Alpha Lambda Zeta
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Alpha Lambda Zeta is a LGBT
service-oriented fraternity
for professional and pre-professional women who identify as aggressive lesbians. Membership in Alpha Lambda Zeta is not exclusive to women of a particular race or age. They were founded in 2006 in Houston, Texas
and Atlanta, Georgia
. The fraternity was established to positively impact the community while maintaining a fraternal bond that is fostered by understanding, acceptance and support for aggressive women (i.e. studs, tombois, aggs, butch). The fraternity promotes its mission to eliminate barriers between the LGBT
Q community and the greater community and to promote social change.
and Atlanta, Georgia
. Since 2006, the founders and members have developed and contributed to the founding vision of a fraternal sisterhood that is bonded and grounded in service to the community and each other as noted in their 5 principles.
With members in more than 10 US states, Alpha Lambda Zeta Fraternity has been continuing to expand to other states and working to promote social change.
Projects include:
LGBT
LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...
service-oriented fraternity
Fraternities and sororities
Fraternities and sororities are fraternal social organizations for undergraduate students. In Latin, the term refers mainly to such organizations at colleges and universities in the United States, although it is also applied to analogous European groups also known as corporations...
for professional and pre-professional women who identify as aggressive lesbians. Membership in Alpha Lambda Zeta is not exclusive to women of a particular race or age. They were founded in 2006 in Houston, Texas
Houston, Texas
Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...
and Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...
. The fraternity was established to positively impact the community while maintaining a fraternal bond that is fostered by understanding, acceptance and support for aggressive women (i.e. studs, tombois, aggs, butch). The fraternity promotes its mission to eliminate barriers between the LGBT
LGBT
LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...
Q community and the greater community and to promote social change.
History
Alpha Lambda Zeta Fraternity, Inc. was founded on January 9, 2006 in Houston, TexasHouston, Texas
Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...
and Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...
. Since 2006, the founders and members have developed and contributed to the founding vision of a fraternal sisterhood that is bonded and grounded in service to the community and each other as noted in their 5 principles.
With members in more than 10 US states, Alpha Lambda Zeta Fraternity has been continuing to expand to other states and working to promote social change.
Principles
Alpha Lambda Zeta Fraternity, Inc. seeks to impact the community in positive, productive, and powerful ways through the principles of:- FraternalFraternalFraternal can refer to:*A fraternal benefit society is a non-profit, mutual aid organization that ensures members and their families and maintains an active lodge system. Members of a fraternal benefit society come together as local volunteer groups that conduct activities to benefit members and...
SisterhoodSisterhoodSisterhood may refer to:* Sibling, sisters and brothers* Sorority, a social organization for undergraduate students* Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, a novel by Rebecca Wells* The Sisterhood, a short-lived English goth band...
- Bond with and respect each other.
- CommunityCommunityThe term community has two distinct meanings:*a group of interacting people, possibly living in close proximity, and often refers to a group that shares some common values, and is attributed with social cohesion within a shared geographical location, generally in social units larger than a household...
Volunteerism - Making a positive impact.
- Political ActivismActivismActivism consists of intentional efforts to bring about social, political, economic, or environmental change. Activism can take a wide range of forms from writing letters to newspapers or politicians, political campaigning, economic activism such as boycotts or preferentially patronizing...
- Promoting CIVIL & EQUAL Rights.
- EruditionEruditionThe word erudition came into Middle English from Latin. A scholar is erudite when instruction and reading followed by digestion and contemplation have effaced all rudeness , that is to say smoothed away all raw, untrained incivility...
- Lifetime learning and understanding the ever changing world.
- Professionalism - Promoting positive perceptions of aggressive women.
Lambda Action Network (LAN)
Alpha Lambda Zeta Fraternity, Inc. utilizes its Lambda Action Network (LAN) to positively impact communities.Projects include:
- Food for Seniors
- 1 N 10 Youth Mentoring
- Youth EmpowermentYouth empowermentYouth empowerment is an attitudinal, structural, and cultural process whereby young people gain the ability, authority, and agency to make decisions and implement change in their own lives and the lives of other people, including youth and adults....
Workshops
- Cancer Warriors
- Random Acts of Kindness
- Adopt-A-Highway
- Stand Up For Kids
- HIVHIVHuman immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...
Testing in major metropolitan areas
- Minority Aids Project
- Humane Societies
- Feed the HungryFeed The HungryLeSEA Global Feed The Hungry is a Christian aid organization dedicated to feeding the hungryand providing emergency relief to people in need as a result of famine, drought, flood, war, or other disaster. Founded in 1987 by Dr...
- Freedom to Marry
- Rebuilding Atlanta
VOICE Initiative
Alpha Lambda Zeta Fraternity, Inc. has worked to establish Minority Gays & Lesbians as respected and sought after political alliances through their national political service project VOICE©. Within VOICE the fraternity has established projects in conjunction with many Pro-GLBT Rights organizations:- Arrive with Five NAACP Voters Drive
- Servicemembers Legal Defense NetworkServicemembers Legal Defense NetworkThe 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)
- Human Rights Coalition
- S.T.O.P.
- Freedom to MarryFreedom to MarryFreedom to Marry is a non-profit organization leading the campaign for same-sex marriages to be recognized nationwide in the United States of America...
Initiative
- Voters Registration