Youth

Our Mission: To engage, connect, and empower people to make the world a better place for children of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender parents and families.

You mean I'm not the only one?!!

Welcome to Families Like Mine, a web site dedicated to decreasing isolation for people who have parents who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT), and bringing voice to the experiences of these families.

This site was created by Abigail Garner, a lifetime advocate for LGBT families because she comes from one herself. She is the author of the new book, Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is (HarperCollins).

This site is intended for adults and mature teens, but not young children. (Abigail speaks directly to teens at: "When I was Your Age...") In addition to providing resources for LGBT people and their families, FamiliesLikeMine.com is also for our allies. Regular visitors to this site include students and employers who are looking for ways to build more inclusive environments on campus or in the workplace. Other visitors include journalists, therapists, and researchers seeking information on LGBT-family issues.

So what should you do if your child is gay? You can't turn your back on them. You love them too much for that. But how can you accept something about them that your church, your family, your friends and possibly even yourself finds unbearable, immoral or indecent?

If we are successful with this website, you will find the answer to this challenging question. It is our prayer that our efforts will keep you from losing your child.

--- Patti Ellis

is a voice of informed straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people who have chosen to love and support our relatives and friends by working to spread truth about homosexuality. Our focus is on young people because they generally feel so desperately alone.

General Support

Alter Heroes - An incorporated non-profit organization whose mission is to facilitate the community integration of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered youth by:

Informing and educating the youth, parents, family and friends through the dissemination of information
Providing aid and support by posing, clarifying and responding to questions and creating a mutual aid network
Creating a community where the youth can share, exchange, contribute, make friends and connect with others.

Resources for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Youth...

The Cool Page For Queer Teens

presented and maintained by Scott Bidstrup

GayTeenGuys Support Society

GTG is here for many reasons. One of which is to provide a service and a society whereby young gay guys can talk about what they want and need to. Please support us and those others who already do. Thank you.

GTIC

Gay Teen Internet Community
"Always be true to yourself, and remember that you are never alone."

This site is designed as a cyber community for gay, lesbian, and bisexual teenagers. We host a variety of resources, from news stories to web links. We also have stories, poems, and are determined to become one of the premier sources of information and entertainment for gay, lesbian, and bisexual teenagers.

Hello, thank you for stoping by Gay Youth Links. Here you will find links to sites which I feel will be of interest to gay, lesbian, transgendered and questioning young people. The site is under new managment now, so if you have any questions, please send them to gylinksmail@gmail.com. The sites listed are checked for inappropriate material, but please be aware that I am not responsible for the content of any of these sites.

GayYouthNews · Gay Youth News: Stories on kids dealing with being gay and related topics.
Stories are selected from around the country.

Gay Youth News: Stories on kids dealing with being gay and related topics.
Stories are selected from around the country but there's a lot about Connecticut.

Access to this website timed out the last two times I tried to access it.
I don't know if it is still active.

National Youth Advocacy Coalition - A social justice organization that advocates for and with young people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning (LGBTQ) in an effort to end discrimination against these youth and to ensure their physical and emotional well being. It takes a comprehensive approach to improving the lives of LGBTQ youth and operates through a social justice framework. NYAC strongly believes that to be effective in creating change at the national level, focused, grassroots advocacy at the local level is critical. NYAC knows that the expertise required to strengthen the LGBTQ youth movement can be found among both young people and adults from around the country.

Out Proud - Be Yourself - The National Coalition for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Youth has a wide range of resources available for youth and educators

About Youth Guardian Services

Youth Guardian Services is a youth-run, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides support services on the Internet to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, questioning, and straight supportive youth. At this time the organization operates solely on private donations from individuals.

Youth Pride Alliance, now in its eleventh year, was founded in 1996. Our
primary function is the annual production of Youth Pride Day. As a small, all-volunteer run organization, we rely on the support of the community for our programs and services. In addition to Youth Pride Day, we also organize other events for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, Queer, and/or Questioning youth throughout the year.

