LGBT Community Rights / Lobby Group Organisations

(UK and Ireland)

• B-F-P – A developing social reform project and advisory group to other LGBT groups. Some B-F-P documents maybe unnerving to read as this one of the most controversial LGBT websites that investigates and exposes the flaws in the LGBT civil rights & social scene system, and politics & law in furthering equality. Contains sociology, psychology and political study documents produced from a five year academic research done by this organisation that their social reform project is based on.

• DELGA - Liberal Democrat Action for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equality.
  
• Equality Alliance - The Equality Alliance is made up of many organisations and individuals from all areas of the community. The Equality Alliance is currently coordinating a number of initiatives in which you can participate.
  
• Equality Network - The Equality Network campaigns for human rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Scotland. We aim to bring about changes in the laws and institutions of Scotland to remove the inequalities facing LGBT people.
  
• Gay Conservatives - Deliberately similar to the Conservative Party website, reflecting our new positive relationship.
  
• George House Trust - Training campaigning etc on gay rights
  
• Labour Campaign for Lesbian and Gay Rights - The Labour Campaign for Lesbian and Gay Rights is the national democratic organisation for lesbian, gay and bisexual members of the Labour Party, trade unions or other Labour organisations.
  
• Leicester Lesbian and Gay Action - Leicester Lesbian and Gay Action is a campaigning group of Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals in Leicestershire and Rutland (England, UK).

• OutRage! - (Recomendation) The best and the most notorious LGBT rights group in the UK, and the most qualified group at researching, finding, fighting the issues that count. Run by Peter Tatchell the most highly regarded activist in the UK even though many disagree with his views and agendas. Outrage is one of the only groups that really understand and believe in the term: Affirmative Action.
  
• Outright Scotland - The website of Scotland's democratic lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender rights organisation - fighting for equality and liberation since 1969.
  
• Press for Change [Recomendation]- Press for Change is a political lobbying and educational organisation, which campaigns to achieve equal civil rights and liberties for all transgender people in the United Kingdom, through legislation and social change.
  
• Romania Action for Gay Men, Lesbians and Bisexuals - In January 1997 Outrage in London, and ILGA, the International Gay and Lesbian Association called for a boycott of Romania's most visible export - wine. 80% is exported by just one company so it's a real opportunity to have your voice heard.

• Stonewall L&G Voluntary Sector Forum - Part of the Stonewall lobbying group
  
• TORCHE - The Tory Campaign for Homosexual Equality. A progressive voice within the Conservative Party.
  
• Trades Union Congress - The TUC has been campaigning to convince the government to extend anti-discrimination law to cover lesbians and gay men.
  
• UNISON - Lesbians and gay men are out and proud as members of UNISON, the biggest trade union in Britain. We recognise the importance of the trade union to us — in protecting and improving our rights at work. Many of us are active in our workplaces and branches, representing and advising colleagues both lesbian/gay and straight.

International

• COC Leiden - Het COC Leiden is de belangenbehartiger voor homoseksuele mannen en vrouwen in de regio Leiden. Daarnaast is het COC Leiden één van de populairste discotheken van Leiden.
  
• Coordinadora Gai Lesbiana - La Coordinadora Gai-Lesbiana és una federació de cinc associacions que treballen pels drets de gais i lesbianes, en la lluita contra la sida i en solidaritat amb els afectats pel vih. El nostre local és a Barcelona, ciutat on va néixer el 1986. És membre de la ILGA des de 1986. (English version also available)
  
• CRSH - Comité pour la Reconnaissance Sociale des Homosexuel/les.
  
• Gemini - Welcome to the official web-site of the Bulgarian Gay Organisation "Gemini"
  
• HOSI Wien - Die Förderung der demokratischen Auseinandersetzung mit der Homosexualität und die Beeinflussung der öffentlichen und allgemeinen Bewußtseinslage derart, daß die gesetzliche, moralische und gesellschaftliche Benachteiligung von Lesben und Schwulen ein Ende nimmt.
  
• Human Rights Campaign [Recomendation] - 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 transgender Americans can be open, honest and safe at home, at work and in the community.
  
• ILGA - The International Lesbian and Gay Association is a world-wide federation of national and local groups dedicated to achieving equal rights for lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people everywhere.
  
• International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights commission - IGLHRC's mission is to protect and advance the human rights of all people and communities subject to discrimination or abuse on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or HIV status.
  
• Kampania Przeciw Homofobii (Campaign Against Homophobia - Poland) - Kampania Przeciw Homofobii powsta³a w 2001 roku i jest organizacj¹ nieformaln¹, pozarz¹dow¹, dzia³aj¹c¹ na terenie ca³ej Polski. W Kampanii pracuj¹ tylko wolontariusze, którzy swe wysi³ki skupiaj¹ na szeroko pojêtej walce z homofobi¹.
  
• Kommunikation und Bildung vom Anderen Ufer (Kombi) - Founded in 1981, our centre has been working towards lesbian and gay emancipation for 21 years. We offer training and information on lesbian and gay issues for teachers, social workers, university and high school students, the police, street workers etc. Our work prevents homophobic violence and fights discrimination and prejudice
  
• Lesben- und Schwulenverband in Deutschland (LSVD) - Die größte Bürgerrechts-, Selbsthilfe- und Wohlfahrtsorganisation der Lesben und Schwulen in Deutschland begrüßt Sie im Internet-Angebot von LSVD online.
  
• NGLTF (National Gay & Lesbian Task Force) - Powerful US gay activist and lobbying group.
  
• Stonewall Society - As members of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered community we seek the acceptance of all people as equals. To have the same; rights, respect, and freedom to live our lives with individual dignity and safety. We ask no permission as these ideals were granted us by natural order and/or our creator.
  
• The Magnus Hirschfeld Centre for Human Rights - The Magnus Hirschfeld Centre for Human Rights is a non-governmental, non-profit, voluntary organization engaged in the promotion of human rights and civil liberties under international law.

• The World Congress of GLBT Jews: Keshet Ga'avah - Our vision is an environment where Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Jews worldwide can enjoy free and fulfilling lives.

Civil Rights (UK & Ireland) [back to top]

• Sexual Freedom Coalition (SFC) - The SFC was formed in 1986 after the police forced the cancellation of the 10th Sex Maniacs' Ball. We campaign for changes to Britain's archaic sex laws.

• B-F-P – A developing social reform project, and research advisory to LGBT civil rights and other groups. Site contains many documents that maybe unnerving to read as this is one of the most controversial LGBT websites that investigates and exposes the flaws in the LGBT civil rights & social scene system, and politics & law inn furthering equality, containing sociology psychology and political study documents produced from a five year research study done this organisation that their social reform project is based on.
  

• ILGA Survey of the Legal Situation of Gays throughout the World - ILGA has comprehensively researched the laws of all the world's nations to determine their attitude to gays and lesbians

• The Alliance of Sodomy Supporters - The Alliance of Sodomy Supporters works to educate the public about sodomy, and is a supporter of the right for adults to engage in consensual non-commercial sexual acts.

Secular Groups & Org’s [back to top]

(UK & Ireland)

• B-F-P – One of the most controversial LGBT websites of sociology, psychology, law & political investigation from humanist views that investigates and exposes the dangerous flaws in the LGBT civil rights & social scene system, and politics & law, containing sociology psychology and political study documents produced from a five year research study using scientific principles produced by this organisation, that their social reform project is based on.
  
• Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association [Recomended] - GALHA provides a voice for the many non-religious in the lesbian and gay community in the United Kingdom and elsewhere and promotes a rational humanist approach to homosexuality and to lesbian, gay and bisexual rights as human rights.

• Humanists - On this independent site for Humanists there is Humanist information, news, comments, answered questions and jokes; plus details of events and contacts.
  
• National Secular Society - [Recomended] "...to be on the side of all humanity, the side of intelligence, rationality and decency." THE ROLE OF THE NATIONAL SECULAR SOCIETY The National Secular Society is the leading British pressure group speaking out for the rights of atheists, agnostics and all other non-believers. Its aim is to fight religious prejudice and privilege, including the disestablishment of the Church of England. We call ourselves secularists because. It affirms that no one should be disadvantaged because they do not subscribe to a religious faith.
  
• UK Atheist Page - Steven Carr - This page is designed to provide information about atheism and about specific religions. There are detailed examinations of Christianity and Islam and a set of links to the world's foremost source of secular information.
  

• American Atheists - American Atheists welcomes you to the online version of our quarterly magazine of Atheist News and Thought. Here you will find selected articles from the printed version of the magazine and a variety of web-only content.
  
• Skepticism.org - Critical thinking about religion, culture, science and politics.

• The Secular Web - Our adopted mission is to defend and promote metaphysical naturalism, the view that our natural world is all that there is, a closed system in no need of an explanation and sufficient unto itself. To that end we publish the very best secular books, essays, papers, articles and reviews. We also stand as a bulwark against the forces of superstition, especially the radical religious right, whose proponents would have us fear knowledge rather than embrace it. We want to uphold the dignity of humanity and to encourage the avid pursuit of philosophy and the scientific enterprise.

Human Rights (UK & Ireland)  [back to top]

• Foundation for Information Policy Research - The Foundation for Information Policy Research is an independent body that studies the interaction between information technology and society. Our goal is to identify technical developments with significant social impact, commission research into public policy alternatives, and promote public understanding and dialogue between technologists and policy-makers in the UK.
  
• Amnesty International UK [Recomended]- Amnesty International promotes awareness of the values contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other internationally-agreed standards of human rights. During much of our history, our campaigning has focused on prisoners, but we have responded to the changing patterns of human rights violations in the world. Today, the biggest threat to human rights in the world are mass violations in armed conflicts. People are now more likely to become victims of abuse because of who they are, rather than for what they think, say or do.
  
• Anti Nazi League - The Anti-Nazi League is a broad based, mass organisation. Anyone who wants to stop the Nazis can join, regardless of political belief, religion or creed. We have one single aim, to stop the Nazis reaching a wider audience and growing.

• B-F-P – A developing social reform project, and Human & civil rights research resources and advisory to other LGBT groups. One of the most controversial LGBT websites that investigates and exposes the flaws in the LGBT civil rights & social scene system, and politics & law in furthering equality. Containing sociology psychology and political study documents produced from a five year research study done by this organisation that their social reform project is based on.
  
• Campaign for Racial Equality - CRE works to remove racial discrimination from UK society and works on behalf of those discriminated against because of their race, colour, or ethnic origin
  
• Citizenship 21 - Citizenship 21, the exciting new project that provides practical ways to promote equality and challenge prejudice. If we work together, we can stop the prejudice that leads to violence…
  
• Commission for Racial Equality - The Commission for Racial Equality is a publicly funded, non-governmental body set up under the Race Relations Act 1976 to tackle racial discrimination and promote racial equality.
  
