List of LGBT rights organizations

Contents 1 International 2 Africa 2.1 Cameroon 2.2 Kenya 2.3 Nigeria 2.4 Senegal 2.5 Sierra Leone 2.6 South Africa 2.7 Uganda 2.8 Zambia 2.9 Zimbabwe 3 America (continent) 3.1 Argentina 3.2 Bahamas 3.3 Bolivia 3.4 Brazil 3.5 Canada 3.6 Chile 3.7 Colombia 3.8 Cuba 3.9 Guatemala 3.10 Guyana 3.11 Jamaica 3.12 Netherlands Antilles 3.13 Peru 3.14 United States 3.15 Uruguay 4 Asia 4.1 Hong Kong 4.2 India 4.3 Indonesia 4.4 Israel 4.5 Japan 4.6 Lebanon 4.7 Malaysia 4.8 Nepal 4.9 Palestine 4.10 Philippines 4.11 Singapore 4.12 South Korea 4.13 Taiwan 5 Australia and Oceania 5.1 Australia 5.2 Fiji 6 Europe 6.1 Austria 6.2 Belgium 6.3 Belarus 6.4 Bosnia and Herzegovina 6.5 Bulgaria 6.6 Croatia 6.7 Cyprus 6.8 Czech Republic 6.9 Denmark 6.10 Estonia 6.11 Finland 6.12 France 6.13 Georgia 6.14 Greece 6.15 Germany 6.16 Hungary 6.17 Iceland 6.18 Ireland 6.19 Italy 6.20 Kosovo 6.21 Latvia 6.22 Lithuania 6.23 Macedonia 6.24 Malta 6.25 Moldova 6.26 The Netherlands 6.27 Norway 6.28 Poland 6.29 Portugal 6.30 Romania 6.31 Russia 6.32 Serbia 6.33 Slovakia 6.34 Slovenia 6.35 Spain 6.36 Sweden 6.37 Switzerland 6.38 Turkey 6.39 Ukraine 6.40 United Kingdom 7 See also 8 External links

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List of LGBT rights organizations around the world. Note that some organizations support certain rights while opposing others.

International

• Gay Straight Alliance Network International (GSANI)
• International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA)
• International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC)
• International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Youth and Student Organisation (IGLYO)
• International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Intersex Law Association (ILGLaw)

Africa

• Behind the Mask [1]

Cameroon

• Alternatives-Cameroun
• The Cameroonian Association for the Defense of Homosexuality (ADEFHO)
• Igreja da Comunidade Metropolitana (ICM)

Kenya

• Gay Movement Alliance of Kenya[2]

Nigeria

• Changing Attitude Nigeria (CAN)

Senegal

• And Ligeey

Sierra Leone

• Sierra Leone Lesbian and Gay Association

South Africa

• Lesbian & Gay Equality Project
• Gay and Lesbian Organisation of the Witwatersrand (GLOW)

Uganda

• Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG)

Zambia

• LEGATRA

Zimbabwe

• Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ)

America (continent)

Argentina

• Comunidad Homosexual Argentina (CHA)

Bahamas

• Rainbow Alliance of The Bahamas

Bolivia

• M.G.L.P. Libertad

Brazil

• Grupo Gay da Bahia (GGB)

Canada

• AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT)
• Allied Rainbow Communities International
• Canadian Bar Association SOGIC
• Canadian Human Rights Commission
• Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA)
• Canadian Rainbow Health Coalition
• Canadians for Equal Marriage
• Dignity Canada
• Egale Canada
• Equal Marriage for Same-Sex Couples
• Eucharistic Catholic Church in Canada
• Family Pride Canada
• Integrity Canada
• LEGIT
• Lesbian and Gay Community Appeal Foundation (LGCA)
• Lesbian Mother's Association
• Metropolitan Community Church
• New Democratic Party of Canada
• NGALE
• NSRAP
• PFLAG Canada
• TransCanada
• United Church of Canada

Chile

• Movimento Unificado de Minorias Sexuales (MUMS)
• Movimiento de Liberación Homosexual (MOVILH)

Colombia

• Colombia Diversa

Cuba

• Cuban National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX)

Guatemala

• Associacion Gay Lesbica Guatemalteca

Guyana

• Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD)

