SW 3200: Cultural Diversity: LGBT

Safe Zone decals can be found on the doors or windows of a variety of offices on the MTSU campus.The Safe Zone symbol is a way for staff members to identify themselves as allies for the LGBTQ community.

Legal info about Tennessee

Basic facts and information on sexual orientation counseling, including demonstrations of how to work with key issues: exiting heterosexual identity, developing a social identity, becoming a LBGT offspring, developing LBGT intimacy, and entering the LBGT community.

kanopy video

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The ACLU works to ensure that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people can live openly without discrimination and enjoy equal rights, personal autonomy, and freedom of expression and association.

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-confident, and just leaders in our collective communities.

For over a quarter century, the Gay Games have built an international legacy of changing cultural, social and political attitudes towards LGBT people across the globe, at the same time empowering thousands and thousands with the transforming benefits of sports competition.

GLAAD rewrites the script for LGBT acceptance. 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 primary objective of Campus Pride is to develop necessary resources, programs and services to support LGBT and ally students on college campuses across the United States.

Made up of parents, families, friends, and straight allies uniting with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, PFLAG is committed to advancing equality through its mission of support, education and advocacy.

The Trevor Project is the leading national
organization providing crisis intervention and
suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth

The society sponsors The GLBT History Museum in San Francisco’s Castro District, the only full-scale, stand-alone museum of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender history and culture in the United States

glbtq.com is the largest Web site devoted to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (glbtq) education and culture and houses the largest, most comprehensive encyclopedia of glbtq culture in the world.

Lambda Legal is a national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work.

Largest repository of LGBTQ materials in the world. Founded in 1952, ONE Archives currently houses over two million archival items including periodicals, books, film, video and audio recordings, photographs, artworks,

Collection of interviews with surviving members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, New York

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) youth and those perceived as LGBT are at an increased risk of being bullied. There are important and unique considerations for strategies to prevent and address bullying of LGBT youth.

The Deaf Queer Resource Center (DQRC) is a national nonprofit resource and information center for, by and about the Deaf Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Intersex and Questioning communities

A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey

Facts on File has Editorial Cartoons, special reports, Newspaper editorials, historical documents etc.

Statistics and facts on Homosexuality in the U.S.
Approximately one in 100 American women and two in 100 American men identify as homosexual, with another four percent of Americans identifying as bisexual. Homosexuality is still a controversial topic in the United States, but polls and surveys regarding its moral acceptability or the legalization of same-sex marriage show an obvious trend towards acceptance and tolerance of the LGBT community among the American population.

Brendan Snyder, Google’s Diversity Markets Lead, studied two LGBT marketing campaigns and published some powerful findings in the LGBT Advertising: How Brands Are Taking a Stance on Issues.

•Overview of Same-Sex Marriage in the U.S.
•Gay Marriage Around the World
•Slideshow: Changing Attitudes on Gay Marriage
•Same-Sex Marriage in the Courts
•Religious Groups' Official Positions on Gay Marriage
•Same-Sex Marriage State-by-State

Research and info on the following subjects.....Census & LGBT Demographic Studies, Transgender Issues, and Marriage & Couples Rights, Parenting, Safe Schools and Youth

There has been an increase in LGBTQ representation in the media since the late 1990s in film and television, but there are still very few prominent LGBT characters in the mainstream media.

Two annual content analyses of programming from the 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 television seasons (n = 1,276 and 1,439 programs, respectively) were conducted to assess the presence of behaviors and verbal messages related to the sexuality of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals

The GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives.

List of books from goodreads

How has the process of telling people about your sexual orientation/gender identity been for you personally?
A selection of some 300 quotes and survey responses are presented....