Here are some links that will be helpful to those interested in PFLAG 

Useful Web Sites 

• PFLAG
  The national organization of Parents, Families and Friends of Gays & Lesbians

• SOFA
  A youth-driven, non-profit organization for Oshkosh-area LGBTQ youth and their allies, aged 14-18 years old.
  

• UW-Oshkosh LGBTQ Resource Center
  The LGBTQ Resource Center is working to create awareness across campus by identifying and responding to the concerns and needs of LGBTQ students, staff, faculty and allies. We strive to provide quality programming, resources and services in a diverse and welcoming atmosphere!
  

• GLBT National Help Center
  

  The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender National Hotline provides telephone and email peer-counseling, as well as factual information and local resources for cities and towns across the United States.

  All of our services are free and confidential.

• Tell 3
  Pledge to Tell 3 people what it's like for you and your loved oned to be LGBT. Because we used to think coming out would win us our rights. Now we know it takes more than that. Take a step toward equity.
  
  

• Community for Hope of Greater Oshkosh, Inc.

  Community for Hope of Greater Oshkosh, is a nonprofit organization supporting suicide prevention, intervention and response.
  
  Our group was established in 2001 in response to a growing number of teen suicides in Oshkosh and the clear need for action to stem this alarming trend. While our initial focus was on teen suicide, our current focus includes all age groups.
  
  
• Drug Watch
  Drug Watch features comprehensive information about medications, drug interactions, and warns about drug side effects. Along with drug safety we hope to educate about suicide prevention by warning against drugs that result in severe depression. One such medication is Accutane, for more information about the side effects of accutane and other medications please visit drugwatch.com.
  
  
• Positive Voice
  Positive Voice’s mission is to support all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning individuals, their families and allies through community outreach and education, as well as, collaborative and social activities in Northeast Wisconsin.
  
  
• Rainbow Alliance For Hope at UW-Oshkosh
  Rainbow Alliance for H.O.P.E. (Helping Others Perceive Equality) has been a recognized student group at UW-Oshkosh since 2002. Rainbow Alliance for HOPE is an educational and support organization for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, and Ally (LGBTQA) community.
  
  

• Emmaus Ecumenical Catholic Community - Oshkosh
  

  The Emmaus Community is a people of God professing our faith in a living Catholic tradition.  We seek to respond in love  to the realities of the contemporary world, and to celebrate the love of Christ in all people.  We celebrate diversity in all areas, including race, age, gender, marital status and sexual orientation. We join in response to the call of the Spirit to preach the Gospel of liberation and justice and to pattern our lives after the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.  To this end we proclaim, "All are welcome!"
  
  
• Fortunate Families
  
  Grounded in Catholic tradition, Fortunate Families ministers primarily with Catholic parents of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender daughters and sons—but welcomes families of all faiths. When parents explore and value their personal stories, they are empowered to share that story with their family circle, their faith community and the larger society.
  
  
  

• Out for Equity

Mission Statement:
Out for Equity believes that every student, staff member, and family deserves a safe, supportive school environment that fosters positive self esteem, respect for others, and academic success.

Out for Equity is committed to:


• Reducing high risk behavior among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students.
• Reducing harassment and violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students, staff, and families.

• Fostering school environments that value diversity.
  
  

•  Gender & Health

  The Project - a review of aspects of the project background and development, an overview of the goals, history, structure, organization and collaborators of the Gender and Health Collaborative Curriculum Project

  Description of Modules -  a brief description of the modules in the curriculum,  suggestions on how to use the modules, a review of site features and module authorship

  Teaching Gender - ideas on how to integrate a gender perspective into the teaching you already do and suggestions for using the modules

• Fortunate Families
  Grounded in Catholic tradition, Fortunate Families ministers primarily with Catholic parents of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender daughters and sons—but welcomes families of all faiths. When parents explore and value their personal stories, they are empowered to share that story with their family circle, their faith community and the larger society.
  
  Parents just learning that a son is gay or a daughter is lesbian will find resources—including the Fortunate Families Newsletter—and support to help them understand, accept, and affirm their child who is a child of God.
  
  

• Safe Schools Coalition
  

  The mission of The Safe Schools Coalition: An international public-private partnership in support of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth is to help schools - at home and all over the world - become safe places where every family can belong, where every educator can teach, and where every child can learn, regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation.

• Gay-Straight Alliance for Safe Schools

  Vision Statement
  Gay Straight Alliance for Safe Schools (GSA for Safe Schools) envisions educational systems where all students thrive regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.

  Mission Statement
  GSA for Safe Schools is a public benefit organization committed to safe middle schools and high schools for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender youths and all students.

  
  

• Gay-Straight Alliance Network

  Gay-Straight Alliance Network is a youth leadership organization that connects school-based Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) to each other and community resources. Through peer support, leadership development, and training, GSA Network supports young people in starting, strengthening, and sustaining GSAs and builds the capacity of GSAs.
  
  

• Gay and Lesbian Organizations and  Publications

  limited to non-profit and/or information-providing organizations and publications with reasonably up-to-date websites having numerous full text resources and links...many of the websites give directory information for related organizations without websites as well as for associated regional and local chapters.
  
  

• The Trevor Project

  The cornerstone of The Trevor Project is the 18-minute film Trevor, a comedy/drama about a gay 13-year old boy named Trevor who, when rejected by friends and peers because of his sexuality, makes an attempt to take his life. Heartfelt and moving, this bittersweet tale won the 1994 Academy Award® for Best Live Action Short Film.
  
  

• Local GLBT Guide

  Your official guide to all things freindly. This website was created by, and is managed by Lil' Fish, Big Pond, a small, gay-owned and operated website design and development company located in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Besides website design, development, and hosting, we also provide internet marketing, graphic design, and training.
  
