AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION - LGBT RIGHTS
Our goal: an America where LGBT people can live openly, our identities, relationships, and families are respected, and there is fair treatment on the job and in schools, housing, public places, and health care.
LGBT & AIDS PROJECT CASE PROFILES
Active Cases: RELATIONSHIPS, PARENTING, HIV/AIDS, DISCRIMINATION, TRANSGENDER, YOUTH & SCHOOLS
Concluded Cases: RELATIONSHIPS, PARENTING, HIV/AIDS, DISCRIMINATION, TRANSGENDER, YOUTH & SCHOOLS
You have the right to be yourself—in and out of school or college!
Services & Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Elder
Clinicians who are competent in LGBT care can better meet their patients' often complex healthcare needs. Below is a compilation of some of the top resources and literature on LGBT healthcare issues.
HEALTHYCHILDREN.ORG - AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS
Family Life:
Millions of children have one or more gay and/or lesbian parents. For some children, having a gay or lesbian parent is not a big deal. Others may find it hard to have a family that is different from most families. Being different in any way can be confusing, frustrating, and even scary. But what really matters is that children can talk to their parents about how they feel and that there is love and support in the family.
This paper describes and discusses diversity among lesbian and gay families along central dimensions of social stratification: gender, sexual orientation, generation, age, race and ethnicity. We examine implications of this diversity for traditional family theories, identify and discuss sexist and heterosexist assumptions of dominant family theories and suggest the usefulness of an integrative approach that combines insights from positivist and post-positivist theories. We conclude by proposing research questions, directions and methods to guide future empirical work, facilitate theory development and enrich our understanding of diverse family forms.
Will Kids Benefit When Same-Sex Parents Marry?
We turn, finally, to a group of children to whom same-sex marriage, per se, is directly and immediately relevant-—the children we mentioned early on and then set aside. These are children who are being raised, or who would be raised, by same-sex couples even without same-sex marriage. For them, the advent of legal same-sex marriage would mean that their parents could get married. Whether or not same-sex marriage would expand the scope of same-sex parenting, it clearly would expand the scope of same-sex married parenting. Marriage would also affect family dynamics. Some gay and lesbian cohabitants with children would become spouses; others might find that the prospect of marriage deepened their bond; still others might break up in disagreement over whether to tie the knot.
Diversity Training on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues
With the an increasingly diverse workforce and consumer market, and the rise of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender workforce over the last decade, many employers struggle to help their established workforce adapt, and furthermore to bring new staff into the organization's culture.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION EDUCATION
Diversity Toolkit: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Sexual orientation is an identity based on whether someone is attracted to people of a sex different from their own, the same sex, or both sexes (i.e., heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual). Gender identity is a person's internal sense of being male, female, or somewhere else along the gender spectrum. Transgender is an umbrella term for people whose gender identity is different from their biological sex or the sex they were assigned at birth. The acronym GLBT stands for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender.