List of gay-rights organizations - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

List of LGBT rights organizations around the world. Note that some organizations support certain rights while opposing others.

International

Gay Straight Alliance Network International (GSANI)
International Lesbian and Gay Association
International Lesbian and Gay Association
The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association is an international organization bringing together more than 750 LGBTI groups from around the world. It continues to be active in campaigning for LGBT rights on the international human rights and civil rights scene and...

(ILGA)
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC)
International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Youth and Student Organisation
International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Youth and Student Organisation
IGLYO stands for the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Youth and Student Organisation. It was created in 1984 as a reaction to the need for better cooperation among regional, local and national LGBTQ youth and student organisations. As a peer-led membership-based network...

(IGLYO)
International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Intersex Law Association (ILGLaw)
Global Respect In Education
GRIN Campaign
GRIN Campaign, Global Respect in Education, is a transatlantic non-profit organisation and advocacy group which campaigns primarily for lesbian gay bisexual transgender and queer/questioning people's social and political equality in education...

(GRIN)
International Association of Gay and Lesbian Esperantists (LSG)
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network
The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network is an organization in the United States that seeks to end discrimination, harassment, and bullying based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression in K-12 schools. GLSEN is headquartered in New York City and the District of Columbia...

(GLSEN)

South Africa

Lesbigay Stellenbosch Student Society (LBG)
out@kovsies Student organization on the Bloemfontein campus of the University of the Free State

China, People's Republic of

China, Republic of (Taiwan)

Gender/Sexuality Rights Association Taiwan
Gender/Sexuality Rights Association Taiwan
Gender/Sexuality Rights Association Taiwan also known by the acronym G/STRAT was established in May 1999 in Taiwan. It aims to promote rights of sexual minorities in the aspects of family, education system, politics, economy and law....

(GSRAT)
Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline Association
Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline Association
Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline Association is an organization providing people with peer counseling, support networks, and a community resource center....

(TTHA)
Bi The Way
Bi the Way
Bi the Way is a 2008 documentary film about bisexuality in the United States. It had its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas...

Israel & the Palestinian territories

The Association of Gay Men, Lesbians, and Bisexuals in Israel
Jerusalem Open House
Jerusalem Open House
The Jerusalem Open House Pride and Tolerance is a grassroots, activist organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender people and their allies...

- Jerusalem's GLBT community center and gay rights organization

Nepal

Blue Diamond Society
Blue Diamond Society
The Blue Diamond Society is an LGBT rights organization in Nepal. It was organized in 2001 to oppose the conservative Hindu-oriented laws against homosexuality in the now-former Kingdom...

, founder president is Mr. Sunil Babu Pant.http://articles.latimes.com/2008/may/02/world/fg-nepalgay2 http://www.iglhrc.org/site/iglhrc/content.php?type=1&id=162

Australia

National

Australian Coalition for Equality (ACE)
Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives
Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives
The Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives is a non-profit, community-based organisation of volunteers committed to the collection and preservation of material reflecting the lives and experiences of LGBT Australians. The material collected is either produced by LGBT people in Australia or...

(ALGA)
Australian Marriage Equality
Australian Marriage Equality
Australian Marriage Equality is a group of Australians from various states and territories who have come together to campaign for law reform and attitudinal change necessary to allow same sex couples to marry...

(AME)
Coalition of Activist Lesbians Australia
Coalition of Activist Lesbians Australia
The Coalition of Activist Lesbians Australia was formed in Australia in 1994 to work towards the end of discrimination against lesbians. COAL lobbies the Australian Commonwealth and other state and territory Governments to remove discrimination against lesbians...

(COAL)
ArciLesbica Australia [Italian Aust. LBGTIQ women]

New South Wales

Community Action Against Homophobia
Community Action Against Homophobia
Community Action Against Homophobia is a community activist organisation based in Sydney, Australia. Since its establishment in 1999, CAAH has aimed to eliminate homophobia and achieve full equality for queer people -- defined as "lesbian, gay, bisexual, same sex attracted, transgender, intersex...

(CAAH)

Victoria (Australia)|Victoria

Victorian Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby
Victorian Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby
The Victorian Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby is the peak lobby group in Victoria, Australia for the attainment of equality, human rights and social justice for gay & lesbian people....