• Council of Europe: Conventions & Treaties. - About Conventions and Agreements in the European Treaty Series (ETS) The Statute of the Council of Europe, signed in London on 5 May 1949, after declaring the aim of the Organisation, states in Article 1, paragraph b: "This aim shall be pursued through the organs of the Council by discussion of questions of common concern and by agreements and common action in economic, social, cultural, scientific, legal and administrative matters and in the maintenance and further realisation of human rights and fundamental freedoms."
  
• Equal Opportunities Commission - Monitors and adjudicates equal opportunities in the workplace
  
• Human Rights Act 1998 - The text of this Internet version of the Act has been prepared to reflect the text as it received Royal Assent. The authoritative version is the Queen's Printer copy published by The Stationery Office Limited as the Human Rights Act 1998, ISBN 0 10 544298 4.
  
• Liberty Human Rights - Liberty is an independent human rights organisation which works to defend and extend rights and freedoms in England and Wales. (Formerly known as the National Council for Civil Liberties.)
  
• Socialist Alliance - Our overall aim is actively to help create a socially just and ecologically sustainable society, including the fight against and ultimate abolition of sexism, racism, homophobia, and discrimination against people with disabilities and on grounds of age.
  
• Socialist Appeal - Socialist Appeal supporters are at the forefront of the fight to commit the Labour government to introduce bold socialist measures. We are campaigning on the programme below as the only solution for working people.
  
• The Odysseus Trust - The Odysseus Trust seeks to promote good governance in the interests of the governed, based upon plural democratic values, public accountability and the effective protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms. It seeks legislative, political and social reforms to achieve these objectives.

• American Civil Liberties: - Comprehensive site dealing with all aspects of civil rights in the USA
  
• Centre for Democracy and Technology - The Centre for Democracy and Technology works to promote democratic values and constitutional liberties in the digital age. With expertise in law, technology, and policy, CDT seeks practical solutions to enhance free expression and privacy in global communications technologies. CDT is dedicated to building consensus among all parties interested in the future of the Internet and other new communications media.
  
• Eumap - In cooperation with partner institutions and individuals from throughout the EU accession region, the EU Accession Monitoring Program monitors compliance with aspects of the Copenhagen political criteria for accession.
  
• FreeSpeech - Free Speech Internet Television is the first audio/video hub on the web created and defined by the people who use it. Establishment media responds to the interests of stockholders and the perspectives of the advertisers who fill its pages, airtime and coffers. Freespeech.org attempts to respond to the interests of that majority of the people whose voices are excluded or distorted in the corporate media. The work of Free Speech Internet TV and other alternative media organizations at the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle in December 1999 demonstrated how such voices could change the political terrain. (See "Special Report - Seattle"). Our commitment is to offer services. We host and promote. We currently provide free hosting for over 7000 non-commercial websites and 2500 media files. We are also building a community of premium websites that emphasize audio and video. We promote those sites that are the most interesting and engaging. Free Speech Internet TV, in collaboration with Free Speech Cable and the new Free Speech Digital Broadcast Satellite Channel, also provides an Internet venue for producers and directors of progressive film, video and audio. Our curated archive of documentary programs is the largest on the Internet, almost 600 titles. Many of these titles can now be purchased directly at Freespeech.org through our online store. Freespeech.org is a not-for-profit site. We rely on your tax-deductible donations. And we invite you to post a free website or become a premium hosted member. We welcome your criticism and support. Write us at director@freespeech.org
  
• Human Rights Resource Centre - The Human Rights Resource Centre is an integral part of the University of Minnesota Human Rights Centre and works in partnership with the University of Minnesota Human Rights Library to: Create and distribute human rights education (HRE) resources via electronic and print media; Train activists, professionals, and students as human rights educators; and Build advocacy networks to encourage effective practices in human rights education.
  
• Human Rights Watch - Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. We stand with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice
  
• Ruckus Society - US based group that provides training and information for political activists.
  
• Statewatch - Statewatch is a non-profit-making voluntary group founded in 1991. It is comprised of lawyers, academics, journalists, researchers and community activists. Its European network of contributors is drawn from 12 countries. Statewatch encourages the publication of investigative journalism and critical research in the fields of the state, civil liberties and openness. The Statewatch bulletin was launched in 1991 and is now in its 11th year of publication. Coverage includes news, features and research sources on new measures introduced by national governments and the EU institutions in Brussels as well as reporting from the ground on the effect of policies and state practices in the community. The Statewatch website was launched in August 1995, from the outset it included a free, searchable database. It now holds 26,000 items including coverage from the bulletin. In 1997 the Statewatch European Monitoring and Documentation Centre (SEMDOC) was launched. SEMDOC has an extensive collection documents from the Council of the European Union, the European Commission and the European Parliament on justice and home affairs and civil liberties. The SEMDOC website was launched in 1998 together with the Statewatch European Monitor. In June 2000 Statewatch News online was launched and carries news and features with extensive full-text background documentation to supplement coverage in the bulletin. In January 2001 the Statewatch subscriber website was launched which is accessible through an online subscription to bulletin subscribers - it carries the current bulletin in "pdf" format and a database of all coverage in the bulletin from 1991 to the current issue. The Statewatch website gets over 10,000 visitors a month making over 46,000 "hits". Statewatch has received three Awards for its work: 1998 The Campaign for Freedom of Information gave Statewatch an Award for its work on fighting for EU openness (access to documents) 1999 Privacy International gave Statewatch an Award for its work in exposing the EU-FBI telecommunications surveillance plans 2001 The European Information Association gave Statewatch the "Chadwyck-Healey Award for achievement in European Information" for its work on openness and the new code of access to EU documents Statewatch is a partner of OneWorld online.

• Tolerance - A Web project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Tolerance.org encourages people from all walks of life to "fight hate and promote tolerance." We hope to awaken you to the problem of hate and intolerance, equip you with the best tolerance ideas and prompt you to act in your homes, schools, businesses and communities. People everywhere can find news, interactive maps of hate and human rights.

• The Employers' Forum on Sexual Orientation. - The Employers' Forum on Sexual Orientation, 'Expect Respect' supports organisation with training, information and an accreditation programme. The expectRespect approved seal offers gay and lesbian people an assurance of equality and respect from organisations who qualify to carry the seal.
  
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Legal Advice (UK and Ireland)                        

• Anthony Gold - Solicitor - Central and south london
  
• Burton Woods - Solicitor - central london
  
• Hamiltons Solicitors - Hamiltons Solicitors deals with: E-Commerce, Data Protection Issues, Regulation of the Internet, Computers and the Law, Criminal litigation.
  
• Kaltons Solicitors - Lawyers specialising in property and business
  
• Taylor Wilcocks - Solicitor - Clapham SW4
  
• Terry & Co UK Solicitors - Gays face a variety of legal problems not usually encountered by non-gays and there are two common problems in English law about which something can very definitely be done legally and which most gays in a lasting relationship will certainly want to deal with sooner or later.
  
• UK Legal Matters - Links to lawyers and legal firms giving free advice on gay matters
  
• Wesley Gryk - Specialist in immigration and committed working for lesbian and gay rights

• Wills on Wheels - Civil lawyers

• AHBAB - Unformation and support for Arab LGBs
  
• Beyond Barriers - Beyond Barriers is a 3-year Scotland wide, lottery funded project. Our ultimate aim is to challenge homophobia and prejudice. We want to strengthen the voice of LGBT people and work towards a Scotland that celebrates equality and diversity.

• B-F-P – A developing social reform project, and LGBT research information resources and advisory group on politics, mental health, sociology, legislations, education curriculums. One of the most controversial LGBT websites that investigates and exposes the flaws in the LGBT civil rights & social scene system, and politics & law, containing sociology psychology and political study documents produced from a five year research study done this organisation that their social reform project is based on.

• Bisexual Activists - Serving the world's bisexual community.
  
• CAFFMOS - Contacts and friendship for men over 60. Based in the Brighton area.
  
• Croydon L&G Forum - Community group for Croydon residents.
  
• Gay & Lesbian Association Of Doctors and Dentists - Professional and social support for medical doctors and for dentists.
  
• Gay & Lesbian Teachers Online - For members of the profession.
  
• Gay Bournemouth - Fyne Times is a gay mag with a difference. Unlike other gay press, Fyne can reach out to every sector of the community. Why? Simply because it doesn't contain nudity, chat lines or adverts for 'adult services'. This means the mag can get to not only every gay pub and club in our five areas, but also into libraries, coffee shops and even hairdressers. Fyne Times is also valuable to you lot, the gay youth of today. We carry youth section especially for you four times a year and because of the lack of sexual content, the mag can also go to youth groups up and down the country. Our five areas are the Thames Valley, Bristol and South Wales, the south West, Bournemouth and Cambridge, our newest area. You can either pick up the mag in a gay venue near you, our if not, why not check out the Fyne Times site at www.fyne.co.uk.
  
• Gay Business Association - The GBA (Gay Business Association) was established in 1984 by a group of gay and lesbian businesspeople who saw the need for a professional organisation which could improve standards, share information and experiences and promote gay business generally.
  
• Gay Outdoor Club - Scotland - For those who enjoy sport and outdoor pursuits.
  
• Gay Young Bournemouth - Fyne Times is a gay mag with a difference. Unlike other gay press, Fyne can reach out to every sector of the community. Why? Simply because it doesn't contain nudity, chat lines or adverts for 'adult services'. This means the mag can get to not only every gay pub and club in our five areas, but also into libraries, coffee shops and even hairdressers. Fyne Times is also valuable to you lot, the gay youth of today. We carry youth section especially for you four times a year and because of the lack of sexual content, the mag can also go to youth groups up and down the country. Our five areas are the Thames Valley, Bristol and South Wales, the south West, Bournemouth and Cambridge, our newest area. You can either pick up the mag in a gay venue near you, our if not, why not check out the Fyne Times site at www.fyne.co.uk.
  
• GLSA - Gays and lesbians working in science.
  
• Intercom Trust - The intercom Trust is a voluntary community organisation, run by, and for lesbians, gay men, bisexual women & men, trans people of all genders and orientations and the community as a whole in the South West: Cornwall, Devon, Dorset & Somerset.
  
• Lesbian And Gay Police Association - Formed in 1990, the Lesbian And Gay Police Association was set up after a group of Police staff in the Metropolitan Police, London, realised the need for some kind of network amongst the individual gay or lesbian officers. After an initial social event, the Association was formed and over the years has grown to include members in nearly every UK Police Service.
  