Jamaica

• Jamaica Forum of Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays (J-FLAG)

Netherlands Antilles

• APEX

Indiana Equality

Peru

• Movimiento Homosexual de Lima (MHOL)

United States

• Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons (Mormon Church)
• African Ancestral Lesbians United for Societal Change
• Alternative Family Project
• American Medical Association [3][4] (AMA)
• American Medical Student Association [5] (AMSA)
• American Veterans for Equal Rights (AVER) [6]
• API Equality [7]
• Bash Back [8]
• Basic Rights Oregon [9]
• Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights [10] (BAPHR)
• Cheer, Dorothy, Cheer!
• Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (COLAGE) [11]
• CLAMBS Equality (Massachusetts)
• Daughters of Bilitis
• Digital Queers (DQ)
• DignityUSA (Catholic Church)
• Empowering Spirits Foundation [12]
• Equal Rights Washington [13]
• Equality Advocates Pennsylvania [14]
• Equality Arizona [15]
• EQCA (Equality California) [16]
• Equality Florida [17]
• Equality Illinois [18]
• Equality Maryland [19]
• Equality Mississippi
• Equality North Carolina
• Equality North Dakota
• Equality Texas [20]
• Equality Utah [21]
• Equality Virginia [22]
• eQualityGiving [23]
• Family Equality Council [24]
• Fine By Me
• Freedom to Marry
• Gay Activists Alliance
• Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD)
• Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
• Gay and Lesbian Medical Association [25] (GLMA)
• Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund
• Gay Liberation Front (GLF)
• Gay Men of African Descent (GMAD)
• Gay Pride Virginia (GPV) [26]
• Gay Straight Advocates for Education (GSAFE) [27]
• Gay Straight Alliance Network International (GSANI)
• Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network [28] (GLSEN)
• Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies (GLIFAA) [29]
• GenderPAC (GPAC) [30]
• Georgia Equality
• Gulf Coast TIDE [31]
• Human Rights Campaign (HRC)
• Immigration Equality [32]
• ImpACT-Florida [33]
• IntegrityUSA (Episcopal Church)
• Kansas Equality Coalition [34]
• Kentucky Equality Federation
• Keshet, Inc. (Keshet, Keshet Boston) [35]
• Lambda Community Center, Ft. Collins, CO [36]
• Lambda Legal [37]
• Lesbian Avengers
• Log Cabin Republicans (LCR)
• Love Makes a Family - Connecticut
• Marriage Equality USA
• MassEquality [38]
• Mattachine Midwest
• Mattachine Society
• Mattachine Society of New York, Inc.
• Mattachine Society of Washington
• Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC Churches)
• National Center for Lesbian Rights [39][NCLR]
• National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) [40]
• National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (The Task Force)
• National Socialist League (United States)
• National Youth Advocacy Coalition (NYAC)
• New Gay Liberation Front
• North American Conference of Homophile Organizations
• Oklahomans for Equality [41]
• One National Gay & Lesbian Archives
• Orange County Equality Coalition (OCEC) [42]
• Our Family Coalition [43]
• Out & Equal [44]
• Out4immigration [45]
• OutFront Minnesota [46]
• Outright Libertarians
• Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
• QPages: Utah's only gay and lesbian yellow pages by the community, for the community [47]
• QSaltLake: Utah's biweekly gay and lesbian news and entertainment magazine [48]
• Queers and Allies, University of Kansas
• Queer Commission of the Socialist Party USA
• Queer Nation
• Rainbow Health Initiative (RHI) link
• Rainbow Law
• Rainbow Sash
• Safe Schools Coalition of Washington [49]
• Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) [50]
• Soulforce (organization)
• Southern Association for Gender Education
• Stanislaus PRIDE Center (SPC)
• Stonewall Democrats
• Stonewall Shooting Sports of Utah [51]
• Tennessee Equality Project [52]
• Touro University Gay-Straight Alliance [53] (TUGSA)
• The Center (Colorado) [54]
• Triangle Foundation [55] - Michigan
• UnifiedVoice.org [www.Unifiedvoice.org] - USA (UV)
• University of Utah LGBT Resource Center [56]
• Utah Pride Center [57]
• Wilde Stein Alliance for Sexual Diversity
• White Crane Institute

