List of LGBT rights organizations

List of LGBT rights organizations around the world. Note that some organizations support certain rights while opposing others.

International

• Gay Straight Alliance Network International (GSANI)
• International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA)
• International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC)
• International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Youth and Student Organisation (IGLYO)
• International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Intersex Law Association (ILGLaw)

Africa

• Behind the Mask [1]

Cameroon

• Alternatives-Cameroun
• The Cameroonian Association for the Defense of Homosexuality (ADEFHO)
• Igreja da Comunidade Metropolitana (ICM)

Kenya

• Gay Movement Alliance of Kenya[2]

Nigeria

• Changing Attitude Nigeria (CAN)

Senegal

• And Ligeey

Sierra Leone

• Sierra Leone Lesbian and Gay Association

South Africa

• Lesbian & Gay Equality Project
• Gay and Lesbian Organisation of the Witwatersrand (GLOW)

Uganda

• Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG)

Zambia

• LEGATRA

Zimbabwe

• Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ)

America (continent)

Argentina

• Comunidad Homosexual Argentina (CHA)

Bahamas

• Rainbow Alliance of The Bahamas

Bolivia

• M.G.L.P. Libertad

Brazil

• Grupo Gay da Bahia (GGB)

Canada

• AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT)
• Allied Rainbow Communities International
• Canadian Bar Association SOGIC
• Canadian Human Rights Commission
• Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA)
• Canadian Rainbow Health Coalition
• Canadians for Equal Marriage
• Dignity Canada
• Egale Canada
• Equal Marriage for Same-Sex Couples
• Eucharistic Catholic Church in Canada
• Family Pride Canada
• Integrity Canada
• LEGIT
• Lesbian and Gay Community Appeal Foundation (LGCA)
• Lesbian Mother's Association
• Metropolitan Community Church
• New Democratic Party of Canada
• NGALE
• NSRAP
• PFLAG Canada
• TransCanada
• United Church of Canada

Chile

• Movimento Unificado de Minorias Sexuales (MUMS)
• Movimiento de Liberación Homosexual (MOVILH)

Colombia

• Colombia Diversa

Cuba

• Cuban National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX)

Guatemala

• Associacion Gay Lesbica Guatemalteca

Guyana

• Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD)

Jamaica

• Jamaica Forum of Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays (J-FLAG)

Netherlands Antilles

• APEX

Indiana Equality

Peru

• Movimiento Homosexual de Lima (MHOL)

United States

• Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons (Mormon Church)
• African Ancestral Lesbians United for Societal Change
• Alternative Family Project
• American Medical Association [3][4] (AMA)
• American Medical Student Association [5] (AMSA)
• American Veterans for Equal Rights (AVER) [6]
• API Equality [7]
• Bash Back [8]
• Basic Rights Oregon [9]
• Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights [10] (BAPHR)
• Cheer, Dorothy, Cheer!
• Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (COLAGE) [11]
• CLAMBS Equality (Massachusetts)
• Daughters of Bilitis
• Digital Queers (DQ)
• DignityUSA (Catholic Church)
• Empowering Spirits Foundation [12]
• Equal Rights Washington [13]
• Equality Advocates Pennsylvania [14]
• Equality Arizona [15]
• EQCA (Equality California) [16]
• Equality Florida [17]
• Equality Illinois [18]
• Equality Maryland [19]
• Equality Mississippi
• Equality North Carolina
• Equality North Dakota
• Equality Texas [20]
• Equality Utah [21]
• Equality Virginia [22]
• eQualityGiving [23]
• Family Equality Council [24]
• Fine By Me
• Freedom to Marry
• Gay Activists Alliance
• Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD)
• Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
• Gay and Lesbian Medical Association [25] (GLMA)
• Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund
• Gay Liberation Front (GLF)
• Gay Men of African Descent (GMAD)
• Gay Pride Virginia (GPV) [26]
• Gay Straight Advocates for Education (GSAFE) [27]
• Gay Straight Alliance Network International (GSANI)
• Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network [28] (GLSEN)
• Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies (GLIFAA) [29]
• GenderPAC (GPAC) [30]
• Georgia Equality
• Gulf Coast TIDE [31]
• Human Rights Campaign (HRC)
• Immigration Equality [32]
• ImpACT-Florida [33]
• IntegrityUSA (Episcopal Church)
• Kansas Equality Coalition [34]
• Kentucky Equality Federation
• Keshet, Inc. (Keshet, Keshet Boston) [35]
• Lambda Community Center, Ft. Collins, CO [36]
• Lambda Legal [37]
• Lesbian Avengers
• Log Cabin Republicans (LCR)
• Love Makes a Family - Connecticut
• Marriage Equality USA
• MassEquality [38]
• Mattachine Society
• Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC Churches)
• National Center for Lesbian Rights [39][NCLR]
• National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) [40]
• National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (The Task Force)
• National Socialist League (United States)
• National Youth Advocacy Coalition (NYAC)
• New Gay Liberation Front
• North American Conference of Homophile Organizations
• Oklahomans for Equality [41]
• One National Gay & Lesbian Archives
• Orange County Equality Coalition (OCEC) [42]
• Our Family Coalition [43]
• Out & Equal [44]
• Out4immigration [45]
• OutFront Minnesota [46]
• Outright Libertarians
• Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
• QPages: Utah's only gay and lesbian yellow pages by the community, for the community [47]
• QSaltLake: Utah's biweekly gay and lesbian news and entertainment magazine [48]
• Queers and Allies, University of Kansas
• Queer Commission of the Socialist Party USA
• Queer Nation
• Rainbow Health Initiative (RHI) link
• Rainbow Law
• Rainbow Sash
• Safe Schools Coalition of Washington [49]
• Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) [50]
• Soulforce (organization)
• Southern Association for Gender Education
• Stanislaus PRIDE Center (SPC)
• Stonewall Democrats
• Stonewall Shooting Sports of Utah [51]
• Tennessee Equality Project [52]
• Touro University Gay-Straight Alliance [53] (TUGSA)
• The Center (Colorado) [54]
• Triangle Foundation [55] - Michigan
• UnifiedVoice.org [www.Unifiedvoice.org] - USA (UV)
• University of Utah LGBT Resource Center [56]
• Utah Pride Center [57]
• White Crane Institute