(VGLRL)

Bulgaria

BGO Gemini
BGO Gemini
The Bulgarian Gay Organization Gemini was the primary organization in the LGBT rights movement in Bulgaria, based in Sofia.It was legally registered in 1992 by an HIV-positive gay couple and since then has grown to become the main LGBT organization in the country...
Sofia Pride Foundation
Bilitis Resource Centre

Croatia

Center for LGBT Equality
- Zagreb Pride
  Zagreb Pride
  Zagreb Pride is the annual pride march and LGBTIQ demonstration of Zagreb, Croatia, which first took place in 2002 and now occurs in June of each year, lasting for a few days. Zagreb Pride is the first successful pride march held in the Balkans, just a year after a bloody showdown at 2001 ...
- Lesbian organization Rijeka - LORI
- Queer Zagreb - Domino
Iskorak - Sexual and Gender Minorities Rights Centre
Lesbian group Kontra

Finland

SETA - The Finnish National Organization for Sexual Equality

France

Act Up
Arcadie
Arcadie Club
The Arcadie Club was a French homophile organization established in the early 1950s by André Baudry, an ex-seminarian and philosophy professor.-Literary review:...
Association des Gays et Lesbiens Arméniens de France
AGLA France
-External links:* * * -See also:*LGBT rights in Armenia*Human rights in Armenia*LGBT rights in Asia...
David & Jonathan
GayLib
GayLib
GayLib is an LGBT faction affiliated with the Union for a Popular Movement, France's political party currently in power. Its president is Emmanuel Blanc.-History:...
Homosexualités et Socialisme
Homosexualités et Socialisme
Homosexualités et Socialisme is an LGBT faction within the Parti Socialiste in France. It was created in 1983 by Jan-Paul Pouliquen. From 1993 to 1997, its president was Stéphane Martinet. Its current president is Gilles Bon-Maury. It is a member of ILGA-Europe and Rainbow Rose....
Inter-LGBT
Inter-LGBT
Inter-LGBT is an umbrella group of 50 LGBT organisations in France.-Overview:It organises the Printemps des Assoces every April as well as the annual Gay marches. Its headquarters, located in Le Marais, has a library open to the public.Inter-LGBT is considered to be a lobby by its former spokesman...
SOS Homophobie
SOS Homophobie
-History:It was created on 11 April 1994 and it is strictly volunteer-only. The initial goal was to hold a helpline for LGBT people throughout France, and for homophobia-ridden places to be identified and told to the government, the media and the general public. From 1997 onwards yearly reports...

Germany

Lesbian and Gay Federation in Germany
LSVD
Lesben und Schwulenverband in Deutschland is the largest civil rights organisation of homosexuals in Germany....

(LSVD)
Ökumenische Arbeitsgruppe Homosexuelle und Kirche
Huk
Huk To throw a disc while playing a round of Disc Golf. Huk may refer to*Huk is a series of waterfalls in the Carpathian Mountains of Ukraine...

Ireland

Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform
Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform
The Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform was an organisation set up to campaign for the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland in the 1970s...
Gay and Lesbian Equality Network
Gay and Lesbian Equality Network
The Gay and Lesbian Equality Network is an Irish non-governmental gay rights group, based in Dublin, Ireland. The organisation was founded in 1988 and focuses mainly on achieving change in legislation and social policy that will achieve full equality and inclusion for lesbian, gay and bisexual ...
Gay Doctors Ireland
Gay Doctors Ireland
Gay Doctors Ireland is an organisation of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender physicians and medical students in Ireland. It was founded in 2010 as Ireland's first association for LGBT doctors.-Purpose:...
Union of Students in Ireland
Union of Students in Ireland
The Union of Students in Ireland is the national representative body for third-level students' unions in Ireland. The Union of Students in Ireland is the sole national representative body for students in Ireland but does not represent students from two of the seven Irish Universities, namely...

The Netherlands

COC Nederland
COC Nederland
COC Nederland is a Dutch organization for LGBT men and women. COC originally stood for Cultuur en Ontspanningscentrum , which was intended as a "cover" name for its real purpose...

The African Gay Youth Foundation

Sweden

Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights
Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights
Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights is a Swedish organization working for LGBT rights.It was founded in 1950, which makes it one of the oldest LGBT rights organizations in the world...

(RFSL)
HomO
Homo
Homo may refer to:*the Greek prefix ὅμο-, meaning "the same"*the Latin for man, human being*Homo, the taxonomical genus including modern humans...