• Metro Centre - Services for people questioning their sexuality. Based in south east London.
  
• National Friend - Umbrella body for the Friend UK network.
  
• New Beginnings - New Beginnings was founded in 1985. A friendly discussion group, based in London, for men and women coming to terms or unsure of their sexuality. If you think you might be gay, and want to meet people in a similar situation, New Beginnings could be for you.
  
• Out-Side-In - We are a charitable organisation set up in order to offer friendship, advice and support to gay, lesbian and bisexual prisoners, regardless of their age, crime or colour.
  
• Pink Triangle Trust - The Pink Triangle Trust is a charitable trust set up in 1992 to advance the education of the public, and particularly of lesbians and gay men, in the principles and practice of Humanism, and to advance the education of the public, and particularly of Humanists, about all aspects of homosexuality. It may also assist individuals to obtain remedies under the law where they have suffered unlawful discrimination on account of their homosexuality or their Humanism.
  
• QueerSpace - QueerSpace is a volunteer-led organisation based on collective planning and action which serves the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Community of Belfast and Northern Ireland by raising its visibility, supporting its activities, providing it with resources and facilitating communication while adhering to the principals of community orientation, freedom of identity, ethical funding and accessibility.
  
• School’s Out! (Recomendation)- School’s Out! National is an organisation for lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transpersons working in education.
  
• SLAGO - The Surrey and London Association of Gay Organizations - SLAGO includes social and support groups for gay men and lesbians in various parts of London and the Home Counties. The different groups cover different geographical areas, different age ranges, and various activities, including pub evenings, coffee evenings and bottle parties in members' homes, meetings with speakers, trips out to theatre, cinema, and places of interest, and tennis and other sporting events.
  

• Action Romania - It is in the process of forming a gay organization that dare to express sexual orientation of gay people. We could use any help we can get, in order to change the mentality toward this social category. From political support to ideas and money, all are welcome and fully apreciated.
  
• BOLOBOLO - COLECTIVO DE LESBIANAS Y GAYS DE TOLEDO (SPAIN) : - A finales de febrero de 2000 apareció ésta página con el fin de que los homosexuales de Toledo se conociesen. En principio la idea era conocernos y hacer un club de amigos. Ésto funcionó y hacia octubre comenzamos a realizar reuniones. En ellas se debatiron y configuraron los estatutos y se establecieron las pautas generales a seguir. Costo mucho debate y discusión, pero se consiguió. A fecha 9 de febrero se legalizó el Colectivo de Lesbianas y Gays de Toledo por parte de la Junta de Castilla - La Mancha con el registro CLM/12799.
  
• Casal Lamda - Benvolgut soci/a i simpatitzants: Ens dirigim de nou a tu per informar-te que el Casal va acordar en sessió plenària el lloguer d’un nou local social per a dur a terme la nostra activitat.
  
• Centre Gai et Lesbien - Very friendly and well-run Paris Gay Centre. In the Bastille area and close to the Marais. Ouvert sur la vie, ouvert sur la cité, le Centre gai et lesbien est une association de bénévoles, qui offre un lieu d'accueil et des activités à toutes, et tous ceux que l'homosexualité intéresse.
  
• COGAM Madrid - En esta página (que en teoría deberíais haber abierto la primera, pero no vamos a ser ilus@s.. ) Os vamos a explicar, en el menor número de líneas posible porque nos aterra aburrir a los internautas, lo que es COGAM. Se trata de una Asociación sin ánimo de lucro, fundada en 1986,con sus correspondientes entradas en el Registro de Asociaciones del Estado y la Comunidad de Madrid (de los números de Registro no nos acordamos, pero no nos vamos a levantar ahora a mirarlo ...), que intenta desde todos los frentes que puede (políticos, sociales, y económicos – ay, desde ese frente poco –...) la consecución de derechos para una parte de la población de este país que carece de ellos.
  
• Collectiu Lamda de Gais i Lesbianes del Pais Valencia - Gay and lesbian collective in Valencia
  
• COMITE POUR LA RECONNAISSANCE SOCIALE DES HOMOSEXUEL/LES - Longtemps persécutés et rejetés, les homosexuel-les revendiquent leur droit de cité, comme tous les autres individus. Les questions posées par les homosexuel-les dépassent largement le cadre de la population concernée. Elles contribuent à interpeller la société dans son ensemble, sur les dispositions à prendre pour respecter les droits fondamentaux de chaque individu et l'égalité de dignité en permettant à chacun d'être soi-même et tels qu'ils sont stipulés dans la déclaration des droits de l'Homme.
  
• Fundación Fundacion Triángulo por la Iguualdad Social de Gays y Lesbianas - Nuestra organización se fundó para a conseguir la iguadad de derechos políticos y sociales para gais y lesbianas.
  
• Gay & Lesbian Activists Alliance - 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.
  
• Gay and Lesbian Medical Association - GLMA exists to make the health care environment a place of empathy, justice, and equity.
  
• Gay Iceland - Iceland has seen one of the swiftest attitude adjustments in the world! In order to mount an effective campaign to educate people about AIDS, Icelanders had to talk openly about sex and address their homosexual population. Read about the adventures of gay Iceland!
  
• Gay Malta - A new group aimed at supporting gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and questioning individuals in their bid to integrate their sexual identity and their Catholic beliefs.
  
• Gay Malta - The Malta Gay Rights Movement is a non governmental and non profitable organisation which was started in June of 2001. Since then the Movement has moved forward in leaps and bounds and is proud of all the support it is getting.
  
• Gay Norway - Norway's liberal attitude did not spring from a vacuum or aberration of climate. Since the rise of the great mercantile cities of Brugge, Antwerp and Amsterdam beginning in the 15th century, coinciding with the upheaval of the religious reformation, the old northern Hanseatic world of commerce molded a political trend of decency. It valued the rule of law, disseminating a degree of fairness to all citizens, although unevenly, over the course of five hundred years.
  
• Gay Sweden - Intro: Compared to virtually any other country on the planet, being born gay, lesbian or bi in Sweden is a stroke of good genetic luck. The issue of alternative sexuality that evokes hysteria, hatred and bigotry in so many other cultures is, in Sweden, a non-issue. Homosexual behavior was legalized in 1944. and the first LGBT organization started in 1950--a time when the rest of the world hardly knew that homosexuality existed. Today, of course, Sweden has some of the most progressive laws and leadership regarding LGBT affairs. (See story #1 below.) This is not to say that all Swedes have smooth-sailing on this; there is ignorance everywhere in the world and rural Sweden is no exception. And not every gay youth flies out of the closet fully self-identified. (See stories #2 and #3 below) But once out, he or she is well protected by the law and is surrounded by a wide variety of rainbow organizations. Gay loving and living is mostly relaxed and safe here--about as good as it gets anywhere.
  
• GLAAD - The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of people and events in the media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.
  
• GRUP DE LESBIANES FEMINISTES - We are a group of women who meet in order to expand and grow spaces free of sexism and homophobia existing in our society , spaces where lesbian and other excluded or ignorated minorities can live according to us. We work to make visible the existence and the contributions of lesbian and women in general
  
• Homosexuals Initiiative of Thesaloniki - Êáëþò Þñèáôå óôï íÝï ôåý÷ïò! Ôï ôåý÷ïò äéáôßèåôáé ðëÝïí óå ìïñöÞ ìåôáöÝñóéìïõ åããñÜöïõ PDF. Ôþñá, ìå ôçí ôå÷íïëïãßá PDF, ìðïñåßôå íá Ý÷åôå êÜèå öïñÜ ôï íÝï ôåý÷ïò óôï... (English section available)
  
• KAOSGL Turkey -
  
• LBL Danish National Association of Gays & Lesbians - We hope that this website can give you an idea of gay & lesbian life in Denmark – and maybe give you a few pointers on what to do if you happen to come visit!
  
• Lesbenorganisation Schweiz Die Internetseiten in deutscher Sprache - Die Internetseiten in deutscher Sprache
  
• National Gay & Lesbian Task Force - NGLTF is the national progressive organization working for the civil rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people, with the vision and commitment to building a powerful political movement.
  
• National L&G Federation -Ireland - Alliance of gay groups in Ireland
  
• National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association - An organization of journalists, online media professionals, and students that works from within the journalism industry to foster fair and accurate coverage of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues.
  
• NOS Asociacion Andaluza de Lesbianas Y Gays - En estas páginas puedes encontrar todo información acerca de la Asociación y su funcionamiento, así como de las actividades, tando reivindicativas como culturales y lúdicas, que realiza. También podrás conocer la revista TRIÁNGULO que publica NOS, así como encontrar información sobre el mundo homosexual en general. Esperamos que te guste y te resulte útil. No dudes en ponerte en contacto con nosotros para cualquier duda o comentario.
  
• Pink Cross - PINK CROSS ist der nationale Dachverband der homosexuellen Männer in der Schweiz. Dem Verband sind 53 Vereine, weiter 41 Betriebe und über 2000 Einzelmitglieder angeschlossen. Ingesamt repräsentiert PINK CROSS rund 15'000 Schwule in allen vier Sprachgebieten der Schweiz. PINK CROSS ist als Verein organisiert.

• Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence - Since our founding in 1979, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc. have been a force for social activism in San Francisco and queer meccas throughout the world. Our common vows are to promulgate universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt. Our shared ministry is one of public manifestation and habitual perpetration. We pledge support to our fellow sisters toward our personal and collective enlightenment.

LGBT Youth groups and LGBT Youth Associations (UK and Ireland)

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• Albert Kennedy Trust - Our main work consists of providing homeless teenagers with lesbian or gay homes where they can live and rebuild their lives. Our lesbian and gay carers become their support network in many respects and help them with all the problems they face as well as providing them with accommodation.
  
• Brook Online - Welcome to Brook On-Line, This website was established in 2000 to help publicise the work of Brook. Brook provides free, confidential sex advice and contraception to all young people. We welcome everybody, and we are totally confidential. That means we wont tell anyone about your visit, unless you ask us to.
  
• Eurogayway - Eurogayway is a European-based website for young gay men, their friends and relatives in 11 languages. This site contains information on subjects like : sex and staying safe; coming out; starting and having relationships with other guys; getting by in the real world; learning to cope with other people; and the gay scene.
  
• Exploring Sexuality - Pop Idol Will Young was brave enough to publicly announce that he's gay, Boy George is out and proud and we all know about George Michael. But the life of a celebrity can seem a million miles away from everyday real life. Your sexuality is an important part of who you are, and finding out where you stand can be a confusing and sometimes distressing process.
  
