LGBTQ NATIONAL RESOURCES

The Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Mission statement includes the idea that “gender self-expression is intertwined with racial, social, and economic justice”. Helps to provide access to respectful social, health and legal services for trans and gender variant people. Produced and distributes the Toilet Training documentary about gender policing and public restrooms.
www.srlp.org

Queer Deaf Resource Center
National non-profit established in 1995 that serves as a resource center for and about the Deaf queer community. Website includes a list of ongoing community related gatherings and events around the world and sponsors a $500 scholarship for deaf lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex or queer students.
www.deafqueer.org

Lambda Legal
Civil rights organization for LGBT and HIV-positive people. Website includes information about antidiscrimination policies across the US.
www.lambdalegal.com

Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
“Dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of people and events in the media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.” Website includes articles about LGBT representations in the media and about LGBT people of color in particular.
www.glaad.org

Campus PrideNet
“National online community and resource network committed to student leaders and campus organizations who work to create a safer campus environment free of homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, heterosexism and genderism at colleges and universities.”  Provides access to programming, fundraising and organizational management resources.
www.campuspride.net

XY: men, masculinities, and gender politics
XY is a website focused on men, masculinities, and gender politics. XY is a space for the exploration of issues of gender and sexuality, the daily issues of men's and women's lives, and practical discussion of personal and social change.
http://www.xyonline.net/

LGBTQ OHIO/LOCAL RESOURCES

American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio
Includes information LGBT rights in Ohio and active LGBT organizations in Ohio.
www.acluohio.org

Gay People’s Chronicle
Statewide weekly LGBT newspaper. Features articles about civil rights issues in Ohio and information about local LGBT organizations.
www.gaypeopleschronicle.com

The LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland
Features information on getting involved with LGBT initiatives based in Cleveland. Resources on a variety of different meeting groups and programs.
www.lgcsc.org

Oberlin COLLEGE TRANS/GENDER RESOURCES

• Multicultural Resource Center
• LGBT Community Coordinator – the LGBT Community Coordinator provides Trans/Gender resources in multiple ways
• Individual trans and allied student support
• Support of trans and allied student organizations
• Education on trans issues for non-trans individuals and organizations
• Programs – Some past MRC-supported trans-related programs have included:
• Transgender 101 workshops
• Transgender Activist Leslie Feinberg
• Packing Heat (Drag King show)
• Drag Ball
• “Of Chick, Dicks, and Chinks” presentation by k.t. shorb at the 13 th Biannual Asian/Pacific American Conference
• Resource Library
• “Trans/Gender Info & Resources” Binder
• Amato, Toni and Davies, Mary, ed. Pinned Down By Pronouns
• Devor, Holly. FTM: Female-to-Male Transsexuals in Society
• Ettner, Randi. Confessions of a Gender Defender: A Psychologist’s Reflections on Life Among the Transgendered
• Feinberg, Leslie. Stone Butch Blues
• Feinberg, Leslie. Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
• Feinberg, Leslie. Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to RuPaul
• Israel, Gianna E. Transgender Care: Recommended Guidelines, Practical Information, and Personal Accounts
• Kirk, Sheila. Masculinizing Hormonal Therapy for the Transgendered
• Matzner, Andrew. ‘O Au No Keia: Voices from Hawai’i ’s Mahu and Transgender Communities
• National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. Transgender Equality: A Handbook for Activists and Policy Makers
• PFLAG Pamphlet. Our Trans Children
• Schifter, Jacobo. From Toads to Queens : Transvestism in a Latin American Setting
• Vera, Veronica. Miss Vera’s Finishing School for Boys Who Want to Be Girls: Tips, Tales, & Teachings from the Dean of the World’s First Cross-Dressing Academy
• Film Library
• “Oberlin Korean Students Association Conference 2001: LGBTQ Discussion with K.T. Shorb”
• “Shinjuku Boys”
• “I Would Never Have Known…A Conversation With Peter Dunnigan”
• “It’s a Boy! Journeys From Female to Male”
• “Gender Troublemakers”
• “Though We Are All Queer, Queer Is Not All We Are”
• “Leslie Feinberg: Movement Making”
• Periodicals
• Transgender Tapestry
• FtM International Newsletter
• Zami Zine

Edmonia Lewis Center for Women and Transgender People
Programs, Resource Library and Office Hours

Transgender Advocacy Group
Open Organizing Meetings, Gender Support Group Meetings, Campus-Wide Programming, Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance and Annual Transgender Awareness Week.

Queer Peers
Educational Programming

Zami
Provides support for transgender, queer and questioning people of color

Comparative American Studies
Possible majors in LGBTQ studies and academic study of queer and trans identities, experiences and issues.

LGBTQ SCHOLARSHIPS

The Point Foundation
Provides scholarships to undergrad and graduate students based on involvement in the LGBT community and financial need.
www.pointfoundation.org

Transgender Scholarship and Education Legacy Fund
Awards numerous scholarships to transgender identified students in the helping and caring professions including but not limited to social services, HIV/AIDS education, law, teaching and education, religious instruction, medical and health care as well as the sciences.
www.tself.org

Audre Lorde Scholarship Award
Designed to recognize lesbians and gay men of color who are making significant contributions to their communities.
www.zami.org/application.htm

Colin Higgins Youth Courage Awards
Administers three $10,000 grants to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning youth (through age 24) who have stood up to hostility and intolerance based on their sexual orientation and triumphed over bigotry or allies who are working to end homophobia and discrimination against LGBTQ communities . It emphasizes reaching geographically and demographically underserved communities including rural and reservation communities, communities of color, transgender communities, and low-income communities.
www.colinhiggins.org

Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund
Provide need-based scholarships to “students actively working for peace and justice.” “Recent grantees have been active in the struggle against racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of oppression; building the movement for economic justice; and creating peace through international anti-imperialist solidarity.”
http://www.davisputter.org/

LGBTQ CONFERENCES & EVENTS

NGLTF Creating Change Conference
Date: November 8-12, 2006
Location: Kansas City, Kansas
Website: www.creatingchange.org

International Drag King Extravaganza
Date: October 19-22, 2006
Location: Austin, TX
Website: www.idkeaustin.com/

Los Angeles Queer Studies Conference
Date: November 18th & 19th
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Website: www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/LAQSC.html

Lavender Languages Conference
Date: February 9-11
Location: Washington, D.C.
Website: http://www.american.edu/cas/anthro/lavenderlanguages/

FTM 2006: A Gender Odyssey
Date: September 1-4
Location: Seattle, WA
Website: http://www.transconference.org/

The Sweaty Southern Radical Queer and Trans Convergence
Date: May 19-21
Location: Durham, N.C.
Website: www.radicalqtc.org

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