List of LGBT-related organizations
Encyclopedia
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) related organizations range from social and support groups to organizations that are political in nature. Some groups are independent, while others are officially recognized advocacy group
Advocacy group
Advocacy groups use various forms of advocacy to influence public opinion and/or policy; they have played and continue to play an important part in the development of political and social systems...

s within mainstream religious organizations or political parties
Political party
A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...

. For groups whose primary purpose is campaigning for the legal rights of LGBT people, please see List of LGBT rights organizations.

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  • Affirmation Scotland
    Affirmation Scotland
    Affirmation Scotland is a group within the Church of Scotland seeking full inclusion of the LGBT communities within the Church.-Background:Affirmation Scotland calls for a Church characterised by grace, compassion and inclusion...

     — advocacy group composed of Church of Scotland members, works for a more LGBT-affirming denomination
  • Affirming Pentecostal Church International — An Apostolic Pentecostal denomination operating in the US and many other countries.
  • Albany Trust
    Albany Trust
    The Albany Trust was founded in the United Kingdom as a registered charity in May 1958 to complement the Homosexual Law Reform Society . It takes its name from The Albany, in Piccadilly, London, where J.B...

     — educational and counselling organization (United Kingdom)
  • Asian/Pacific Islander Queers United for Action — group for and by Asian/Pacific Islanders in the Washington, D.C., area (United States), founded in 1997, also has an award-winning rowing team.
  • Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists
    Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists
    The Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists is an organization that educates and advocates on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender mental health issues.-History:...

     — education and advocacy group for LGBT mental health issues (United States)
  • Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists
    Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists
    The Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists is a group consisting of Baptist individuals, organizations, and congregations that are committed to advocating and encouraging the full inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons in the lives and ministries of Baptist churches...

     — group of individuals, organizations, and congregations which advocate full LGBT-inclusion in Baptist churches (United States)
  • 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...

     – community-based organization committed to the collection and preservation of material reflecting the lives and experiences of LGBT Australians.
  • Axios
    Axios (organization)
    Axios is an association for Eastern Orthodox, Byzantine Rite, and Eastern Catholic Christians who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender which was founded in Los Angeles in 1980...

     — organization of Eastern Orthodox, Byzantine Rite, and Eastern Catholic Christians who are LGBT (International)

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  • 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...

    , network of anarchist and anti-authoritarian queer projects (United States)
  • Bay View Garden and Yard Society
    Bay View Garden And Yard Society
    The Bay View Garden And Yard Society is a nonprofit 501 organization based in the Bay View neighborhood of Milwaukee, Wisconsin....

     (BVGAYS), a non-profit gardening and community organization in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
  • Bet Mishpachah
    Bet Mishpachah
    Bet Mishpachah is a Jewish egalitarian worshiping community in the Dupont Circle area of Washington, D.C. It is one of a number of national and international Jewish communities of "LGBT affirming congregations" that specifically welcome and "embrace" the LGBT community, along with all others who...

    , Jewish worshiping community in Washington, D.C.
  • Beyondmedia Education, educates youth about HIV and sexual health.
  • BiNet USA
    BiNet USA
    BiNet USA is a national bisexual/pansexual civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States. It was founded to formalize communication between U.S...

    , Bisexual advocacy group (United States)
  • Bisexual Index, bisexual advocacy group (UK)
  • Bisexual Resource Center
    Bisexual Resource Center
    Bisexual Resource Center is a 501 non-profit educational organization that has served the bisexual community since 1985. Originally known as the East Coast Bisexual Network, the BRC is headquartered in Boston MA and provides education about bisexual and progressive issues and support for bisexual...

     — a US-based nonprofit organization that creates and disseminates resources and raises awareness about bisexuality.
  • Black Gay Men's Advisory Group
    Black Gay Men's Advisory Group
    The Black Gay Men's Advisory Group is an LGBT rights organization of African descended gay or bisexual men founded in 2003 in the United Kingdom...

    , advocacy group (UK)
  • Black Laundry
    Black Laundry
    Black Laundry is an Israeli group of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders and others who utilize direct action to oppose "the occupation" of what the group regards as Palestinian land and to support other "social justice" causes...

    , Israeli LGBT group which campaigns against the occupation of the Palestinian territories, and other issues
  • Broken Rainbow
    Broken Rainbow (organization)
    Broken Rainbow is also a LGBT charity organisation created to help raise awareness and combat same-sex domestic violence and abuse....

