LGBTQ Resources
Monmouth County Consortium For LGBTQ Youth Currently, collating teacher submitted lesson plans in collaboration with Garden State Equity as part of LGBTQ curriculum pilot. You can submit a lesson plan utilizing a lesson plan template. Lesson plans will eventually be shared.
Website: http://makeitbetter4youth.org/nj-lgbtq-inclusive-curriculum/ Trans & Youth Resources: http://makeitbetter4youth.org/trans-youth-resources-nj-id-guide/ Released Curriculum Resources: http://makeitbetter4youth.org/resources/
Campus Pride Committed to creating safer, more inclusive campus communities, Campus Pride serves LGBTQ, as well as all students. Their mission is to develop leadership, support college programs and services to create more inclusive LGBTQ-friendly colleges and universities. Services they offer include college fairs, career fairs, speaking events, scholarship database, and trainings.
Shane Windmeyer, Executive Director/Founder Address: P .O. Box 240473, Charlotte, NC 28224 Tele: (704) 277-6710 Website: https://www.campuspride.org/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/campuspride Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LeadwithPRIDE/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/campuspride Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/campuspride/ Tumblr: http://campuspride.tumblr.com/
Gay, Lesbian, & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) The Gay, Lesbian, & Straight Education Network (GLSEN), pronounced as glisten, is a leading national education organization that is focused on securing safety and afrming schools for LGBTQ students. They offer various resources for educators, such as guides on creating inclusive lesson plans and building safe classrooms.
Eliza Byard, Ph.D., Executive Director Address: 110 William St. 30th Floor, New York, NY, 10038 Tele: (212) 727-0135 Website: https://www.glsen.org/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/glsen Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GLSEN Twitter: https://twitter.com/glsen Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/glsenofcial/ Tumblr: http://glsen.tumblr.com/
Welcoming Schools The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation’s Welcoming Schools program is one of the nation’s foremost professional development programs. They focus on providing training, resources, and lesson plans dedicated to creating respectful and supportive elementary schools.
Johanna Eager, Director, HRC Welcoming Schools Website: http://www.welcomingschools.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WelcomingSchools/
COLAGE COLAGE, Children of Lesbian and Gay Everywhere, is an organization created in 1990 by the children of several lesbian and gay male couples who felt a need for support. COLAGE is run and operated by people of all ages who have an LGBTQ parent or parents. COLAGE unites people with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer parents into a network of peers and supports them as they nurture and empower each other to be skilled, self-condent, and just leaders in our collective communities. They offer a youth leadership program, family week event, regional chapters, and events, along with a list of resources including books, lms, publications and articles, and websites. Paul Perry, Executive Director Address: 3815 S. Othello Street, Suite 100, #310 Seattle, WA 98118 Tele: (828) 782-1938 Website: https://www.colage.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/colage/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/COLAGENational Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/colagenational/
Trans Student Educational Resources (TSER) Trans Student Educational Resources is a youth-led organization dedicated to transforming the educational environment for trans and gender-nonconforming students through advocacy and empowerment. In addition to their focus on creating a more trans-friendly education system, their mission is to educate the public and teach trans activists how to be effective organizers. They believe that justice for trans and gender-nonconforming youth is contingent on an intersectional framework of activism. Resources they offer include workshops, publications, conferences, scholarships, and camps.
Eli Erlick, Director & Co-founder Website: http://www.transstudent.org/ Facebook: http://facebook.com/transstudent/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/transstudent/
The Safe Zone Project (FREE CURRICULUM) The Safe Zone Project is a free-online resource for those doing LGBTQ-awareness and inclusion educational work. Co-created by Meg Bolger and Sam Killermann the Safe Zone Project offers curriculum, activities, resources, and train-the-trainer visits to support those doing gender and sexuality education.
Meg Bolger and Sam Killermann, Co-Creators Website: http://thesafezoneproject.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SafeZoneProject/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/safezoneproject
LEAGUE Foundation LGBT Scholarship The LEAGUE Foundation provides nancial resources for America’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender high school seniors entering their rst year of institutions of higher learning. The scholarship application opens annually in January and closes in April with awards distributed in the summer of each year. Currently, the LEAGUE Foundation has 3 awards for consideration and each student application is automatically reviewed for each.
The three awards are: The Laurel Hester Memorial Scholarship (1 award annually)
The Matthew Shepard Memorial Scholarship (1 award annually)
The Stonewall Empowerment Scholarship (1 award annually)
The LEAGUE Foundation Scholarship (up to 9 awards annually)
John Klenert, President & Founder Deadline: April Amounts: Unknown Website: http://www.leaguefoundation.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leaguefoundation.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/LEAGUE_ATT_FDN
I’m from Driftwood, the LGBTQ video story archive
I'm From Driftwood aims to help lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people learn more about their community, straight people learn more about their neighbors and everyone learns more about themselves through the power of storytelling and story sharing.
Nathan Manske is the founder and Executive Director. Ofce: 126 South 8th St., #3 Brooklyn, NY 11211 Email: [email protected] Tele: (347)423-4444 Website: http://www.imfromdriftwood.com/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/ImFromDriftwood/playlists Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ImFromDriftwood/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ImFromDriftwood?lang=en Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imfromdriftwood/
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries is the largest repository of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) materials in the world. Founded in 1952, ONE Archive currently houses over two million archival items including periodicals, books, lm, video and audio recordings, photographs, artworks, organizational records, and personal papers. ONE Archives has been a part of the University of Southern California Libraries since 2010. The collections at ONE Archive at the USC Libraries are primarily national in scope, with a special focus on LGBTQ histories in the Los Angeles region. The archives also include international materials, such as books, periodicals, and posters.
Joseph Hawkins, Director Address: 909 West Adams Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90007 Tele: (213) 821-2771 Website: http://one.usc.edu YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/ONEarchives Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/onearchives Twitter: https://twitter.com/ONEarchives
Book Lists:
(0-3)
Our Rainbow Everywhere Babies
Daddy, Papa, and Me
(4-6)
It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity
Stonewall: A Building, An Uprising, A Revolution
Jack (Not Jackie)
Julian is a Mermaid
Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag
(7-9)
Jacob’s New Dress
The Best at It
Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World
Princess Princess Ever After
The Best Man
The Misadventures of Family Fletcher
(10-12)
The Trails of Apollo #3: The Burning Maze
Redwood and Ponytail
Zenobia July
Star-Crossed
Magnus Chase and The Gods of Asgard #3 Better Nate than Ever
LumberJanes #1: Beware the Kitten Holy
Lily and Dunkin
Jacquelin Woodson: From the Notebook of Melanie Sun
(13-15)
We Set the Dark on Fire
This is Kind of an Epic Love Story
Color Outside the Lines: Stories about Love
A Queer History of the United States
Birthday: A Novel
Little and Lion
The Best Man
The Grief Keeper
Pet
Girl Made of Stars
Redwood and Ponytail
Odd One Out
Picture us in the Light
Darius the Great is Not Okay
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking up With Me
I Have Lost my Way Let’s Talk About Love
Anger is a Gift
Like a Love Story
Leah on the Offbeat
The Beauty that Remains
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
We are Okay
On the Come Up
They Both Die at the End
It’s Not Like it’s a Secret
Dress Codes for Small Towns
The Upside of Requited
Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World
History is All You Left ME
Symptoms of Being Human
More Happy than Not
The Great American Whatever
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out
Surviving Southside: The Alliance
Even more book lists:
Rainbow Book List Elementary
Middle
High
Bilingual
Thank you to Ocean City School District for sharing these resources