• Freedom Youth - "Freedom is my weekly escape from the heterosexual world where I can feel at home and be open about my sexuality" Freedom Youth was established in 1996 with the amalgamation of Bristol Young Lesbian and Bisexual Group and Freedom Youth '96. These two groups decided to join together in order to provide one first class gay youth project in Bristol, and successfully applied for funding from the National Lottery to support it. The project is currently in the third and final year of it's lottery grant, and is looking for other ways to fund itself into the millennium.
  
• Gay Teen Resource - Messages boards, chat, advice, support and other information.
  
• GayYouthUK - The original aims of the site, which are still maintained today, is to provide as much information, support, help and advice to all gay youth within the UK. In fact, not just gay youth, but those who may be questioning their own sexuality, or who may be bisexual. We receive visits from young people who are just beginning to come to terms with their identity, or from those, who, while they are happy to be gay, are finding further problems associated with living with their sexuality, such as bullying, or relationship problems, sexual health problems and more.
  
• Girl Diva - Girl Diva is a group for all young lesbian & bisexual women under 25, who are questioning their sexuality. The group can offer much support for those of all levels of ‘coming out’.
  
• Harrow LGB Youth -
  
• Hillingdon LGB Youth Group - For young people in this north London area
  
• Lifebytes - LifeBytes is a new website which gives young people aged 11 - 14 facts about health in a fun and interesting way.
  
• Mosaic Youth Brent - Mosaic is now online, with loads of information about what we get up to and what we offer as well as useful contact information and advice. Plus there will be lots more to come in the next few months. If you like it tell your friends and if you don't then get in touch anyway and tell us why. We hope there is something here for everyone - lesbian, gay and bisexual as well as our straight friends.
  
• One In Ten - One In Ten is a national magazine and website that came from an idea at the National Gathering of Gay Lesbian and Bisexual Youth that was held in Sheffield April '98. The basic idea was to continue the links and networking created by the National Gathering and to emphasise the voice of all the gay youth of Britain regardless.
  
• OneUP - OutZone's Thursday afternoon youth group for UP&COMING gay, lesbian and bisexual young people under 18.
  
• Out on Thursday Hammersmith Youth Group (Recomendation)- Out on Thursday is specifically for young gay and bisexual men and those coming to terms with their sexuality. We offer support and reassurance with what can be a confusing part of many peoples lives
  
• OutZone - OutZone is one of North London's premier groups for Gay and Bisexual men under 26. As a totally confidential service it can offer much support for those at all levels of 'coming out'.
  
• PACE Youth Work Services - Based mainly in Highgate, in a safe and friendly venue (with excellent transport links) our youth groups offer an essential source of information, support and social events for all London's lesbian, gay & bisexual young people. Our staff are professionally trained, experienced workers who are happy to meet up with you, first, before you come along to one of our youth groups - on the other hand, you might just want to 'call up and turn up'. It's up to you.
  
• Peer Support Project - The Peer Support Project provides peer support services for young (15-25) lesbians, gays & bisexuals in Greater Manchester.
  
• Queer Youth Alliance - A nationwide group of young people, for young people and run by young people.
  
• Queer Youth Overground - The UK Alliance of LGBT Young People

• RU Thinking Enough? - Want to know about local services giving free confidential advice on sex and your relationships, contraception or sexual health? Go to Local help Want to talk to someone in confidence? Go to Helpline Want some basic facts about contraception, sexually transmitted infections or abortion? Go to Facts. Want to find some other useful sites? Go to Links Watch out for Updates - it's coming soon and will give you the latest information on new developments. If you have any difficulties using this site or have any ideas about how it could be improved, send us your comments - we want to hear from you! Sorry, but we won't be able to send you a response to your feedback. If you have a problem to do with sex, relationships, contraception, abortion or sexually transmitted infections, please phone the Sexwise helpline on 0800 28 29 30
  
• School's-Out!,National (Recomendation)- School’s Out! National is an organisation for lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transpersons working in education.

• Stonewall Youth Project Website. - Responding to the needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Young People in Edinburgh, the Lothians, the Borders and beyond.

• Strathclyde LGB Youth Group - Young people in the Glasgow area
  
• Street Wise Youth - Supporting Young Men Involved In Prostitution.
  
• The Gay Youth Corner - The Gay Youth Corner is a website aimed toward gay, lesbian, bisexual and transexual youth. We generally define youth as being under the age of twenty five. Having been under development sinse early 2003, the website is drawing into its refining stage of development. We are offering our visitors a cool, alternative environment to interact with. Interaction at The GYC comes in the form of the community profiles, chat rooms and message forums. By alternative, we mean that we want to put accross the diversity of gay youth - all of the various alternatives to the steryotypical gay man, yet not excluding it either. Visitors to TheGYC can establish friendships with people from any number of backgrounds, cultures and countries by using our websites tools. Most of all we want this webiste to be enjoyable. To do this we, behind the scenes, run efficiently and truthfully and in response to visitor activity and feedback
  
• The Working Men Project - A free, friendly and confidential specialist sexual health service for men who sell sex to men.
  
• Utopia LGB Youth Support Service - Support group for young people 15-25 based in Chester
  
• Young Gay Men Talking - Site devoted to gay youth concerns, coming out, safe sex, etc. In spite of name, also has info for young lesbians.
  

• OutProud! - OutProud, The National Coalition for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Youth. We invite you to take advantage of the wide range of resources available for youth and educators by clicking on any icon to get to the related subject area. You can find information on linking to the OutProud site here. Thank you for visiting.
  
• AlterHeros - The most comprehensive bilingual (French and English) web site concerning sexual diversity, AlterHéros will strive to increase the public’s awareness with regard to issues dealing with sexual orientation and homophobia by: Informing and Educating the youth, parents, family, and friends through the sharing, and dissemination of information Providing Aid and Support by posing, clarifying and responding to questions, and by creating a mutual aid network Creating a community where the youth can share, exchange, contribute, make contacts and connect with others. Our Goal Our goal is to eliminate prejudice and discrimination, to improve the image of homosexuals and bisexuals, and to halt homophobia so that they can feel proud to be equal members of society.
  
• Australian Gay Youth Resources Homepage - This is a resource designed for the youth of today. It contains articles and the like for you to read, plus a whole heap of links that you might be interested in.
  
• Cool Page For Queer Teens - The Cool Page For Queer Teens
  
• Elight - For several years ELIGHT has provided gay youth from all over the world a place to come together, share stories, and find support. On January 1, 2002 ELIGHT.ORG has gone off-line to prepare for some exciting upgrades to the website.
  
• Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network - 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. We believe that such an atmosphere engenders a positive sense of self, which is the basis of educational achievement and personal growth. Since homophobia and heterosexism undermine a healthy school climate, we work to educate teachers, students and the public at large about the damaging effects these forces have on youth and adults alike. We recognize that forces such as racism and sexism have similarly adverse impacts on communities and we support schools in seeking to redress all such inequities. GLSEN seeks to develop school climates where difference is valued for the positive contribution it makes in creating a more vibrant and diverse community. We welcome as members any and all individuals, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or occupation, who are committed to seeing this philosophy realized in K-12 schools.
  
• National Coalition for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Youth - Welcome to the World Wide Web site for OutProud, The National Coalition for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Youth. We invite you to take advantage of the wide range of resources available for youth and educators by clicking on any icon to get to the related subject area. You can find information on linking to the OutProud site here. Thank you for visiting.

• Youth Resource - Youth Resource is a project of Advocates for Youth, and is coordinated by Jessie Gilliam.

Suicide Support & Information (UK and Ireland)

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• CALM - Calm, the Campaign Against Living Miserably, raises awareness of depression amongst young men across Manchester, Merseyside, Cumbria and Bedfordshire.
  
• The Samaritans - The Samaritans is a registered charity based in the UK and Republic of Ireland that provides confidential emotional support to any person who is suicidal or despairing; and that increases public awareness of issues around suicide and depression.
  
• Youth suicide in UK and rest of Europe. - Research by academics at the University of Southampton. The evidence indicates that homosexually oriented males account for more than half of male youth suicide problems in North America, but mainstream suicidologists have generally ignored this. A similar situation apparently exists in other countries, including the United Kingdom and some (all?) European countries, with some variations to be expected given the socially constructed nature of GLB problems.
  

• Youth Suicides - Welcome to the most complete Internet Resource on gay and bisexual male suicide problems, related issues, and a little known concept related to youth suicide. The evidence indicates that homosexually oriented males account for more than half of male youth suicide problems, but mainstream suicidologists generally continue to ignore this aspect of the problem. Information about lesbian youth suicide problems is included, as is other generally unrecognized factors possibly associated with youth suicide problems.

• Celebrate! - An opportunity to explore similarities and differnce among gays, lesbians and bisexuals
  
• Cotswold Proud - Social group that meets weekly
  
• Edward Carpenter Community - The Edward Carpenter Community is a non-residential gay men's community. We run a variety of week long residential events each year, as well as other occasional get-togethers. This site contains details of all the summer events, as well more general information about the community.
  
• Gay London Writers - We are a group of gay male writers who meet on alternate Fridays at a member's house in West London.
  
• Huddersfield Gay Group - Social group for gays in the Huddersfield area
  
• Kenric - Kenric is the UK's longest-running lesbian social and support organisation. It is non profit-making, and run by a Management Committee, all of whom are volunteers.
  
• LGB National Penpals - Free email service
  
• Outhouse - Dublin's community and resource centre for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community.
  
• Vegetarian & Vegan Gay Group - We are an informal social and campaign group aimed at gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender vegetarians, vegans, fruitarians and raw foodies and their friends, and those who would like to be.
  

• Euro Faeries - The EuroFaeries is a movement of gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans-gendered people and their supporters, who believe that all gay people have a unique identity and cultural heritage within humanity. The movement strives to help people discover that identity and heritage by offering a safe space and diverse opportunities for individual, creative and spiritual growth.
  
• Gay Chile - Comprehensive website for Chile including resource directory
  
• Gay Guatemala - Whats going on in Guatemala.
  
• Gay Peru - Official Peruvian gay directory.

• Latin-America's chat network - Meet Latinos all over the Americas

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• Aberdeen University gaysoc (Ab-fab)

• B-F-P – LGBT Information research resources site for education and knowlegde edification. Some documents may be unerving to read as this is one of the most controversial LGBT websites that investigates and exposes the flaws in the LGBT civil rights & social scene system, and politics & law, containing sociology psychology and political study documents produced from a five year research study done by this organisation that their social reform project is based on.

