The Resource Center

A list of LGBT and Coming Out Support Resources that we've published in the last few years. Publication date: 1/08/09.

The Resource Center:

ACLU. American Civil Liberties Union. Protects civil rights of the LGBT community. www.aclu.org.

The Advocate. LGBT news and entertainment magazine. It's online version has breaking news and other features. www.advocate.com.

Assorted Calendars of Events
***Damron Guides Event Calendars: http://www.damron.com/calendar/index.html
***Pride Events worldwide: www.interpride.org.
***PRIDE Calendars: http://www.gayfriendlybiz.com/calendar.html
***Gay.com’s Pride Calendar: www.gay.com/pride/calendar/
***LGBT Sports Events from Outsports: http://www.outsports.com/localEvents/index.cfm
***LGBT Film Festivals from PlanetOut.com: http://www.planetout.com/popcornq/fests/
***CenterLink: The Community of LGBT Centers. www.lgbtcenters.org

Alltop: A central site for LGBT news with items from The Advocate, Towleroad, After Elton, After Ellen, Pam's House Blend, and other sources. http://glbt.alltop.com/

Americablog is the brainchild of John Aravosis, a Washington DC-based writer and political consultant, specializing in using the Internet for political advocacy. He is the creator of StopDrLaura.com, Matthew Shepard Online Resources, and DearMary.com, among other activist Web sites. http://americablog.blogspot.com/

Atticus Circle, a Texas-based, national not-for-profit organization, educates and mobilizes fair-minded straight people to advance equal rights for LGBT partners, parents, and their children. To accomplish its goal, Atticus Circle focuses its efforts on education, policy development, and legal advocacy. www.atticuscircle.org

Best Places to Work 2008 List: The Human Rights Campaign has published its annual list of the top companies that support equality for LGBT employees. The Corporate Equality Index gave 195 companies a perfect score demonstrating their commitment to equality. http://www.hrc.org/issues/best_places_to_work_2008.asp

The Bilerico Project is the web's largest LGBTQ group blog with 50 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and genderqueer contributors. The Project is the coming out and together of LGBTQ activists, politicos, journalists, novelists, advice columnists, and video bloggers. www.bilerico.com.

Buying/Selling a House? Need a realtor? A new online resource has over 4,000 listings of LGBT and gay-friendly realtors and information on mortgages. www.gayrealestate.com.

Campus Pride: LGBT and Ally Student Leader Programs. Campus Pride represents the only national nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization for student leaders and campus groups working to create a safer college environment for LGBT students. The organization is a volunteer-driven network "for" and "by" student leaders. The primary objective of Campus Pride is to develop necessary resources, programs and services to support LGBT and ally students on college campuses across the United States. www.campuspride.org/

CenterLink: The Community of LGBT Centers. (formerly The National Association of LGBT Community Centers) was founded in 1994 as a member-based coalition to support the development of strong, sustainable LGBT community centers. The organization plays an important role in supporting the growth of LGBT centers across the country and addressing the challenges they face, by helping them to improve their organizational and service delivery capacity and increase access to public resources. Based in Washington, DC, CenterLink serves over 168 LGBT community centers across the country in 45 states and the District of Columbia, www.lgbtcenters.org

Cine-Queer: GLAAD's Guide to What's LGBT in Film: http://www.glaad.org/eye/cinequeer.php

COLAGE: Children of Gays and Lesbians Everywhere. a support program for kids with LGBt parents that was started by kids. www.colage.org.