Health/Aids/Sexuality/Suicide

About Advocates for Youth

Mission

Advocates for Youth is dedicated to creating programs and advocating for policies that help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health. Advocates provides information, training, and strategic assistance to youth-serving organizations, policy makers, youth activists, and the media in the United States and the developing world.

AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth & Families is a national non-profit membership organization. We were established in 1994 to give voice to the needs of women, children, youth, and families living with and affected by HIV and AIDS.

AIDS Alliance:

creates and shares information about programs that work for women, youth, children, and families affected by HIV and AIDS
provides a forum for consumers and care providers to build more effective partnerships
advocates for public policies that benefit women, youth, children, and families affected by HIV and AIDS while preventing new HIV infections and searching for a real cure.

AIDS is the worst epidemic humankind has ever faced. The virus infects 14,000 people every day, leaving millions of people suffering and having a devastating effect on the world's most vulnerable:

• More than 14 million children worldwide have been orphaned because of AIDS. That's the equivalent of every child under five in America with no one to watch over them.

• Nearly six million children have been killed by AIDS. That number is more than every child in every grade school and high school in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, Miami and Atlanta combined.

But, there is cause for hope. Three important catalysts are spurring a strong world response to this epidemic. Political leaders in many countries are increasing their support to AIDS efforts. More resources in the global community are being applied to areas struggling with the virus. And, medicines improve every year, allowing many to survive with the disease and inhibiting new infections.

Your contributions help the organizations that ensure these efforts continue, with the end goal of wiping out the disease entirely: the UN created the Joint United Nations Program on AIDS (UNAIDS), which is dedicated to advocacy for global action on the epidemic and the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. Since January 2002, The Global Fund has mobilized, managed and distributed funds to help fight this epidemic.

You can be a huge part of the global solution. Make a difference. Please help

Because I am
... A gay resource for
everyone

Welcome

My name is Jeff, I'm 24 years old, and I'm gay. This website is an accumulation of my writings and letters regarding my experiences and feelings that came from growing up gay in an anti-gay world. Almost all of the writings on this site were done when I was 16 and 17, very few are recent. At the time of this site's creation I was disappointed in the lack of useful information online about real gay issues, and I was even more disappointed in the way the information was presented, so I gathered everything I'd written about growing up gay, and links to gay pages I found valuable, and put them all here. Online erotic stories are not really very helpful, unless you want tips on how to jump your next pizza man, or if you suspect your best friend is going to randomly throw himself on top of you, or if you think you may be staying late in the locker room. Furthermore, I didn't care too much for websites that rainbowed every inch of the screen - the huge oscillating rainbow backgrounds that burn out your retinas, and cartoon male genital navigation buttons that only succeed in making gay people appear mentally challenged, and I won't support that. For the past five years this site has been online, and for the most part it has accomplished what I set out to do, and that is to let gay teens (even gay adults who are struggling with their sexuality) know that they're not alone. Most of all though, I wanted to show everyone that you can be gay and happy, accepted, loved, and successful in life, and that coming to terms with your sexuality in no way impedes your quality of life. You'll find it does quite the contrary.

The goals of FreeToBeMe.com:

To give young people tools for understanding same-sex attraction.
To give young people who experience unwanted feelings of same-sex attraction the resources to address those feelings in a constructive way.
To help young people who know someone who experiences same-sex attraction to respond to that person with understanding and respect.
To provide resources for those who work with youth.

Health Initiatives for Youth

Health Initiatives for Youth - HIFY's youth/adult partnership has taken a leadership role in the battle against adolescent HIV and the many health needs of young people. On the national, state and local levels, HIFY is an active participant in establishing public policy and building systems of care and services for at risk and HIV positive youth.

Just Say Yes is about helping teens to develop a positive attitude towards sexuality -- gay, straight, bisexual or whatever. It's about saying "yes" to sex you do want, and "no" to sex you don't. It says there's nothing wrong with you if you decide to have sex, and nothing wrong with you if you decide not to.

You have the right to make your own choices, and to have people respect them.

Sex is enjoyable when everyone involved is into it, and when everyone has the information they need to take care of themselves and each other.

