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Local Resources
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The Billy DeFrank LGBT Community Center provides community, leadership, advocacy, support, and services to Silicon Valley’s LGBT people and allies. It is located down the street from SCU. (San Jose, CA)
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The Deaf Gay and Lesbian Center non-profit, community-based social service agency serving the Deaf community in the San Francisco Bay Area. (San Leandro, CA)
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LYRIC provides information and peer support for LBGTQ Youth under 24. (San Francisco, CA)
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The San Francisco LGBT Community Center provides San Francisco with a vast array of programs and services for LGBT people, their friends and families. (San Francisco, CA)
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Diversity Center is dedicated to advancing causes and priorities of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and questioning (LGBTIQ) individuals and their allies in Santa Cruz County. (Santa Cruz, CA)
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Family & Children’s Services is a health and human services agency that has served children, teens, adults, and families in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties for nearly 60 years. The agency offers a wide variety of comprehensive and affordable counseling, education, and prevention programs. (San Jose/Campbell/Palo Alto, CA)
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Pacific Center is an award winning, LGBT community center serving the East Bay and Greater Bay Area through professional counseling, groups, community events, and advocacy. (Berkeley, CA)
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New Leaf: Services For Our Community the only comprehensive mental health, substance abuse, HIV/AIDS and social support organization in San Francisco specifically for the LGBT communities, which prioritizes middle to low-income individuals and families. (San Francisco, CA)
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OUTLET supports and empowers lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning youth ages 13-20 living on the Peninsula and South Bay.
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Asian Americans for Community Involvement offers mental health counseling services for Asian Pacific Islanders, ages 15-39. (San Jose, CA)
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HelpSCC is an online directory of health and human services for Santa Clara and Santa Cruz Counties.
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Health Trust AIDS Services is a community benefit foundation that focuses on healthy living, aging, and communities. (Campbell, CA)
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Aguilas is committed to continue providing services for gay/bisexual Latinos in the San Francisco area. (San Francisco, CA)
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Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco is the world's first mixed lesbian and gay chorus, LGCSF is dedicated to building and enriching the Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender (LGBT) community through song and a love of music. (San Francisco, CA)
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Rainbow Women’s Chorus performs publicly for the entertainment, education, and cultural enrichment of the Bay Area community, singing to enhance the esteem of all women, to celebrate diversity, and to promote peace and freedom. (San Jose, CA)
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Named the "Official Band of San Francisco,” the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band is the first openly gay musical organization in the world, inspiring the formation of gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender/ intersex/questioning/queer bands, choruses and performing groups through the education and musical development of its members and the presentation of music-based programs for public benefit and charitable purposes.
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Bay Area Bi-Sexual Network provides for a better understanding of bisexual lives and issues within the larger lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) community and the public through informational and social events and support groups. (San Francisco, CA)
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Community United Against Violence is the nation’s first LGBTQQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning) anti-violence organization that prevents violence through peer-based counseling, direct assistance, education and outreach, grassroots organizing, and policy advocacy. (San Francisco, CA)
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Equality California works to achieve equality and secure legal protections for LGBT people. (San Francisco, CA)
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Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club is San Francisco’s largest Democratic Club and serves as a place for anyone who thinks there ought to be a place for queerness in the progressive struggle, and a place for progressive politics in the queer community. (San Francisco, CA)
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The Transgender Law Center (TLC) is a civil rights organization advocating for transgender communities. (San Francisco, CA)
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Different Spokes San Francsico is the San Francisco Bay Area's Lesbian and Gay bicycling club, open to all members of the Gay-Lesbian community and its friends. (San Francisco, CA)
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Earthquakes Ice Hockey Club is home of the Bay Area’s only co-ed gay, lesbian, and gay-friendly ice hockey teams. (San Francisco, CA)
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El Camino Reelers is a modern Western Square Dance club, formed by lesbians and gays for the purposes of meeting people, having fun, and learning to square dance. (Mountain View, CA)
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SAGA North is the San Francisco Bay Area's Gay and Lesbian ski, snowboard and recreation club. (San Francisco, CA)
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The San Francisco Gay Softball League is a gay and lesbian softball league committed to providing an organization for both gay and non-gay participants to compete in an environment conducive to the gay community. (San Francisco, CA)
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Youth Trans & Intersex Education Services (Youth TIES) is a youth-led organization advocating for, addressing the challenges of, and educating the trans, gender-variant, intersex and questioning (TGIQ) youth in the San Francisco Bay Area. (San Francisco, CA)
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The GSA Network, located in San Francisco, is a youth-led organization connecting school-based Gay-Straight Alliances to each other and community resources, focusing on peer support and leadership development to create safe schools. (San Francisco, CA) For more information about internship opportunities, visit the Internship webpage.
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Point Newspaper: The Alternative Voice of Northern California. Point Newspaper is the only newspaper serving the South Bay’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered communities. (San Jose, CA)
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OutNow Magazine: Connecting the Bay Area’s LGBT Community
National Resources
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American Civil Liberties Union is a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization that seeks to preserve one’s protections and guarantees and works to extend Constitutional freedoms to populations who have traditionally been denied their rights, e.g., people of color; LGBT people; women; mental-health patients; prisoners; people with disabilities; and the poor. For more information about internship opportunities, visit the Internship webpage.
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Project Inform strives to inform, inspire & advocate for people living with HIV/AIDS.
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GLBT National Help Center is a national hotline providing peer counseling, information, and assistance with other resources available to gay and lesbian teens.
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The Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN), is the leading national education organization focused on ensuring safe schools for all students.
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OutProud, the National Coalition for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Youth, serves the needs of these young men and women by providing advocacy, information, resources and support.
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BiNET USA is the oldest national bisexual entity in the United States, providing a network for groups and individuals and encouraging participation and organizing on local and national levels.
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National Association of People with AIDS is oldest national AIDS organization, as well as the first network of people living with HIV/AIDS in the world.
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National Minority AIDS Council helps to develop leadership in communities of color to address the challenges of HIV/AIDS through public policy education programs; national conferences; treatment and research programs and trainings; and electronic and printed resource materials.
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The National Gay Basketball Association (NGBA) is an international, inclusive, integrated, gay, lesbian, and gay friendly association that unites athletes and culture through basketball.
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COLAGE is the only national organization in the world specifically supporting children, youth and adults with LGBTQ parent(s).
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TransYouth Family Advocates (TYFA) empowers children and families by partnering with educators, service providers and communities, to develop supportive environments in which gender may be expressed and respected.
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International LGBT Human Rights Commission is a US-based non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) whose mission is to secure the full enjoyment of the human rights of all people and communities subject to discrimination or abuse on the basis of sexual orientation or expression, gender identity or expression, and/or HIV status, through advocacy, documentation, coalition building, public education, and technical assistance.
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