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Area Groups
Our goal is to promote a greater sense of community in the LGBT community of the North Country. Our meetings are completely confidential.
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PFLAG - Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
Canton, New York Contact REACHOUT at 265-2422
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Planned Parethood of Northern New York , Inc
160 Stone Street Watertown, New York 13601
Planned Parenthood’s five health care centers in the North Country provide reproductive health care services for women, men and teens. Since 1967, we have been providing reality-based sexuality education, the highest standard of reproductive health care, and pro-choice advocacy to promote individual freedom of choice. We are ready to serve any North Country resident, regardless of age, gender, ability, religion, ethnicity, sexual-orientation or ability to pay.
A fun and informative site that answers many questions reguarding your body and sexuality. Very well done.
Emmanuel Congregational Church UCC
An open and Affirming, multi-cultural and multi-racial Congregation
The only church in Watertown that openly welcomes everyone, including GLBTQ, into the church
without judgment. GLBTQ members are on the trustees, on the church board, they are
deacons and an integral part of the functioning of the church.
119 South Hamilton Street Watertown, New York 13601
AIDS Community Resources (ACR)
230 Franklin Street Watertown, New York
315-785-8222
AIDS Community Resources (ACR) is a not-for-profit, community-based organization providing prevention, education and support services to those infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS.
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Articles
"Be Yourself - Questions and answers for gay, lesbian and bisexual youth"
"For Parents of Gay Children - Can we understand"
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Go to HRC.org then click on issues at the top. Pick the issue you are interested in and then click on articles. Click on any of the articles listed and it will take you to the full article.
State and National Organizations
The Human Rights Campaign represents a grassroots force of more than 700,000 members and supporters nationwide. As the largest national gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, HRC envisions an America where GLBT people are ensured of their basic equal rights, and can be open, honest and safe at home, at work and in the community.
American Civil Liberties Union
The mission of the ACLU is to preserve all of these protections and guarantees:
- Your First Amendment rights - freedom of speech, association and assembly; freedom of the press, and freedom of religion.
- Your right to equal protection under the law - equal treatment regardless of race, sex, religion or national origin.
- Your right to due process - fair treatment by the government whenever the loss of your liberty or property is at stake.
- Your right to privacy - freedom from unwarranted government intrusion into your personal and private affairs.
We work also to extend rights to segments of our population that have traditionally been denied their rights, including Native Americans and other people of color; lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people; women; mental-health patients; prisoners; people with disabilities; and the poor.
If the rights of society's most vulnerable members are denied, everybody's rights are imperiled.
The ACLU was founded by Roger Baldwin, Crystal Eastman, Albert DeSilver
The Empire State Pride Agenda is New York's statewide lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights and advocacy organization.
Our mission is to win equality and justice for LGBT New Yorkers and our families. We recognize that while significant cultural, legal and governmental advances have led to greater equality for LGBT New Yorkers, we and our families remain highly vulnerable without the vast majority of rights and protections that most New Yorkers take for granted.
Through our education, organizing and advocacy programs, we work toward creating a broadly diverse alliance of LGBT people and our allies in government, communities of faith, labor, all sectors of the workforce and other social justice movements to achieve equality for LGBT New Yorkers and the broader goals of social, racial and economic justice.
Lambda Legal is the oldest national organization pursuing high-impact litigation, public education and advocacy on behalf of equality and civil rights for lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and people with HIV. The work we do has impact on the way we live — we change laws, policies and ideas. From our national headquarters in New York and four regional offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles, our legal and public education experts select the cases and issues that will have the greatest impact in protecting and advancing the rights of LGBT people and those with HIV.
We make the case for equality in court and through education, and we help individuals obtain and advance their rights by providing legal information about federal laws and the laws in their state. We also offer information and resources to people seeking legal help through our telephone Help Desks and a wide variety of educational publications.
Mission Statement. The purpose of the corporation shall be as follows: NYAGRA is a membership organization that advocates at the state and local level for self-determination in gender statement and identity. NYAGRA sees its constituency as including all individuals who experience discrimination and violence because of the ways in which they choose to express their gender. Such individuals may include, but are not limited to: transgender-identified and transsexual people, and gender non-conforming people who identify as gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and heterosexuals.
The mission of Soulforce is to cut off homophobia at its source -- religious bigotry. Soulforce uses a dynamic "take it to the streets" style of activism to connect the dots between anti-gay religious dogma and the resulting attacks on the lives and civil liberties of LGBT Americans. We apply the creative direct action principles taught by Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. to peacefully resist injustice and demand full equality for LGBT citizens and same-gender families.
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