Uruguay

• Human Rights Organization working on promoting integration and understanding between sexual minorities and Heterosexuals as well as between foreigners and Uruguayans

Asia

Hong Kong

• HORIZONS
• Rainbow Action

India

• Humsafar Trust
• The Naz Foundation
• The Gay Bombay Group
• Trikone

Indonesia

• GAYa Nusantara Foundation

Israel

• The Association of Gay Men, Lesbians, and Bisexuals in Israel
• Jerusalem Open House - Jerusalem's GLBT community center and gay rights organization
• The Haifa LGBTQi Forum - for the Gay Men, Lesbians, Transgenders, Bisexuals Queers and Intersexual in the Haifa area.
• Hoshen -Education and Change
• ASWAT Palestinian Gay Women

Japan

• OCCUR - Association for the Lesbian and Gay Movement in Japan

Lebanon

• Helem
• Meem
• Hurriyat Khassa
• Raynbow

Malaysia

• PT Foundation (Pink Triangle)

Nepal

• Blue Diamond Society

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reference articles

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/may/02/world/fg-nepalgay2

http://www.iglhrc.org/site/iglhrc/content.php?type=1&id=162

Palestine

• ALQAWS Palestinian Gay Project

Philippines

• University of the Philippines Babaylan (UP Babaylan) - first LGBT student organization in the entire UP System and the Philippines
• Progressive Organization of Gays in the Philippines (ProGay Philippines)
• Lesbian and Gay Legislative Advocacy Network Philippines (LAGABLAB-Pilipinas)
• Society of Transsexual Women of the Philippines (STRAP)

Singapore

• People Like Us (PLU)

South Korea

• Solidarity for LGBT Human Rights of Korea
• Lesbian Counseling Center in South Korea
• Chin-gu-sa-i - Korean Gay Men's Human Rights Group
• KSCRC Korean Sexual-Minority Culture & Rights Center
• [58] Christian Solidarity for No Discrimination World

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Taiwan

• Gender/Sexuality Rights Association Taiwan (GSRAT)
• Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline Association (TTHA)

Australia and Oceania

Australia

National

• Australian Coalition for Equality (ACE)
• Australian Marriage Equality (AME)
• Civil Union Action! (CUA)
• Coalition of Activist Lesbians Australia (COAL)

Australian Capital Territory

• Good Process
• QueerAction (QA)
• A Gender Agenda

New South Wales

• Community Action Against Homophobia (CAAH)
• Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby of New South Wales (GLRL)
• OUTS Action Collective
• Queer Action Collective (QuAC)

Queensland

• Action Reform Change Queensland (ARCQ)
• Gay and Lesbian Welfare Association

Tasmania

• Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group (TGLRG)

Victoria (Australia)|Victoria

• Victorian Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby (VGLRL)
• Love Makes a Family

Western Australia

• Gay and Lesbian Equality (GALE)

Fiji

• Sexual Minorities Project under Women’s Action for Change (WAC)

Europe

• Equality for Gays And Lesbians In The European institutions (EGALITE) [59]
• Transgender Europe (TGeu) [60]

Austria

• Rechtskomitee Lambda (RKL)
• Homosexuelle Initiative Wien (HOSI Wien)
• Homosexuelle Initiative Linz (HOSI Linz)

Belgium

• Holebifederatie
• Fédération des Associations gayes et lesbiennes (FAGL)

Belarus

• Gaybelarus.by
• TEMA information center

Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Organization Q www.queer.ba/udruzenje.htm
• Organisation Logos

