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AffordableColleges.com

LGBTQ colleges breaks down the individual components that make a campus LGBTQ-friendly and aims to help students navigate potential schools.

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Affordable Colleges Online

LGBTQ+ Friendly Colleges & Universities

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AIDS Health Foundation

Largest provider of HIV/AIDS medical care in the U.S.

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Ali Forney Center

Protects LGBT+ youth in New York City from the harm of homelessness, and supporting them in becoming safe and independent as they move from adolescence to adulthood.

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Anti-Violence Project

AVP empowers lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and HIV-affected communities and allies to end all forms of violence through organizing and education, and supports survivors through counseling and advocacy.

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Audre Lorde Project (ALP)

Focusing on community organizing in New York City for LGBT, Two Spirit, and Gender Non Conforming People of Color.

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Brooklyn Hospital

The Brooklyn Hospital Center is dedicated to providing outstanding health services, education, and research to keep the people of Brooklyn and greater New York healthy.

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Brooklyn Legal Service

Brooklyn Legal Services, part of Legal Services NYC, fights poverty and seeks racial, social, and economic justice for low-income New Yorkers. BLS provides a broad range of legal advocacy and information to low-income LGBTQ residents of Brooklyn.

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Brooklyn Public Libraries

Offering residents, offering thousands of public programs, millions of books and use of more than 1,100 free Internet-accessible computers, and more.

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Callen-Lorde Community Health Center

Providing sensitive, quality health care and related services primarily to New York’s   LGBT  communities regardless of ability to pay, and promoting health education and wellness and advocates for LGBT health issues.

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CAMBA

CAMBA is a non-profit agency that provides services that connect people with opportunities to enhance their quality of life.

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Catholic Charities

The Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York seeks to uphold the dignity of each person as made in the image of God by serving the basic needs of the poor, troubled, frail and oppressed of all religions.

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Cerebral Palsy Guidance

Cerebral Palsy Guidance is the web’s most comprehensive informational support resource for people with cerebral palsy. Cerebral Palsy Guidance also provides parents with detailed information on a very complex condition.

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Center for Anti-Violence Education

(CAE) develops and implements comprehensive violence prevention programs for individuals and organizations. Through a combination of education, physical empowerment, and leadership development, CAE provides underserved communities throughout the New York metropolitan area with skills to break cycles of violence.

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Center Wyckoff Hospital

Wyckoff Heights Medical Center has been providing medical care to the community since 1889. We offer offer outpatient services to thousands at our network of community ambulatory care centers and present extensive community health education and screening programs.

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Center Youth

LGBT+ Family and Youth Recovery and Wellness. We provide a safe inclusive and affirming environment to foster relationships. We believe you should celebrate who you are and what makes you unique.

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Circle of Voices, Inc

Providing opportunities to foster a collaborative and support for women of African descent.

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College Guide for LGBTQ+ Students

This comprehensive guide is 100% free and covers LGBTQ statistics, representation, and inclusivity in higher education, tips for finding the right LGBTQ-friendly school, mental health concerns faced by LGBTQ students, and financial aid.

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Community Healthcare Network, LGBT

Provides access to quality, culturally-competent and comprehensive community-based primary care, mental health and social services for diverse populations in underserved communities throughout New York City.

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Congregation Beit Simchat Torah

Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST) is a vibrant spiritual community and a progressive voice within Judaism. CBST attracts and welcomes gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, transgender, queer and straight individuals and families who share common values.

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Degree Prospects, LLC

Fact-based resources about financially accessible colleges and universities for low-income students featuring: Most Affordable Colleges in New York and Best Online Colleges in New York.

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The Door

The Door’s mission is to empower young people to reach their potential by providing accessible, comprehensive youth development services – health care, counseling, education, legal services, the arts and recreation – in a diverse and supportive environment.

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Everfest

This site provides dates, locations, descriptions, etc. for hundreds of pride festivals around the United States and beyond — everything from pride parades to film festivals to book festivals.

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El Puente Bushwick Leadership Center

For ages 13-21, the El Puente Bushwick Leadership Center is a safe and nurturing community for young people and their families. The Center is focused on raising consciousness of the community and advocating ground issues of equity and social justice.

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First Presbyterian of Brooklyn

An LGBTQ+ affirming church where everyone is welcome. Spiritual guidance for LGBTQ+ folks.

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Family Equality Council

Family Equality Council is changing attitudes and policies to ensure all families are respected, loved, and celebrated – especially families with parents who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.

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Forktip

Easy to read list of countries where LGBT+ individuals and couples can not safely work, live or travel for various reasons.