About our language: We chose words for this guide that we use when we talk about sex with our friends. We're not doctors and we don't pretend to be, so pardon our French!

The resources listed on this web site are for educational and informational purposes and are not a substitute for professional medical advice. Always discuss treatment options with your health care professional that specializes in HIV.

The QYAT - Queer Youth Action Team's mission is to decrease the risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth in Contra Costa County by decreasing homophobia in the local schools.

Scarleteen - Sex Education for the real world - While we at Scarleteen do not hold to the notion that telling teens to go have sex is a better solution, we strongly feel that belying judgment and furnishing them with the facts they need to know REGARDLESS of whether or not they are sexually active readies them to learn to make their own choices, and develop their own systems of ethics and values from themselves and their families is our job as educators and sex-positive advocates. One cannot make a decision from a position of informed consent without being informed.

Welcome to an amazing charitable organization that is dedicated to saving young lives. During this 25th year (AIDS was discovered 1981) of the pandemic, there are many efforts around the world trying to curb the spread of HIV. Everyone involved in these efforts should be applauded for their hard work and commitment to helping save the human race from this deadly, preventable viral disease.

However, TeenAIDS is different from all the others. We are committed to saving young teenage lives first. We are the only organization whose Executive Director is volunteering 100 percent of his time to this mission. We are the only charity that provides the best and most extensive website on the Internet to educate young people. We have volunteers in over 80 countries who do their work selflessly for their peers and countrymen.

Please read about Dr. John, the PeerCorps volunteers, our staff and the Boards that provide needed assistance in delivering the medically accurate facts that prevent the premature deaths of the younger generation of the world.

A nonprofit endeavor created by the makers of TREVOR to promote tolerance for gay and questioning youth, and to aid in suicide prevention among that group. Statistics have shown that gay teens are three times more likely to attempt suicide than their heterosexual peers. The project hopes, through its efforts, to prevent some of those tragedies from occurring.

Welcome to our new home.

You may know us as Project YES

We are now YES Institute.

A selection of useful pages aimed at young people who may be questioning their sexuality in the difficult period of adolescence. These pages are intended to help young readers understand emerging sexual feelings, and the addition of many personal stories sent in to us from young gay and lesbian people, means there is a wealth of useful information to relate to.

YouthResource, a Web site created by and for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (GLBTQ) young people 13 to 24 years old, takes a holistic approach to sexual health by offering support, community, resources, and peer-to-peer education about issues of concern to GLBTQ young people. YouthResource has four focus areas: health, advocacy, community, and issues in our lives.

Welcome to the most complete Internet Resource on

Gay and Bisexual
Male suicide problems!

related issues, and a little known concept related to youth suicide.

The evidence indicates that homosexually oriented males account for more than half of male youth suicide problems, but mainstream suicidologists generally continue to ignore this aspect of the problem. Information about lesbian youth suicide problems is included, as is other generally unrecognized factors possibly associated with youth suicide problems.

It is hoped that your exploration of the site lead to positive outcomes for the ongoing victims of the traditional Better be Dead Than Gay social ideology. Unfortunately, many professionals have had a history of abusing, harming and/or ignoring these young individuals. They have also been ignoring the high risk status of many other adolescents targeted for abuse in schools and elsewhere because they are "presumed to be homosexual," usually on the basis of gender nonconformity.

Schools/Educational

Welcome to 'Being gay is okay!': a website run by myself, Jason, to offer advice, information and support to young gay people.

You might have heard negative attitudes about homosexuality. Maybe you're having a tough time coming to terms with being gay or with other people's intolerance toward you. Whatever your situation, I hope that you will find the information and reassurance on this website that you are looking for.

Maybe you don't feel it right now, but hopefully soon you'll realise that being gay really is okay.

BE YOURSELF
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR
GAY, LESBIAN AND BISEXUAL YOUTH

The Educational Theater Company

A dynamic non-profit professional theater company, ETC is dedicated to educating and enlightening young people with positive messages via original multi-ethnic stage shows and workshops.