Bulgaria

• BGO Gemini BGO

Croatia

• Inqueerzicija
• Iskorak
• Kontra
• LORI
• kugA
• Queer Zagreb

Cyprus

• Cypriot Gay Liberation Movement

Czech Republic

• Gay and Lesbian League
• Gay Iniciativa v Czeske Republice (GI) -- closed since 2007

Denmark

• Danish National Association for Gays and Lesbians (LBL)

Estonia

• Estonian Gay League
• Diversity

Finland

• SETA - The Finnish National Organization for Sexual Equality

France

• SOS Homophobie
• Inter-LGBT
• Act Up
• David & Jonathan
• L'Autre Cercle
• Collectif Contre l'Homophobie
• Syndicat National des Entreprises Gaies
• Association des Parents Gays et Lesbiens
• GayLib
• Homosexualités et Socialisme
• CENTR’ÉGAUX

Georgia

• Inclusive Foundation

Greece

• Cooperation against Homophobia
• Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece

Germany

• DKP Queer - LGBT activist group of the German Communist Party
• Lesbian and Gay Federation in Germany (LSVD)
• Ökumenische Arbeitsgruppe Homosexuelle und Kirche

Hungary

• Háttér Support Society for LGBT People [61]
• Labrisz Lesbian Association [62]
• Habeas Corpus Working Group [63]

Iceland

• Samtökin '78

Ireland

• Gay & Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN)
• Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform
• Steven Donohues Galway Gays
• Union of Students in Ireland
• Transgender Equality Network Ireland (http://www.teni.ie/)

Italy

• Arcigay
• Arcilesbica Arcilesbica

Kosovo

• QESh
• Elysium

Latvia

• Mozaīka
• ILGA-Latvija

Lithuania

• Lithuanian Gay League

Macedonia

• Macedonian Organisation for Free Sexual Orientation

Malta

• Malta Gay Rights Movement (MGRM)

Moldova

• GenderDoc-M

The Netherlands

• COC Nederland
• Homo Lesbische Federatie Nederland
• Transgender Netwerk Nederland (TNN) [64]

Norway

• Norwegian National Association for Lesbian and Gay Liberation (LLH)
• Queer Youth

Poland

• Campaign Against Homophobia (KPH)
• Lambda Warsaw [65]

Portugal

• ILGA Portugal
• Opus Gay

Romania

• ACCEPT
• Be An Angel

Russia

• LGBT Human Rights Project Gayrussia.ru
• Russian LGBT network
• Argorisk
• Krilija
• St. Petersburg LGBT Organization Coming Out
• Movement LGBT rights of Russia

Serbia

• Gayten LGBT
• Gay-straight Alliance, based in Belgrade
• Koalicija protiv diskriminacije / Coalition Against Discrimination
• Labris, lesbian human rights group
• Lambda, LGBT human rights and queer culture centre (with offices in Niš and Kragujevac)
• LGBT Vojvodina, rights and culture development center of homosexual, bisexual and transsexual/transgender population of Vojvodina
• QueerBeograd
• Queeria
• Taboo, group for affirmation of diversity. NGO working in Zrenjanin, Kragujevac and other smaller Serbian towns.

Slovakia

• Altera

Slovenia

• DIH
• LeGeBiTra
• Lingsium
• SkuC-LL
• SkuC-Magnus

Spain

• Federación Estatal de Lesbianas, Gays, Transexuales y Bisexuales
• Fundación Triángulo

Sweden

• Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights (RFSL)
• HomO, The Ombudsman against Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation (government office)
• Ekho, Ekumeniska gruppen för kristna homo-, bisexuella och transpersoner (the organization for LGBT Christians)

Switzerland

• Pink Cross
• Swiss Lesbian Organization (LOS) LOS

Turkey

• KAOS GL
• Lambda Istanbul
• LEGATO, LGBT group of university students and academics with nationwide organization
• Rainbow Solidarity and Cultural Association for Transgenders, Gays and Lesbians
• Pink Life LGBT Association (Pembe Hayat), Ankara, Turkey

Ukraine

• Nash Mir
• Ukrainian Gay & Lesbian Association
• Public Organization Informational-Educational Center Za Ravnie Prava

United Kingdom

• Campaign for Homosexual Equality
• Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform (Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland)
• Coalition on Sexual Orientation (CoSO) (Northern Ireland)
• Cara-Friend (Northern Ireland)
• Consortium of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Volunary and Community Organisations
• DELGA (Lib Dems for LGBT Action)
• Gay and Lesbian Youth Northern Ireland (GLYNI)
• Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association (GALHA)
• Homosexual Law Reform Society
• Northern Ireland Gay Rights Association
• OutRage!
• Proud2serve.net
• Queer Youth Network (Q.Y.N.)
• Stonewall
• Unity Bangor LGBT [66]

See also

• Gay community
• LGBT rights by country

External links

• Gay Straight Alliance Network International (GSANI)
• The Gay Peoples Union Collection