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Brooklyn AIDS Task ForceFounded in 1986, offers AIDS/HIV services, case management, support groups, outreach, education and advocacy. Call 783-0883. Brooklyn Arts Exchange Formerly Gowanus Arts Exchange, BAE is home to Brooklyn's Center for Lesbian & Gay Arts & Artists and regularly features lesbian and gay performers. Located at 421 5th Avenue, you can call 832-0018 for a calendar and upcoming events. Brooklyn College Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Alliance Founded in the early 1980's by a few Gay and Lesbian students of Brooklyn College that wanted an organization to help other students who are Gay. This provided Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender students in Brooklyn College counseling and help for those who need it. No one is ever excluded for becoming a member of LGBTA, ever. LGBTA has events all throughout the school year for recreational enjoyment and information. To find out more call 951-4234. Brooklyn Gay Network of Friends A social club for gay men in Brooklyn, founded and facilitated using Yahoo! Clubs on the world wide web. Monthly meetings and on-line chats as well as various social events and outings organized by members. Brooklyn/Queens NOWLocal chapter of the National Organization for Women, a grass roots, civil rights organization dedicated to women's rights issues including lesbian/gay rights. Brooklyn PrideA multicultural group organizing the borough's annual lesbian and gay parade and street festival. Brooklyn Pro Choice NetworkBPCN supports the right of all women to protect and determine their own mental and physical health. Through activities such as tabling, petitions, demonstrations, and clinic escorting, BPCN works especially for the maintenance of access to safe, legal, and funded abortion services. Winner of a Brooklyn Lambda Award! Dignity/BrooklynDignity is a group of gay and lesbian Catholics and meets the 3rd Saturday of the month at St. Anne and the Holy Trinity parish house at 122 Pierrepont Street in Brooklyn Heights. Call 718-565-2171 for details. DYKE-TV Airs in Brooklyn every Wednesday at 6:30 pm Time Warner Cable channel 34 and Brooklyn-Queens Cable channel 67. Gays and Lesbians of Bushwick Empowered GLOBE is a newly formed group and the only resource for LGBT youth in Bushwick. It offers workshops, counseling and community. Call 418-7690, extension 202 for more information. GRIOT Circle An intergenerational and culturally diverse Brooklyn–based organization providing social services and support programs for older lesbians, bisexuals, gay men, two–spirit (Native American term for gay and lesbian) and transgendered people of color. Call 246-2775.
Integrity/ Brooklyn The local organization of and for LGBT Episcopalians and their families and friends. Call 680-1276 for information. The Lesbian Herstory ArchivesMaking its home in a Park Slope landmark brownstone since June 1993, it is the nation's oldest and largest archival collection of lesbian herstory. Open to researchers and visitors. Call 368-3953. The Audre Lorde ProjectALP is a non-profit center established by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Transgender (LGBTST) People of Color community. Located at the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, 85 South Oxford Street in Forte Greene, the Project was first brought together by Advocates for Gay Men of Color (a multi-racial network of gay men of color HIV policy advocates). Call 596-0342. Rainbow HeightsA Brooklyn based advocacy program for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender consumers requiring mental health services. Sing Out! Brooklyn A chorus for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender singers of all colors. Meets Mondays from 7:30-9:30 pm at the First Unitarian Church, 50 Monroe Place at Pierrepont Street in Brooklyn Heights. No longer accepting new members, but call 769-1421 or email singoutproud@yahoo.com for more information about the next open auditions. Unity Fellowship ChurchA non-denominational lesbian and gay church in the African-American tradition, worships every Sunday at 3 p.m. at 2578 Atlantic Avenue (Between Georgia and Alabama Avenues). Call 385-2159. |