Over two million people throughout California and Arizona have seen ETC's exciting, original and informative shows. Through a skillful weaving of drama, comedy and music, ETC shows become powerful statements which impact audiences at a very deep level. They not only entertain and inform, but can actually transform awareness by touching the hearts and minds of the audience.

Gay-Straight Alliance Network is a youth-led organization that connects school-based Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) to each other and community resources. Through peer support, leadership development, and training, GSA Network supports young people in starting, strengthening, and sustaining GSAs and builds the capacity of GSAs to:

create safe environments in schools for students to support each other and learn about homophobia and other oppressions,
educate the school community about homophobia, gender identity, and sexual orientation issues, and
fight discrimination, harassment, and violence in schools.

The Hetrick-Martin Institute (HMI), Home of The Harvey Milk High School, believes all young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential. HMI creates this environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth between the ages of 12 and 21 and their families.

Through a comprehensive package of direct services and referrals, HMI seeks to foster healthy youth development. HMI's staff promotes excellence in the delivery of youth services and uses its expertise to create innovative programs that other organizations may use as models.

Operation Respect - Don't Laugh At Me - A non-profit organization working to transform schools, camps and other youth organizations, into more compassionate, safe and respectful environments. Founded by Peter Yarrow of the folk group Peter, Paul & Mary, the organization disseminates educational resources that are designed to establish a climate that reduces the emotional and physical cruelty some children inflict upon each other by behaviors such as ridicule, bullying and-in extreme cases-violence.

It is a unique organization that provides a gateway to broad scale adoption of school-based character education as well as social and emotional learning (SEL) programs. Toward this end, Operation Respect developed the Don't Laugh at Me (DLAM) programs, one for grades 2-5, another for grades 6-8 and a third for summer camps and after-school programs.

All of the programs utilize inspiring music and video along with curriculum guides based on the well-tested, highly regarded conflict resolution curricula developed by the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP) of Educators for Social Responsibility (ESR).

Point Foundation provides financial support, mentoring and hope to meritorious students who are marginalized due to sexual orientation, gender expression or gender identity.

Respect Sacramento is a local grassroots organization dedicated to creating safe schools for all sexual minority people in Sacramento area schools. We work to advance the rights and safety of all persons in K-12 schools, regardless of real or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.

The Safe Schools Coalition offers resources as a starting point for educators, parents/guardians and youth.
We cannot endorse specific web sites, as they change frequently.
Many of these sites also contain links to other sites; Coalition members did not assess all of the linked sites.

Spiritual

10-20 Gay Christian Teens is here to help you find yourself! You lead the way, we help guide. People who have the courage to discuss homosexuality are hard to find, but here you will find hundreds like yourself who are happy to offer and receive support. No one can take away your spirituality, and we are all open to receive God's love. Here, you will be viewed as an individual with individual behaviors. We understand the confusing feelings and how they can conflict with religion and spirituality. We are here to support you as a person and to guide you towards making loving, compassionate decisions in your life. Welcome to the group, and God Bless you!

"(In The God Box) Alex Sanchez evokes the crucifying experience of adolescents wrestling with their sexual identity and their identity as Christians. He does a remarkably faithful job of opening up long-abused biblical passages often used as proof texts to denigrate homosexuality. This book is a gift not just to teenagers, but to those who love and work with them."
--The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church

GTR_Christian · From GayTeenResources, a list for Gay Christian Youth & Young Adults.
If you're a gay, lesbian, transgendered, or questioning teenager or young adult who is also a Christian, this list is for you to discuss your beliefs, and offer your support for others; note: bashers of any type will not be welcomed here.

Rainbow Christian Youth Ministry - At RCYM we are here to serve you. Our purpose is to provide youth with information on the Biblical passages that are often times misused to condemn homosexuality. We are here to help those that have been kicked out of, and rejected by churches because of homosexuality. Our hope is that this Ministry, RCYM will help those that are broken hearted, to understand that they can be young, gay, and Christian.