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Fierce

Building the leadership and power of LGBT+ youth of color in New York City through youth-led   campaigns, leadership development programs, and cultural expression through arts and media.

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Fostering Change for Children

Brave space for LGBTQ+ young people who experience foster care and/or disconnection from family.

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Fusion Apothecary

Partners with the LGBTQ+ community to offer pharmaceutical and related services in the fields of medicine, mental health, and social services. Fusion does its best to accommodate every person in need of services regardless of socio economic levels.

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Gaygull

Gaygull.com is a website dedicated to uniting the LGBT community across America by sharing information and resources specific to the interests and needs of our community.

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Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN)

Ensuring safe schools for all students.

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Gay Men of African Descent (GMAD)

An organization providing community forums and support for gay and transgender Black males.

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GMHC

GMHC is the world’s first and leading provider of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and advocacy. Building on decades of dedication and expertise, we understand the reality of HIV/AIDS and empower a healthy life for all.

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Grand Street Settlement

Grand Street Settlement connects New Yorkers to opportunities that inspire, services that keep families strong, and programs that bring communities closer. Together, we have led bold charges for change, worked to overcome obstacles like isolation and exclusion, and fought to dismantle injustices and broken systems.

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GRIOT Circle

GRIOT Circle is an advocacy and service organization committed to the dignity, well-being, and quality of life of LGBT+ people of color as we age.

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GSA Network

Empowering youth activists to fight homophobia and transphobia in schools.

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2018 Guide to Veteran Education benefits

A comprehensive, user-friendly guide that includes features like the GI Bill calculator, grants and scholarship directories, and interviews with the top universities that have programs designed specifically to support veteran higher education.

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Healthy Bodies Safer Sex (booklet)

A Florida State University guide for trans/non-binary people and their partners about safer sex, relationships, and overall wellness.

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Health Education Alternatives for Teens

HEAT is the only comprehensive care program of its kind in Brooklyn that provides age and developmentally appropriate, culturally competent care for heterosexual, lesbian, gay, bisexuals, and transgender youth who are living with or at very high-risk for HIV/AIDS.

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HEAT Teens Helping Each Other (THEO)

Program runs out of SUNY Downstate Medial Center. Educating teens in good health, and HIV prevention and sexual transmitted diseases.

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Hetrick-Martin Institute (Harvey Milk High School)

Hetrick-Martin seeks to foster healthy youth development. Hetrick-Martin’s staff promotes excellence in the delivery of youth services and uses its expertise to create innovative programs that other organizations may use as models.

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Housing Works

Housing Works is a healing community of people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. Our mission is to end the dual crises of homelessness and AIDS through relentless advocacy, the provision of lifesaving services, and entrepreneurial businesses that sustain our efforts.

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The Institute for Human Identity

LGBT and queer psychotherapy and training center. Free of traditional gender, sexual orientation and culture biases.

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It Gets Better Project

The It Gets Better Project’s mission is to communicate to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth around the world that it gets better, and to create and inspire the changes needed to make it better for them.

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JAIA YOUth Empowerment

For ages 13-34, JAIA YOUth Empowerment provides a personal and spiritual development leadership program serving youths and young adults.

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LGBTQ+ Friendly Addiction Treatment Guide

LGBTQ friendly facts and guidance about addiction treatment.

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Lambda Legal Defense Fund

Their mission is to achieve full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work.

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Learn How to Become

Scholarship and financial aid resources for LGBT+ students.

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Le-Gal

LeGaL is dedicated to improving the administration of the law, ensuring full equality for members of the LGBT community, promoting the expertise and advancement of LGBT legal professionals, and serving the larger community.

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LGBT Aging Project

Ensuring that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender older adults have equal access to the life-prolonging benefits, protections, services and institutions that their heterosexual neighbors take for granted.

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LGBT Community Center of NYC

Providing a home for the birth, nurture, and celebration of LGBT organizations, institutes, and culture; caring for LGBT groups and individuals in need.

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LGBTQ-Friendly Colleges

If you want to know what to look for in an LGBTQ-friendly college, find support resources, on-campus offices and identify scholarships for LGBTQ students.

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LGBTQ Online Colleges

The OnlineSchools.org LGBTQ guide offer resources for LGBT youth and their families, including help with transitioning to college, finding meaningful scholarships, and a collection of resources for students of all ages.

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LGBTQ Student Resources and Support

Creating more welcoming environments for LGBTQ Teens and College Students.

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Make the Road New York- Globe

Make the Road New York (MRNY) builds the power of Latino and working class communities to achieve dignity and justice through organizing, policy innovation, transformative education, and survival services.

