Rainbow Covenant Lighthouse Fellowship
RCLF is an Open and Accepting Spirit Filled Bible teaching Fellowship of Believers sharing the unconditional Love of Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit. We accept people from ALL walks of life.
Tags: Southwest Missouri, Joplin, feeling good
Laura’s Playground
Laura’s Playground is a transsexual, transgender, and cross-dressing support and news site. Personal support is provided through transgender forums, live chat, and e-mail. Both male-to-female and female-to-male transgender spectrums are included. Other features include an advice column, free no combat transgender forums and message boards, thousands of trans-resources, transgender support group online meetings, and research surveys.
Tags: transgender, transsexual, cross-dressing, support, education, news, forums, personal support, chat
Organization Intersex International – United States
The Organization Intersex International (OII) is the world’s largest intersex advocacy organization. OII’s mission is to attain human rights for intersex infants, children, and adults, particularly the right to bodily intergrity and self-determination.
OII-USA’s mission is to campaign for the human rights of all intersex people, to support intersex individuals by providing information and contact with other intersex people, to provide information concerning actual life experiences of people with intersex variations to those working with people with atypical sex anatomy, and to assist family and friends of intersex individuals in understanding intersex variations and their role as allies.
Tags: intersex, support, advocacy, education, allies, outreach, resources, human rights, allies, ethics
Phat Gurl Fit
Phat Gurl Fit is St. Louis’ newest low impact, fun and effective dance cardio fitness program designed for the LGBTQ community (and led by members of the community!). Classes are offered at the St. Ann Community Center and the O’Fallon Park Rex Plex YMCA.
Tags: health, fitness, get involved, sports, work out, St. Louis, get moving
National LGBT Cancer Network
The National LGBT Cancer Network is the only program in the country addressing the needs of all LGBT people with cancer and those at risk. Our work focuses on education, advocacy, and training.
Tags: health, cancer, national, LGBT, advocacy, education, training, outreach
Missouri LGBT Health Access Training Network
The Missouri LGBT Health Access Training Network provides cultural competency trainings geared toward creating safe and welcoming health/social service settings for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community members.
Network Trainers have successfully completed a train-the-trainer program provided by the National LGBT Cancer Network. Trainings will be customized to meet the needs of your organization.
By the end of the training, your staff will:
- Understand LGBT identities and unique health needs
- Explore barriers and challenges that LGBT patients/clients face in accessing health/social services
- Discuss new federal policies which increase access to care for LGBT patients/clients
- Identify steps to remove barriers to care for LGBT patients/clients
To schedule a training, contact: SAGE Metro St. Louis
E-mail: ewebb@sagemetrostl.org
Phone: 314-772-5887
Tags: health, training, education, healthcare, providers, ally
PhatGurl Fit
LGBT friendly health and fitness center in St. Louis, MO.
Tags: LGBT, get moving, fitness, health, women
Missouri Association for Social Welfare
The Missouri Association for Social Welfare works to provide leadership, research, education, and advocacy to improve public policies and programs impacting the health and welfare of all people in Missouri. They envision a Missouri that is more just, equitable and democratic and that assures every person’s health, safety, security, independence, human rights, dignity, and opportunity to reach full potential.
Tags: advocacy, education, research, leadership, organizing, health, human rights, welfare, public policy
Illinois Unites for Marriage
Illinois Unites for Marriage is a grassroots effort to promote marriage equality in Illinois through raising awareness, volunteer efforts, and contacting legislators.
Tags: advocacy, eastern missouri, illinois, political, marriage
Williams and Associates, Inc.
Our mission is to provide preventive health education, disease prevention, health promotion and care services that address the health disparities of minorities in the St. Louis Bi-State Region, with particular regard to African Americans.
Tags: african americans, health, minorities, disparities, disease prevention, education