Coming Out Guides from the Human Rights Campaign: A Resource Guide to Coming Out, A Straight Guide to GLBT Americans, Coming Out as Transgender, Resource Guide to Coming Out for African-Americans and Guía de Recursos Para Salir Del Clóset are all available at: http://www.hrc.org/issues/coming_out.asp

The Coming Out Project of Dallas / Fort Worth, a local program of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, encourages LGBT persons and supportive others to take their next step in the life-long process of living openly and freely. They sponsor "Journey: A Coming Out Workshop Series" in Dallas, TX: http://www.comeout.org/

Coming Out Support Resources from The Advocate: http://www.advocate.com/resources_ektid15.asp

Coming Out Support Resources from Lambda Rising, the Washington, DC based LGBT community book store. http://www.lambdarising.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp;jsessionid=amqLPw_VetH7?s=localinterest&page=277855

Coming Out Toolkit from the Gay and Lesbian Leadership Institute, to assist LGBT elected officials who want to come out in a planned, strategic manner. http://www.glli.org/professional_development/coming_out

DataLounge. LGBT gossip message boards. www.datalounge.com.

Docurama. A new source for film and video documentaries on VHS and DVD. Many LGBT titles. www.docurama.com.

Edge Publications has become the leading network of local LGBT news and entertainment portals on the net. Look for EDGE editions in: Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Fire Island, Ft. Lauderdale, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Philadelphia, Providence, Provincetown, San Francisco, plus regional editions for New England and the United States. www.edgepublications.com.

Family Equality Council. Programs for LGBT parents and their families. http://www.familyequality.org/

GayBusinessWorld.com features financial, corporate and business news and information for LGBT community, networking opportunities, and resume site. www.gaybusinessworld.com

The Gay & Lesbian Convention & Visitors Bureau (GLCVB) is a new professional networking and marketing program of Community Marketing, Inc., a pioneer in LGBT tourism marketing and consumer research since 1992. The new GLCVB program helps connect gay-welcoming destinations and services to LGBT meeting planners, tour operators and travel agents, the LGBT media, and consumers around the world. For information: www.glcvb.org

Gay Dads USA: The Lives of gay dads raising kids in the U.S.A. James Wesley, the partner of Broadway actor/musician Seth Rudetsky, started this blog. It has some great references for gay dads and some sperior firsthand experiences in parenting. www.gaydadsusa.com

GayGevalt.com is a new national Super Queer Jewish Calendar for LGBT community events around the USA. http://gaygevalt.com/calendar/events/index.php

Gay and Lesbians Organizations List: http://faculty.washington.edu/alvin/gayorg.htm. Last revised in 11/07.

Gay Health: Information and resources for LGBT seeking healthcare. http://www.gayhealth.com/templates/index.html

GaylinkNews.com features press releases from LGBT organizations. www.gaylinknews.com.

GayNewsWatch.com surfs the Internet for you, gathering the latest LGBT news and entertainment from all over the world, from the gay press, the mainstream media, blogs and more. www.gaynewswatch.com/

Gay Outdoors offers programs in hiking, camping, skiing, adventure travel and more. www.gayoutdoors.org.

GayPolitics.com, a project of the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, brings attention to the accomplishments of openly LGBT elected and appointed officials, as well as highlight the campaigns of Victory’s endorsed candidates. Check out their Blog Roll. www.gaypolitics.com.

GaySports.com features news and information for LGBT atheletes and fans, listings of events and network opportunities. www.gaysports.com

Gaywheels.com is dedicated to promoting responsible consumerism and affecting change by encouraging car shoppers to patronize LGBT-friendly companies throughout the vehicle purchase process. Gaywheels.com launched in June 2005 as the consummate gay-friendly automotive resource. www.gaywheels.com.

Gay Yellow Pages. Geographical listings of services. www.gayellowpages.com.

GLAAD. Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. A national organization that works to protect fair representations of the LGBT community in the media. www.glaad.org.

GLBT National Youth Talkline, for LGBT and questioning under-25 crowd. A free and confidential service staffed by young peer counselers familiar with issues of coming out, HIV, bullying, and parental and relationship problems. They have, at their fingertips, over 18,000 listings of support groups and social organizations. Open daily 9:30PM-midnight ET. 800-246-PRIDE or via email: youth@GLBTNationalHelpCenter.org.

