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Asian and Pacific Islander Queers United for Action AQUA is an organization for queer APIs, by queer APIs, focusing on queer API issues and interests. We strive to promote the positive outlook and welfare of our members through advocacy, education, Brother Help Thy Self Brother Help Thyself funds and nurtures nonprofit organizations serving the GLBTQ and HIV/AIDS communities in the Metro Baltimore / Washington areas. BHT is a community based foundation that accomplishes its mission by: Dispensing direct and matching grants to non-profit organizations, Acting as a clearinghouse for donated goods and services and Serving as an information resource to our community. Burgundy Crescent The Cherry Fund Cherry began several years ago when a group of local residents got together and planned a charity fundraiser. Using modest financial resources, the all-volunteer organization known as Friends Being Friends banded together to put on a weekend of music, dance and celebration. Several other Cherry events would follow, each increasingly better attended than the last. The popularity of these fundraisers inspired the idea that Washington was ready for a yearly charity event on the level of those held annually on Fire Island or in Miami. After the third Cherry, which was produced by Moody Mustafa's Metropolis Fund, a new group formed to take over the reins of the event. The new organization, christened "The Cherry Fund," institutionalized the annual fundraising effort, evolving into a year-round grant making organization while building a brand name that people around the country could identify. Different Avenues Different Avenues is a non-profit agency located in northeastern Washington, DC. They provide services to youth and young adults, ages 12 to 30 years, who are homeless or living in insecure housing. Many of their clients are transgender, gay, lesbian or bisexual. They also help youth who themselves are parents, as well as parents of youth. They work with people who engage in street survival strategies. Their services also include, counseling, a drop in center, and outreach. Dignity USA Dignity is organized to unite gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Catholics, as well as their families, friends and loved ones in order to develop leadership, and be an instrument through which they may be heard by and promote reform in the Church. Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington, DC Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance (GLAA) The Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington, DC, is a local, all-volunteer, non-partisan, non-profit political organization, founded in 1971 to advance the equal rights of gay men and lesbians in Washington, DC. We are the nation's oldest continuously active gay and lesbian civil rights organization. GLSEN The Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network strives to assure that each member of every school community is valued and respected regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression. Family Pride Coalition Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive Human Rights Campaign Latin American Youth Center The Latin American Youth Center (LAYC) is a multicultural community-based organization that supports youth and their families in their determination to live, work, and study with dignity, hope, and joy. Mautner Project The Mautner Project improves the health of lesbians and their families through advocacy, education, research, and direct service. It envisions a healthcare system that is guided by social justice and responsiveness to the needs of all people. Metro Teen AIDS Metro TeenAIDS provides resources to help young people fight AIDS and support each other. Unlike any other organization in the Washington, DC area, Metro TeenAIDS focuses all of its efforts on the special prevention, education, and treatment needs of young people. National Association of LGBT Community Centers National Black Justice Coalition The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Inc. ("NGLTF, Inc."), founded in 1974, works to build the grassroots political power of the LGBT community in order to attain complete equality. We do so through direct and grassroots lobbying to either help defeat anti-LGBT ballot initiatives and other measures or help push pro-LGBT legislation and other measures. We also analyze and report on the positions of candidates for public office on issues of importance to the LGBT community. National Youth Advocacy Coalition The National Youth Advocacy Coalition is a social justice organization that advocates for and with young people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning (LGBTQ) in an effort to end discrimination against these youth and to ensure their physical and emotional well being. The NYAC takes a comprehensive approach to improving the lives of LGBTQ youth and operates through a social justice framework. NYAC strongly believes that to be effective in creating change at the national level, focused, grassroots advocacy at the local level is critical. NYAC knows that the expertise required strengthening the LGBTQ youth movement can be found among both young people and adults from around the country. Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays Pride at Work SMYAL The Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL) is the only Washington, DC metro area service organization solely dedicated to supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and questioning (LGBTIQ) youth. Our mission is to promote and support self-confident, healthy, productive lives for LGBTIQ youth as they journey from adolescence into adulthood. To fulfill our mission, we focus our commitment and energy on five focus areas: (1) Counseling & Support, (2) Life Skills & Leadership Development, (3) Health & Wellness Education, (4) Safe Social Activities, and (5) Community Outreach and Education. The Trevor Project The Trevor Project is a nonprofit endeavor established to promote acceptance of gay and questioning teenagers, and to aid in suicide prevention among that group. The Trevor Project provides various resources and the only national, toll-free 24-hour, 365 day-a-year confidential suicide hotline for gay & questioning teens. Us Helping Us Us Helping Us specializes in HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care services for black gay and bisexual men. This site contains information about HIV/AIDS including prevention messeges that may not be suitable for all audiences. If you are not seeking such information or may be offended by such materials, Whitman-Walker Clinic College LGBT Groups American University George Mason University
GMU Pride Alliance http://gmu.edu/org/pride/past.html
GWU Allied in Pride http://www.gwu.edu/~allied/ Howard University Howard BLAGOSAH http://www.geocities.com/blagosah/personal.html
University of Maryland UM Pride Alliance http://www.pridealliance.umd.edu/
Pride Resources Black Lesbian and Gay Pride Day, Inc.
http://www.dcblackpride.org The Mission of BLGPD is to build awareness of and pride in the diversity of the Black lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community as well as to create a funding source and support for organizations that are addressing HIV/AIDS and other health issues adversely affecting our community. Proceeds from Black Pride events are distributed to HIV/AIDS and other health service organizations serving the African American community in the Washington, DC area. Capital Pride
http://www.capitalpride.org/ Capital Pride events and the Capital Pride Festival are organized by Whitman-Walker Clinic. The organizations, as a team, provide a community event that remains focused on diversity, cultural achievement, civil rights issues and entertainment by and for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals, families, and friends. Capital Pride celebrates the uniqueness of all individuals who participate in the annual celebration through participation and creating involvement in the annual parade and street festival.
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