, The Ombudsman against Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation (government office)
Ekho, Ekumeniska gruppen för kristna homo-, bisexuella och transpersoner (the organization for LGBT Christians)

Turkey

KAOS GL
KAOS GL
KAOS GL is a Turkish LGBT rights organisation founded in 1994. The organisation has been publishing the journal KAOS GL since its founding. The group operates the KAOS Cultural Center, which hosts cultural activities, meetings, and showings of films...
Lambda Istanbul
Lambda Istanbul
Lambda Istanbul is a Turkish LGBT organization. It was founded in 1993 as a cultural space for the LGBT community, and became an official organization in 1996. Clandestine Pride events were held in Turkey starting in 1993, and with Lambda Istanbul participation, they became public marches.The...
LEGATO
Legato
In musical notation the Italian word legato indicates that musical notes are played or sung smoothly and connected. That is, in transitioning from note to note, there should be no intervening silence...

, LGBT group of university students and academics with nationwide organization
Turk Gay Club

United Kingdom

Campaign for Homosexual Equality
Campaign for Homosexual Equality
The Campaign for Homosexual Equality is one of the oldest gay rights organisations in the United Kingdom. It is a membership organisation which aims to promote legal and social equality for lesbians, gay men and bisexuals in England and Wales...
Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform
Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform
The Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform was an organisation set up to campaign for the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland in the 1970s...

(Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland)
DELGA (Lib Dems for LGBT Action)
Delga
LGBT+ Liberal Democrats is the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and gender & sexuality minorities equality group of the Liberal Democrats. DELGA was the original name when the organisation was formed...
Gay and Lesbian Youth Northern Ireland
Gay and Lesbian Youth Northern Ireland
Gay And Lesbian Youth Northern Ireland was set up in 1999 as a result of increased calls to the gay helpline from those under the age of 25 with help from the National Lottery....

(GLYNI)
Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association
Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association
The Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association is a democratic, membership-based, Humanist campaigning organisation that represents the many non-religious in the lesbian and gay community in the United Kingdom and beyond...

(GALHA)
Homosexual Law Reform Society
Homosexual Law Reform Society
The Homosexual Law Reform Society was an organisation that campaigned in the United Kingdom for changes in the laws that criminalised homosexual relations between men.- History :...
The Lesbian & Gay Foundation
The Lesbian & Gay Foundation
The Lesbian and Gay Foundation is a charity based in Manchester. It was formed with the merger of Healthy Gay Manchester and Manchester Lesbian and Gay Switchboard Services in April 2000....

(LGF)
LGBT Network
LGBT Network
The LGBT Network is a gay rights charity based in Scotland and is a registered charity with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator.The LGBT Network was founded as a not for profit organisation in April 2008 and operates throughout...
OutRage!
OutRage!
OutRage! is a British LGBT rights group that was formed to fight for equal rights of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people in comparison to heterosexual people. It is a group which has at times been criticised for outing individuals who wanted to keep their homosexuality secret and for being...
Queer Youth Network (Q.Y.N.)
Stonewall
Stonewall (UK)
Stonewall is a lesbian, gay and bisexual rights charity in the United Kingdom named after the Stonewall Inn of Stonewall riots fame. Now the largest gay equality organization not only in the UK but in Europe, it was formed in 1989 by political activists and others lobbying against section 28 of the...
Unity Bangor LGBT
Bangor University
Bangor University is a university based in the city of Bangor in the county of Gwynedd in North Wales-United Kingdom.It was officially known for most of its history as the University College of North Wales...

Canada

Egale Canada
Egale Canada
Egale Canada is an advocacy organization founded in 1986 to advance equality for Canadian lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their families, across Canada....
Lesbian and Gay Community Appeal Foundation
Lesbian and Gay Community Appeal Foundation
Community One Foundation, formerly the Lesbian and Gay Community Appeal Foundation, is a non-profit foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that builds and supports individuals and groups that enhance the development of the LGBTTIQQ2S communities in the Greater Toronto Area including Durham,...