GLISA-NA (Gay and Lesbian International Sports Association) North America has launched its website. The website is a vital tool in promoting the organization and providing to member clubs and associations and partners a venue to share news, best practices, and a calendar of events. www.glisa-na.org

GLMA, The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association announced the upcoming launch
of its LGBT Relationship Violence Project to help educate medical professionals about domestic violence issues affecting LGBT people. For The Advocate Report:
http://advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=14129&sd=10/21/04
For the GLMA website: www.glma.org.

GLSEN, The Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network, promotes gay-straight alliances and education programs in public and private high schools. GLSEN provides a lot of support for young people in the coming out process. www.glsen.org.

GLYDSA, The Gay and Lesbian Yeshiva Day School Alumni Association provides resources, information and events in a safe space for LGBT Jews who wish to intergrate their Jewish and gay identities in a self-affirming manner. www.orthogays.com.

The Human Rights Campaign, one of the nation's major lobbying organization for gay civil rights, and the organizer of National Coming Out Day. www.hrc.org.

Immigration Equality (formerly the Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force) was founded in 1994 and advocates for equality under U.S. immigration law for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and HIV-positive immigrants, their families, friends and loved ones. For more information:http://www.immigrationequality.org

Joe.My.God. A good gay perspective from The Big Apple. http://www.joemygod.blogspot.com/

Kids of Trans Resource Guide: COLAGE (Children of Gays and Lesbians Everywhere) has released its "Kids of Trans Resource Guide", the first of its kind, which was written by and for people with transgender parents. This crucial resource will provide the growing community of children, youth, and adults with one or more transgender parent(s) much needed information about their experience. www.colage.org

The League Foundation provides financial assistance for America's LGBT youth in their quest for higher education. www.leaguefoundation.org

Lesbian and Gay Veterinary Medical Association offers resources and support to LGBT vets, students, technicians, and more. www.lgvma.org.

LGBT Choruses Performance Calendar: http://www.galachoruses.org/events/calendar.html

LGBT Resource Guide from The Advocate: http://www.advocate.com/resources_ektid6.asp

LGBT Scholarship Information: The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the nation's largest LGBT civil rights organization, released a comprehensive database of more than 160 scholarships available to LGBT and allied students. For information: www.hrc.org/scholarships.

Live Out Loud's mission is to empower, energize and enable LGBT Youth to live the life of their dreams through the celebration of the richness and diversity of our shared experience, the visibility of role models and the dissemination of information. http://www.liveoutloud.info/index.html.

Mapping Our Rights ranks each of the 50 states, plus Washington, D.C., on the basis of more than 20 criteria related to LGBT and reproductive rights, including whether same-sex couples can legally adopt, whether there are antidiscrimination protections for gays and lesbians, and whether health care providers can deny services because of their personal beliefs. www.mappingourrights.org.

Matthew's Place, a new resource center launched by the Matthew Shepard Foundation, provides a "safe online place" for LGBTQ youth to find information about counselors, shelters and youth-serving organizations and support. www.matthewsplace.com.

The National Black Justice Coalition is a civil rights organization dedicated to empowering Black same-gender-loving, LGBT people. The Coalition works with our communities and our allies for social justice, equality, and an end to racism and homophobia. www.nbjc.org.

The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, a/k/a The Task Force. One of the nation's major lobbying organizations for gay civil rights. www.thetaskforce.org.

National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association. A professional organization for LGBT journalists and reporters covering LGBT issues. www.nlgja.org.