    , UK charity and support group for victims of same-sex domestic violence.

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  • Campaign Against Homophobia
    Campaign Against Homophobia
    Campaign Against Homophobia is a Polish LGBT organisation, which aims to promote legal and social equality for people outside the heteronorm. It was founded in Warsaw in September 2001 and since it has grown to the biggest NGO of this kind in Poland...

     — advocacy group (Poland)
  • 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....

     — performs at pride events, advocates LGBT and HIV/AIDS issues, raises money for charity (United States)
  • Christian Altitude – GLBT & Affirming Church Planting Organization
  • 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...

     — advocacy group (International)
  • Colt 45's – (Houston, Texas) Founded in the spring of 1976 as a Gay Western charitable organization, The Colt 45's basic goal was to serve the Houston community as a charity while still having a good time. In the past the community needs have changed and the Colt 45's kept pace with the changes, especially in the area of AIDS and HIV. As a 501(c)(3) charity, they strive to serve the Houston HIV/AIDS community.
  • Connecticut Gay Men's Chorus
    Connecticut Gay Men's Chorus
    The Connecticut Gay Men's Chorus is Connecticut's first and only performing arts organization composed of openly gay men. It was begun in 1986 by a small group of gay men under the directorship of Robert Read and led by him until 1992. Since 1986 the Chorus has rehearsed in the gymnasium of St...

  • Contemporary Couples – uses webinars to provide research-based relationship education to gay and lesbian couples and singles.
  • Chouettes Coquettes
    Chouettes Coquettes
    Chouettes Coquettes is a bilingual Montreal social group for lesbian and bisexual women in their 20s and 30s. Their goal is to offer a meeting place for lesbian / bisexual women and their allies in order to break through isolation of lesbian and bisexual women...

     — social group for lesbian and bisexual women in Montreal who are their 20s and 30s (Canada)
  • Courage International
    Courage International
    Courage International is an apostolate and Christian ministry of the Roman Catholic Church, which "ministers to those with same-sex attractions,"...

     — church-sanctioned ministry and lay group within the Roman Catholic Church which promotes celibacy

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  • 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...

     — historical lesbian social and activist organization (United States)
  • DELGA
    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...

     — LGBT wing of the UK's Liberal Democrat party
  • 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...

      — lay organization of LGBT-affirming Roman Catholics, not a church-sanctioned organization

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  • Emergence International
    Emergence International
    Emergence International is a worldwide community of Christian Scientists and their families and friends, with the purpose of supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and to advocate for change in the Christian Science movement.-Mission and name:The name derives from a quote by Mrs...

     — support group for LGBT Christian Scientists (not to be confused with Scientology)
  • Empire of the Royal Sovereign and Imperial Court of the Single Star – (E.R.S.I.C.S.S. Houston, Texas) distributes funds throughout the year to direct beneficiaries for HIV/AIDS and Breast Cancer, as well as our reign beneficiaries who receive their funds at our annual investiture. Although our beginnings were meager we are proud to say that our donations back to the community currently average approximately $65,000.00 per reign. A member of the International Imperial Court System
    Imperial Court System
    The International Imperial Court System is one of the oldest and largest predominantly gay organizations in the world. The court raises money for charity through large annual fancy-dress costume balls in communities throughout North America and numerous smaller fundraisers each year...

     (IICS).
  • 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...

     — national LGBT non-profit, non-partisan civil rights organization.
  • Evangelicals Concerned — group of LGBT evangelical Christians (United States)

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  • Federation of Gay Games
    Federation of Gay Games
    -Concept and official purpose:According to the Federation of Gay Games :-Schism in LGBT sports communities over Gay Games VII:In 2001, the Federation of Gay Games awarded the seventh edition of the Gay Games to Montréal, Quebec, Canada for 2006, but the FGG removed its sanction in late 2003 after...

     — fosters LGBT self-respect through the Gay Games, an organized international participatory athletic and cultural event
  • 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...

     — advocacy group, distributes T-shirts reading "Gay? Fine by me" (United States)
  • FLAGS – Active Support Unit for Lesbians and Gays in Scouting — Active Support Unit for LGBT people in The Scout Association
    The Scout Association
    The Scout Association is the World Organization of the Scout Movement recognised Scouting association in the United Kingdom. Scouting began in 1907 through the efforts of Robert Baden-Powell. The Scout Association was formed under its previous name, The Boy Scout Association, in 1910 by the grant...

     (UK)
  • Friends of Dorothy Society
    Friends of Dorothy Society
    The Friends of Dorothy Society, , is a bell ringing society for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered people, and their friends...

     — bell ringing group (International)
  • Friðarbogin
    Friðarbogin
    Friðarbogin was the first organization working with the issues of homosexuals and bisexuals of the Faroe Islands. Friðarbogin was founded October 17 2003....

     – Works towards social liberation for LGBT people in the Faroe Islands.
  • Frontrunners
    Frontrunners
    International Front Runners is an umbrella organization of LGBT running and walking clubs around the world. There are over 100 Frontrunners clubs worldwide, about half of which are in the United States.-Activities:...

     — LGBT running and walking clubs

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  • GayChristianSurvivors.com – the most biblically conservative, fundamental, evangelical pro-gay website in the world.
  • GALA Choruses
    GALA Choruses
    The Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses is an international association of LGBT choruses founded in 1982. Its goal is to foster artistic and organizational development within its member choruses. The association includes almost 10,000 vocalists in over 100 associated choruses singing as...

     — Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses (International)
  • GALA Scotland Ltd – producers of Glasgay!, Scotland's annual celebration of queer culture (UK)
  • Gator Gay-Straight Alliance — University of Florida (United States)
  • Gay lesbian bisexual social network – Free Social network for homosexuals, bisexuals and lesbians.
  • 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...

     — political action committee and leadership institute, which supports openly-LGBT candidates for public office (United States)
  • 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...

     — media watchdog group (United States)
  • Gay and Lesbian Arabic Society
  • Gay and Lesbian Employees at Microsoft
    Gay and Lesbian Employees at Microsoft
    Gay and Lesbian Employees at Microsoft is a group of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees at Microsoft. GLEAM originated as a private mailing list during the 1980s. Members of the list successfully campaigned for sexual orientation to be added to Microsoft's anti-discrimination policy...

  • Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands
    Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands
    The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands is a micronation established as a symbolic political protest by a group of gay rights activists based in southeast Queensland Australia. Declared in 2004 in response to the Australian government's refusal to recognize same-sex marriages, it was...

     — world's first LGBT micronation
    Micronation
    Micronations, sometimes also referred to as model countries and new country projects, are entities that claim to be independent nations or states but which are not recognized by world governments or major international organizations...

  • 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...

     (International
  • GLYNI Gay and Lesbian Youth Northern Ireland
  • Gay Asian Pacific Support Network
  • Gay Buddhist Fellowship
  • Gay Christian Network
    Gay Christian Network
    The Gay Christian Network, popularly called GCN, is a gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and straight ally organization and ecumenical Christian ministry founded in 2001 by Justin Lee and administered from Raleigh, North Carolina in the United States....

     (GCN)
  • Gay Games
    Gay Games
    The Gay Games is the world's largest sporting and cultural event organized by and specifically for LGBT athletes, artists, musicians, and others. It welcomes participants of every sexual orientation and every skill level...

    , an organized international participatory athletic and cultural event held every four years
  • GayLawNet, news and laws affecting the LGBT community worldwide. Attorney listings.
  • Gay/Lesbian Baha'i Story Project
  • Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Straight Alliance
    Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Straight Alliance
    The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Straight Alliance of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the largest LGBTIQ student organization in the Southeastern United States. GLBTSA sponsors the annual Southeast Regional Unity Conference as well as Lambda Magazine, the nation's...

     (GLBTSA) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States...

     (UNC-CH)
  • Gay Line
    Gay Line
    Gay Line is a Canadian LGBT non-profit organization. It was founded in 1976 by social workers and activists to provide advice and counseling to gay and lesbian people in Montreal.-History:...

     – a non-profit telephone helpline in Montreal, Canada
  • Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles
    Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles
    - About :The Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles has been a notable part of the Southern California performing arts community for over twenty-eight years...

  • Gay Men's Chorus of San Diego
    Gay Men's Chorus of San Diego
    The Gay Men's Chorus of San Diego , was an organization of gay male performers, their friends, family, and those who supported GMCSD's mission. GMCSD was founded in the early 1990s...

  • GayOutdoors – fosters self-respect, fellowship, community service and environmental stewardship through organized outdoor activities/adventures
  • Gay Straight Alliance Network International (GSANI)
  • Gay Youth of New York (GY-NY), later Gay and Lesbian Youth of New York (GLYNY), later Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Youth of New York (BiGLYNY), and later Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Youth of New York (BiGLTYNY)
  • 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)
  • Gay-Straight Alliance
    Gay-straight alliance
    Gay–straight alliances are student organizations, found primarily in North American high schools and universities, that are intended to provide a safe and supportive environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth and their straight allies .-Goal:The goal of most, if not all,...

  • Gay Youth Corner (The GYC)
  • Gayglers
    Gayglers
    Gayglers is a group of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees of Google. The term was first used to describe all LGBT employees at the company in 2007, and was conceived as a play on the word "Googler" .The term, first published openly by The New York Times in 2006 to describe some of the...

  • Geikristlaste Kogu
    Geikristlaste Kogu
    Geikristlaste Kogu , GK in short, is an Estonian association of gays and lesbians who are active Christians. Its main purpose is to advocate equal civil and social rights for sexual minorities.-History:...

     (GK) — Christian advocacy organization for equal civil and social rights in Estonia
  • 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...

  • GLBT Cultural Center — Houston, TX
  • Global Alliance of Affirming Apostolic Pentecostals
    Global Alliance of Affirming Apostolic Pentecostals
    The Global Alliance of Affirming Apostolic Pentecostals is an LGBT affirming, Oneness Pentecostal denomination, headquartered in Thonotosassa, Florida....

     (GAAAP) (Encompasses the former Apostolic Restoration Mission.) International LGBT-Affirming Apostolic (Oneness) Pentecostal denomination. See Gay Apostolic Pentecostals
    Gay Apostolic Pentecostals
    Gay Apostolic Pentecostals are people who adhere to the beliefs and theology of the Oneness Pentecostal churches, but who identify as LGBT, which is unacceptable in mainline Apostolic churches. Gay Apostolic Pentecostals first began to organize separately from mainline Apostolic churches in 1980 in...

    .
  • Golden Gate Business Association (GGBA)
  • Grace Gospel Chapel
    Grace Gospel Chapel
    The Grace Gospel Chapel is an LGBT friendly Evangelical Christian church located in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. The church was founded ca. 1977 by Vic Van Campen....

     — a LGBT friendly Evangelical Christian church in Seattle, Washington
  • Greater Seattle Business Association
    Greater Seattle Business Association
    The Greater Seattle Business Association is a Seattle, Washington based lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender , and allied chamber of commerce. The majority of the organization's membership are small businesses located throughout the Puget Sound area...

     — a.k.a GSBA, the largest regional LGBT & allied chamber of commerce in the United States and second largest chamber of commerce in Washington State
  • GRIN Campaign
    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...

     — Campaigning for social and political equality in education.
  • Growing American Youth
    Growing American Youth
    Growing American Youth is a social support organization for youth who live in or near St. Louis and who are 21 and under and may identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, asexual or questioning their sexual orientation or gender identity. Growing American Youth has been serving St. Louis...

     of St. Louis
  • Gulf Coast Archive and Museum of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender History (GCAM) – A 501-c-3 organization that was formed in Houston, Texas, by a group of concerned activists so that our collective histories could be saved – as well as be available for educational uses – through the utilization of a museum or similar venue.

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  • Hispanic Black Gay Coalition – Dedicated to inspiring and empowering Hispanic/Latino and Black LGBTQ individuals to improve their livelihood through activism, education, outreach and counseling.
  • HATCH – Dedicated to empowering Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (GLBTQ) adolescents, ages 13–20, to become responsible citizens and positive contributors to society in the Houston area.
  • Horizon Services
    Horizon Services
    Horizon Services, Inc. is a nonprofit social service organization providing alcohol and drug treatment and recovery, mental health recovery, and substance abuse prevention services in Alameda, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. The executive director is...

    , alcohol and drug recovery organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area
    San Francisco Bay Area
    The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a populated region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, along with smaller urban and rural areas...

    , which operates some programs specifically targeting the LGBT community
  • 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) – United States-based LGBT advocacy group and political action committee dedicated to ensuring equal rights for members of the LGBT community.

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  • ILTGA-LAC
  • Inclusive Foundation Georgia
    Georgia (country)
    Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

  • Independent Gay Forum
    Independent Gay Forum
    The Independent Gay Forum is an organization that sponsors a website featuring free access to articles and opinions penned by gay conservative, center-right Independent and libertarian gay authors...

  • Institute for Gay and Lesbian Strategic Studies
  • 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...

  • International Association of Gay Square Dance Clubs
    International Association of Gay Square Dance Clubs
    The International Association of Gay Square Dance Clubs is an international umbrella organization for gay square dance. The association includes over eighty clubs. Most clubs are in the United States and Canada, with one club in Japan...

  • 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...

  • International Mister Leather
    International Mister Leather
    International Mister Leather is an international conference and contest of leathermen held annually in May since 1979 in Chicago, Illinois....

  • InterPride, an organization of over 200 Pride
    Gay pride
    LGBT pride or gay pride is the concept that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people should be proud of their sexual orientation and gender identity...

     event organizers.
  • Interweave Continental, education and support organization for Unitarian Universalists in North America
    North America
    North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

    .
  • Isle of Man
    Isle of Man
    The Isle of Man , otherwise known simply as Mann , is a self-governing British Crown Dependency, located in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, within the British Isles. The head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, who holds the title of Lord of Mann. The Lord of Mann is...

     Lesbian and Gay Switchboard
    Switchboard
    The term switchboard, when used by itself, may refer to:*Telephone switchboard*Electric switchboard*Printed circuit board*Mixing console*In computing, Switch board...


L

  • "Labrys" a lesbian, bisexual women's and transgender organization (Kyrgyzstan
    Kyrgyzstan
    Kyrgyzstan , officially the Kyrgyz Republic is one of the world's six independent Turkic states . Located in Central Asia, landlocked and mountainous, Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and China to the east...

    )
  • Lambda Istanbul (Turkey
    Turkey
    Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

    )
  • Lambda Foundation
    Lambda Foundation
    Lambda Foundation is a registered Canadian Charity with the mission of creating scholarships, awards, and bursaries in support of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender studies, and education and awareness, in advancement of equality and human rights....

     Scholarships, Awards, Bursaries (Canada
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

    )
  • 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...

  • Lambda Magazine
  • Lambda Warszawa
    Lambda Warszawa
    Lambda Warszawa Association is the oldest running Polish LGBT organisation.Lambda Warszawa is a public interest organisation founded in October 1997 by activists of Rainbow Centre , which worked from 1995 until 1997...

     (Poland
    Poland
    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

    )
  • Lavender Womyn A lesbian social group which started in Salem, Oregon
  • LEGASI Leading the Education of Gay and Straight Individuals of Norfolk State University
  • LEGATO University Students and Academics (Turkey
    Turkey
    Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

    )
  • Lesbenring
    Lesbenring
    Lesbenring e.V. is the most important lesbian organisation in Germany with seat in Heidelberg. The organisation was founded in 1982.Lesbenring works for the rights of lesbian women in Germany and fights for social equality. The organisation has around five thousand members. Lesbenring is a member...

  • Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement (LGCM)
  • Lesbian Association of India
    Lesbian Association of India
    Established in June 2007, the Lesbian Association of India is a United Kingdom-based organisation working to support lesbian and bisexual women in India, which has a population of 1.12 billion. There are many independent or small organisations working for LGBT groups in larger cities within India,...

  • 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...

  • Lesbian Sex Mafia
    Lesbian Sex Mafia
    The Lesbian Sex Mafia, founded in 1981, is an information and support group in New York City for lesbian, bisexual, heterosexual, and transexual women. The group's focus is to help promote fantasy role playing, bondage, discipline, sadomasochism, fetishes, costumes, alternate gender identities,...

  • The LGBT Cancer Project
  • LGBT Ministry – Ordained Ministers of the LGBT and allies community
  • Lesbian Sex Mafia
    Lesbian Sex Mafia
    The Lesbian Sex Mafia, founded in 1981, is an information and support group in New York City for lesbian, bisexual, heterosexual, and transexual women. The group's focus is to help promote fantasy role playing, bondage, discipline, sadomasochism, fetishes, costumes, alternate gender identities,...

  • LGBTory
    LGBTory
    LGBTory is a LGBT and Conservative Group linked to, but not run, directed or funded by the Conservative Party of the United Kingdom. The first LGBT Conservative group was called CGHE LGBTory is a LGBT and Conservative Group linked to, but not run, directed or funded by the Conservative Party of the...

     – LGBT Conservatives (UK)
  • LGBT Labour (UK)
  • LGBT Youth Scotland
    LGBT Youth Scotland
    LGBT Youth Scotland is a voluntary organisation dedicated to the inclusion of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender young people in the life of Scotland...

  • 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...

     (UK)
  • 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...