• Dundee Uni LGB Soc - For students at Dundee University

• LGB Society Umist Students' Association - Catering for the needs of Umist lgb students
  
• Links for Students in Scotland - Advice and Services for International Students
  
• SOC - For students at the University of Southampton
  
• St Andrews Uni LGBTS - For students at St Andrews University
  
• Sussex LGBT Society - For students at Sussex University
  
• The Knitting Circle - [recomended] The Lesbian and Gay Staff Association, South Bank University, London. Resources on lesbian and gay issues with special emphasis on higher education. Includes art, biography, film, government, history, law, literature, music, poetry, psychology, science, sociology, sports, and other related topics.
  
• uniQ - LGBs at Lancaster University
  
• Universities of Scotland - There are fourteen universities in Scotland, two art schools, one conservatoire, one college of higher education, one university college and a teacher training college. Click the links below to find out more.
  
• University of Glasgow - Mission statement The mission of the University is to be a major research-led university operating in an international context with the following fundamental aims: to provide education through the development of learning in a research environment to undertake fundamental, strategic and applied research to sustain and add value to Scottish culture, to the natural environment and to the national economy.
  
• University of Manchester LGB Society - The society provides a safe environment within which all lesbians, gay men and bisexuals in the University of Manchester Student Union can interact and communicate. For your information we now have about 150 members. It is never too late to join, just come along to any of our events to obtain membership. For general information about the society, further details on membership or contacting us, please visit our information page.
  
• University of Sheffield Gaysoc. - Catering for the needs of LGB students
  

• École normale supérieure - The Ecole Normale Supérieure is an institution of higher education created during the French Revolution. It is located in the heart of the Latin Quarter in Paris. The ENS educates students in both humanities and sciences and encourages multidisciplinary curricula. The vast majority of its students go on to become university teachers or high-level researchers, as is demonstrated by the numerous Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals awarded to former students of the Ecole Normale Supérieure
  
• Schwulesbische Unigruppe Bern (SchLUB) - Die SchLUB ist eine Gruppe von Studentinnen und Studenten, die sich für die Anliegen von Lesben, Schwulen und Bisexuellen an der Uni Bern einsetzt.
  
• SLUG (die schwul-lesbische Seite der Uni Basel) - Ja früher - da trafen sie sich jeden Monat am Stammtisch, heute sitzen sie vor ihren Computerbildschirmen: die Schwulen und Lesben an der Uni Basel.
  
• SLUG Switzerland - University of Basle gaysoc site

• Sorbonne - La Sorbonne accueille 8 établissements dont 4 universités ayant leur siège ou/et des enseignements en Sorbonne : Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne www.univ-paris1.fr Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle www.univ-paris3.fr Paris IV Paris Sorbonne www.paris4.sorbonne.fr Paris V René Descartes www.univ-paris5.fr La bibliothèque interuniversitaire de la Sorbonne L'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes L'Ecole des Chartes Le Rectorat de l'Académie et la Chancellerie des Universités de Paris

Parenting (UK and Ireland) [ Back To Top ]

• Birmingham Parents Support Group - Supporting parents and families whose children have 'come out' as being gay, lesbian or bi-sexual.
  
• Manchester Parents Group - Manchester Parents Group is a support and information network in the North West for parents of lesbian, gay or bisexual sons and daughters.
  
• Parents of Jewish Gays and Lesbians - The Support Group was set up in May 1996 because it was felt that we are a group of people with special needs.
  
• Pink Parents UK - A UK wide organisation of lesbian, gay and bisexual parents, parents-to-be and their children.

• FFLAG - Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays is a continually growing national voluntary organisation and registered charity with more than 40 telephone helplines across the UK and parents' groups which hold regular meetings.

• Gay and Lesbian Adoptive Family Project - We are conducting a survey to learn more about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered individuals and couples who have adopted at least one child from any source.

• Gay Parent Magazine - GPM print is published bi-monthly and distributed across the U.S.A. mainly through gay community centers. Gay Parent magazine's focus is to support and empower LGBT parents and to support LGBTs wishing to become first time parent.

• Berkshire Older Lesbian and Gay Forum - The Forum does "does exactly what it says on the tin". We are a forum of and for older lesbians and gay men in Berkshire. For the first time an older generation of lesbians and gay men are making themselves seen and heard and we are wanting to be recognised.

• OLGBT Resources - An online resource, training, consultancy, research group for older Homosexual & Bisexual men and women, and transgender people.

• Busy Girl - Busygirl is UK and Europe's leading Corporate and Entrepreneurial Women's Network, with over 7,000 registered members and strong continual sponsorship from global leaders including PricewaterhouseCoopers, HSBC and Globix. Busygirl's aim is the economic advancement of women through business and career.
  
• Dyke Universe - A UK-based site for the lesbian lifestyle, with chatrooms, message boards, and agony aunt, horoscopes, news and much more...
  
• Jellied Eels - This site is exclusively produced for lesbians by lesbians. Jellied Eels is here to bring you all you need to know as a lesbian in 21st century.
  
• Ladyfest - Ladyfest 2001 is a non-profit, community based, cultural event designed by women. Our mission is to provide a forum in which all members of the community can celebrate, showcase and encourage the artistic, organizational and political talents of women. This participatory festival will feature performances by bands, spoken word artists, authors, visual artists and filmmakers. It will include workshops, panel discussions and childrens activities. Ladyfest will be a woman-run event, but all are welcome and encouraged to attend. The event is scheduled for August 12-14 2001 at the 13th Note in the city centre of Glasgow.
  
• Lesbian Information service - Has developed a unique training programme which looks at Homophobia Awareness from a Multi-Oppression Perspective and provided training to hundreds of service providers (youth, mental health, health, alcohol, social work, education, housing, clergy, police, voluntary organisations)
  
• Lesbian UK - Lesbian UK aims to act primarily as a database of information for lesbians about local activity, events and resources in their area.
  
• National Women's Library - The Women's Library is a new cultural centre, housing the most extensive collection of women's history in the UK. As well as the Reading Room there is a lively exhibition and events programme, and the Wash Houses Café. Whether you want to study, browse, or just drop in, there is something to discover here.
  
• Silver Moon - Europe's largest women's bookshop
  
• Sister Act - Women for women
  
• Sonnet - Sexual health and parenting for lesbians
  
• The Old Dyke - For the older lesbian
  

• Lesbian.Com - Welcome to Lesbian.com! We hope you find your way around with ease and that you have fun visiting the sites and checking out the content we've included. We have listed many sites which are exclusively lesbian and many that aren't. We've included some non-queer sites which we feel are relevant or just plain fun. Lesbian.com is thrilled to now offer the Lesbian.com MarketPlace! A lesbian shopping adventure! The MarketPlace offers a space on the web to meet your shopping desires and list your products or services. We have been busy here in our St. Louis apartment office. Evilina has been passing out advice and we are thrilled to bring you thoughts on the astrological world by Jenny Yates. Lesbian.com was a sponsor for the Mautner Project for Lesbians with Cancer in September and we will be making our way again to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change conference in November where we will once again be one of the sponsors. We are still thinking about a section for us all to share our stories, stories about our lives, our coming out, our families and our stories of resistance. Providing a comprehensive reference to lesbian information on the web is a goal we have nurtured since October of 1999. We, at Lesbian.com look to you, the ones who visit Lesbian.com, to keep us fresh and up to date. So let us know when you find sites that would be cool additions...and (for sure) let us know when you find broken links. Over a 100,000 pages are viewed each week. It is wonderful to be creating this resource that our visitors tell us is important. Keep checking back with us as we add new features. We are thrilled you stopped by! Holding the form for peace the dykes of Lesbian.com
  
• Lesbian.org - Promoting lesbian visibility on the internet

• SHOE International - SHOE wants to help women to be proud of who they are and give them the chance to meet other women in a very easy and uncomplicated way. In reality or cyberworld.

• British Bisexual Federation - The British Bisexual Federation is a new group formed to work for the physical and mental health of bisexuals and to educate the public and the media about issues surrounding bisexuality.
  
• London Bisexual Women's Group - London Bi-Women are a friendly social, discussion and support group for all bisexual women whatever relationship they are currently in. The London Bisexual Women's Group is open to all women regardless of sexuality as long as they are bi-friendly.

• B-F-P – A academic research information resources site on the issues of sexuality and specifically Bisexuality. The site contains Psychology and sociology research resources on understanding the natural aspects and confines of all sexualities, but also has in-depth research on Bisexuality that no institutions have uncovered or published, and some materials may be unnerving to read. This is one of the most controversial sensitive LGBT information websites that investigates and exposes the flaws in the LGBT civil rights & social scene system, and politics & law, containing sociology psychology and political study documents produced from a five year research study done this organisation that their social reform project is based on.
  

• Bi.org - The Internet domain bi.org was set up in September 1996 by Nick Smith. Its goal is to serve the worldwide bisexual community by providing a free Internet presence for bisexual individuals, groups and non-profit organisations. As well as providing free WWW space, there is a large set of pages detailing resources (groups, organisations, magazines, Internet newsgroups), and @bi.org email addresses and majordomo mailing lists are also available.

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Mental Health | Homophobic Bullying | Abuse | disabilities | Info & Advise | Answering or Offering the inevitable question-(“or coequally or ignorantly known as Coming-Out”) | HIV & Aids Support.

Mental Health & Mental Health research (UK and Ireland)

• Mind (National Association for Mental Health) - Mind is the leading mental health charity in England and Wales, and works for a better life for everyone with experience of mental distress.
  
• Pink Therapy Services - We are one of London's largest and most experienced private therapy practices working with sexual minority clients. As an organisation we aim to promote high quality therapy and training services for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender.

• The Pink Practice - Psychotherapy and counselling for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in London and Leeds. We have UKCP registered psychotherapists and/or BACP registered counsellors.

• B-F-P – An LGBT academic psychology & sociology information research resources site, and charity trust social reform project. Some psychology & sociology papers may be unnerving to read! This is one of the most controversial in-depth LGBT websites that investigates and exposes the flaws in the HBT civil rights & social scene system, and politics & law, containing sociology psychology research documents on LGBT mental health, suicides, all these and also political study documents produced from a five year research study done by this organisation that their social reform project is based on.

Homophobic Bullying (UK and Ireland)

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• Diversity Alliance - Diversity Alliance is a high profile campaign to address homophobic bullying against young lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in schools and other young people’s settings. It is based in the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, in the U.K.
  
• Gay Hate - I wanted to share my journey, and try and help someone else who may be suffering from homophobic abuse. I searched Goggle there wasn't much in the way of resources or information relating to hate crime against gay men and women. I hope in the coming weeks to provide links to various organizations, persons, and resources that can help anyone who has been a victim of hate crime in relation to their sexual orientation.
  
