PRIDE MONTH
June 2023

Paying tribute to the local Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual (LGBTQIA+) community in a celebration of history and culture and in recognition of the community’s struggle for inclusion and equity.

LOCAL RESOURCES

• glendaleOUT is Glendale’s grass-roots LGBTQIA+ organization. Their goal is for this queer community to be part of the broader narrative that is Glendale. They do this through political action, community building, and social connection. 

• The GCC Pride Center intends to provide a secure, supportive, and accepting environment for students who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ+), and their allies. 

• The mission of the GALASLA is to provide a safe and supportive network for LGBTQ people of Armenian descent. The GALAS will help connect the LGBTQ and Armenian communities. 

• Junior High Los Angeles - Junior High is a non-profit 501(c)3 community arts space prioritizing the safety and expression of female, queer, nonbinary, and artists of color. 

• LGBT Seniors is focused on assisting support for the LGBT seniors; together LGBT activists, seniors and renters worked together to form the first city, West Hollywood, in the nation for openly gay people. 

• The Los Angeles LGBT Center is supported by one of the largest and most experienced research teams who focuses on the health and mental healthcare of LGBT people. 

• The ONE Archives at USC Libraries is the largest repository of LGBTQ materials in the world. The Archives house over two million items, some of which have been digitized for your research and browsing needs  

GENERAL RESOURCES

• GLAAD handles challenging issues to help lead to cultural changes and protects all accomplishments.  

• The Queer Armenian Library is an effort to gather many special pieces that were made by Queer Armenians and made about Queer Armenians. These pieces can include essays, memoirs, novels, poetry, and films. J.P. Der Boghossian is the curator of the library. 

• GLSEN believes that every student has the right to a safe, supportive, and LGBTQ-inclusive K-12 education. They are a national network of educators, students, and local GLSEN Chapters working to make this right a reality.   

• The PFLAG Chapter Network--with over 400 chapters across the country--provides confidential peer support, education, and advocacy to LGBTQ+ people, their parents and families, and allies. 

• Youth Resources will help parents, guardians and other family members of LGBT youth to gain access to the resources they need to ensure that their children are safe and supported.    

• Pink Armenia-- “Pink” human rights defender non-governmental organization was founded in 2007. The organization is known to its beneficiaries and the public as Pink Armenia. Pink is a community-based LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) organization, which means the organization has been established by LGBT community, serves and supports the needs of the community, and promotes the LGBT persons’ human rights protection process and advocates for the change of public policy around LGBT issues.  

• Right Side is the first and leading trans and sex workers community-based rights defender non-governmental organization for the protection of transgender people and sex workers in the region.   

• Rainbopedia is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide an online platform for documenting, archiving, and exploring global LGBTQ+ history, current events, and personal stories. 

• The Trevor Project was created to respond to a public health crisis that effect LGBTQ youth. The research team published the nation’s first estimate of LGBTQ youth considering suicide.    

• TED is dedicated to share ideas, in the form of powerful talks, about global issues including LGBTQ issues.     

• Transquality is the National Center for Transgender Equality. It is the nation’s leading social justice advocacy organization for transgender people.   

• The National LGBTQ Task Force is the oldest national LGBTQ advocacy group. The Task Force is training millions of activist across the nation to help assist in ending discrimination again LGBTQ people.  

• The Safe Zone Project (SZP) is a free online resource providing curricula, activities, and other resources for educators facilitating Safe Zone trainings (sexuality, gender, and LGBTQ+ education sessions), and learners who are hoping to explore these concepts on their own.  

• The Human Rights Campaign envisions a world where every member of the LGBTQ family has the freedom to live their truth without fear, and with equality under the law.  

• The Welcoming Project began in 2011 to encourage businesses, health care/service providers, organizations, and congregations to display welcoming signs for the purpose of making LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) individuals and allies feel welcomed as patrons.