Other Great Websites
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are links to external links and books, their content does not necessarily
reflect the views of Positive Images or its members)
Local Organizations
- Spectrum
"Founded in 1982, Spectrum's mission is to strengthen, mobilize, and
serve lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning people, and
promote acceptance, understanding, and full inclusion in Marin County."
- Lyric - San Francisco
- "LYRIC brings LGBTQQ youth
together to build a peer-based community that empowers them to end
isolation; create a progressive queer youth voice; increase well-being and
self-esteem; and change the communities in which they live. LYRIC
accomplishes this by offering peer-based education, advocacy, recreation,
information, and leadership opportunities."
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PFLAG
North Bay - Serving Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
in Marin, Mendocino, Napa & Sonoma Counties
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Pacific Center for Human Growth
- Berkeley -
"The Pacific Center is a premier lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender,
and questioning community service center in Northern California. Being a
volunteer-based center located in Berkeley, people from our communities
provide the backbone of the agency."
- GSA Network "Gay-Straight
Alliance Network is a youth-led organization that connects school-based
Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) to each other and community resources."
- Face to Face "The
mission of Face to Face/Sonoma County AIDS Network is to provide
compassionate care to people with HIV and their loved ones while promoting
preventive education and responsive leadership to all the people of Sonoma
County."
- Pulse "Through ongoing
discussion groups, community forums, and social events, PULSE brings young
men in Sonoma County together in a positive, safe, and fun environment,
empowering them to build a community, promote safer sex practices, and form
positive social connections." (Young men ages 18-30)
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Billy DeFrank Center
- San Jose - "Our mission is to provide a broad array of opportunities
and programs, a dedicated and caring staff, a corps of volunteers, and a
spirit of community that celebrates the many facets of our broad-based
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender constituency."
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Outlet - Mountain
View - "Outlet supports and empowers lesbian,
gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning youth ages 13-18 living on
the Peninsula and South Bay . Through our range of support services,
leadership training, community education and advocacy, Outlet successfully
increases youth confidence, builds personal assets, and creates healthier
communities."
National Links
- NYAC -
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. "
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GLSEN - The Gay, Lesbian and
Straight Education Network, is working to ensure safe and effective
schools for all students.
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Youth Guardian Services "...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.
- PFLAG National - "PFLAG promotes the health and well-being of gay,
lesbian, bisexual and transgendered persons, their families and friends
through: support, to cope with an adverse society; education, to enlighten
an ill-informed public; and advocacy, to end discrimination and to secure
equal civil rights."
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Planetout.com News, Entertainment,
Shopping
- Outminds.com "...a great place
to interact with other gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, straight, and
questioning students!"
- Lambda.org "LAMBDA is a
non-profit, gay / lesbian / bisexual / transgender agency dedicated to
reducing homophobia, inequality, hate crimes, and discrimination by
encouraging self-acceptance, cooperation, and non-violence."
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LiveJournal
Gay-Straight Alliance Community
- "This community is for gay and gay-friendly individuals to come together and
support one another."
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Erik &
Isabelle - Four-Book Series by Kim
Wallace
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"Erik
& Isabelle introduces
two best friends, high school freshmen, who share their thoughts and feelings
with one another as they experience romantic crushes, family drama, growing
pains, and personal victories. Sounds like every other
teenager, doesn’t it? The clincher is, they’re both gay."
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Resources for GLBT Youth with Disabilities - From the Safe Schools
Coalition
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