• Joint Action Against Homophobic Bullying - JAAHB is the national lead agency in tackling homophobic bullying in schools. The project is based in Devon, but our help and resources are available across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

• Schools Out! - Schools Out! National is an organisation for lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transpersons working in education.
  

Abuse (UK and Ireland)

• Millenium Abuse -Victim Support - These pages have been designed to provide support for victims and survivors of abuse. Inside you will find a wealth of information as well as an active community that offers friendship, guidance and support

Information & Advice (UK and Ireland)

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• Blackliners - Provides counselling for Black/Asian gay men
  
• FFLAG - Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays is a continually growing national voluntary organisation and registered charity with more than 40 telephone helplines across the UK and parents' groups which hold regular meetings.
  
• Gay Mens' Health, Wiltshire & Swindon - Counselling & training
  
• Kent Lesbian Line - Kent Lesbian Line provides a telephone help line service offering support, information and advice for lesbians and women exploring their sexuality. We will also promote and communicate positive images of lesbians and their diverse lifestyles to the wider community. We will achieve this by listening to and advising women about issues relating to their sexuality.
  
• Lesbian & Gay Bereavement Project - Support for gays and lesbians who have suffered the death of a friend or partner
  
• Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Alcohol Project - Info and support related to alcohol problems

• Missing Kids - Support for people whose children have run away from home or are otherwise missing.

• Post-Adoption Centre - Services for people affected by adoption. Counselling
  
• Samaritans - The Samaritans is a registered charity based in the UK and Republic of Ireland that provides confidential emotional support to any person who is suicidal or despairing; and that increases public awareness of issues around suicide and depression
  
• Straight Spouse Network - SSN is an international support network of heterosexual spouses and partners, current or former, of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender mates. Members provide confidential personal support and resource information to spouses and partners nationwide and abroad.
  
• USPCG - Helping and supporting prisoners in USA jails enduring conditions prohibited in Europe
  

Answering or offering the inevitable question, "or coequally known as “Coming-Out”

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• A Beginner's Guide to Coming Out - The comedian and writer Simon Fanshawe has written probably the funniest, most compassionate and most perceptive guide for people who are contemplating 'coming out'. And parents, brothers and sisters, and friends will also find it most revealing.
  
• Coming Out - Coming Out is a website which offers support to Homosexual & Bisexual and transgendered people who are going through the process of coming out, whether that be to friends or family. We are also more than happy to give advice to friends and parents of those who have come out.
  
• Gay Youth 'R' Out - Provides a safe place for all young people who identify as Homosexuals or Bisexual. Help and advice about coming out to parents and others, resources, stories and hints.

• London Friend - London Friend is a voluntary organisation that has been serving the lesbian and gay community for 30 years. We offer counselling and support services to lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and those unsure of their sexual identity. We aim to help explore issues of same sex-relationships and sexual identity, promote personal growth and self confidence.

HIV / AIDS and Sexual Health (UK and Ireland)

• Agenda - Agenda is the the HIV policy journal published in Britain by George House Trust. It is committed to ensuring that HIV is "one the Agenda".
  
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS - The Group was founded in 1986 with the stated objectives of raising awareness in Parliament, encouraging balanced policies and acting as a bridge with the HIV sector. With 150 registered members and a committee of seven, its main activities include: regular meetings in Parliament with guest speakers from the HIV sector in the UK and abroad co-ordinated written and oral parliamentary questions and debates public and private meetings with ministers and officials briefings for Members on the HIV/AIDS implications of legislation information for HIV/AIDS organisations on parliamentary business joint meetings with other All-Party Groups. The Group employs a full-time member of staff as its Policy Adviser and Co-ordinator. Benefits of the Group
  
• AVERT - This web site is produced by AVERT and contains HIV and AIDS statistics, information for young people, personal stories, a history section, information on becoming infected, a young and gay section, free resources, and lots more.
  
• Chelsea and Westminster Healthcare HIV/GU Medicine Clinical Directorate Website - From this site you can access details on all the services that are currently available within the HIV/GU Medicine Directorate including The John Hunter and Kobler Clinics, as well as The Victoria Clinic for Sexual Health and The West London Centre for Sexual Health. For a more detailed list of services
  
• Cruisaid - Hardship fund for people with AIDS
  
• Edward King's Aids Pages - A wide range of overviews of key topics in HIV treatment and prevention, each packed with links to the best sources of online information.
  
• Freedoms -condom and lubricant suppliers - Freedoms - the world's biggest free condom and lube distribution service - for gay venues in London
  
• Freshwinds Charitable Trust - Support, advice, treatment etc for people with HIV and other life-threatening illnesses.

• Gay Men Fighting AIDS - GMFA's aims are: To prevent HIV transmission among gay men, to minimise the harmful consequences of infection with HIV for Homosexual men and to minimise the harmful social consequences of HIV for Homosexual men in general.
  
• GMH - Looking after the holistic health of men who have sex with men.
  
• Healthy Gay Scotland - Healthy Gay Scotland devises and delivers a national program of work which aims at preventing the spread of HIV among gay and bisexual men. Launched in November 1997; the web site and billboard campaign were the first of their kind. Since this time we have continued to create a wide range of safer sex materials and projects across the country. Healthy Gay Scotland, is funded by the Scottish Executive and is jointly managed by The Health Education Board for Scotland (HEBS) and the Scottish Voluntary HIV and AIDS Forum (SVHAF). with the National AIDS Trust as contract holder and a valuable source of information and advise.
  
• Jewish AIDS Trust - For Jewish people who are HIV+
  
• Liverpool HIV Pharmacology Group website - Based in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the University of Liverpool, our research interests focus on the clinical pharmacology of anti-HIV drugs, from basic research through to clinical studies. This website has been designed for use both by clinicians and patients as a straightforward, up-to-date reference on anti-HIV drugs.

• Medic Direct - Welcome to the only interactive website hosted by leading UK medical consultants providing comprehensive health information online.
  
• MESMAC North East - Sexual health info for gay men
  
• MESMAC North Wales - Sexual health info for gays
  
• MetroM8 London's sexual health directory for gay men - MetroMate is the site for sexual health information, advice and debate for gay men. Some of the information about resources is specific to London, but sex is sex wherever you live.
  
• National AIDS Manual - AIDS organisations throught the world
  
• NAZ Project London - Naz Project London provides HIV, AIDS and sexual health support services to the South Asian, Middle Eastern, North African, Horn of African and Latin American communities in London. We exist to challenge the myths and prejudices that exist about and within these excluded communities and to ensure that they have access to culturally and linguistically appropriate information, care and support.
  
• Norwich AIDS Helpline - Provides confidential advice, support, information and social care services for people concerned about HIV, AIDS and other Sexually Transmitted Infections.
  
• PACE - PACE is an organisation which responds to the emotional, mental and physical health needs of lesbians and gay men in the greater London area. We were established in 1985, and since then have grown considerably into the largest organisation of its kind in the UK. We operate from attractive accessible premises in Holloway, with some services being provided at other venues in London. All staff and volunteers providing services at PACE themselves identify as lesbian or gay, and are thus able to understand the particular issues brought by users in relation to their sexuality, in an affirming and non-judgemental way. We are also able to assist people exploring or uncertain about their sexuality, and we offer training courses for anyone wanting to understand the issues facing lesbians and gay men
  
• Peter Scott's Challenging Website - The mission of this website is to bring you the best and most reliable links and information, especially about how the epidemic affects gay men.
  
• Pozze Cosse - Challenging discrimination and stigma against HIV positive Homosexual and Bisexual men. Maintained and updated by 'JUICE' a support group for HIV+ Homosexual & Bisexual men who meet weekly at SOLAS in Edinburgh
  
• Rainbow Project - Belfast - The Rainbow Project was established in 1994 by a group of gay men who were concerned by the continuing increase in the number of gay men contracting the HIV virus within Northern Ireland. At this time 69% of HIV infections were among gay men. 0% of funding was targeted at gay men's HIV prevention and services. Things have since changed for the better.
  
• Safer Sex - Sexual health
  
• Shropshire Gay Health - Confidential advice & info about sexual health
  
• Sigma Research - Sigma Research is a social research group specialising in the behavioural and policy aspects of HIV, AIDS and sexual health. In the last five years, we have undertaken more than forty research and development projects concerned with the impact of HIV and AIDS on the sexual and social lives of a variety of populations. [Even though this project was done to find the so-called truth and supporting issues of the LGBT community, Some LGBT Groups and organisations believe the Sigma Projects research findings to be fundamentally flawed by bias & prejudice personal views and not scientific research, so don’t believe everything you read]
  
• Telford Gay Health - Info and advice about sexual health
  
• Terrence Higgins Trust - Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) is the leading HIV & AIDS charity in the UK and the largest in Europe. Established in 1982, it was the first charity to be set up in response to the HIV epidemic and has been at the forefront of the fight against HIV & AIDS ever since.
  
• The Working Men Project - A free, friendly and confidential specialist sexual health service for men who sell sex to men.
  
• Yorkshire MESMAC - Yorkshire MESMAC is one of the oldest and largest sexual health organisations in the country working with Homosexual & Bisexual men, and men who have sex with men. We work across North and West Yorkshire, with offices in Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Scarborough and York.
  
• You Choose - Help you to decide whether you should be tested for HIV
  

• Act Up New York - Homosexuals and Heterosexuals together campaigning for PWAs by means of direct action
  
• Act Up Paris - Act Up-Paris n'est pas une association caritative, mais une association de personnes touchées par le VIH qui, au-delà de leur tragédie personnelle, voient dans le sida avant tout une question politique.
  
• Hepatitis - In a resolution adopted in April 1999, the GLMA Board of Directors called for universal vaccination against hepatitis A and B for men who have sex with men. It is in the spirit of this resolution that the GLMA presents the following information on hepatitis and the vaccinations and other protection options which should be considered by all men who have sex with men. Hepatitis is a family of serious diseases, and men who have sex with men are infected much more often than the general public. Protect yourself, and protect those you care for.

• UN AIDS site - A solid resource for information, statistics and news about HIV/AIDS
  
• Virus Myth - This site presents the arguments of those who maintain that HIV and AIDS are not related

• World AIDS Day - A positive approach to HIV and to those living with the infection,

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• Alzheimer's Society's Gay Carers Network - The Alzheimer's Society's Gay Carers Network is a telephone helpline service staffed by gay men and lesbian women. These trained and skilled volunteers are able to offer a listening ear to gay and lesbian carers.
  
• OMEGA - OMEGA was set up for Hmosexual & Bisexual men and women with disabilities. We offer information, support, chat times, message boards, pen pals and a warm, welcoming environment!
  
