Gay New York IV

Today I am continuing my New York links with student resources. There will be no summations as normal so that I don't have to repeat the same things. Most student resources offer the same things. Those are education, support, and advocacy resources. A few will also offer social events and health resources.  There may be a future addition to this list. New York is unusual the way they work associations and schools. So as I further investigate it to determine its merits I will post them.

Vassar College has their LGBTQ Center

http://blegenhouse.vassar.edu/

New York University has three Resources. The first being their LGBTQ Student Center. Second is their law schools OUTLaw. Finally their Business school has OUTClass.

http://www.nyu.edu/life/student-life/diversity-at-nyu/lesbian-gay-bisexual-and-transgender-student-services.html

http://www.law.nyu.edu/studentorganizations/outlaw/index.htm

http://nyustern.campusgroups.com/outclass/about/

Harvard has their Gay and Lesbian Caucus.

http://www.hglc.org/

Dartmouth has a LGBT Alumni Association.

http://www.alum.dartmouth.org/affiliated/dgala/

Syracuse University has two links but they seem to duplicate one another. I will list both anyways. This listing is their LGBT Resource Center.

http://lgbt.syr.edu/

http://students.syr.edu/lgbt/

Cornell University has an LGBT Resource Center and their business school has Out for Business.

http://lgbtrc.cornell.edu/dos/cms/lgbt/about.cfm

http://www.forum.johnson.cornell.edu/students/orgs/glib/

Columbia University has three resources. The first is their Queer Alliance. Next they have a Pride Blog. Finally their Law School has OUTLaws.

http://www.cqanyc.com/

http://columbiaprideblog.wordpress.com/

http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/outlaws/

St. Johns University has two resources. They have a Gay Straight Alliance and their law school has a Gay and Lesbian Law Association

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=140618510590

http://www.stjohns.edu/academics/graduate/law/journals/overview/galla

Ithaca College has their Center of LGBT Center of Education, Outreach, & Services.

http://www.ithaca.edu/sacl/lgbt/

The Rochester Institute of Technology has two resources. The first is Their Gay Alliance. The second is their GLBT Center.

http://campuslife.rit.edu/main/clubs/details?clubId=186&clubName=RIT%20Gay%20Alliance%20%28RITGA%29

http://campuslife.rit.edu/GLBT/

Barnard College has Q.

http://eclipse.barnard.edu/~clubq/Welcome.html

Hofstra University has The Pride Network.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=info&ref=ts&gid=60773530209

Queens College has GLASA.

http://www.myspace.com/qcglasa

Brooklyn College has their LGBT Alliance.

http://www.brooklyncollegelgbta.com/

Binghamton University has their Rainbow Pride Union.

http://www.binghamtonrpu.com/viewpage.php?page_id=3

Hunter College has Queer Student Union.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2210206853

Baruch College has GLASS.

http://www.baruchglass.blogspot.com/

City College has an LGBTQ Alliance.

http://www.ccnysaga.webs.com/

Yeshiva University's law school has OUTLaw.

http://www.cardozo.yu.edu/MemberContentDisplay.aspx?ccmd=ContentDisplay&ucmd=UserDisplay&userid=196&contentid=

The Culinary Institute of America has a Gay Straight Alliance.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Culinary-Institute-of-America-Gay-Straight-Alliance/120100994292


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Hope

I sit here and write this tonight for all of you out there who are younger. This blog is a  response to all the suicides by our youth. In recent days while doing my searches for links I have had the chance to read many sites and replies by many younger people. I have hope for all of you and I hope you do as well.

My concern is so many think it acceptable to be pessimistic and complacent in the status quo. Please don't be one of those people. Hope! It is not a fleeting emotion that is the luxury of the few. It is something you must create on your own.

Hope is all that you aspire to be and wish to change. Without it there is no life, only stagnation and despair. Set your goals, strive to achieve them, and make the world as you would dream it. Will is a powerful force of change in the world and you are a powerful force in in it.

Never accept things will never get better. Never accept the place others will relegate you to. You are the master of your own life. Remember that and live life with hope.

I am not saying life is not difficult but do not dwell in it. At some point we have to pick ourselves up and realize hope is always there, because we are. So many of us know pain and cruelty. So rise above that and soar in the knowledge you will not continue the bitterness and pain.

Maybe we all need to change our points of view. That mountain that seems so insurmountable before you can become a pile of rock if we all take a pick to it and begin change. We are a force and so are you. All things are possible. And yes things can change and get better.

I know to many of you I am only the words on the screen of a computer before you. But I am a person just like you. I have hopes and dreams. I have known pain, fear, and darkness. Of all the things I have learned in life hope is the most important.

Craft your hopes and dreams like a master architect. Build them with care, paying attention to every detail. Take pride in its construction and share your joys with all those in life who matter. When completed gaze at the beauty you have given not only yourself but the world. All from a humble hope.


To the young man who inspired me to write this please know hope is alive. Open the window of your heart and let its story soar forth. All you need is you and hope. From there all things can change.


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Links of Love International VIII

Today I have more resources for my international viewers. To my many Russian viewers I am fulfilling my pledge. I have found more sites for you. I hope these help.