Uruguay

• Human Rights Organization working on promoting integration and understanding between sexual minorities and Heterosexuals as well as between foreigners and Uruguayans

Asia

Hong Kong

• HORIZONS
• Rainbow Action

India

• Humsafar Trust
• The Naz Foundation
• The Gay Bombay Group
• Trikone

Indonesia

• GAYa Nusantara Foundation

Israel

• The Association of Gay Men, Lesbians, and Bisexuals in Israel
• Jerusalem Open House - Jerusalem's GLBT community center and gay rights organization
• The Haifa LGBTQi Forum - for the Gay Men, Lesbians, Transgenders, Bisexuals Queers and Intersexual in the Haifa area.
• Hoshen -Education and Change
• ASWAT Palestinian Gay Women

Japan

• OCCUR - Association for the Lesbian and Gay Movement in Japan

Lebanon

• Helem
• Meem
• Hurriyat Khassa
• Raynbow

Malaysia

• PT Foundation (Pink Triangle)

Nepal

• Blue Diamond Society

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reference articles

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/may/02/world/fg-nepalgay2

http://www.iglhrc.org/site/iglhrc/content.php?type=1&id=162

Palestine

• ALQAWS Palestinian Gay Project

Philippines

• Lesbian and Gay Legislative Advocacy Network Philippines (LAGABLAB-Pilipinas)
• Progressive Organization of Gays in the Philippines (ProGay Philippines)
• Rainbow Rights Project
• Society of Transsexual Women of the Philippines (STRAP)
• University of the Philippines Babaylan (UP Babaylan) - first LGBT student organization in the entire UP System and the Philippines

Singapore

• People Like Us (PLU)

South Korea

• Solidarity for LGBT Human Rights of Korea
• Lesbian Counseling Center in South Korea
• Chin-gu-sa-i - Korean Gay Men's Human Rights Group
• KSCRC Korean Sexual-Minority Culture & Rights Center
• [58] Christian Solidarity for No Discrimination World

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Taiwan

• Gender/Sexuality Rights Association Taiwan (GSRAT)
• Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline Association (TTHA)

Australia and Oceania

Australia

National

• Australian Coalition for Equality (ACE)
• Australian Marriage Equality (AME)
• Civil Union Action! (CUA)
• Coalition of Activist Lesbians Australia (COAL)

Australian Capital Territory

• Good Process
• QueerAction (QA)
• A Gender Agenda

New South Wales

• Community Action Against Homophobia (CAAH)
• Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby of New South Wales (GLRL)
• OUTS Action Collective
• Queer Action Collective (QuAC)

Queensland

• Action Reform Change Queensland (ARCQ)
• Gay and Lesbian Welfare Association

Tasmania

• Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group (TGLRG)

Victoria (Australia)|Victoria

• Victorian Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby (VGLRL)
• Love Makes a Family

Western Australia

• Gay and Lesbian Equality (GALE)

Fiji

• Sexual Minorities Project under Women’s Action for Change (WAC)

Europe

• Equality for Gays And Lesbians In The European institutions (EGALITE) [59]
• Transgender Europe (TGeu) [60]
• LGBT Network [61]

Austria

• Rechtskomitee Lambda (RKL)
• Homosexuelle Initiative Wien (HOSI Wien)
• Homosexuelle Initiative Linz (HOSI Linz)

Belgium

• Holebifederatie
• Fédération des Associations gayes et lesbiennes (FAGL)

Belarus

• Gaybelarus.by
• TEMA information center

Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Organization Q www.queer.ba/udruzenje.htm
• Organisation Logos

Bulgaria

• BGO Gemini BGO

Croatia

• Inqueerzicija
• Iskorak
• Kontra
• LORI
• kugA
• Queer Zagreb

Cyprus

• Cypriot Gay Liberation Movement

Czech Republic

• Gay and Lesbian League
• Gay Iniciativa v Czeske Republice (GI) -- closed since 2007

Denmark

• Danish National Association for Gays and Lesbians (LBL)

Estonia

• Estonian Gay League
• Diversity

Finland

• SETA - The Finnish National Organization for Sexual Equality

France

• SOS Homophobie
• Inter-LGBT
• Act Up
• David & Jonathan
• L'Autre Cercle
• Collectif Contre l'Homophobie
• Syndicat National des Entreprises Gaies
• Association des Parents Gays et Lesbiens
• GayLib
• Homosexualités et Socialisme
• CENTR’ÉGAUX

