LGBTQ Community Resources

If you're thinking of harming yourself, please just stop.  You are OK just the way you are.

Pick up the phone and call 1-866-488-7386 toll-free to talk with someone at the Trevor Project's suicide prevention hotline at any time of the night or day, or click here to talk, chat, or text.

Visit the It Gets Better Project to see how others deal with what you're going through.

But if you're thinking of harming yourself, please just stop.  There are alternatives.  You may feel alone, but you're not.  Even though it may be hard to imagine right now, you can have a great life and there are people who care very much about you — including people you don't even know yet.

LGBTQ YOUTH SUICIDE PREVENTION HOTLINE
The Trevor Project

• chat online
• call toll-free for 24 hour suicide hotline 1-866-488-7386

NATIONAL SUICIDE PREVENTION HOTLINE
(inclusive but not LGBTQ-specific)

• chat online
• call 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255)

Rainbow flag image:  Steve Johnson

ACT UP/NY — a diverse, non-partisan group of individuals, united in anger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis

The Ali Forney Center (NYC) — protecting LGBTQ youths from the harms of homelessness and empowering them with the tools needed to live independently

ARCS (AIDS-Related Community Services) —  education, prevention, and testing programs (interview with Santo Barbagiovanni featured in OutCasting 5)

Athlete Ally — working to end homophobia and transphobia in sports by educating allies in the athletic community and empowering them to take a stand (discussion with Brian Healey, Programming and Social Media Coordinator, featured in OutCasting 21)

Advocating for a more inclusive Boy Scouts of America:

Scouts for Equality — working to end the Boy Scout ban on LGBTQ scouts (interview with Zach Wahls featured in OutCasting 17)

Inclusive Scouting Network (interview with Mark Noel featured in OutCasting 17)

The Center — Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center of NYC

Center Lane — Westchester LGBTQ youth center, with information about programs, groups, activities, and testing geared to LGBTQ youth

Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST) — LGBTQ synagogue in NYC (interview with Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum featured in OutCasting 12)

CHAPS (Community Health and Prevention Services) of ARCS (Westchester-based AIDS-Related Community Services) — basic information about services that CHAPS provides and how to contact them through various forms of social media and telephone numbers (interview with Santo Barbagiovanni featured in OutCasting 5)

Debunking ex-gay/reparative therapy (interview with Dr. Jallen Rix featured in OutCasting 6)

http://www.exgaynoway.com

http://beyondexgay.com

http://www.exgaywatch.com

http://www.truthwinsout.org

http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/

Equality NY — a new statewide advocacy organization to serve New York State's LGBTQI community

Freedom To Marry — the campaign to win marriage nationwide (interviews with Evan Wolfson featured in OutCasting 17, 19, 20)

 Freedom for All Americans — bipartisan campaign to secure full nondiscrimination protections for LGBT people nationwide

Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC)  — the world’s first and leading provider of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and advocacy

Gay Pride Rockland (Rockland County, NY)

Gay USA TV

Hosts Ann Northrop and Andy Humm have been OutCasting guests — Ann talking about LGBTQ women in AIDS activism (summer 2018) and Andy in our Stonewall 50 series (summer 2019)

The Gilbert Baker Foundation — protecting and extending the legacy of Gilbert Baker, the creator of the LGBTQ Rainbow Flag, as an activist, artist, and educator.  Listen to OutCasting's interview with Gilbert here.

GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Activists Against Defamation) — media watchdog

GLAD (Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders)

GLSEN (Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network) — improving education, creating a better world (interview with Mary Jane Karger (GLSEN Hudson Valley) featured in OutCasting 1; interview with Brad Palmertree and Callie Wise of GLSEN Middle Tennessee featured in OutCasting 10)

Hetrick-Martin Institute — empowerment, education, and advocacy for LGBTQ youth (NYC)

Human Rights Campaign

It Gets Better Project — anti-suicide (interview with co-founder Dan Savage featured in OutCasting 2, 14a)

Jim Collins Foundation — a nonprofit founded to help people of trans experience gain access to life-saving and life-affirming medical procedures

 Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund — legal strategies, litigation, education

Live Out Loud

The LOFT — LGBT community center in White Plains, NY, with information about programs, groups, activities, outings, events, and testing geared to LGBTQ people who are 18 and older

My Sister's Place — comprehensive shelter, advocacy, legal services, and supportive services for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual abuse, stalking, and human trafficking in Westchester County, New York (interview with Kristine Poplawski, Rebecca Drago, and Honor Adams featured in OutCasting 9)

New York State Department of Health — providing county DOH locations and contact information

PFLAG — Parents, Families, Friends and Allies United with LGBT People to Move Equality Forward (interview with David Diamond featured in OutCasting 3)

Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic — teen info (interview with Twanna Hines featured in OutCasting 5)

Queens Legal Services, a unit of Legal Services NYC — serving LGBT families and people living with HIV (interview with Richard Saenz featured in OutCasting 11)

Queer Nation NY — a direct action group dedicated to ending discrimination, violence and repression against the LGBT community

This Way Out, the International LGBT Radio Magazine

This Way Out regularly features OutCasting Overtime

We Are The Youth — chronicling the stories of LGBT youth in America (interview with Diana Scholl and Laurel Golio featured in OutCasting 13)

Westchester County, NY — government link to LGBT groups and services

 Your True Gender — dedicated to educating those in our community in an effort to make the world a more welcoming place for trans* individuals, as well as anyone who has ever felt out of place (founder Jessica Lynn will be featured in an upcoming episode of OutCasting)