     (United States
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

    )
  • London Gay Men's Chorus
    London Gay Men's Chorus
    Founded in 1991 by a group of six gay men, the London Gay Men’s Chorus is now, with around 190 singing members and over 230 members in total, Europe’s largest and best known gay choir.-Introduction:...

  • Loughborough University
    Loughborough University
    Loughborough University is a research based campus university located in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, in the East Midlands of England...

     Students' Union
    Students' union
    A students' union, student government, student senate, students' association, guild of students or government of student body is a student organization present in many colleges and universities, and has started appearing in some high schools...

     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...

     Association
    Voluntary association
    A voluntary association or union is a group of individuals who enter into an agreement as volunteers to form a body to accomplish a purpose.Strictly speaking, in many jurisdictions no formalities are necessary to start an association...

  • Love Makes a Family
    Love Makes a Family
    Love Makes a Family is a non-profit advocacy and assistance organization of families headed by LGBT people, and their friends, working for equal marriage and family rights in the United States. It is also the name of a former organization in Connecticut that disbanded in 2009 after achieving its...

  • Lunduyan ng Sining (cradle of art) – a duly registered lesbian arts organization in the Philippines
  • LSVD – German Lesbian and Gay Association
    LSVD
    Lesben und Schwulenverband in Deutschland is the largest civil rights organisation of homosexuals in Germany....

  • Lutherans Concerned

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  • Mission Saints Sergius & Bacchus
  • Magnus Hirschfeld Center for Human Rights
  • Malecare Gay & Bisexual Cancer Survivors
  • 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...

  • Meem – A Lesbian Community in Lebanon
  • Metropolitan Community Church
    Metropolitan Community Church
    The Metropolitan Community Church or The Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches is an international Protestant Christian denomination...

  • Metropolitan Community Church Philippines
  • Montrose Counseling Center– Provides culturally affirming, quality and affordable services primarily to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender individuals in Houston, Texas.
  • More Light Presbyterians
    More Light Presbyterians
    More Light Presbyterians is a coalition of congregations and individuals in the Presbyterian Church committed to increasing the involvement of all people in the church, regardless of sexuality...

  • MS Rainbow Alliance

N

  • Nashville GLBT Chamber of Commerce
  • National Association of Catholic Diocesan Lesbian and Gay Ministries
  • National Association of LGBT Community Centers
  • National Black Lesbian and Gay Leadership Forum
  • National Coalition for LGBT Health
  • National Coalition for GLBT Youth
  • National Consortium of Directors of LGBT Resources in Higher Education
    National Consortium of Directors of LGBT Resources in Higher Education
    The Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals which was founded as the National Consortium of Directors of LGBT Resources in Higher Education originated in 1997 at the San Diego NGLTF Creating Change Conference. In 2008 they changed their name to better to better reflect their...

  • National Directory of Campus LGBT Resource Centers
  • National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce
    National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce
    The National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce is a U.S. not-for-profit advocacy organization specifically dedicated to expanding the economic opportunities and advancements of the LGBT business community. The NGLCC headquarters is located at 729 15 Street, NW in Washington, D.C...

  • National Latinas/Latinos Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Organization
  • National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association
    National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association
    The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association is an American professional association dedicated to unbiased coverage of gay/lesbian issues in the media...

  • National Lesbian and Gay Law Association
  • National LGBT Cancer Network
  • National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals
  • National Stonewall Democrats
  • National Transgender Advocacy Coalition
    National Transgender Advocacy Coalition
    The National Transgender Advocacy Coalition is a lobbying and advocacy organization in the United States dedicated to protecting the civil rights of transgender and gender variant people...

  • National Union of Students LGBT Campaign
  • 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...

  • New Ways Ministry
    New Ways Ministry
    New Ways Ministry is an organization providing positive ministry and support to gay and lesbian Catholics in the United States of America. The organization is primarily based in Maryland.-History and purpose:...

  • New York Area Bisexual Network
    New York Area Bisexual Network
    New York Area Bisexual Network is a central communications network for bisexual & bi-friendly groups and resources in the five boroughs of New York City and the surrounding Tri-State area....

  • Noho Pride Celebrate Diversity
  • North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance
    North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance
    The North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance, or NAGAAA, is a non-profit, international association of gay and lesbian softball leagues.NAGAAA was founded in 1977 and currently has 56 member leagues in 35 cities in the United States and Canada...