NationalGayNews.com is a new online daily gay national electronic newspaper, founded by the original publisher of the Express Gay News, attorney Norman Elliott Kent. www.nationalgaynews.com

OUT for Work is the only national nonprofit organization dedicated to educating, preparing, and empowering LGBT college students and their allies for the workplace. OFW's programs, resources, and services provide assistance to students in the cultivation and enhancement of skills to explore career options, master job search techniques and strategies, and research employment opportunities. www.outforwork.com

Out in Scripture, a free weekly online resource for clergy and lay people of faith. The website will provide distinct insights into the Bible, week after week, from a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and straight-supportive perspective. A product of the Human Rights Campaign, the debut of the site marks the first and only major online preaching resource devoted to assisting clergy in planning their sermons and spiritual discussion groups. It will be especially valuable in building welcoming and inclusive congregations around the country. www.hrc.org/scripture

Out Professionals. A New York City LGBT professional networking organization. www.outprofessionals.org

Out Proud: Resources for Queer and Questioning Youth. www.outproud.org

OutSports. A website for LGBT professional and amateur athletes and sports fans. www.outsports.com.

Partners Task Force for Gay & Lesbian Couples supports the diverse community of committed LGBT partners through a variety of media. The Web site contains more than 250 essays, surveys, legal articles and resources on legal marriage, ceremonies, domestic partner benefits, relationship tips, parenting, and immigration. http://buddybuddy.com/partners.html

PFLAG: Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. www.pflag.org

Pink Is The New Blog: Fingers Firmly on the Pulse. Gossip and commentary about gossip. http://trent.blogspot.com/

The Point Foundation is the first and largest national scholarship program providing comprehensive financial support and mentoring to the most promising and most underserved members of the LGBT community. www.thepointfoundation.org.

Pride Planners: Resources for financial planners serving LGBT individuals and families. www.prideplanners.com.

Proud Parenting, a website to empower LGBT parents and their families with articles, resources, and other support information. www.proudparenting.com.

Queer Experiences: A Coming Out Blog started by Drea Nelson is a chance for people to share their experiences about being queer. It was started for two reasons: as a place for LGBTQIQ people to tell their story, with out the fear of ridicule, shame, or violence; and as a place for people to go to know that they are not alone. http://closetsnomore.blogspot.com.

Queer Resources Directory. An online listings of all resources queer. http://www.qrd.org/qrd/

RainbowAuthors.com, gives LGBT writers the opportunity to take control of their writing careers and publish independently. Numerous a-la-carte choices to publish, edit, design, publicize, and distribute their books, including a free publishing and sales option, are offered. Also, a partnership with Gaybookstoreonline.com provides authors with an additional possible promotional opportunity. www.rainbowauthors.com

Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), a national legal aid and policy organization dedicated to repeal of the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" ban on lesbian, gay and bisexual service members at www.sldn.org.


S.H.E. Spirit Health Education, is a new online community providing information and resources to African American lesbians and bisexual women. www.shecircle.org.

Straight Spouse Network. Provides support programs to spouses of those coming out. http://www.straightspouse.org/

Support Groups for LGBT Parents: http://milepost1.com/%7Egaydad/Support.Groups.html

Ten Blogs About Gays and Lesbians from Associated Content: www.associatedcontent.com/article/57737/ten_blogs_about_gays_and_lesbians.html

TowleRoad, a blog with homosexual tendencies, is a premium site for modern gay men. We like the mix of news and entertainment coverage. www.towleroad.com.

The Trevor Project supports a 24-hour, toll-free anonymous suicide prevention helpline for LGBTQ teens. www.thetrevorproject.org.

TV Gayed, GLAAD's Weekly Guide to What's LGBT on TV: Updated every Friday. Currently listing to 1/08/09. http://www.glaad.org/eye/tv_listings.php

University LGBTQ Academic Programs in the USA and Canada. http://www.people.ku.edu/%7Ejyounger/lgbtqprogs.html

The Victory Fund works to help LGBT people campaign for office and also rates those running on their records with regard to LGBT issues. www.victoryfund.org.

The Washington Blade. One of the nation's finest LGBT weekly newspapers with good coverage on LGBT issues inside the Beltway. The news section on their website updates daily. www.washblade.com

Yes on Gay Marriage is a new organization formed to work for the rights of gay marriage in all fifty states, repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and recognition by the federal government. The full website will be available in late January 2009. www.yesongaymarriage.org