Georgia

• Inclusive Foundation

Greece

• Cooperation against Homophobia
• Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece

Germany

• DKP Queer - LGBT activist group of the German Communist Party
• Lesbian and Gay Federation in Germany (LSVD)
• Ökumenische Arbeitsgruppe Homosexuelle und Kirche

Hungary

• Háttér Support Society for LGBT People [62]
• Labrisz Lesbian Association [63]
• Habeas Corpus Working Group [64]

Iceland

• Samtökin '78

Ireland

• Gay & Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN)
• Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform
• Steven Donohues Galway Gays
• Union of Students in Ireland
• Transgender Equality Network Ireland (http://www.teni.ie/)

Italy

• Arcigay
• Arcilesbica Arcilesbica
• GlobaLES

Kosovo

• QESh
• Elysium

Latvia

• Mozaīka
• ILGA-Latvija

Lithuania

• Lithuanian Gay League

Macedonia

• Macedonian Organisation for Free Sexual Orientation

Malta

• Malta Gay Rights Movement (MGRM)

Moldova

• GenderDoc-M

The Netherlands

• COC Nederland
• Homo Lesbische Federatie Nederland
• Transgender Netwerk Nederland (TNN) [65]

Norway

• Norwegian National Association for Lesbian and Gay Liberation (LLH)
• Queer Youth

Poland

• Campaign Against Homophobia (KPH)
• Lambda Warsaw [66]

Portugal

• ILGA Portugal
• Opus Gay

Romania

• ACCEPT
• Be An Angel

Russia

• LGBT Human Rights Project Gayrussia.ru
• Russian LGBT network
• Argorisk
• Krilija
• St. Petersburg LGBT Organization Coming Out
• Movement LGBT rights of Russia

Serbia

• Gayten LGBT
• Gay-straight Alliance, based in Belgrade
• Koalicija protiv diskriminacije / Coalition Against Discrimination
• Labris, lesbian human rights group
• Lambda, LGBT human rights and queer culture centre (with offices in Niš and Kragujevac)
• LGBT Vojvodina, rights and culture development center of homosexual, bisexual and transsexual/transgender population of Vojvodina
• QueerBeograd
• Queeria
• Taboo, group for affirmation of diversity. NGO working in Zrenjanin, Kragujevac and other smaller Serbian towns.

Slovakia

• Altera

Slovenia

• DIH
• LeGeBiTra
• Lingsium
• SkuC-LL
• SkuC-Magnus

Spain

• Federación Estatal de Lesbianas, Gays, Transexuales y Bisexuales
• Fundación Triángulo

Sweden

• Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights (RFSL)
• HomO, The Ombudsman against Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation (government office)
• Ekho, Ekumeniska gruppen för kristna homo-, bisexuella och transpersoner (the organization for LGBT Christians)

Switzerland

• Pink Cross
• Swiss Lesbian Organization (LOS) LOS

Turkey

• KAOS GL
• Lambda Istanbul
• LEGATO, LGBT group of university students and academics with nationwide organization
• Rainbow Solidarity and Cultural Association for Transgenders, Gays and Lesbians
• Pink Life LGBT Association (Pembe Hayat), Ankara, Turkey

Ukraine

• Nash Mir
• Ukrainian Gay & Lesbian Association
• Public Organization Informational-Educational Center Za Ravnie Prava

United Kingdom

• Campaign for Homosexual Equality
• Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform (Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland)
• Coalition on Sexual Orientation (CoSO) (Northern Ireland)
• Cara-Friend (Northern Ireland)
• Consortium of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Volunary and Community Organisations
• DELGA (Lib Dems for LGBT Action)
• Gay and Lesbian Youth Northern Ireland (GLYNI)
• Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association (GALHA)
• Homosexual Law Reform Society
• Northern Ireland Gay Rights Association
• OutRage!
• Proud2serve.net
• Queer Youth Network (Q.Y.N.)
• Stonewall
• Unity Bangor LGBT [67]

See also

• Gay community
• LGBT rights by country

External links

• Gay Straight Alliance Network International (GSANI)
• The Gay Peoples Union Collection

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