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• – National nonprofit resource and information center for, by and about the Deaf LGBTQI community (hereafter referred to as the “Deaf Queer community”).
• (Gay Activist Alliance of Morris County) – Provides social and educational outreach for the GLBTQI community in Morris County, NJ.
• – New Jersey’s largest marriage equality organization.
• – New Jersey’s online resource for the GLBT community. Find information on LGBT organizations, friendly businesses, clubs and bars, meetings, etc.
• – News, resources, opinion, shopping, entertainment and more for the LGBT community.
• – An electronic library with news clippings, political contact information, newsletters, essays, images, hyperlinks, and every other kind of information resource of interest to the GLBTQ community
• ÌýComprehensive resources about LGBT youth including stories, links to discussion forums, blog posts, quizzes, Web sites, hotlines, and books—as well as a gallery of famous LGBTQ faces

• – Is a student organization dedicated to bring awareness to the Black LGBTQ community here at ÌÇÐÄvlog. Daughta Speaks would like to educate all ÌÇÐÄvlog students through various events, highlighting the political and social issues that the Black LGBTQ community endures. Daughta Speaks would also like to encourage all students on campus to embrace a sense of authenticity, eagerness to grow beyond their personal boundaries and start a unique path in their personal life.
• LGBTQ Safe Space Program – The LGBTQ Safe Place Program identifies offices of Montclair State faculty and staff that are safe places for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. Such offices are identified with a decal. The decal has a green circle with two triangles in the center, one pink and one in black. It reads LGBTQ Safe Space. Some of the people who display the decal are lesbian or gay, while others are supportive of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals.
• LGBTQ Studies Minor – ÌÇÐÄvlog’s LGBTQ minor offers students to explore LGBTQ representations, cultures, and histories, think critically about identities, current issues, institutions, and activism and enhance educational and professional opportunities.

• – News, reviews and commentary on Lesbian and Bisexual women in entertainment and th media
• – The website of the British Gay magazine
• – News, humor, travel, arts, entertainment & more
• – All Gender restroom signs

• (GLAAD) – Promotes fair and accurate representation of LGBT people in the media.
• (GLSEN) – Organization for students, parents and teachers that tries to affect positive change in schools.
• – The national Gay-Straight Alliance
• (HRC) – The nation’s largest LGBT political organization.
• – National organization fighting for equality under U.S. immigration law for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and HIV-positive individuals.
• – Committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of LGBT people and those with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work.
• – LGBT political group
• (NGLTF) – Promotes civil rights for LGBT people.
• – A national association of lawyers, judges and other legal professionals, law students, activists and affiliates, lesbians, gay, bisexual, transgender legal organizations.
• – LGBTQ political group
• (PFLAG) – Promotes the health and well-being of LGBT persons, their families and friends through support, education and advocacy.

• – New York group that provides a safe space to same-sex loving men of African Heritage to empower them to get a better understanding of their own spirituality, self-expression and sexual identity.
• – International organization for gay and bisexual Asian Pacific men.
• – A gay, multi-racial, multi-cultural organization for all people committed to fostering respect, honesty and communication among people of different races and cultural backgrounds.

• – Works for social, racial and economic justice in the U.S. and internationally. Their grantmaking and philanthropic advocacy programs help lesbians and allied communities challenge oppression and claim their human rights.
• – A community for LGBTQ Arab women
• – An international resource by, for, and about lesbians
• – Historical archives of lesbians and lesbian culture
• – A collection of lesbian-related links and resources
• – An organization for people of Asian Pacific-Islander descent who identify as LGBTQ.

• – A network of groups maintaining a cohesive bisexual community
• – Provides support to the bisexual community and raises public awareness about bisexuality and bisexual people
• – A bisexual community site with forums, articles, chat, personals and more.

• – A national social justice organization devoted to ending discrimination and violence against transgender people
• – Promotes the self-definition and free expression of individual gender identity
• – Resource for Female-to-Male individuals
• – Postings of online transgender resources
• – Coming Out as Transgender
• (TLPI) – A non-profit organization dedicated to engaging in effective advocacy for transgender people in our society. The TLPI brings experts and advocates together to work on law and policy initiatives designed to advance transgender equality.
• – Aa social justice organization with a particular focus on Hawaii’s transgender population.
• – A U.S. support hotline staffed by transgender people for transgender people. Number: 877-565-8860

• is the nation’s oldest and largest organization helping gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth to reach their full potential.
• is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that fosters strong and healthy young people of all identities by providing inclusive and youth-informed sex education and LGBTQ+ support for young people throughout New Jersey.
• is a home and voice for the diverse LGBTQ community and our allies that advocates for our physical, mental, social, and political well­­­-being.
• is aÌýprogram for transgender and gender-expansive youth and their families.

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  AASECT: This association provides a stable, nationwide network of accredited professionals such as sex therapists, family counselors, lawyers, physicians, nurses, social workers and many others that can assist the transgender individual.
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  (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (Also trans-folks)
  Abby Maisonave, President
  Facebook: Jersey shore PFLAGjspflag@gmail.com
  908-814-2155
• Pride Center of New Jersey
  85 Raritan Avenue, Suite 100
  Highland Park, NJ 08904-2701732-846-2232ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý
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  208 West 13^thÌýStreet
  New York, NY 10011
  212-620-7319
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  Counseling, References
  Three Office Locations:
  8 South Third Avenue,Ìý Highland Park, New Jersey 08904
  281 Payonia Ave. Jersey City, NJÌý 08732
  90 West Main Street, Freehold, NJ 07728
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  The Gay, Lesbian and 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.
  PO Box 261
  Hightstown, NJ 08520
  609.448.8243
  cnj@njglsen.org

