Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) related organizations range from social and support groups to organizations that are political in nature. Some groups are independent, while others are officially-recognized special interest groups within mainstream religious organizations or political parties. For groups whose primary purpose is campaigning for the legal rights of LGBT people, please see List of LGBT rights organizations.
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A
- A Gender Agenda Community based organisation concerned with the health and wellbeing of the Sex and Gender Diverse community (Australia)
- Affirmation Scotland — advocacy group composed of Church of Scotland members, works for a more LGBT-affirming denomination
- Albany Trust — educational and counselling organization (United Kingdom)
- Apostolic Restoration Mission — formed by the 2003 merger of the National Gay Pentecostal Alliance (NGPA) (founded 1980) and the Apostolic Intercessory Ministry (founded 1999);[1] engages in church planting—small NGPA churches were operating in 9 U.S. states, Russia, and the Ukraine as of 1998.[2]
- Asian/Pacific Islander Queers United for Action — group for and by Asian/Pacific Islanders[3] in the Washington, D.C., area (United States), founded in 1997[4], also has an award-winning rowing team[5].
- Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists — education and advocacy group for LGBT mental health issues (United States)
- Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists — group of individuals, organizations, and congregations which advocate full LGBT-inclusion in Baptist churches (United States)
- Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives - community-based organization committed to the collection and preservation of material reflecting the lives and experiences of LGBT Australians.
- Axios — organization of Eastern Orthodox, Byzantine Rite, and Eastern Catholic Christians who are LGBT (International)
B
- Bash Back, network of anarchist and anti-authoritarian queer projects (United States)
- BiNet USA, Bisexual advocacy group (United States)
- Bisexual Index, bisexual advocacy group (UK) [1][2]
- Black Gay Men's Advisory Group, advocacy group (UK)
- Black Laundry, Israeli LGBT group which campaigns against the occupation of the Palestinian territories, and other issues
- Broken Rainbow, UK charity and support group for victims of same-sex domestic violence. [3]
C
- Campaign Against Homophobia — advocacy group (Poland)
- Changing Attitude International — group composed of members of the Anglican Communion, advocates a more LGBT-affirming denomination
- Cheer, Dorothy, Cheer! — performs at pride events, advocates LGBT and HIV/AIDS issues, raises money for charity (United States)
- Christian Altitude - GLBT & Affirming Church Planting Organization [4]
- Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere — advocacy group (International)
- Connecticut Gay Men's Chorus
- Chouettes Coquettes — social group for lesbian and bisexual women in Montreal who are their 20s and 30s (Canada)
- Courage International — church-sanctioned ministry and lay group within the Roman Catholic church which promotes celibacy
Bisexual Movement Uganda: a group of university students creating for a living environment for all LGBTs in uganda.
D
- Daughters of Bilitis — historical lesbian social and activist organization (United States)
- DELGA — LGBT wing of the UK's Liberal Democrat party
- DignityUSA — lay organization of LGBT-affirming Roman Catholics, not a church-sanctioned organization
E
- Emergence International — support group for LGBT Christian Scientists (not to be confused with Scientology)
- Empowering Spirits Foundation [5] — national LGBT non-profit, non-partisan civil rights organization.[6]
- Evangelicals Concerned — group of LGBT evangelical Christians[7][8] (United States)
F
- Federation of Gay Games — fosters LGBT self-respect through the Gay Games, an organized international participatory athletic and cultural event
- Fine By Me — advocacy group, distributes T-shirts reading "Gay? Fine by me" (United States)
- FLAGS - Fellowship for Lesbians and Gays in Scouting — Support Fellowship for LGBT people in The Scout Association (UK) [6]
- Friends of Dorothy Society — bell ringing group (International)
G
- GALA Choruses — Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses (International)
- GALA Scotland Ltd - producers of Glasgay!, Scotland's annual celebration of queer culture (UK)
- Gator Gay-Straight Alliance — University of Florida (United States)
- Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund — political action committee and leadership institute, which supports openly-LGBT candidates for public office (United States)
- Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation — media watchdog group (United States)
- Gay and Lesbian Arabic Society
- Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands — world's first LGBT micronation
- Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (International)
- GLYNI Gay and Lesbian Youth Northern Ireland
- Gay Asian Pacific Support Network
- Gay Buddhist Fellowship
- Gay Christian Network (GCN)
- Gay Games, an organized international participatory athletic and cultural event held every four years
- Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Straight Alliance at the University of North Carolina (GLBTSA)
- Gay Lesbian Bisexual youth groups in Ireland
- Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles
- Gay Men's Chorus of San Diego
- GayOutdoors - fosters self-respect, fellowship, community service and environmental stewardship through organized outdoor activities/adventures
- Gay Straight Alliance Network International (GSANI)
- Gay Youth of New York (GY-NY), later Gay and Lesbian Youth of New York (GLYNY), later Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Youth of New York (BiGLYNY), and later Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Youth of New York (BiGLTYNY) [7] [8] [9]
- GYUK Gay Youth UK
- Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN)
- Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies (GLIFAA)
- Gay-Straight Alliance
- Gay Youth Corner (The GYC)
- GenderBloc
- GenderPAC
- Golden Gate Business Association (GGBA)
- Growing American Youth of St. Louis
I
- ILTGA-LAC
- Inclusive Foundation Georgia[10]
- Independent Gay Forum
- Institute for Gay and Lesbian Strategic Studies [11]
- IntegrityUSA
- International Association of Gay Square Dance Clubs
- International Lesbian and Gay Association
- International Mister Leather
- International Ms. Leather
- InterPride, an organization of over 200 Pride event organizers.