THE COMMUNITY - saveTyouth is an on-line support group for young people of all faiths whose gender identity differs from their birth-assigned gender. Gender variant, transgender, and gender questioning youth may explore their gender and spirituality in a safe environment here.
CORE VALUE - That everyone has a right to the decent expression of his or her gender identity free from the harassment or ridicule of others.

teensandtwenties

Are you in your teens or twenties--and gay, lesbian, or bisexual? Is your faith important to you? Are you interested in social events and lively dialogue with others who share your orientation and faith concerns? Are you an AOL member? Then the new Teens and Twenties group is for you!

The Teens and Twenties Group has it own unique role: to provide a safe place in the Online Christian community where gay, lesbian, and bisexual people in their teens and twenties can gather to have fun, develop friendships, and dialogue about issues related to faith, especially as it relates to sexual orientation. Unfortunately, there aren't enough places like this in the Christian community, and we would like to do our part to fill in the gap. We have this mailing list, and we will meet in AOL chat rooms for group discussions.

State/Local

Arizona, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska,
New York, North Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Washington, Washington DC

Arizona

A Phoenix Arizona Group for
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Youth

California

Gay and Lesbian Adolescent Social Services (GLASS) is a private, non-profit 501(c) (3) social service agency dedicated to providing a wide range of social and health care services to children and youth who are in foster care, on probation, or who are homeless. We provide these services in safe, loving, supportive, non-judgmental living environments, while providing full access to all of the educational and vocational opportunities to which these youth are entitled. We strive to ensure these youth are prepared to become independent, responsible, productive and healthy adults. GLASS is proud to be recognized as the nation's oldest and leading agency delivering social and health care services to self-identified Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) and HIV/AIDS-impacted youth.

Services are offered to foster and probation care youth as well as homeless, runaway and throwaway youth in order that these young people have a safe, loving, supportive, non-judgmental living environment with full access to all of the educational and vocational opportunities to which they are entitled, and to insure that they can emancipate as physically, emotionally, and spiritually healthy adults. GLASS is further dedicated to fully utilizing the vast resources of the adult LGBT community by recruiting, screening, training and supervising foster parents and mentors who provide both short and long-term care to children of all ages, including infants, toddlers, young children and adolescents under the age of eighteen.

Through our various programs GLASS touches over 4,000 lives a year in Los Angeles County and Oakland, CA.

Located in Vista, CA
Providing Outreach for Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transgender, & Questioning Youth for the North County area of San Diego, CA

Our Circle is a nonprofit youth group located in the North County area of San Diego, CA. Our goal is to provide Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transgender, and Questioning youth a safe and positive environment in which to socialize and get to know other teens who are in the same situation in life. We are the product of Oceanside, CA based youth group "Circle Of Friends" relocating to a new facility with a more structured goal in mind.

Supporting & Empowering LGBTQQ Youth!

Welcome

Since 1997, thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQQ) youth living in the Bay Area have come to Outlet for support, community, and opportunities to improve the world. As the Peninsula’s (Mountain View) only organization for LGBTQQ teens, Outlet is working hard to support and empower local youth by providing counseling & community, leadership training & advocacy, and outreach awareness.

Welcome to Positive Images

A community education resource and support group for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, Intersexed, Queer and Questioning youth and young adults in Sonoma and surrounding counties.

Positive Images provides a safe space for teens and young adults and provides community educational services for high schools, businesses, community-based organizations, colleges, hospitals, social service departments, and other organizations interested in learning more about the issues facing GLBTQQI youth and young adults.

Welcome to the website of RPYA! The Rainbow Pride Youth Alliance is a support organization for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth and their families and friends in Southern California’s Inland Empire (San Bernardino).

STRANGE is a nonprofit organization and program of Youth Services and S.C.C.C.C. Our mission is to serve and empower the multi-racial, intersex, transgender, queer, bisexual, lesbian, gay, and questioning youth of Santa Cruz County and their straight and adult allies. We strive to create safe spaces, which provide opportunities for support, socializing, and activist work. Our objective is to end the social isolation often experienced by these youth and to build a strong community.