  • Northern Pride Centre Society (PC) of Prince George, British Columbia, Canada

O

  • Oakland-East Bay Gay Men's Chorus
    Oakland-East Bay Gay Men's Chorus
    Oakland-East Bay Gay Men's Chorus is a 30 to 45 voice gay men's chorus and supporting non-profit organization based in Oakland, California. It was founded in 1999 by Dick Kramer , who had previously been the first choral director of the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus...

  • ODU Out
  • ONE, Inc.
    ONE, Inc.
    ONE, Inc. was an early gay rights organization in the United States.The idea for a publication dedicated to homosexuals emerged from a Mattachine Society discussion meeting held on October 15, 1952....

  • Out & Equal
    Out & Equal
    Out & Equal Workplace Advocates is a United States non-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California....

  • Out in America
  • Out in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics, Incorporated
  • Out with Cancer
  • 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...

  • OUTRhodes
  • 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...

  • Outright Scotland
    Outright Scotland
    Outright Scotland is a LGBT rights organisation based in Edinburgh, Scotland.-History:Outright Scotland began as the Scottish Minorities Group in 1969.In 1974, SMG bought the premises on Broughton Street that became the Edinburgh LGBT Centre....

  • Our Youth, a non-profit youth LGBT organization
  • OutYouth
  • Oxford Friend
    Oxford Friend
    Oxford Friend is an Oxford-based LGBT charity providing emotional support and counseling to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. The original volunteers were part of the local branch of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality . Services are provided by telephone and email...


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  • Project for Advice, Counselling and Education
    Project for Advice, Counselling and Education
    Project for Advice, Counselling and Education or PACE is London's leading charity promoting the health and well-being of lesbians and gay men through the provision of free or low-cost counselling, therapy, groupwork, advocacy, youthwork, employment and other services.-Youthwork:PACE Youthwork...

  • ParaGay (Paraguay
    Paraguay
    Paraguay , officially the Republic of Paraguay , is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. Paraguay lies on both banks of the Paraguay River, which runs through the center of the...

    )
  • 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)
  • People Like Us 3
    People Like Us 3
    People Like Us , is the main gay equality lobby group in Singapore. Having been twice rejected by the government board which approves or prohibits organisations, the Registrar of Societies, it is now in its third incarnation as "PLU3"...

  • Phi Alpha Nu Fraternity, Inc. National HQ
  • Pink Pistols
    Pink Pistols
    The Pink Pistols are a gay gun rights organization in the United States and Canada. Their mottos are "Pick on someone your own caliber" and "Armed gays don't get bashed." Inspired by a Salon.com article written by Jonathan Rauch, Krikket , a libertarian activist from Illinois while living in...

  • Pink Triangle Group, Turkey
    Turkey
    Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

  • Plexed – The Gay Youth Community
  • Point Foundation
    Point Foundation (LGBT)
    The Point Foundation is the first and largest national foundation to support academic achievement in higher education among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students by providing financial support, mentoring and hope to meritorious students who are marginalized due to sexual orientation,...

  • Pride365
    Pride365
    Pride365 is a series of activities sponsored by QSaltLake to celebrate gay and lesbian pride in Salt Lake City, Utah throughout the year. Events culminate in the Utah Pride Festival, sponsored by the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Community Center of Utah....

  • Pride at Work
    Pride at Work
    Pride at Work is a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender group of labor union activists which seeks full equality for LGBT workers in their workplaces and their unions.-Homosexual rights and the labor movement: History:...

  • Pride Library
    Pride Library
    The Pride Library is a collection of books, periodicals, and audio-visual resources by and about gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transsexuals, and other queer folk. Located in the D.B. Weldon Library at The University of Western Ontario, the Pride Library is the first official queer resource center at a...

  • The Pride Network
  • Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians
    Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians
    Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians is a United States-based interest group of LGBT persons and straight allies opposed to legalized elective abortion and supportive of alternatives to abortion....

  • Project Q
    Project Q
    Project Q is the youth program of the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center serving lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and straight allied young adults ages 24 and under...


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  • QueerAttitude.com
  • Queers and Allies at the University of Kansas
  • 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...

  • Queer Youth Alliance
    Queer Youth Alliance
    The Queer Youth Network is a national non-profit-making organisation that is run by and for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people and is based in the United Kingdom...

  • The Queer Youth Community

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  • 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....

