Looking for resources, organizations, advocacy groups, or other links relevant to LGBTQ+ persons and allies? Here is a sampling of what is available.
General Information
Need someone to talk to? Need counseling, housing, or other assistance?
General Information
- Helpful Coming Out Resources: GLSEN (youth-oriented), The Trevor Project (youth), Gay Life After 40 (mid-life), Gays with Kids (mid-life), National Resource Center on LGBT Aging (seniors)
- The Gender Book - a fun, thorough examination of gender
- CDC Health & Wellness Resources for LGBTQ+ persons and their allies
- National Alliance on Mental Illness: Mental Health and LGBTQ+ Persons
- Resources for LGBTQ+ persons of color (University of Arizona)
- Cimarron Alliance Equality Center stories and experiences of LGBTQ+ Oklahomans (Freedom Oklahoma)
Need someone to talk to? Need counseling, housing, or other assistance?
- Youth: The Trevor Project, It Gets Better Project, OK Youth Services (by county: Payne, Creek, Grant, Garfield, Kay, Kingfisher, Lincoln, Logan, Noble, Osage, Pawnee)
- Adults: American Society on Aging, TheBody.com, Pride Institute, Sage: Advocacy & Services for LGBT Elders,
- Anyone: Crisis Text Line (text "START" to 741-741), GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality, LGBT National Help Center, National Suicide Prevention Hotline, Trans Lifeline,
- "LGBTQ Shrink" Dr. Ron Holt has a variety of resources (including coloring books) for LGBTQ+ persons and allies
Resources within Oklahoma
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OSU-specific resources
- OSU Track & Field Athlete Abbie Hetherington was recently (August 2018) featured on OutSports
- Office of Multicultural Affairs - Coordinator of Women's & LGBTQ Affairs
- Employee Queers & Allies League (EQuAL)
- Gender and Sexuality Student Outreach (GSSO)
- OSU Queers & Allies (OSU Q&A)
National Organizations
Religious Organizations
LGBTQ+ Activism & Political Oriented Organizations
Educational Resources
Looking for resources on how to support your LGBTQ+ family or friend(s)?
For Parents
For Children of LGBTQ+ Persons
For Friends of LGBTQ+ Persons
- Aging with Pride - research center focusing on issues impacting mid-life and senior LGBTQ+ persons
- American Veterans for Equal Rights - veteran organization providing resources and support to veterans
- Campus Pride - leading organization for identifying LGBTQ+-friendly campuses and resources for college students
- Gay Reunion in Our Time - organization focusing on LGBTQ+ elders
- GLAAD - LGBTQ+ media organization; promotes increased, positive representation of LGBTQ+ persons in mainstream media and in generating LGBTQ+-themed media
- Intersex Campaign for Equality - support, resources, and advocacy for intersex persons
- Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund - legal resource for LGBTQ+ Americans
- National Center for Transgender Equality - resources and legal support for trans* and gender-minority persons
- Recovery Village - a national resource for helping those struggling with substance abuse, they have specific resources for LGBTQ+ folks and their allies
- OutSports - media outlet devoted to LGBTQ+ athletes and sports media persons
- SPART*A - veteran organization specifically geared towards trans* service members, veterans, and their allies
Religious Organizations
- AWAB — Welcoming and affirming Baptists
- CenterPeace - An interdenominational Christian organization with its roots in the Church of Christ
- The Disciples LGBTQ+ Alliance - Disciples of Christ organization and sponsors of Camp Sunflower for LGBTQ+ high schoolers
- Dignity — LGBTQ+ Catholics
- Keshet — LGBTQ+ organization for those who are Jewish
- Integrity — LGBTQ+ Episcopalians
- LDS Family Fellowship - Support and resources for LGBTQ+ Mormons and their families
- More Light Presbyterians — LGBTQ+ Presbyterians
- Muslims for Progressive Values - Affirming organization for followers of Islam
- OK United Methodists for Equality - the Oklahoma chapter of United Methodists for Equality
- Q Christian Fellowship - (formerly Gay Christian Network), organization open to all LGBTQ+ Christians, their families, and their allies
- ReconcilingWorks — LGBTQ+ Lutherans
- Unitarian Universalist Association — Religious tradition based in, but not restricted to, Judeo-Christianity
LGBTQ+ Activism & Political Oriented Organizations
- American Civil Liberties Union (works to protect individual liberties of all those within the US)
- Human Rights Campaign (LGBTQ+ rights organization)
- Log Cabin Republicans (LGBTQ+ group within the Republican Party)
- National LGBTQ Task Force (LGBTQ+ rights organization)
- OutRight Action International (fights for LGBTQ+ rights worldwide)
- Soulforce (working specifically against the "religious right" agenda)
- Stonewall Democrats (LGBTQ+ group within the Democratic Party)
Educational Resources
- GLSEN's LGBTQ+ History Timeline and LGBTQ History Coloring Book
- He Continues to Make a Difference: Commemorating the Life of Matthew Shepard, a resource for high school educators
- OutSports Coming Out Stories Archive - the experiences and stories of LGBTQ+ athletes and sports-media
- The Pye Haris Project videos of people sharing their experiences coming out in the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s
- Quist, LGBTQ+ history in a youth-friendly way
- LGBTQ Heritage Theme Study, a publication of the National Park Foundation
- Making Gay History: The Podcast
- A shortlist of LGBTQ+ authors
Looking for resources on how to support your LGBTQ+ family or friend(s)?
- GLSEN - aimed towards providing education, resources, and support for LGBTQ+ persons, their families and friends, allies, and the general public
- PFLAG - organization aimed at supporting LGBTQ+ persons, their families, their friends, and other allies
For Parents
- Free Mom Hugs - organization of affirming parents providing resources, support, and hugs around the country and beyond
- Freed Hearts - support specifically geared towards those struggling with understanding/accepting their child's identity as LGBTQ+ and their faith
- My Kid is Gay - resources and support for parents of LGBTQ+ persons
For Children of LGBTQ+ Persons
- Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (COLAGE)
- The Gay Dad Project - sharing stories and supporting all families with LGBTQ+ parents
- "I am Queerspawn" from TEDxSouthBank (Australia)
- "Name Change" op-ed/documentary from the New York Times by filmmaker Sharon Shattuck
For Friends of LGBTQ+ Persons
- GLAAD's 10 Ways to be an Ally & a Friend
- National Center for Transgender Equality - NCTE's guide to being a good trans* ally
- "Call Yourself an LGBT Ally?" op-ed from the Washington Post by journalist Carlos Maza
Page adapted from OSU EQuAL's Resources Page (equal.okstate.edu/resources)
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