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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."
• PFLAG North Bay - Serving Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays in Marin, Mendocino, Napa & Sonoma Counties
• 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)
• 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."
• 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. "
• GLSEN - The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, is working to ensure safe and effective schools for all students.
• 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."
• 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."

•  LiveJournal Gay-Straight Alliance Community
  - "This community is for gay and gay-friendly individuals to come together and support one another."
   

• Erik & Isabelle - Four-Book Series by Kim Wallace - "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."

• Resources for GLBT Youth with Disabilities - From the Safe Schools Coalition

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