LGBT Organizations
LGBT Organizations
Human Rights Campaign - Join HRC and make a difference! As America's largest gay and lesbian organizations, the Human Rights Campaign provides a national voice on gay and lesbian issues. The Human Rights Campaign effectively lobbies Congress; mobilizes grassroots action in diverse communities; invests strategically to elect a fair-minded Congress; and increases public understanding through innovative education and communication strategies. HRC is a bipartisan organization that works to advance equality based on sexual orientation and gender expression and identity, to ensure that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered Americans can be open, honest and safe at home, at work and in the community.
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is a national organization working for the civil rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people with the vision and commitment to building a powerful political movement. Similar in mission to the HRC, NGLTF works more on the local level and needs your support to exist.
Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG) is a national nonprofit organization with over 80,000 members and supporters and more than 460 affiliates in the United States. PFLAG promotes the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered persons, their families and friends through: support, to cope with an adverse society; education, to enlighten an ill-informed public; and advocacy, to end discrimination and to secure equal civil rights.
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, or GLAAD, is dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate, and inclusive representation of individuals and events in all media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.