Moscow Pride  (Russia)

http://www.moscowpride.ru/

Lesbiru  (Russia)

http://www.lesbiru.com/

Gay Russian Radio  (Russia)

http://www.gay-radio.ru/

Gay Russia  (Russia)

http://www.gayrussia.eu/

Gay Serbia  (Serbia)  This site is available in Serbian and English. They have several Serbian links listed.

http://gay-serbia.com/

http://gay-serbia.com/index-eng.jsp


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Gay New York III

Today I continue my coverage of New York with equality sites.

The Long Island GLBT Community Center has a listing for a Marriage Coalition group. I can't seem to find out more about it online so if your local check with them directly.

http://www.liglbtcenter.org/content.php?pgID=25

The Campaign to End Homophobia

http://www.endhomophobia.org/

Equality Long Island

http://www.equalityli.org/

The East End Gay Organization

http://www.eego.org/

Empire State Pride Agenda

http://www.prideagenda.org/

Ithaca LGBT Task Force

http://www.ilgbttf.org/

BiasHelp is a advocacy group specifically focused for hate crimes, discrimination, and bullying.

http://www.biashelp.org/

Freedom to Marry

http://www.freedomtomarry.org/

Good as You

http://www.goodasyou.org/

Marriage Equality New York

http://www.meny.us/

Queer Rising

http://queerrising.wordpress.com/


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Gay New York: Transgender New York

Today I have more resources for the Trans members of our community. I debated adding them to the regular state listing but decided it's easier to find them if they are separate. I hope these help. I believe New York has the most Trans friendly resources I have found so far.

The Center, in New York City has CARE. (Counseling, Advocacy, Recovery, Education) It is not Trans exclusive but all help and information is useful.  They also have the Gender Identity Project.

http://www.gaycenter.org/node/245

http://www.gaycenter.org/gip

The Trans Solidarity Project has many resources available for whatever the need. I am listing their main page and their support group.

http://www.transsolidarity.org/

http://transsolidarity.org/transaffirmationsgroup.html

Spectrum is a Transgender education, advocacy, and support group for western New York.

http://www.spectrumwny.org/

Community Healthcare Network has a Transgender Program.

http://www.chnnyc.org/services/transgender-program/

The Mid Hudson Valley Transgender Association is a education and support group for the Trans community, their friends, and families.

http://www.ren.org/rafil/MHVTA/index.htm

Expressing our Nature is a support group in upstate New York.

http://www.eonsyr.net/

The Orange County Transgender Support group. This is a Yahoo group. You will have to sign in to access it.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oc_tg_group/

The Southern Tier Transgender Alliance is a support group for the Trans community, their friends, and family.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Southern-Tier-Gender-Alliance/121615841182103#!/pages/Southern-Tier-Gender-Alliance/121615841182103?v=info

The Transgender Law and Policy Institute is and advocacy group.

http://www.transgenderlaw.org/

The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund is an advocacy group.

http://www.transgenderlegal.org/

The New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy. They do have a healthcare provider directory worth looking at.

http://www.nyagra.com/


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What is Gay?

What is gay? To most it is having sex with a member of the same gender. Many very negative traits have been assigned to it. It has been so maligned as to cause offense upon even being slurred at someone. Gay for many is a powerful and hurtful term.

Gay has been so divisive that our own community tries to define themselves as other names. We are now lesbians, bisexuals, transgender, and yes gays. I've never liked other people defining me. It takes power from me and reduces who I am to a single term or phrase that really has little to do with all that I am.

Now that I have given the maligned definition of gay let me tell you of its original meaning. Gay originally meant being happy or carefree in spirit. To be gay used to be a compliment. It meant you were a good person to be around and brightened peoples lives.

I've always liked that definition. We struggle so hard in our community to find out who we are and define ourselves. In our process we are lured and waylayed into other peoples definitions of who we are. Is it a wonder we go through so much pain and sorrow?

In that struggle we eventually come to a peace with ourselves and the paths we wander down. Still many of us do so uneasily, haunted by the nightmare forest that awaits those who stray to far from hope. It is for all of you I write this today.

Be gay! Ultimately we all have to learn to be happy with ourselves and be carefree of those who wish to taunt and malign us. So be gay! Live happily in the knowledge you know who you are, you are happy with who you are, and you are carefree of others allusions. Be gay and brighten the lives of not only those in our community but the whole world. Only in love will be take back a word that hate has twisted.

I'm Gay! Are You?


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Gay New York II

Today I would like to continue the New York listings with community centers. They can provide many services to us in the LGBT community. Education, support, advocacy, social events, and sometimes health resources are all the hallmarks of a center. They are a great asset. Use them! There may be more out there but these are the ones with web pages.

Queens Pride House in Queens.

http://www.queenspridehouse.org/

The Staten Island LGBT Center

http://www.silgbtcenter.org/

Brooklyn Community Pride Center

http://www.lgbtbrooklyn.org/

Bronx Community Pride Center

http://www.bronxpride.org/

The Long Island GLBT Community Center

http://www.liglbtcenter.org/

The Center, LGBT Community Center, in New York City.

http://www.gaycenter.org/

Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center

http://www.lgbtqcenter.org/

The Loft covering the Lower Hudson Valley.

http://www.loftgaycenter.org/

The Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley.

http://www.gayalliance.org/

The Pride Center of Western New York

http://www.pridecenterwny.org/site/

Pride Center of the Capital Region

http://www.capitalpridecenter.org/

The Cube in Binghampton

http://www.thecubebinghamton.org/

The Audre Lorde Project in New York City.

http://alp.org/


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