Connecticut

True Colors, Inc. Sexual Minority Youth and Family Services is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization that combats homophobia, gender bias, and racism. We provide support, education, and advocacy to those responsible for the health, education, and well-being of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex Youth and Families.

Georgia

Who We Are & What We Do

YouthPride is the only organization in metropolitan Atlanta serving all LGBTQ youth.
Uniquely among LGBTQ organizations as well as youth organizations, YouthPride serves teenagers (13-17) and young adults (18-24) regardless of status: gender identity and expression, HIV infection, parental custody, educational enrollment, handicap, race and ethnicity, or income. YouthPride is the area’s only safe haven for all LGBTQ youth.

Illinois

The Illinois Safe Schools Alliance (the Alliance) mission is to promote safety, support and healthy development for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth, in Illinois schools and communities, through advocacy, education, youth organizing and research.

Questioning Youth Center (QYC) is committed to providing a safe, supportive, and respectful environment for adolescents, in order to facilitate ongoing personal growth and the development of a positive sexual identity, whether they identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or questioning.

Iowa

The Task Force’s mission is to increase understanding in local school districts and communities about GLBT students, increase awareness and address the inequities regarding safety of GLBT students in Iowa, and improve school climate in order to increase the personal safety, mental health, and achievement levels of GLBT students. In our short existence, we have helped create safer schools for GLBT students.

Michigan

Minnesota

Gay Lesbian Youth Services of Southeast Minnesota Welcomes you to our web site.

GLYS has been supporting the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth of Southeastern Minnesota since 1992 in a confidential and nonjudgmental atmosphere that allows them to be themselves. The youth come from Lanesboro, Spring Valley, Zumbrota, Lake City, Plainview, Saint Charles, Winona, Cannon Falls, Stewartville as well as Rochester.

Missouri

Welcome to Passages Website

You have found Passages, Kansas City’s only youth program dedicated to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, straight-allied and questioning youth! Join us in person on Wed, Sat. and Sun. nights!

Passages current hours of operation are:

Wednesday - 5:30PM to 9:00PM

Saturday - 8:00PM to 12:00AM - Passages ClubQueer®

mid-missouri's gay staight youth alliance

Prism Is

Prism is a substance-free gay straight alliance for youth between 13 to 19 years of age. For the past five years Prism has provided a secure environment that encourages lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, questioning and ally youth to celebrate who they are without shame or apology. Prism is a place to meet other kids like you, and to relax and socialize in a fun and safe environment. We respect the confidentiality of our members—your level of "outness" is respected. Prism strives to be non-discriminatory to all members—no one is forced to label themselves and assumptions are avoided. Prism is owned and operated by Mid-Missouri youth under the supervision of an advisory board. We formed in 1998 in the wake of the Matthew Shepherd murder when local youth decided they needed a safe space to come together, socialize, and support one another.

Nebraska

Welcome To Proud Horizons!

Proud Horizons is a youth group specifically for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and heterosexual youth

If you want to talk about coming out to family, school-mates, or even coworkers, or you are trying to decide how you feel about your sexuality, this is the place for you. Perhaps you are straight, but have a gay friend you want to support. This is also the place for you. Anyone genuinely interested in attending is welcome to show up.

New York

GLYS is the acronym for Gay & Lesbian Youth Services of WNY! Founded in 1983, GLYS offers a variety of opportunities and services for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and questioning youth & their friends ages 14~21.

Welcome to Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth!
Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth (LIGALY) is not-for-profit social service agency serving gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) youth, young adults, and their families living in Nassau and Suffolk Counties of Long Island.

North Dakota

West Fargo Gay-Straight Alliance

Welcome to the West Fargo GSA!
The Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) is a Student Run Organization, created to help and support all GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered) and those who support GLBT.

Tennessee

Memphis Area Gay Youth (MAGY) is an affirming, youth run, adult advised, multi-cultural support group for all gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning (GLBTQ) youth ages 13-20 in the greater Memphis area.