  • Rainbow Rights Project (R-Rights) – a group of lesbian and gay lawyers and legal activists who are dedicated to promoting a rational discourse on the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders (LGBTs) in the Philippines
  • Reconciling Pentecostals International See Gay Apostolic Pentecostals
    Gay Apostolic Pentecostals
    Gay Apostolic Pentecostals are people who adhere to the beliefs and theology of the Oneness Pentecostal churches, but who identify as LGBT, which is unacceptable in mainline Apostolic churches. Gay Apostolic Pentecostals first began to organize separately from mainline Apostolic churches in 1980 in...

    .
  • The Rockway Institute for 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...

     research in the public interest (Alliant International University
    Alliant International University
    Alliant International University is a private, non-profit higher education institution based in San Diego, California. It offers programs in six California cities and four locations outside the United States...

    )
  • Rateen, Open Community for Youth Sexual Minorities (South Korea, Asia)
  • Rich Eychaner Charitable Foundation
    Rich Eychaner Charitable Foundation
    The Rich Eychaner Charitable Foundation is a charitable foundation located in Des Moines, Iowa which seeks to promote tolerance and non-discrimination. The foundation awards scholarships to students who have been active in LGBT issues, promotes Iowa's anti-bullying legislation, and helped created...

  • Rio Grand Adelante
  • RFSL, Riksförbundet för homosexuellas, bisexuellas och transpersoners rättigheter (Sweden)

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  • San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus
    San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus
    The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus is the world's first openly gay chorus, one of its largest and the group most often credited with creating the LGBT choral movement....

  • Scottish Minorities Group
    Scottish Minorities Group
    The Scottish Minorities Group was a Scottish gay rights group officially founded in Glasgow on 9 May 1969. The group was a self-help organisation working for the rights of homosexual men and women, and had the aims of providing counselling, working for law reform and providing meeting places for...

  • Scouting for All
    Scouting For All
    Scouting for All is an American advocacy organization. It is a 501 non-profit organization whose stated purpose is to promote tolerance and diversity within the Boy Scouts of America in the face of its policies requiring members to be heterosexuals who believe in God.-History:Initially founded in...

  • Seattle Sex Positive Community Center aka the Wet Spot
  • 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"...

  • Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE)
  • SGRainbow
  • Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
    Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
    The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence , also called Order of Perpetual Indulgence in Australia and elsewhere, is a charity, protest, and street performance organization that uses drag and Catholic imagery to call attention to sexual intolerance and satirize issues of gender and morality...

  • Ski Bums
    Ski Bums
    Ski Bums is a travel and social club for LGBT skiers and snowboarders, with hundreds of members from across North America. It hosts social events and group trips to ski resorts throughout North America, South America and Europe...

  • Seventh-Day Adventist Kinship International
  • Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL)
  • Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
    Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
    The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States is a lobbying organization and advocacy group dedicated to sex and sexuality education, sexual health, and sexual rights...

  • Soulforce
    Soulforce
    Soulforce may refer to:* Soulforce is an American LGBT-issue-focused social justice and civil rights organization.* Soulforce Revolution is the 1989 release of the punk band 7 Seconds....

  • StartOut
  • 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...

  • Swedish Ombudsman against Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation
    Swedish Ombudsman against Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation
    The Swedish Ombudsman against Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation , normally referred to as HomO, was the Swedish office of the ombudsman against discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation...

  • S.O.N.G.- Southerners on New Ground

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  • 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....

  • Tong-Kwang Light House Presbyterian Church
    Tong-Kwang Light House Presbyterian Church
    Tong-Kwang Light House Presbyterian Church is the first Christian Church for Homosexuals in Chinese society. It is located in Taipei, and does not believe homosexuality to be a sin...

  • 129th Toronto Scouting Group (Canada)
  • Trans-Fuzja Foundation
  • Transgender Law Center
    Transgender Law Center
    The Transgender Law Center is a San Francisco-based civil rights organization advocating for transgender communities. They are California's first "fully staffed, state-wide transgender legal organization" and were initially a fiscally sponsored project of the National Center for Lesbian Rights...

  • Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund
  • Turk Gay Club, Turk LGBT Community
  • The Turtle Creek Chorale

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  • UCLA Queer Alliance
  • UnifiedVoice.org
  • UNISON LGBT Self organised group
  • The United States Gay and Lesbian United Front
  • Unity Conference
  • The University of St Andrews LGBT Society
  • UP Babaylan Philippines
    Philippines
    The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

  • 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...

  • University of West Florida
    University of West Florida
    The University of West Florida, also known as West Florida and UWF, is a mid-sized public university located in Pensacola, Florida, United States. UWF is a member institution of the State University System of Florida. The University of West Florida is a Research University, which specializes in...

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