• REGARD - REGARD was founded in 1989 to address the absence of information and lack of understanding about the reality of disabled lesbians and gay men working within the disability movement. We are now able to offer a limited help-line service, for those who want to chat, need support through a crisis or simply want information not available elsewhere.
  
• Respond - Respond exists to provide a range of services to victims and perpetrators of sexual abuse who have learning disabilities, and training and support to those working with them.
  
• Bent Voices - BENT is the biographical voice of cripgay men, but BENT also covers disability art and culture, gay and straight, to prove that our differentness and our need for inclusiveness can coexist.

EX-ex-Homosexuals

• Nomad - We are the voices of those who have been there… Christians Homosexuals who at one time were involved in the ex-gay movement and realised its wasn't a choice.

Social Reform (UK)

• B-F-P – A developing charity trust & social reform project, and internet research resources site. One of the most controversial LGBT websites that investigates and exposes the flaws in the LGBT civil rights & social scene system, and politics & law, containing sociology psychology and political study documents produced from a five year research study done this organisation that their social reform project is based on. This organisation has its own LGBT rights principles based on the born that way argument that seem to contradict and stand out as substantially different to any other HBT group or organisation.

HBT Community Research / Investigation / Archives

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• B-F-P – A information research resources site on investigations on politics, sociology, psychology and civil rights. Some documents may be unnerving to read as this is one of the most controversial LGBT websites that investigates and exposes the serious and dangerous flaws in the LGBT civil rights system, social scene industry, and politics, legislation & laws, containing sociology psychology and political study documents produced from a five year research study done by this organisation that their social reform project is based on.

• Bigotbusters - A site dedicated to exposing and protesting the homophobia of the Daily Mail Newspaper.
  
• Scottish Media Monitor - SCOTTISH MEDIA MONITOR, examining the treatment of sexuality in the Scottish media. mailto:garry@scottishmediamonitor.com

• Hall-Carpenter Archives - The Hall-Carpenter Archives (HCA) is named after the authors Marguerite Radclyffe Hall and Edward Carpenter, but when it first started it was called the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) Gay Monitoring & Archive Project.
  
• The Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive - This archive of 50,000 press cuttings covers all aspects of gay life from the 1930s to the present, and is based in Collections Room of the Art and Design Library at Middlesex University, Cat Hill campus, in North London.
  
• Lesbian Archive & Information Centre - LAIC contains the UK's largest & most significant collection of materials about Lesbian lives, histories & achievements.
  

• Gerber/Hart Library - Gerber/Hart is open to members and visitors during regular hours each week, and welcomes everyone - gay and straight, women and men, young and old - to use its services.
  
• Homodok-Lesbian Archive Amsterdam - Homodok-Lesbian Archive Amsterdam provides resources and services to all persons wishing to use the materials in its holdings for their research or are looking for answers to their questions. For more information about Homodok-LAA, its history and the services it offers, please select one or more of the links listed alongside. (Also available in Nederlands)
  
• Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives - Our primary aim is to recover and preserve any materials that record the lives and experiences of lesbians and gay men in Australia.
  
• Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives - Our primary mandate is to collect and maintain information related to gay and lesbian life in Canada -- though we have lots from elsewhere as well. We gather material on people, organizations, issues and events.
  
• Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest - The Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest was founded in October 1994 by a group of community-based historians in Portland, Oregon. - An archive of all the New York Times articles generated by the murder of Matthew Shepard

• Lesbian Herstory Archives - The Lesbian Herstory Archives exist to gather and preserve records of Lesbian lives and activities so that future generations will have ready access to materials relevant to their lives. The process of gathering this material will also serve to uncover and collect our herstory denied to us previously by patriarchal historians in the interests of the culture which they serve.
  
• Rex Wockner Archives - Well known gay jouro's archives of gay stories
  
• The International Gay & Lesbian Review (IGLR - The purpose of The International Gay & Lesbian Review (IGLR) is to provide as many abstracts and reviews as possible of books that relate to HBT Studies. Selected unpublished Ph.D. dissertations and MA theses may also be included.

• Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) - 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.

• B-F-P – A charity trust social reform project, and research information resources site. One of the most controversial HBT websites that investigates and exposes the flaws in the HBT civil rights & social scene system, and politics & law, containing sociology psychology and political study documents produced from a five year research study done this organisation that their social reform project is based on. Its social reform is in development which they are hoping to get the green light in mid 2005. This organisation has its own HBT rights principles based on the born that way argument that seem to contradict and stand out as substantially different to any other HBT group or organisation world-wide.

• Brighton Ourstory Project - Brighton Ourstory Project was set up in 1989 by a group of local lesbians and gay men. The aim is to collect material about our lesbian and gay past - and present - and to make sure that our experience is preserved and made visible to the lesbian and gay community.

• Alan Turing - This Page is the gateway and guide to a large Website dedicated to Alan Turing (1912-1954).
  
• International Museum of Gay and Lesbian History. Merged with the GLBT Historical Society - Our mission is simple: build the first world-class museum showcasing both the remarkable historic contributions made by Homosexual men & women and the unique heritage and culture of the HBT community.
  
• La gaya scienza - New history of Italian and German fascist persecution of homosexuals during WW2 - Italian language only.

• Nashoba Institute - The Nashoba Institute is organized to promote educational, artistic, and charitable activities in all aspects of bear and bear-related (including related non-hegemonic, queer, and homomasculine) identities, cultures, and communities, at local, regional, national, and international levels.
  
• Project Overcome - Welcome! This is web site is for the documentation of Project Overcome, a social action/ service learning project completed in the Spring semester of the 2001-2002 school year by students at Brookhaven High School in Columbus, Ohio. The students chose to focus on gender bias and sexual orientation discrimination in the high school as their topic. The results of the project were presented in at a conference in July of 2002 in Pietermariztburg, South Africa.

• Sexual Orientation Specific Resources - The University of Maryland's Diversity Database is a comprehensive index of multicultural and diversity resources.

Information Resources (UK and Ireland)

• Beaumont Society - Support for transgendered people.

• B-F-P – An information research resources site and charity trust social reform project. Some documents may be unnerving to read as this is one of the most controversial LGBT websites, that investigates and exposes the flaws in the LGBT civil rights & social scene system, and politics & law, containing sociology psychology and political study documents produced from a five year research study done by this organisation that their social reform project is based on. This organisation has its own LGBT rights principles based on the born that way argument that seem to contradict and stand out as substantially different to any other HBT group or organisation.
  
• Bisexual Resource Center - US based site. Serving the bisexual community since 1985
  
• Citizens Connection - Information of all sorts for active citizens
  
• Colchester Gay Switchboard - Support and info for people living in Essex
  
• Gay Bedfordshire - This site was set-up to provide useful information to Homosexuals and Bisexuals who live in the Bedfordshire region!
  
• Gay Stoke Dot Org - Information about North Staffordshire
  
• Gay Wales - Information about HBT groups in the area
  
• Gay-Ireland.com - Gay-Ireland.com began life in 1997, its original purpose was to promote the #gay-ireland chat channel on IRC, the site consisted of four pages and was hosted on free internet providers 'Geocities'.
  
• GayLifeUK - General information about gay life in the UK, the scene, shopping, shat, etc.
  
• Gayscape Search Tool - Homosexual, Bisexual, Transgender, no matter what you call it we've got it. By limiting our listings to sites of HBT interest we provide the specialized search tool that's fast, easy and fun. Over 68,000 indexed sites. Gayscape.com is all you need to remember.
  
• GaytoZ - AtoZ is a comprehensive directory of everything gay in the UK. Names, addresses, phone numbers, email, URLs are all here. It is updated and published annually.
  
• Gay-to-Z - Gay yellow pages for the UK
  
• Gender & Sexuality - Texts whuch address gender and gay studies and sexual identity and sexuality in cultural practices.

• London Lesbian & Gay Switchboard - Tel Only: "020 7837 7324" A confidential 24-hour helpline

• Gloucester Friend Helpline - Advice and support for HBT men and women in the county
  
• Kairos in Soho - Promotes a sense of well-being among gays and lesbians through serving the mind, body and spirit.
  
• Nottingham Lesbian & Gay Switchboard - Info and support for people in the Nottingham area
  
• Outline and The OutCrowd - Telephone helpline for for lgb's under25 . Based in Woking
  
• South Essex Switchboard - Support and advice

• The Rainbow Network - Britain's largest HBT website
  
• WightOUT Helpline - Support servics for lgbs on the Isle of Wight
  

• Bienvenue sur Paris - A good guide to gay life in the City of Light.
  
• Croatian LesBiGays on Internet - Site contains action alerts, information, links and news about GLBT issues in Croatia.
  
• DataLounge - Weekly US based HBT newsletter
  
• East European Gay Links -
  
• Foyle Friend - Support and information for people living in the north west of Ireland
  
• Gay & Lesbian Slavists Caucus - The Gay & Lesbian Slavists Caucus is an informal community of scholars. We Slavists have been behind our colleagues in other languages as far as women's studies are concerned, to say nothing of queer theory! In part this has to do with the target culture, as well as with the dominance of more conservative emigre Russians in the field. For years the only serious scholarly work in Russian gay studies was that of Prof. Simon Karlinsky, who began writing about gay topics in the 70s. At professional meetings we had cocktail parties for gay Slavists, but they were by invitation only and word of mouth. Papers on gay or lesbian topics were few and far between. It was only in 1992 that we initiated the first panels on alternative sexualities in Russia and Eastern Europe, first at AATSEEL, then at AAASS and began advertising our cocktail hours openly. Currently there is an informal e-mailing list for discussion of gay and lesbian topics. If you are interested in contributing or joining, please e-mail me at moss@middlebury.edu and I will be glad to add you to the list!
  
• Gay Australia - Gay Australia Guide Happy Mardi Gras! And welcome to the Gay Australia Guide. Inside you'll find up-to-date info on where to stay, what to do, nightlife and community groups for lesbian and gay Sydney and capital cities around Australia. The Gay Australia Guide also covers beach resorts such as Turtle Cove, Cairns and Noosa, and outback destinations including Alice Springs and Uluru (Ayer's Rock). A quarterly Gay Australia Guide email newsletter with info on events in Sydney and around the country is available free of charge: just complete the sign-up box below. You can use our online survey, what are you like? to tell us what you want from this site. If you discover a property you think should be listed here, please let us know. The Gay Australia Guide also comes as a full colour magazine. To subscribe online, click on the magazines and maps link in the menu opposite. Mailing list To receive our email newsletters and/or announcements, write in your name and email address and click the Sign Up button. Name:
  
• Gay Azerbaijan - The First Azerbaijan gay's web site. How many are we? Who knows? I don't but I think so much. I'm going to introduce real gay life in Azerbaijan and Baku as well.
  
