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Capitol Hill Medical is an LGBTQ-focused clinic that exists to serve the unique medical needs of Seattle’s LGBTQ community. We are LGBTQ doctors and clinicians offering primary care services to gays, lesbians, bisexuals, trans, and queer patients. We are also certified by the American Academy of HIV Medicine as HIV specialists, and offer hormone therapy to our trans patients who are in transition.…
Gay City seeks to promote wellness in LGBTQ communities by providing health services, connecting people to resources, fostering arts, and building community. We have compiled a listing of businesses, organizations, and providers that offer LGBTQ-focused services or goods. Areas of focus include disability, cultural centers, youth, legal, arts, social organizations, elders, sobriety, health and wellness, trans & gender nonconforming, and housing.…
The National LGBT Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) seeks to showcase that, in addition to being LGBT, many LGBT people are also business owners, employers, taxpayers, providers of healthcare, and a vibrant, essential part of the nation’s small business communities. The goal is to create an organization that could support LGBT business owners and represent the diversity of talent in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities.
Areas of focus include:
Diversity & Inclusion: Work for diversity and inclusion for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)-owned businesses.
Policy Priorities: Ensure implementation of pro-business, LGBT-inclusive policies at the federal, state, and local levels of government.…
BiNet Seattle is a bisexual nonprofit, mixed gender, social and support organization created to foster a visible community for bisexual, pansexual, and bi-curious people and their partners in the Puget Sound area. We support the community through educational speakings, support groups and social events.
Interact with BiNet Seattle online via our Facebook group; you can also follow BiNet on Twitter.…
Three Dollar Bill Cinema strengthens, connects, and reflects diverse communities through queer film and media by providing access to films by, for, and about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ2+) people and their families, and a forum for LGBTQ2+ filmmakers to share and discuss their work with audiences.
Featured programs:
SEATTLE QUEER FILM FESTIVAL: The largest of its kind in the Pacific Northwest, the festival has garnered national recognition for showcasing extraordinary and award-winning work.
TRANSLATIONS: SEATTLE TRANSGENDER FILM FESTIVAL: This groundbreaking film festival provides a venue for films by, for, and about transgender people, encouraging visibility and positive representations of transgender …
Hugo House is a place where you can read words, hear words, and make your own words better. Hugo House is a place for writers, with a concentrated focus on helping anyone who wants to write. We offer readings, classes, book launches, workshops, teen programs, consultations with professional writers, and much more. Everyone wants to make their mark–to find and leave a record of who they are. Hugo House is a place where you can write.
“Writing is a way of saying you and the world have a chance.”
Richard Hugo, Hugo House namesake…
Mission Statement
Lavender Rights Project elevates the power, autonomy, and leadership of the Black intersex & gender diverse community through intersectional legal and social services. We utilize the law as an organizing principle to affirm our civil rights and self-determination.
Our organization disrupts oppressive systems that target Black gender diverse and intersex communities of color and lead to disproportionate levels of poverty, housing disparities, and gender-based violence, especially among Black and Indigenous people.
Vision Statement
Lavender Rights Project is creating a world in which the Black and Indigenous gender diverse communities are at the forefront of liberation and recognized for our power to …
The Seattle Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Commission advises the Mayor, Council and departments about sexual minority issues, recommends policies and legislation, brings the sexual minority communities and the larger Seattle community together through long-range projects, and ensures that City departments fairly and equitably address sexual minority concerns as individuals and as a protected class. The LGBTQ Commission consists of 15 representative citizens of Seattle appointed by the Mayor and City Council to serve in an advisory capacity to the Mayor, City Council, Seattle Office for Civil Rights, and other Seattle City departments. …
The Pride Foundation’s areas of focus include:
Scholarships: Supporting inspirational LGBTQ and allied student leaders with crucial financial and community support.
Grants: Partnering with organizations to build a more inclusive world for LGBTQ people and communities with essential financial and technical support.
Initiatives: Partnering with local visionaries–from public officials, to business, faith, and grassroots leaders–on innovative strategies to strengthen Northwest communities.
Policy Advocacy: Advancing fundamental lived and legal equity through public education, legislation and ballot initiatives, shareholder advocacy, and engagement.…
The National LGBTQ Task Force, as the country’s oldest national LGBTQ advocacy group, advances full freedom, justice and equality for LGBTQ people. Millions of LGBTQ people face barriers in every aspect of their lives–housing, employment, healthcare, retirement, and basic human rights. The Task Force is training and mobilizing millions of activists across our nation to deliver a world where you can be you.…
The Human Rights Campaign represents a force of more than 3 million members and supporters nationwide. As the largest national lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer civil rights organization, the HRC envisions a world where LGBTQ people are ensured of their basic equal rights, and can be open, honest and safe at home, at work, and in the community. The HRC strives to end discrimination against LGBTQ citizens and realize a nation that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all.…
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) National Help Center provides vital peer-support, community connections, and resource information to people with questions regarding sexual orientation and/or gender identity. Three national hotlines are available: the LGBT National Hotline; the LGBT National Youth Talkline,; and the LGBT National Senior Hotline, as well as private, volunteer one-to-one online chat that helps both youth and adults with coming-out issues, safer-sex information, school bullying, family concerns, relationship problems, and more.
Weekly moderated chat rooms help LGBT youth and teens find support, acceptance and community, providing a safe environment on the phone or internet for people …
GLAAD works through entertainment, news, and digital media to share stories from the LGBTQ community that accelerate acceptance.
Featured publication: GLAAD’s Media Reference Guide (now in its 10th edition)
This publication provides tools the media can use to tell LGBTQ people’s stories in ways that bring out the best in journalism. It is intended to be used by journalists reporting for mainstream media outlets and by creators in entertainment media who want to tell LGBTQ people’s stories fairly and accurately.
The Reference Guide includes: A GLOSSARY OF TERMS/LANGUAGE (e.g., Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Queer/Transgender), and AP, Reuters, & New York Times Style guidelines; discussion and guidelines on …
Cerebral Palsy Guidance covers cerebral palsy from all angles–from symptoms, causes, and treatment, to daily living information, such as articles on communication and transitioning to adulthood. Information is provided by expert writers and is thoroughly researched and cited.
Focus is on three areas of guidance: CEREBRAL PALSY OVERVIEW (Learn about the different types, symptoms, and causes of cerebral palsy.); FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE (Financial help is available to parents and children with cerebral palsy; learn what you may qualify for.); and LIVING WITH CEREBRAL PALSY (Learn how to make life easier for parents and children with cerebral palsy–everything from daily communication and feeding tips to …
AVER is dedicated to advocating and serving the needs of America’s LGBT armed forces veterans with information, referral, and limited legal consultation regarding VA benefits claims.
AVER Veterans Affairs maintains liaison and coordination with other LGBT service organizations, e.g., TAVA (Transgender American Veterans Association), OutServe (the active duty LGBT service organization), S.W.A.N. (Service Women’s Action Network), SAGE (Services and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Elders), among others, and by serving on committees and boards and participating in forums and conferences regarding the rights and needs of LGBT service members.…
