Community Resources: support

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.

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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.

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The Veterans Crisis Line connects Veterans in crisis and their families and friends with qualified, caring Department of Veterans Affairs responders through a confidential toll-free hotline, online chat, or text. Veterans and their loved ones can call 1-800-273-8255 and Press 1, chat online, or send a text message to 838255 to receive confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Support for deaf and hard of hearing individuals is available.

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Please use this Safe Connections site to learn more about the dynamics of domestic violence and sexual assault…and our programs where victims become survivors. Our mission is to reduce the impact and incidence of relationship violence and sexual assault through education, crisis intervention, counseling and support services.

Located in St. Louis, Missouri, Safe Connections is a place where relationship violence and its long-term effects are addressed in complete confidence and security. Our individual counseling enables thousands of survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault to reclaim their lives. Our 24-hour Crisis Helpline volunteers provide resources and information to survivors, family members and concerned friends. Project HART offers information about healthy relationships to adolescents at schools and other sites around the region. Our services are free, safe and confidential.

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We are trans* people and their allies at Mizzou. We are students, faculty, and staff. We are committed to ensuring all people have access to safe and inclusive spaces at Mizzou. We are also committed to providing up to date information, resources, and support for the trans* community. If you have any questions, please contact us.

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The is the group for the SEMO campus’ Gay/Straight Alliance. Feel free to join to show your support, or find support, even if you aren’t an active member of the campus group!

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Gay Men’s Health Outreach (GMHO) launched in 2013 as part of AIDS Project of the Ozark community outreach to provide a safe, affirming, and holistic environment to address the complete health needs of men that identify as Gay, Bi, and men who have sex with other men (MSMs) here in the Southwest Missouri. At GMHO, we believe we can end the health disparities of Gay, Bi, and MSMs by addressing the underlying causes, shifting cultural beliefs, and promoting smarter behaviors that empower a healthy life for all of us.

Open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5pm to 10pm. We are welcoming space for gay/bi men to socialize, receive support, and get free HIV/STD testing and counseling.

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The Jefferson City Chapter of PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) is an organization comprised of the parents, families and friends of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered persons, dedicated to celebrating diversity and envisioning a society that embraces everyone, including those of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities. The Jefferson City chapter is currently not meeting, but please contact Don Love, dmaclove@centurytel.net or (573)875-7918, for information/resources.

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Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) is the country’s largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender older adults. Our mission is to lead in addressing issues related to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender aging.

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BENT is the biographical voice of cripgay men, but BENT also covers disability art and culture, gay and straight, to prove that our differentness and our need for inclusiveness can coexist.

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