Local Organizations
 The Albany Damien Center provides a community center for individuals and families living with HIV/AIDS designed to improve health and quality of life in a supportive, caring, and empowering atmosphere. www.AlbanyDamienCenter.org
 Capital Pride Singers is the only Gay / Lesbian / Bi-Sexual / Transgendered / Affirming Chorus in Albany, NY.
www.capitalpridesingers.homestead.com
 InsideOut Magazine is the Hudson Valley Magazine for the LGBT Community.
www.insideouthv.com
 PAWS NY Capital Region - PAWS (Pets are Wonderful Support), a program of the Albany Damien Center, ensures that people living with HIV/AIDS are not separated from their pets, often when they need each other the most. www.PAWSNYCapitalRegion.org
PLFLAG-Capital Region NY Chapter (CRNY) meets at First United Presbyterian Church, 1915 5th Ave., Troy. ALL are WELCOME! Click on the following link for directions: www.unitedprestroy.org. Email pflagcrny[at]gmail.com for meeting schedule or visit the following web addresses for more information: http://community.pflag.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?pid=228&srcid=224&chid=261 or www.myspace.com/pflagcrny
 STARS M.C. is a fellowship of leathermen promoting brotherhood, a positive leather image and lifestyle, and charitable concerns within our community. Monthly social events (bar nights) and meetings at the Club Phoenix. For more information contact P.O. Box 2484, Albany, NY 12220-0884 or check their website: www.starsmc.com
 Rainbowomyn is a social group for women who identify as lesbian, bisexual or are just questioning. We have social gatherings at the Capital District Gay and Lesbian Community Center, the Women's Building, and other area locations. For more information, please email julieyoli[at]yahoo.com or visit us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rainbowomyn/
 In Our Own Voices, Inc. (IOOV) is an organization that promotes the physical, mental, political, social, cultural, and economic growth of lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgendered people of color.
www.inourownvoices.org
The Gay and Lesbian Recovery Network is an online Yahoo Support Group. It is a group for New York's Capital District gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people in recovery from any addiction/disease.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gaylesrecoverynetwork/
Regional Organizations
 The Audre Lorde Project is a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit and Transgender People of Color center for community organizing, focusing on the New York City area. Through mobilization, education and capacity-building, we work for community wellness and progressive social and economic justice. Committed to struggling across differences, we seek to responsibly reflect, represent and serve our various communities.
www.alp.org
 The Berkshire Stonewall Community Coalition promotes the well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people from the Berkshire County area through communication, networking, support, education, political action, and fun.
www.berkshirestonewall.org
 The Bridge (LGBTCC), Inc. is a non-profit LGBT community social drop-in center serving the greater Glens Falls, Saratoga and surrounding rural Adirondack regions. 518-307-3896. The_Bridge_12081[at]yahoo.com.
www.thebridgelgbtcc.org
 Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center is on the journey to provide a place where all Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer people can gather, talk, share concerns and search for solutions. Also, we strive to bring about changes within our community that will allow the LGBTQ population to feel safe.
www.lgbtqcenter.org
 Marriage Equality New York - Capital Region Network: MENY-CRN is an affiliate of MENY. We are working locally to ensure that all couples have the right to enter into legally recognized, gender neutral, civil marriage. http://meny-crn.wikispaces.com/
 SAGE/Upstate is an intergenerational and culturally diverse organization committed to meeting the specialized needs of older lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender persons in the central New York region.
www.sageupstate.org
 The AIDS Council of Northeastern New York is a not-for-profit human service agency whose mission is to reduce the risk, fear and incidence of HIV infection, encourage the independence of people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS and promote understanding of their needs.
www.aidscouncil.org
Statewide Organizations
 A New York State lesbian and gay political advocacy organization that works for equal rights by lobbying elected officials, electing supportive candidates, and community organizing.
www.prideagenda.org
 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.
www.glsennycr.org
 The New York State Black Gay Network is a coalition of diverse organizations committed to Black men who practice same-sex desire in New York State’s primary urban centers. The Network works together to strengthen the ways in which organizations, communities and government imagine and respond to the needs of Black men who practice same-sex desire.
www.nysbgn.org
 The New York State Coalition for Inclusive Scouting is an affiliate of the CDGLCC, that works to enhance the Scouting program by embracing diversity.
www.inclusivescouting.org
 The New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy is the first statewide transgender advocacy organization in New York. NYAGRA's mission is to advocate for freedom of gender identity and expression for all.
www.nyagra.com
National Organizations
 The Human Rights Campaign (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.
www.hrc.org
 The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is 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.
www.glaad.org
The National Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Centers (NALGBTCC) exists to support and enhance lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community centers, which are engines of community organizing and liberation, and crucial to the health and strength of LGBT communities.
 The National Gay & Lesbian Task Force (NGTLF) 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.
www.ngltf.org
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