- Isle of Man Lesbian and Gay Switchboard
J
L
- "Labrys" a lesbian, bisexual women's and transgender organization (Kyrgyzstan)
- Lambda Istanbul [13] (Turkey)
- Lambda Foundation Scholarships, Awards, Bursaries (Canada) [14]
- Lambda Legal
- Lambda Magazine [15]
- Lambda Warszawa (Poland) [16]
- Lavender Womyn A lesbian social group which started in Salem, Oregon [17]
- LEGATO University Students and Academics [18] (Turkey)
- Lesbenring
- Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement (LGCM) [19]
- Lesbian Association of India
- Lesbian Avengers
- Lesbian Sex Mafia
- The LGBT Cancer Project [20] [21]
- LGBT History Month
- LGBT Labour (UK)
- LGBT Youth Scotland
- Log Cabin Republicans (United States)
- London Gay Men's Chorus
- Loughborough University Students' Union LGBT Association [22]
- Love Makes a Family
- Lunduyan ng Sining (cradle of art) - a duly-registered lesbian arts organization in the Philippines
- LSVD - German Lesbian and Gay Association
- Lutherans Concerned
M
- Mission Saints Sergius & Bacchus [23]
- Magnus Hirschfeld Center for Human Rights [24]
- Malecare Gay & Bisexual Cancer Survivors [25]
- Mattachine Society
- Meem - A Lesbian Community in Lebanon [26]
- Metropolitan Community Church
- Metropolitan Community Church Philippines [27]
- More Light Presbyterians
- MS Rainbow Alliance [28]
N
- Nashville GLBT Chamber of Commerce [29]
- National Association of Catholic Diocesan Lesbian and Gay Ministries [30]
- National Association of LGBT Community Centers [31]
- National Black Lesbian and Gay Leadership Forum [32]
- National Coalition for GLBT Youth [33]
- National Consortium of Directors of LGBT Resources in Higher Education
- National Directory of Campus LGBT Resource Centers [34]
- National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce
- National Latinas/Latinos Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Organization [35]
- National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association
- National Lesbian and Gay Law Association [36]
- National LGBT Cancer Network [37]
- National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals [38]
- National Stonewall Democrats
- National Transgender Advocacy Coalition
- National Union of Students LGBT Campaign [39]
- National Youth Advocacy Coalition
- New Ways Ministry
- New York Area Bisexual Network
- [[North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance]
- Northern Ireland Gay Rights Association
O
- Oakland-East Bay Gay Men's Chorus
- ODU Out [40]
- ONE, Inc.
- Out & Equal
- Out in America [41]
- Out with Cancer [42]
- OutRage!
- OUTRhodes [43]
- Outright Libertarians
- Outright Scotland
- Our Youth, a non-profit youth LGBT organization [www.myspace.com/our_youth]
- OutYouth [44]
P
- Project for Advice, Counselling and Education
- ParaGay (Paraguay) [45]
- Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
- People Like Us 3
- Phi Alpha Nu Fraternity, Inc. National HQ [46]
- Pink Pistols
- Pink Triangle Group [47], Turkey
- Plexed - The Gay Youth Community [48]
- Point Foundation
- Press for Change
- Pride365
- Pride at Work
- Pride Library
- Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians
- Project Q
Q
- QueerAttitude.com [49]
- Queers and Allies at the University of Kansas [50]
- Queer Fist
- Queer Nation
- Queer Youth Alliance
- The Queer Youth Community [51]
R
- Rainbow Sash
- Rainbow Rights Project (R-Rights) - a group of lesbian and gay lawyers and legal activists who are dedicated to promoting a rational discourse on the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders (LGBTs) in the Philippines
- Reconciling Pentecostals International [52]
- The Rockway Institute for LGBT research in the public interest (Alliant International University)
- Rateen, Open Community for Youth Sexual Minorities (South Korea, Asia) [53]
- Rich Eychaner Charitable Foundation
- Rio Grand Adelante
S
- San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus
- Scottish Minorities Group
- Scouting for All
- Seacoast Outright
- Seattle Sex Positive Community Center aka the Wet Spot
- Servicemembers Legal Defense Network
- Sex Panic!
- SHOE International Network International Lesbian Social Network
- Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
- Ski Bums
- Seventh-Day Adventist Kinship International [54]
- Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
- Soulforce
- Stonewall Shooting Sports of Utah
- Swedish Ombudsman against Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation
- S.O.N.G.- Southerners on[55] New Ground
T
- Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline Association
- Tong-Kwang Light House Presbyterian Church
- 129th Toronto Scouting Group (Canada)
- Trans-Fuzja Foundation [56]
- Transgender Law Center
- Turk Gay Club, Turk LGBT Community [57]
U
- UCLA Queer Alliance [58]
- UnifiedVoice.org [59]
- UNISON LGBT Self organised group [60]
- The United States Gay and Lesbian United Front [61]
- Unity Conference [62]
- The University of St Andrews LGBT Society [63]
- UP Babaylan [64] Philippines
- Unity Bangor LGBT [65]
See also
Notes
- ^ Church History, Apostolic Restoration Mission
- ^ DeVore, Leigh. "Bible-Based and Pro-Gay". (reprinted from CharismaMag). Beliefnet. http://www.beliefnet.com/News/2000/04/Bible-Based-And-Pro-Gay.aspx?print=true. Retrieved 2009-03-03.
- ^ A/PI Queers United for Action
- ^ Windy City Times profile on AQUA founder
- ^ Row Your Boat, Metro Weekly (Washington, D.C.)
- ^ Gays to help the disadvantaged and sick, My So Called Gay Life, 02 October 2009
- ^ ECWR
- ^ BORN AGAIN' GAY FIGHTS FOR RECOGNITION HIS EVANGELICAL GROUP OPPOSES THE 'PARTY LINE', Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 22 March 1986
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