  Our goal is to create the most comprehensive listing of GLBT owned or operated businesses and organizations, including those companies and organizations that are friendly or supportive to our community.
  
  

• Out In Scripture
  You don’t have to leave your mind, heart and body behind when you encounter the Bible. This Human Rights Campaign resource places comments about the Bible alongside the real life experiences and concerns of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people of faith and our allies.

• Gayellow Pages
  An annual print directory of resources (business and organizational) for the GLBTQI USA & Canada, sold in gay-friendly bookstores since 1973.

• Straight For Equality
  Straight for Equality is a national outreach and education project to empower allies in supporting and advocating for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.
  
  
• GLOW (gay, lesbian, other, whatever), Lawrence University
  a community of students, allied with faculty and staff, who identify as or who support gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered students on the Lawrence University campus.
  
  
• AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin
  ARCW is among the largest and most comprehensive AIDS service agencies in the country. We provide a vast array of health and social services to over 3,000 Wisconsin residents living with HIV disease.
  
  
• Rainbow Alliance, St. Norbert College
  

  Rainbow Alliance focuses on education and advocacy in support of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning) individuals and issues at St. Norbert College, as well as in the local and larger communities.  All students are welcome and encouraged to participate in Rainbow Alliance, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
  rainbow@snc.edu

• Straight and Gay Alliance of Fox Valley Technical College
  Official Website of the Straight and Gay Alliance at Fox Valley Technical College. Our Purpose as S.A.G.A. is to provide a safe setting for Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Bisexual Persons and their allies.
  
  
• John McGivern's Website
  John is the author and star of many personally written one-man shows and has received critical acclaim all over the country. His first show, "Midwest Side Story," opened to rave reviews at the Baliwick Theater in Chicago. He has won numerous awards for this show including the 1994 John W. Schmid Award for "Best Writer of a New Work" and the "After Dark Award" for outstanding performance by an actor. John has toured to sold out houses in many states across the country including his hometown of Milwaukee.
  
  
• PFLAG Madison
  3rd Sunday, September through May from 2:00-4:00 pm
  Friends Meeting House, 1702 Roberts Court, Madison, WI
  
  
• PFLAG LaCrosse
  
  
• PFLAG Milwaukee
  We meet on the 3rd Sunday each month, August thru May, and the 4th Sunday in June from 5:00 to 7:15pm, at Martin Luther Church, 9235 W. Bluemound Road, Wauwatosa WI. We do not meet in July.
  
  
• PFLAG of Door County
  Meets at 5 p.m. on the third Sunday of each month,
  at Hope Church, 12th and Michigan, Sturgeon Bay.
  
  
• PFLAG Transgender Network
  In 2002, the PFLAG Transgender Network (TNET) became PFLAG's first "Special Affiliate," recognized with the same privileges and responsibilities as PFLAG chapters. Whereas chapters have a geographical focus, TNET is focused specifically on promoting the health and well-being of transgender persons, their families and friends, and provides resources to PFLAG chapters and to the National Office.
  
  
• Harmony Cafe
  A program of Goodwill Industries, NCW, Inc. We operate a coffeehouse in downtown Appleton with a cybercafé, a meeting space, a toddler play area and a performance area. A place where we hope ALL people can feel safe, comfortable and welcomed.
  
  

• Lutherans Concerned/North America

  Lutherans Concerned / North America works for the full inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Lutherans in all aspects of the life of their Church and congregations. We provide a place of comfort and safety. We reach out and teach that Christ's message, the Gospel, is for everyone equally. We call for the blessing of committed and covenanted same-gender relationships, and for the ordination of those called to minister.
  
  
• Rainbow Gathering Youth Group
  
  
• Fair Wisconsin
  Fair Wisconsin is a statewide organization dedicated to advancing and protecting the civil rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.
  
  
• GLBT Partnership
  
  
• GLSEN
  The Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network strives to assure that each member of every school community is valued and respected regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.
  
  
• GLAAD
  The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of people and events in the media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.
  
  
• National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF)
  The mission of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is to build the grassroots power of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
  
  
• Ingersoll Gender Center
  As a service to our community, both our local community and the Trans and Gender Variant communities, Ingersoll does research activities for needs assessment and to improve our knowledge of Transgender individuals and communities.
  
  
• Lynn Conway's Transgender Support Website
  My goal for this website is to illuminate and normalize the issues of gender identity and the processes of gender transition. This project began in the year 2000, as I struggled to "come out" about my past to my research colleagues. I wanted to tell in my own words the story of my gender transition from male to female three decades earlier, in 1968, and then of being outed 31 years later in 1999, while living quietly and successfully in "stealth mode".
  
  
• Intersex Society of North America
  The Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) is the premier resource for people seeking information and advice about atypical reproductive anatomies and disorders of sex development (DSDs).
  
  
• National Transgender Advocacy Coalition
  NTAC works for the advancement of understanding and the attainment of full civil rights for all transgender and gender variant people in every aspect of society and actively opposes discriminatory acts by all means legally available.
  
  
• Gender Education and Advocacy
  A national organization focused on the needs, issues and concerns of gender variant people in human society.
  
  
• Margaret Cho's Website - Love Is Love Is Love.com
  Margaret was the recipient of the first ever Best Comedy Performance award at the 2007 Asian Excellence Awards. She also recently received the First Amendment Award from the ACLU of Southern California, and the Intrepid Award from the National Organization for Women (NOW). She has also been honored by GLAAD, American Women in Radio and Television, the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), and PFLAG for "making a significant difference in promoting equal rights for all, regardless of race, sexual orientation or gender identity."