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Gay history for gay travelers: Oscar Wilde Tours organizes group tours focused on gay history, culture, and art. From Socrates to Michelangelo, from Whitman to Wigstock.
New York City nonprofit providing housing, support services, and advocacy for LGBTQ+ youth experiencing homelessness.
Brooklyn LGBTQ+ community center providing community programs, support services, and advocacy for local residents.
New York LGBTQ+ community health center providing affirming primary care, sexual health, and mental health services.
Major New York LGBTQ+ community center in Manhattan offering support services, cultural programming, and advocacy.
Historic feminist and LGBTQ+-inclusive organizing and community resource in New York.
The leading LGBTQ+ media advocacy organization, working to accelerate acceptance through storytelling, journalism, and entertainment industry outreach. GLAAD was founded in New York in 1985 in response to stigmatizing AIDS coverage and now operates nationally.
A national education organization focused on creating safe and affirming schools for LGBTQ+ students. Founded in New York in 1990, GLSEN supports student-led Gender and Sexuality Alliance clubs, policy advocacy, and educator training across the US.
The world's largest collection of materials by and about lesbians, housed since 1993 in a Park Slope brownstone. The Archives preserve over 20,000 books, thousands of periodicals, photographs, and personal papers, all freely accessible to the public without academic gatekeeping.
The nation's largest and oldest organization dedicated to LGBTQ+ older adults, founded in New York in 1978. SAGE provides direct services, advocacy, and a national network of LGBTQ+ welcoming care providers, with particular focus on isolated and low-income elders.
An inclusive St. Patrick's Day parade held annually in Sunnyside, Queens since 2000, founded as a direct alternative to the Manhattan parade's exclusion of LGBTQ+ groups. St. Pat's for All explicitly welcomes LGBTQ+ marchers, immigrants, and all communities, and has grown into a beloved neighbourhood tradition.
A grassroots agency and the LGBTQ+ centre of the Bronx, offering housing, health, and support services for the borough's queer community.
A trans-led intercultural collective in Queens supporting trans and gender-nonconforming Latine and immigrant New Yorkers.
New Jersey's statewide LGBTQ+ community centre, offering support groups, programs, and a gathering space.
A DIY community art gallery and performance venue in New York City focused on women and non-binary artists working in sound, performance, and interdisciplinary art.
A Black trans-led organization providing housing, crisis support, health advocacy, and reentry services for transgender people, especially trans women and sex workers.
A collective providing free legal services to transgender, intersex, and gender-nonconforming people, with a focus on low-income people and people of color. Named for the trans activist Sylvia Rivera.
A trans-led organization serving trans, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary New Yorkers since 2007, with a focus on Latinx, BIPOC, immigrant, and economically insecure community members.
A transgender-led organization advocating for inclusive gender-based policy by building community leaders, educating practitioners, and influencing policymakers.