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  3rd Monday of every month from 7-9 p.m. (Organized by PFLAG)
  Church House of the Presbyterian Church at Shrewsbury
  352 Sycamore Ave. Shrewsbury, N.J. 07702
  Use rear parking lot, enter rear door, go up the stairs and to the right to our meeting room
  
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  3rd Sunday of every month from 4-6 p.m.
  Pride Center of New Jersey
  58 Raritan Ave. (Suite 100 – Lower Level)
  Use rear parking lot, enter side door, go down the stairs and to the left to our meeting room.732-846-2232ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý
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  3rd Wednesday of every month at 7:30pm
  Central Unitarian Church
  156 Forest Ave, Paramus, NJ 07652

• Metropolitan Community Church
  85 Raritan Ave, Suite 100,Ìý Highland Park, NJÌý 08904
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  176 Tices Lane, East Brunswick, NJ 08816
  732-246-3113
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  724 Park Avenue
  Plainfield, NJÌý 07060
  908-756-0750
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  352 Sycamore Avenue,ÌýShrewsbury,ÌýNJÌý07702
  732-747-3557
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  936 Broad St, Bloomfield, NJ 07003
  (973) 338-1500

• (ISNA) – systemic change to end shame, secrecy and unwanted genital surgeries for people born with an anatomy that someone decided is not standard for male or female.
• – Oregon based national activist and advocacy organization for people born with intersex conditions.

• – Straight Ally resources
• – What Every Straight Ally Should Know

General Health Resources

• – Ensures equality in health care for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals and health care providers
• – New York City LGBT health center
• – A health question and answer Internet site produced by Columbia University’s Health Education Program.
• : Provides education on LGBT Health Issues
• – National Institute of Health online resource with LGBT information
• – LGBTQIA+ well-being resources
• – The LGBTQ community smoke at rates 40%-almost 200% higher than the general population. We work to support the many local tobacco control advocates in helping to eliminate tobacco health disparities for all LGBT people.
• Ìý(Somerville, NJ)ÌýRobert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset is the first hospital in New Jersey to offer specialized primary care services for the LGBTQIA community at our PROUD Family Health at RWJ Somerset Family Practice. Services include primary medical care for children and adults, hormone therapy and monitoring, HIV care, referrals for specialty services, health education and counseling, and support groups, including a monthly support group for family members of transgender individuals.
• – The Rutgers Center for Transgender Health (RCTH) is a collaborative center that will provide a full spectrum of medical, psychiatric and surgical care for the transgender person. Services include hormone therapy, psychiatric resources, and gender confirmation surgery.

HIV/AIDS

• – Philadelphia-based organization providing HIV/AIDS services to Asian communities
• – New York-based organization providing HIV/AIDS related services, education, and research to Asian and Pacific Islander communities.
• – Service, education, resources, and care to those living with and affected by HIV/AIDS
• – Free HIV Testing
• – The complete HIV/AIDS resource
• – Philadelphia-based HIV/AIDS education & prevention program for Latino/a sexual minorities
• – Free HIV testing and programming. counseling and other support services also available.

Minority AIDS Project

• – Organizations using the AIDS Memorial Quilt to help bring an end to AIDS

Sexual Violence

• Sexual Misconduct & Title IX
• –Ìý973-881-1450
• –Ìý877-733-2273
• –Ìý973-655-4361
• –Ìý973-655-5222
• – Free individual and group counseling services. Currently offering a men’s group and two women’s groups, establishing an all gender group specifically for LGBTQ survivors of sexual violence.

General and Local Resources

• – Advocating freedom for LGBT people from religious and political oppression through the practice of relentless nonviolent resistance.
• – Religious groups’ policies on homosexuality
• – An open and affirming United Church of Christ Congregation in Montclair.
• – The local Unitarian Church is located in Montclair, NJ. Open and Affirming.
• – An open and affirming United Church of Christ Congregation in Montclair, NJ.
• – Local Episcopal Church welcoming to the LGBT Community located in Montclair, NJ
• – Local Episcopal Church welcoming to the LGBT Community located in Montclair, NJ
• – Friendly Reconstructionist Synagogue serving the greater Essex County area. At Bnai Keshet a diverse group of people comes together to form a warm, spiritually invigorating and intellectually rigorous Jewish community. Located in Montclair, NJ
• – A self-governing Catholic community with a mission of service to all. St. Francis is an open and affirming Catholic Community.
• Reverend Ann Ralosky: Protestant Reverend located at ÌÇÐÄvlog
  Office Number: 973-655-7033
  Cell Number: 973-997-0370

Specific Faiths & Denominations

Buddhist

Christian

• : Unitarian Universalist Office of LGBT Concerns

Humanist

Jewish

Muslim

Job Search Engines & Networking Websites

• –Ìý A diversity career portal for minorities, women and other job seekers and diversity recruiters.
• – Thousands of job listings, most in the non-profit sector. This website allows you to search by interest and includes “Gay, Lesbian, Bi, and Trans Issues” as an area of focus.
• – Job search and networking website, including a directory of businesses, women’s network, LGBT events and links, and volunteer opportunities.
• – Employment site designed specifically to bring employers and transgender candidates together.

Workplace Policies, Information, & Resources

• – The best source of information on workplace and corporate policies related to sexual orientation and gender identity. Includes information about non-discrimination policies, organizations with domestic partnership benefits, municipalities that have laws banning employment discrimination, and career articles.
• – Provides workplace advocacy and programs to LGBT individuals. Each year they educate employers through their Diversity Training Program and their National Workplace Summit Conference.
• – Provides resources for innovative employers who want to set their company employment policies to help their transgendered employees to be at their most productive.

• – The worldwide alliance of gay outdoor clubs, covering hiking, camping, swimming and more.
• – A place for gay athletes.