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To The Future, with Love Resources

Resources

Resources
  • Trans Families
    Trans Families is a nonprofit organization that has been supporting transgender people and their families since 2008 and organize the annual conference Gender Odyssey. They run parent support groups (including a group for Spanish-speaking families), a trans youth leadership program, special topics groups, and youth support groups, with more programs in development.
  • Gender Spectrum
    Gender Spectrum works to create gender sensitive and inclusive environments for all children and teens. They start with the child, then radiate outwards, working with adults and institutions that affect all children to create gender-inclusive environments from birth through young adulthood.
  • PFLAG
    PFLAG is the first and largest organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people, their parents and families, and allies. With nearly 400 chapters and 250,000 members and supporters crossing multiple generations of families in major urban centers, small cities, and rural areas across America, PFLAG is committed to creating a world where diversity is celebrated and all people are respected, valued, and affirmed.
  • The Trevor Project
    The Trevor Project is the world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ young people.
  • GLAAD
    As a dynamic media force, GLAAD tackles tough issues to shape the narrative and provoke dialogue that leads to cultural change. GLAAD protects all that has been accomplished and creates a world where everyone can live the life they love.
  • The National LGBTQ Task Force
    The Task Force organizes the grassroots power of the LGBTQ community, supporting action and activism on behalf of LGBTQ people and advancing a progressive vision of liberation.
Regional Resources
  • Somos Familia (SF Bay Area / online)
    Somos Familia supports Latino families with children who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ*) and conducts education to create family and community acceptance. The group was started by two mothers to support other families with similar experiences.
  • Latino Equality Alliance (Los Angeles / online)
    Based in Los Angeles, the mission of the Latino Equality Alliance is to advocate for liberty, equality and justice for the Latino/a LGBTQ community.
  • The Audre Lorde Project (NYC)
    The Audre Lorde Project is a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non Conforming People of Color center for community organizing, focusing on the New York City area. Through mobilization, education and capacity-building, we work for community wellness and progressive social and economic justice. Committed to struggling across differences, we seek to responsibly reflect, represent and serve our various communities.
  • QLatinx (Central Florida)
    QLatinx is a grassroots racial, social, and gender justice organization dedicated to the advancement and empowerment of Central Florida's LGBTQ+ Latinx community.
  • Entre Hermanos (Seattle, WA / online)
    Entre Hermanos promotes the health and well-being of the Latino Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and questioning community in a culturally appropriate environment through disease prevention, education, support services, advocacy and community building. Their work includes legal support for immigrants and asylees from the LGBTQ Latinx community.
  • Galaei (Philadelphia, PA)
    Serving the Latinx community while widening our embrace, GALAEI provides services, support, and advocacy for all Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, and people of color (QTBIPOC) communities.
  • Brown Boi Project (SF Bay Area)
    The Brown Boi Project is a community of masculine of center womyn, men, two-spirit people, transmen, and our allies committed to changing the way that communities of color talk about gender.
  • Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT)
    ​​TENT is an organization dedicated to furthering gender diverse equality in Texas. We work to accomplish this through education and networking in both public and private forums. Through our efforts we strive to halt discrimination through social, legislative, and corporate education.
  • Trans Asylum Support
  • Transgender Law Center
  • Allgo
  • Audre Lorde Project
  • Undocoquer
  • Trans Student Educational Resources (TSER)

Sources

About the author:

Pablo Montes

Pablo Montes is a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin in the Cultural Studies in Education Program. He is the son of migrant workers from Guanajuato, Mexico, the ancestral territories of the Chichimeca Guamares and P'urhepecha. He currently serves as the Youth Director for the Indigenous Cultures Institute with the Coahuiltecan community in the Lands of Yana Wana (spirit waters of central Texas). Additionally, through a generous grant by the University of Texas at Austin’s Green Fund, he is working with co-author Judith Landeros and other Indigenous people to create a Land Based Education Curriculum. His interests include the intersection of queer settler colonialism, Indigeneity, and Land education.

Pablo Montes
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