(LGCA)
Queer Ontario

United States

Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons
Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons
Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons is an international organization for gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual, and intersex people who identify as members or ex-members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
African Ancestral Lesbians United for Societal Change
Audre Lorde Project
Audre Lorde Project
The Audre Lorde Project is a Brooklyn, New York-based organization for queer people of color. The organization concentrates on community organizing and radical nonviolent activism around progressive issues within New York City, especially relating to queer and transgender communities, AIDS and HIV...
Bash Back
Bash Back
Bash Back! is a network of radical, anarchist queer projects within the United States. Formed in Chicago in 2007 to facilitate a convergence of radical trans and gay activists from around the country, Bash Back! seeks to critique the ideology of the mainstream LGBT movement, which the group sees...

http://bashbacknews.wordpress.com/
Basic Rights Oregon
Basic Rights Oregon
Basic Rights Oregon is an American nonprofit gay rights organization based in Portland, Oregon. It is the largest advocacy, education, and political organization working in Oregon to end discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. BRO has twelve full-time staff, a contract...
Canvass for a Cause
Canvass for a Cause
The Canvass for a Cause is a California-based non-profit organization that focuses on voter persuasion, and public education efforts to build support for the progressive issues...
Cheer, Dorothy, Cheer!
Cheer, Dorothy, Cheer!
Cheer, Dorothy, Cheer! is a non-profit organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota . The organization was founded by three gay men in 2002 to promote diversity, raise HIV/AIDS awareness, and raise money for other non-profit organizations....
Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere
Children Of Lesbians And Gays Everywhere
COLAGE is an organization, created in 1989 by the children of several lesbian and gay male couples who felt a need for support. Though its membership is not necessarily lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning -identified, COLAGE's focus on the issues of LGBT parents' families makes...

(COLAGE)
CLAMBS Equality (Massachusetts)
Daughters of Bilitis
Daughters of Bilitis
The Daughters of Bilitis , was the first lesbian rights organization in the United States. It was formed in San Francisco in 1955, conceived as a social alternative to lesbian bars, which were considered illegal and thus subject to raids and police harassment...
DignityUSA
DignityUSA
DignityUSA is a U.S. organization with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts that "works for respect and justice" for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons in the Roman Catholic Church and the world through education, advocacy and support...

(Catholic Church)
Empowering Spirits Foundation
Empowering Spirits Foundation
The Empowering Spirits Foundation , Inc. is a national non-profit, non-partisan lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender civil rights organization in the United States...
Equal Rights Washington
Equal Rights Washington
Equal Rights Washington is Washington’s largest state-wide LGBT advocacy and community outreach organization. ERW's mission is to ensure and promote dignity, safety, and equality for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Washingtonians....
Equality Across America
EQCA (Equality California)
Equality California
Equality California or EQCA is a non-profit civil rights organization that advocates for the rights of LGBT people in California.-Early history:...
Equality Maryland
Equality Maryland
Equality Maryland is a non-profit organization formerly headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, now based in Baltimore. Its activities focus on advocacy and education with regard to a number of LGBT social and political movements...
Equality Mississippi
Equality Mississippi
Equality Mississippi was a statewide LGBT civil rights organization founded March 2000 in Mississippi...
Equality North Carolina
Equality North Carolina
Equality North Carolina is an activist group in North Carolina designed to fight for equality rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens of the state. Equality NC has two sister projects, with whom it works closely: Equality NC PAC and Equality NC Project...
Equality Ohio
Equality Ohio
Equality Ohio is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that advocates for full equality for the LGBTQ community. It is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. It was founded in 2005 following the passage of Ohio Issue 1, which banned state recognition of same-sex relationships...
Equality Utah
Equality Utah
Equality Utah is an American non-profit 501 organization which is Utah's largest LGBT-rights equality group based in Salt Lake City, Utah.-Background:It was founded in 2001 as Unity Utah and took its present name in 2004....
Family Equality Council
Family Equality Council
Family Equality Council is national American advocacy organization committed to securing family equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning parents, guardians and allies.- History :...
Fine By Me
Fine By Me
Fine By Me is an organization in the United States with the mission to give voice to friends and supporters of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people...
Freedom to Marry
Freedom to Marry
Freedom to Marry is a non-profit organization leading the campaign for same-sex marriages to be recognized nationwide in the United States of America...
Gay Activists Alliance
Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders
Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders
Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders is a non-profit legal rights organization in the United States. The organization was founded in 1978, and works toward ending discrimination based on sexual orientation, HIV status, and gender identity and expression.GLAD is based in Boston, Massachusetts, and...

(GLAD)
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation is a non-governmental media monitoring organization which promotes the image of LGBT people in the media...

(GLAAD)
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association works to ensure equality in health care for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals and health care professionals...

(GLMA)
Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund
Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund
The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund is an American political action committee dedicated to increasing the number of openly LGBT public officials in US political life.The Victory Fund was founded in 1991...
Gay Liberation Front
Gay Liberation Front
Gay Liberation Front was the name of a number of Gay Liberation groups, the first of which was formed in New York City in 1969, immediately after the Stonewall riots, in which police clashed with gay demonstrators.-The Gay Liberation Front:...

(GLF)
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network
The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network is an organization in the United States that seeks to end discrimination, harassment, and bullying based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression in K-12 schools. GLSEN is headquartered in New York City and the District of Columbia...

(GLSEN)
Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies
Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies
Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies is the officially recognized organization representing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender personnel and their families in the United States Department of State, U.S...

(GLIFAA)
GenderPAC
GenderPAC
GenderPAC was a LGBT rights organization based in Washington, DC working to the stated aim of ensuring classrooms, communities, and workplaces are safe places for every person to learn, grow, and succeed, whether or not they conform to expectations for masculinity or femininity...

(GPAC)
Georgia Equality
Georgia Equality
Georgia Equality is the largest LGBT rights advocacy groups in Georgia. Their mission is to advance Fairness, Safety and Opportunity for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Allied Communities in Georgia...
GOProud
GOProud
GOProud is an American tax exempt 527 organization representing conservative gays, lesbians, transgendered people, and their allies. GOProud advocates for small government conservatism at the level of federal public policy. GOProud was founded by Christopher R...
Houston GLBT Political Caucus
Houston GLBT Political Caucus
The Houston GLBT Political Caucus is the South's oldest civil rights organization dedicated solely to the advancement of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights. Founded in 1975, it is the largest gay political organization in the city of Houston and Harris County...

(HGLBTPC)
Human Rights Campaign
Human Rights Campaign
The Human Rights Campaign is the United States' largest LGBT advocacy group and lobbying organization; according to the HRC, it has more than one million members and supporters...

(HRC)
Immigration Equality
Immigration Equality
Immigration Equality is an American advocacy organization working for equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and HIV-positive individuals under the policies of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services...
IntegrityUSA
IntegrityUSA
IntegrityUSA is a U.S. not-for-profit organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender members of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America and straight friends. Integrity was founded by Dr...

(Episcopal Church)
International Foundation for Gender Education
International Foundation for Gender Education
International Foundation for Gender Education is an American non-profit transgender advocacy organization founded in 1987 and devoted to "overcoming the intolerance of transvestitism and transsexualism brought about by widespread ignorance."...

(IFGE)
Kansas Equality Coalition
Kansas Equality Coalition
The Kansas Equality Coalition is a statewide LGBT rights organization whose mission is to end discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and expression...
Kentucky Equality Federation
Kentucky Equality Federation
Kentucky Equality Federation is an umbrella gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender civil rights organization in the Commonwealth of Kentucky consisting of Federation for Kentucky Equality, Inc., Kentucky Equality Coalition, Inc., and Kentucky Equality PAC....
Keshet, Inc. (Keshet, Keshet Boston)
Lambda Legal
Lambda Legal
Lambda Legal is an American civil rights organization that focuses on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender communities as well as people living with HIV/AIDS through impact litigation, education, and public policy work.Lambda's founder William J. Thom, Esq...
Lesbian Avengers
Lesbian Avengers
The Lesbian Avengers began in New York City in 1992 as "a direct action group focused on issues vital to lesbian survival and visibility." Dozens of other chapters quickly emerged worldwide, a few expanding their mission to include questions of gender, race, and class.Though some groups continue...
Log Cabin Republicans
Log Cabin Republicans
The Log Cabin Republicans is an organization that works within the Republican Party to advocate equal rights for all Americans, including gays and lesbians in the United States with state chapters and a national office in Washington, D.C...

(LCR)
Marriage Equality USA
MassEquality
Mattachine Society
Mattachine Society
The Mattachine Society, founded in 1950, was one of the earliest homophile organizations in the United States, probably second only to Chicago’s Society for Human Rights . Harry Hay and a group of Los Angeles male friends formed the group to protect and improve the rights of homosexuals...
National Center for Transgender Equality
National Center for Transgender Equality
The National Center for Transgender Equality is a nonprofit social justice organization, founded in 2003 by transgender activist Mara Keisling...

(NCTE)
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force builds the political power of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community from the ground up. The Task Force is the country’s premier social justice organization fighting to improve the lives of LGBT people, and working to create positive, lasting...

