuses on youth, transgender people, and seniors and concerns related to race, economic challenges, and disability justice.
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Newark LGBTQ Center
973-424-9555
A youth/young adult program, a youth caucus, a crochet and knitting circle, free computer and internet use, coffee and conversation, and space or room rentals.
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Equality New Mexico
505-224-2766
This is an organization dedicated to educating, advocating, empowering, and convening for collective impact on behalf of LGBTQ people. The are engaged in actions to promote trans awareness and civil rights, political advocacy and leadership development, community wellness and quality of life, and making the voices of the underrepresented heard statewide.
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Common Bond: Gay, Lesbian Bisexual, Transgender Community in New Mexico
505-891-3647
Connected to the Common Bond New Mexico Foundation, this organization's mission is to strengthen and build the LGBTQ community in New Mexico. They have program called U21 for youth under 21, a community center, an emergency project with an information phone line, and more.
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LGBT Center of Raleigh
919-832-4484
This organization's goal is to connect youth in rural and urban areas of North Carolina by providing a safe space both online and in person for teens to talk about their ideas, find resources, and get help with problems they're facing. The organization helps educate teens on current LGBTQ issues and encourages them to create change in their own communities. They have a private Facebook group.
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The Center Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Greater Cincinnati
This is a online resource center offering many links to a variety of LGBTQ and LGBTQ friendly organizations. It also serves as a portal for such organizations to apply to the center for funding.
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Tulsa City-County Library
918-549-7323
The Tulsa City-County library offers this page of LGBTQ and Friends Resources, including organizations, books, health- and faith-related organizations and resources, and national links.
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Salem Pride: Embrace Diversity-Promote Community
This is a resource guide for the LGBTQ community in Salem. It offers news, information, resources, and networking opportunity free of charge.
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Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center
www.bradburysullivancenter.org
The Center is building a new community center to meet the needs of a rapidly growing LGBTQ community in Lehigh Valley. Currently the center sponsors awards for community leadership, an info line for LGBT employment and housing discrimination, the Valley Gay Press, and regular cultural and educational events throughout the Lehigh Valley. Once constructed the center will offer a variety of on-site services for LGBT people in various life stages, including on-site testing for sexually transmitted diseases, support groups, and computer access.
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Juvenile Law Center: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth Resources
This organization offers a resource page with links to local and national organizations that provide support to the LGBTQ community.
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Options LGBTQ News, Resources and Events
Options is an LGBTQ magazine with an online component. The website offers content from the printed paper, a calendar, and a list of resources.
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AFFA Alliance for Full Acceptance
843-883-0343
AFFA is a social justice organization that is working for equality and acceptance for LGBTQ people. It offers small grants to help build or support nonprofit organizations that address the needs of LGBTQQ people. Another of their programs supports LGBTQ people who seek greater inclusion in spiritual organizations and communities. The website offers a resources page for local and other resources.
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We Are Family: A Safe Space for LGBTQI and Straight Ally Youth
843-637-3697
This organization offers a space space for the community's Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) for youth ages 16-23. Youth can meet at the center for educational and social activities. They offer Kidspace, a SafeSpace group for adolescent youth ages 11-15 years old. We Are Family offers safe spaces and systems of support for trans individuals and raises funds for the financial care of transpeople in the state. WAF also offers training for adults who work with youth.
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Black Hills Center for Equality
605-348-3244
This center serves western South Dakota's LGBTQ+ community with resources, education, and networking necessary to enhance the lives of diverse people, with special outreach services to LTBTQ, questioning, intersex, intergender, asexual, ally, pansexual + individuals and their family and friends. It is community-based with a volunteer staff that organizes events on topics such as Living with HIV, Gender Identity Support Group. There is also a regular potluck. They engage local schools in combating bullying, promote marriage equality, and raise awareness by hosting such events as the Black Hills Pride Festival and the Dakotas' Equality Summit.
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