• Gay Bahamas -
  
• Gay Bulgaria - A website about the news on gay/lesbian/homosexual/queer life in Bulgaria. The gay guide includes the list of gay bar, disco and cruising in Sofia, Varna, Plovdiv, Rousse, Bourgas, map of Sofia (other maps will be added), listing of parties in Spartacus Disco.
  
• Gay Canada - Canada's Largest & Most Comprehensive GLBT Web Site!
  
• Gay China - GayChina.com is gay web site for Chinese and Asian men from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, US, Canada. It has personals, gallery, free pictures, video, DVDs, message board.
  
• Gay Croatia - Gay Croatia - New site with extensive info.
  
• Gay Czech Republic -
  
• Gay Eastern Europe -
  
• Gay Egypt - This is a guide to some of the best meeting places for gay men in Egypt. Where meeting places or hotels are mentioned in the following pages it is not meant to imply anything about the attitudes of management or staff.
  
• Gay France - A large selection of links to web pages of non-profit organizations in the parisian area. - health, -social support -leisure, -sports, -recreational groups... Come and discover the variety of these organizations who are waiting to welcome you. Most of the sites have a section in English.
  
• Gay Germany - Gay Germany: resources, organisations, business Aktion Ja-Wort Lesben- und Schwule fordern gleich viel Recht für gleich viel Liebe Gays and Lesbian fighting for equal rights. This is the site for legal recognition of same sex partnerships. FliederNet Nürnberg - Nürnberg, Germany gay and lesbian non-profit organization featuring activities and a monthly publication. gay.de on-line magazine, queer links, IRC pages, group informations, homepage adressbook, event schedule and web gallery (in German). Gayvogtland + Die Seiten, nicht nur, für Gays aus dem Vogtland! Hier findest du Info's, Kontakte, Chat, Partytips rund um das Vogtland. Schwule aus dem Vogtland stellen sich vor.
  
• Gay Hungary - A következõ oldalakon homoerotikus fotókat találsz majd.

• Gay Indonesia - Advisory: Various kinds of sexualities are an integral part of Indonesia's cultural mosaic. Many married men and women may also maintain same-sex relationships. Indonesia's first Gay Pride celebration took place in Surabaya, on June 25, 1999. There are no laws which deal concretely with HIV or AIDS, but avoid problems with uninformed officials, it is recommended that people living with HIV be discreet about their status. Contact WartaAIDS or Spiritia for further information. CAUTION: As a result of recent upheaval, Indonesia is economically depressed. Some areas are experiencing ethnic tensions and facing political uncertainties. Please review current events in planning your travels.
  
• Gay Iran -
  
• Gay Ireland -
  
• Gay Israel -Agudah - Get acquainted with the thriving Israeli GLBT community that is at the forefront of Israel’s cultural horizons, and at the cutting edge of our vibrant nightlife. Get to know a community at the frontlines of the struggle for human rights and social awareness
  
• Gay Italy - A magazine site about what is happening in Italy's gay community
  
• Gay Jamaica -
  
• Gay Japan -
  
• Gay Latvia - Gay Latvia koncepcijâ neietilpst kâdas konkrçtas organizâcijas, personu grupas vai personas viedokïa vai intereðu atspoguïoðana. Gay Latvia ir neitrâla. Tâ ir atvçrta jebkâdiem uzskatiem un viedokïiem, kas nav pretrunâ ar pastâvoðajiem likumiem.
  
• Gay Links to the World -
  
• Gay Mexico - Mexico's Most Popular Gay Internet web pages. Used as a resource in over 70 countries around the world. Serving the gay community since 1996.
  
• Gay New Zealand -
  
• Gay Phillipines - AS with all major cities, Manila has a fairly open gay scene, with a few go-go type bars and massage centers. Outside Manila, the scene is not so easy to get into with few openly gay bars. Society outside the big city is not quite so tolerant under the influence of the Catholic church, and muslim clerics in certain areas.
  
• Gay Poland - This is the first attempt to construct a web page that could be a beginning of a service for gay people in our country. We also would like to help gay people find information on what one can find in Poland and how. There are a lot of foreigners visiting this country [and this country is worth visiting!].
  
• Gay Romania -
  
• Gay Romania - Accept - Defending, by all legal means, the persons whose fundamental rights and liberties were infringed upon - rights guaranteed by the Romanian Constitution and by the international treaties ratified by the Romanian Parliament. - Educating the public and the media on sexual minorities. - Organizing actions for promoting respect for the rights and liberties of the persons belonging to sexual minorities. - Collaborating with organizations that promote the rights of minorities. - Initiating and developing services that address the specific needs of the sexual minorities in Romania.
  
• Gay Russia -
  
• Gay Serbia - Gay-Serbia.com je sajt namenjen gej populaciji sa prostora Srbije i bivše Jugoslavije. Izgradnja i sadrzaj ovoga sajta poputno zavisi od Vaših ¾elja, te su nam Vaši komentari i predlozi vitalni u njegovom razvoju. Gay-Serbia.com is a website devoted to providing support to gay and lesbian communities of Serbia and former Yugoslavia. (English version available)
  
• Gay South Africa -
  
• Gay St Petersburg - A useful tool for those visiting this berautiful city, including a map showing where the various gay venues can be found. The site is written in Russian
  
• Gay Today - A global site for daily gay news U
  
• Gay Ukraine - Our country is situated in the south-eastern part of Central Europe and has its own territory, government, national emblem, flag and anthem. It borders on Russia, Byelorus, Moldova, Slovakia, Roumania, Hungary and Poland on land and Russia, Georgia, Bulgaria, Roumania and Turkey on sea.
  
• Gay Ukraine - Nash Mir - We are greeting you on the site created for everyone who would like to find the information about life of Ukrainian gays and lesbians.
  
• Gayscape Italy - Internet resources for and about the Italy gay and lesbian community including sites written by people who live there and know what's happening first hand, the hottest spots and best things about their home town, and community organizations.
  
• Gaytaly - Personal site with Information a bout Homosexuals in Italy
  
• GLEEP - The GLEE project is an interactive network of teacher training, curriculum development and research initiatives to combat homophobia (1) and heterosexism (2). The project is funded by the European Commission as part of the Socrates Comenius Programme for school education.
  
• Homosexuals Intransigent - This netsite is of interest to men and adolescent boys who are or think they might be homosexual. This is not a pornographic site by any stretch of the imagination, but it does occasionally speak to matters of sexual activity, albeit in an intellectual rather than prurient manner. If homosexuality offends you, please do not aggravate yourself by going further into this site.
  
• Ireland's Pink Pages - Directory of places and people in Ireland
  
• Le séminaire gai - L'objectif du Séminaire gai, site d'information, est d'améliorer la diffusion de l'information sur les études homosexuelles ou lesbiennes de langue francophone ou concernant les pays de la francophonie.
  
• New York Blade - Daily LGBT newspaper in New York
  
• Pink Pages - Internet guide to gay Ireland
  
• QueerPlanet - "queerplanet is an online magazine for gay men including live chat, forums, adult images and live webcams as well as non-adult content on news and current events."
  
• Rainbow Query - All sorts of gay stuff can be found by this search engine
  
• Russian GayLesBiTrans Site - International Section! - Gay.Ru, a non-for-profit Moscow-based gay, lesbian and transgender group has existed since 1996. It started as a discussion group under the name Fido7.Ru.Sex.Gay in the amateur messaging network FIDO. This was the first ever forum where Russian-speaking gays could discuss their problems.
  
• Seminaire Gai - Gay education and studies in France
  
• Slovene Queer Resources Directory - Slovenija - odprta in demokratièna druzba? ... ??? Potem, ko je šefica vladnega Urada za informiranje Alja Brglez poslanki v Evropskem parlamentu Lousewies van der Laan nalozila, da je "Slovenija odprta in demokratièna druzba, ki se z drugaènostmi zna in zmore sooèati na povsem civiliziran naèin", so se slovenske GLBT organizacije oglasile s sledeèim obvestilom za javnost: IZJAVA ZA JAVNOST OB IZJAVAH VODJE URADA VLADE ZA INFORMIRANJE O HOMOFOBIJI Iz novice STA smo izvedeli za izjavo direktorice Urada vlade za informiranje RS, Alje Brglez, v kateri pravi, da »je Slovenija odprta in demokratièna druzba, ki se z drugaènostmi zna in zmore sooèati na povsem civiliziran naèin.« Ob zadevi EMA pa je izjavila, da je»trdno preprièana, da v ozadju omenjenih zapletov ni posredi homofobija«. Gradivo oziroma medijski arhiv, ki ga sistematièno zbiramo v primeru EMA 2002, dokazuje nasprotno. Izhajajoè iz dolgoletnih izkušenj pri zavzemanju za enakopravnost gejevske in lezbiène populacije ugotavljamo, da obstaja v Sloveniji visoka stopnja homofobije in nestrpnosti do drugaènih
  
• TRGI Turkey - Turkey's gay community website TR Gay International (TRGI): TR Gay International is the most comprehensive guide to the colorful glbt life in Turkey. It's ultimate tourism guide (Gaylife-Turkey) serves the world's glbt communities. On TRGI, glbt tourists may find all the necessary information (including matchmaker sites) for fantastic holidays in Turkey. TR Gay International (TRGI): TR Gay International, Turkiye'deki renkli escinsel yasami dunyaya tanitmayi amaclayan bir portaldir. Essiz turizm rehberiyle de dunyadaki tum glbt kesimlerin hizmetindedir. Yabanci escinsel kulturlerle yerli escinsel olusumlar arasinda kopru gorevi goren TRGI sayesinde yerli/yabanci escinsellerle tanisabilir, yeni dostluklar kurabilirsiniz.

• Washington Blade - Cyber newspaper based in Washington DC
  
• Zona Reservada - Spanish website containing news, personals, chat, shopping and other services.

Publishers (UK and Ireland) [ back to top ]

• Absolute Press - Absolute Press are one of the UK's leading independent publishers, specialising in the fields of cookery, gay biography and gay travel, as well as gift and popular culture titles.
  
• Gay Men's Press - Gay publisher
  
• Other Way Press - The gay publishing house, The Other Way Press was founded in 1986 by Terry Sanderson after a straight publisher (SPCK) commissioned the first edition of How to be a Happy Homosexual and then refused to publish it.

• Blithe House Quarterly - An online literary magazine featuring a diversity of new short stories by emerging and established gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered authors.

• Stonewall Inn - The Stonewall Inn Web-site is dedicated to the gay/lesbian interest books and authors published by St. Martin's Press/Stonewall Inn Editions.