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The McShane Center for Psychological Services

The Thomas McShane Center for Psychological and Psychoeducational Services is the training clinic of Pace University’s Graduate School of Psychology and is located at our downtown Manhattan Campus. The McShane Center offers low-cost, confidential, evidence based, mental health services for children, adolescents, adults, couples and families; under the supervision of licensed clinical psychologists, doctoral students provide individual, group, family, and couples therapy to a diverse range of patients.

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Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC)

Creating opportunities and providing resources that will enable “holy conversations” within the denomination about various beliefs concerning the integration of sexuality and spirituality and LGBT people’s unique place on the margins of society.

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Movement Advancement Project (MCC)

Anti-discrimination laws protecting the LGBT+ community in the USA.

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Nitro College Scholarships

This interactive tool allows graduating high school seniors and college students to sort through over 45 college scholarships available to identifying and ally individuals of the LGBTQ+ community.

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On Our Own: A Survival Guide for Independent LGBTQ Youth

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, in partnership with the True Colors Fund and Time Out Youth Center in Charlotte, NC, released On Our Own: A Survival Guide for Independent LGBTQ Youth, an innovative guide for LGBTQ youth facing the daunting prospect of living on their own after leaving unsupportive or abusive homes, or aging out of foster care.

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Online Dating Guide

Guide about online dating featuring hundreds of verified consumer reviews.

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Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)

Uniting people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBT+) with families, friends, and allies, PFLAG is committed to advancing equality and full societal affirmation of LGBT+ people through its threefold mission of support, education, and advocacy.

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Project Safe Lutheran Medical

The Project Reach Youth’s Project SAFE Teen Health Center is a partnership between Project SAFE and NYU Lutheran Family Health Centers Park Slope, providing youth between the ages of 13 and 21 a non-judgmental, personal approach to sexual health services.

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Red Hook Community Justice Center

The courthouse is the hub for an array of unconventional programs that contribute to reducing fear and improving public trust in government. These include mediation, community service and a youth court where teenagers are trained to resolve actual cases involving their peers. The Center also has a housing resource center, which provides support and information to residents with cases in housing court.

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Red Hook Initiative

RHI believes that social change to overcome systemic inequities begins with empowered youth.

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Red Umbrella Project (website under construction)

Amplifying the voices of people in the sex trades through media, advocacy, and storytelling programs.

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SCO Family Services

Services help vulnerable New Yorker build a strong foundation for the future. We get young children off to a good start, launch youth into adulthood, stabilize and strengthen families and unlock potential for children and adults with special needs.

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Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE)

Improving the lives of LGBT older adults by providing programs and services for the aging LGBT community, providing technical assistance and training to expand opportunities for LGBT older people across the country, and providing a national voice on LGBT aging issues.

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Social Security Administration

With you through life’s journey, Social Security celebrates the fight for dignity and equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the United States and is committed to treating all Americans fairly and with respect. Whether working or receiving benefits, manage your benefits online with your personal my Social Security account and when you’re ready, retire online!

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The Society of Femmes, Inc.

The Society of Femmes, Inc., fosters a loyal sisterhood of women by building solid friendships.

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STAR Health Clinic

STAR Health Center has been here to help improve the lives of Central Brooklyn community residents.

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THRIVE

THRIVE offers programs and services to individuals so they reach their full potential.

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TLDEF

Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund is committed to ending discrimination based upon gender identity and expression and to achieving equality for transgender people through public education, test-case litigation, direct legal services, and public policy efforts.

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Trans Teens Online Talk Group

Moderated online talk group, helping to end isolation and loneliness for trans youth.

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Trevor Project

Focuses on crisis and suicide prevention efforts among LGBT+ youth Ages 13-24.

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Urban Justice Center

Serving NYC’s most vulnerable residents through a combination of direct legal service, systemic advocacy, community education, and political organization.

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Visiting Nurse Service of NY (VNSNY):

The largest home- and community-based healthcare organization in the New York City area; provides high quality, culturally sensitive home health care services for the LGBT Community. SAGECare Platinum level certified! Our wide range of healthcare services is provided in the comfort of your home with the goal of helping LGBT seniors to successfully age in place. Call our Customer Care Center at 1-888-VNS-1-CALL (1-888-867-1225).

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Workplace Fairness

Information about discrimination that happens in workplaces to LGBT+ individuals and how to get help.

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Youth Guardian Services

Support services on the Internet to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and straight supportive youth.

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YouthResource Online Peer Educators

A website created by and for LGBT+ young people providing information and offering support on sexual and reproductive health issues through education and advocacy.

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