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Dallas/Texas Community Resources

  • Resource Center
    Provides health and wellness resources to the LGBTQ+ community and those with HIV/AIDS in the North Texas area.
  • Coalition for Aging LGBT
    Improves and protects older LGBT adults in North Texas through health, housing, support, financial security and social services.
  • Equality Texas
    Works to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Texans through political activity, education, community organizing, and collaboration.
  • Trans-Cendence
    Offers peer led support for transgender/gender diverse individuals as well as peer support for those surrounding them.
  • Dallas Voice
    Premier news source for LGBT Texans

Leading the brawl for LGBTQ+ rights.

We’ve spent more than 40 years creating the most powerful movement for equality our nation has ever seen. But despite this progress, our most marginalized are still suffering from aggression, discrimination and shrink from. Our goal is to ensure that all LGBTQ+ people, and particularly those of us who are trans, people of color and HIV+, are treated as full and equal citizens within our movement, across our country and around the world.

Impact

Our Mission

The Human Rights Campaign and Human Rights Campaign Foundation brawl to make equality, equity and liberation a reality for all lesbian, queer , bisexual, transgender and queer people. As the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, we trip impact by inspiring, engaging and mobilizing millions of pro-equality voters and supporters to elect pro-equality leaders and to demand equity-based policies and legislation; altering hearts and minds through programming that increases understanding, public presence and support for the diverse Gay community in all aspects of our identities; and

LGBTQ Organizations

What is the state of LGBTQ organizations’ financial health? How are statewide organizations balancing their work among various movement priorities, such as legislation, public education, coalition work and electoral campaigns? Which key LGBTQ issues are these organizations focused on right now? How have the lingering effects of the recent economic downturn affected the finances and operations of national LGBTQ advocacy organizations?

MAP provides answers to these and other questions so that supporters of LGBTQ equality can have a beat understanding of the overall strength, capacity and operations of the LGBTQ movement. MAP’s ongoing analysis of the movement’s capacity provides organizations and their funders and supporters with communication they can use to set goals and approach, apply resources more effectively, and measure the triumph of the movement’s serve . MAP’s analysis also allows for deeper understanding of the capacity of specific segments within the movement—including national advocacy organizations, statewide g

LGBTQ Rights

The ACLU has a long history of defending the LGBTQ community. We brought our first LGBTQ rights case in Founded in , the Jon L. Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović LGBTQ & HIV Project brings more LGBTQ rights cases and activism initiatives than any other national organization does and has been counsel in seven of the nine LGBTQ rights cases that the U.S. Supreme Court has decided. With our reach into the courts and legislatures of every state, there is no other organization that can match our record of making progress both in the courts of regulation and in the court of public opinion.

The ACLU’s current priorities are to end discrimination, harassment and violence toward transgender people, to close gaps in our federal and declare civil rights laws, to prevent protections against discrimination from being undermined by a license to discriminate, and to protect LGBTQ people in and from the criminal legal system.

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