Texas

Purpose

HATCH is dedicated to empowering Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (GLBTQ) adolescents, ages 13-20, to become responsible citizens and positive contributors to society by:

Providing a safe, affirming social environment for GLBTQ youth.
Offering role models and peer support.
Providing education on health issues such as HIV, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI's) drug and alcohol abuse and suicide prevention.
To host a variety of helpful and affirming programs for GLBTQ youth.
Sponsoring educational and community outreach opportunities on issues and problems effecting GLBTQ youth for school counselors, teachers, administrators, mental health and medical professionals, social service, and law enforcement organizations.

Want to meet other cool GLBTQ kids in Houston?

Are you a gay kid in Houston between the ages of 14 and 19? Do you want a safe place to hang out and meet people? Project X-Cite is a program with a realistic approach to helping gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer youth find a place to connect and meet people. Does this sound like the same ole boring youth group? Well, it's not! Our goal is to make this YOUR place. Decide what you want, and make it happen!

Youth First Texas is the only non-profit organization in Dallas exclusively committed to providing social services, educational opportunities, and recreational activities for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning youth through age 22. Our Mission is to provide group interaction and individual support for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Youth by providing age appropriate activities, programs, and resources that facilitate empowerment and self acceptance.

Vermont

The Mission of Outright Vermont is to build safe, healthy, and supportive environments for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth.

Outright Vermont (ORVT) is one of the longest standing queer organizations in Vermont and the only one that works specifically with young people. By striving to empower queer youth, model positive cross-generational learning and leadership, and to address lateral oppressions including racism, classism, and heterosexism, ORVT is building a safer, healthier, and more supportive world for all young people.

Founded in 1989 by local gay and lesbian activists, ORVT helped to create visibility, support, and advocacy throughout the 90s for the queer youth community in Vermont. Our work has now expanded to encompass Education and Outreach, Health and Wellness, Direct Services, and Social Justice Organizing. ORVT is now one of the few independent, queer-youth only, organizations in the United States which still provides both Direct Service and Education & Outreach services.

Washington

Welcome to Camp Ten Trees

Camp Ten Trees is a non-profit summer camp in the Pacific Northwest featuring a week for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth and their allies, and a week for children of LGBTQ families. Since Camp Ten Trees first opened in 2001, we have been committed to developing a camp community that honors creativity, individual choice, and community living. Our programs are for youth connected to the LGBTQ community and provide opportunities for each camper to strengthen inner courage, make new friends, and develop leadership skills through traditional camp programming.

Lambert House is a center for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning youth and their allies that encourages empowerment through the development of leadership, social and life skills.

Stonewall Youth is a non-profit community organization that supports, informs, and advocates for youth up to 21 years old who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, or who have questions about their sexual orientation or gender identity. The organization was founded in 1991 and today provides a wide spectrum of services, including Youth Outreach, Peer Support Groups, and Community Education.

Washington DC

The Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL) is the only youth service agency solely dedicated to meeting the needs of youth ages 13-21 in the metropolitan Washington, DC area who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex, as well as those questioning their sexual orientation or gender identity. Our mission is to support and enhance the self-esteem of sexual minority youth and increase public awareness and understanding of their issues. Founded in 1984, SMYAL is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides direct services to youth, develops and utilizes youth leadership skills and provides training and education to the community at large.

Transgender

The Antijen Pages

Welcome to the Antigen Mail List

It is a place where basically, the unloved of this world, can come and get love and support from their peers, and hopefully soon their friends.

Hi. My name is Sean Miller and I am the webmaster of this page. I just want to give a quick intro. This page is for Transgendered Teens or people who have just started their transition.

If you think that the content of this page is offensive or just not for you, please leave. This page is not for people to critisize. Don't sign my forum or my guestbook if the only comments you are going to give are crude and immature. That is greatly appreciated.

Youth Gender Project is a youth-led organization working to empower and advocate for trans, gender-variant and questioning (TGQ) youth. We address the challenges facing TGQ youth primarily in the San Francisco Bay area by creating, implementing and collaborating on programs to meet the needs of our community, and by educating those who work with us.

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