(The Task Force)
National Youth Advocacy Coalition
National Youth Advocacy Coalition
The National Youth Advocacy Coalition, or NYAC, which ceased to operate on May 12, 2011 was a organization which sought to fight discrimination against and promote the leadership and wellness for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning youth.NYAC was founded in 1993. At its...

(NYAC)
North American Conference of Homophile Organizations
North American Conference of Homophile Organizations
The North American Conference of Homophile Organizations was an umbrella organization for a number of homophile organizations. Founded in 1966, the goal of NACHO was to expand coordination among homophile organizations throughout the Americas. Homophile activists were motivated in part by an...
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
One National Gay & Lesbian Archives
ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives is the oldest Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender organization in the United States and the largest repository of LGBT materials in the world. Since 2010 ONE Archives has been a part of the University of Southern California Libraries. ONE Archives...
Out & Equal
Out & Equal
Out & Equal Workplace Advocates is a United States non-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California....
OutFront Minnesota
OutFront Minnesota
OutFront Minnesota is a LGBT rights organization in the United States state of Minnesota.Its mission is To make our state a place where GLBT Minnesotans have the freedom, power, and confidence to make the best choices for their own lives....
Outright Libertarians
Outright Libertarians
Outright Libertarians is an association in the United States of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and other self-identified "queer" people who are active in the Libertarian Party...
Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays is a socio-political group of family members and friends of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Its mission statement describes the goals of PFLAG as promoting health and well being of LGBT persons as well as actively supporting...

(PFLAG)
Queer Nation
Queer Nation
Queer Nation was an organization founded in March 1990 in New York City, USA by AIDS activists from ACT UP. The four founders were outraged at the escalation of anti-gay and lesbian violence on the streets and prejudice in the arts and media...
Rainbow Health Initiative
Rainbow Health Initiative
The Rainbow Health Initiative is a Minnesota-based 5013 organization dedicated to "improving the health of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Minnesotans through education, clinical practice, research and advocacy." Founded in 2000 by physicians and health advocates, RHI has re-framed the...

(RHI) link
Rainbow Sash
Rainbow Sash
The Rainbow Sash Movement refers to two organizations created by and advanced by practicing gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Catholics who believe they should be able to receive Holy Communion....
Servicemembers Legal Defense Network
Servicemembers Legal Defense Network
The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network is a non-profit legal services, watchdog, and policy organization founded in the United States in 1993. It is dedicated to ending discrimination and harassment of gay and lesbian U.S. military personnel negatively affected by the "Don't ask, don't tell"...

(SLDN)
The Society for Human Rights
The Society for Human Rights
The Society for Human Rights was an American homosexual rights organization established in Chicago in 1924. Society founder Henry Gerber was inspired to create the society by Germany's Doctor Magnus Hirschfeld and his work with the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee...
Soulforce (organization)
Soulforce (organization)
Soulforce is an American social justice and civil rights organization that supports acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people through dialogue and creative forms of nonviolent direct action...
Stonewall Democrats
Stonewall Democrats
The National Stonewall Democrats is an LGBT-rights group based in Washington, D.C. with a political affiliation to the Democratic Party. The word "Stonewall" in its name refers to the 1969 Stonewall riots, a pivotal event in the history of gay rights....
Stonewall Shooting Sports of Utah
Stonewall Shooting Sports of Utah
Stonewall Shooting Sports of Utah is a group of weapons advocates and owners in Utah. It supports the Pink Pistols idea that was described nationally in 2000 by writer Jonathan Rauch for the legal, responsible and safe use of weapons for their self defense, recreation and weapon-sports competition...
Touro University Gay-Straight Alliance
Touro University Gay-Straight Alliance
Touro University Gay-Straight Alliance is a group of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender medical students, staff, faculty and allies at Touro University, a Jewish-sponsored university in California founded by Bernard Lander...

(TUGSA)
Triangle Foundation http://www.tri.org/ - Michigan
Utah Pride Center
Washington Families Standing Together
Washington Families Standing Together
Washington Families Standing Together was founded in 2009 to preserve domestic partnerships in Washington State by urging voters to approve Referendum 71....
Wilde Stein Alliance for Sexual Diversity
Wilde Stein Alliance for Sexual Diversity
The Wilde Stein Alliance for Sexual Diversity is a gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender student advocacy and social organization at the University of Maine. It is one of the oldest such organizations in the United States and the oldest in Maine. Founded in 1973, Wilde Stein is named after Oscar...

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