Other Organizations
AFSC offers these links to other organizations and resources as a starting point for visitors who seek additional information. We cannot endorse specific websites, as they change frequently.
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Faith-Based Organizing
Public Conversations Project
PCP promotes constructive conversations and relationships among people who have differing values, world views, and perspectives about divisive public issues
Bridges Across the Divide
Bridges-Across is a cyberspace initiative providing models and resources for building respectful relationships among those who disagree about moral issues surrounding homosexuality, bisexuality and gender variance
United Church of Christ Marriage Discussion Resources
Find discussion guide and resources for God Is Still Speaking, about Marriage
Michigan Faith Action Network (FAN)
National Religious Leadership Roundtable (for LGBT Equality) (NRLR)
Equal Partners in Faith (EPF)
Friends for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Concerns (FLGBTQC)
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Queer Youth Empowerment & Safe Schools
National Youth Action Coalition (NYAC)
Safe Schools Coalition (Washington State)
Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSN)
OASIS (web 'zine for LGBT youth)
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Peace & Demilitarization
Out Against the War
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Incite! Women of Color Against Violence
National Youth Advocacy Coalition
National Youth and Student Peace Coalition
Out Against the War Coalition
Chicago Anti-Bashing Networ
Audre Lorde Project
Al-Fatiha Foundation
United for Peace & Justice
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Human Rights
Amnesty International USA OUTFront
International Lesbian & Gay Human Rights Commission
Human Rights Watch/Lesbian & Gay Rights
International Women's Health Coalition
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Criminal Justice
American Bar Association Juvenile Justice Center
Center for Wrongful Convictions
Critical Resistance (organizing against the prison-industrial complex)
Death Penalty Focus
Death Penalty Information Center
Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation
NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund
The National Coalition Against the Death Penalty
The Quixote Center Equal Justice Project
Religious Organizing Against the Death Penalty Project
The Sentencing Project
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Transgender Health Care Advocacy
Transgender Law and Policy Institute
National Center for Transgender Equality
Sylvia Rivera Law Project
National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR)
National Transgender Advocacy Coalition
GenderPac
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Marriage Politics
Queers for Economic Justice
Visit the "library" at Queers for Economic Justice for information on economic justice issues in the U.S. and how they impact LGBT communities
A narrow framing of the marriage issue will produce unintended harmful consequences
Beyond Gay Marriage
by Lisa Duggan and Richard Kim, The Nation, July 18, 2005
Marriage on the Mind
by Sharon Learner, The Nation, July 5, 2004
Holy Matrimony!
by Lisa Duggan, The Nation, March 15, 2004
Marriage, Poverty, and Public Policy: A Discussion Paper from the Council on Contemporary Families
by Stephanie Coontz and Nancy Folbre, prepared for the Fifth Annual CCF Conference, April 26-28, 2002
Let Them Eat Wedding Rings: The Role of Marriage Promotion in Welfare Reform (PDF)
Alternatives to Marriage Project
Welfare & Poverty: Marriage Promotion
Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: The Case Against Government Marriage Promotion (PDF)
Marriage Promotion: What the Administration is Already Doing (PDF)
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Economic Justice
Read these publications from the Policy Institute of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and visit these sites to learn more about economic justice issues as they affect queer communities and others.
Publications
Selling Us Short: How Social Security Privatization Will Affect Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Americans (PDF)
Leaving Our Children Behind: Welfare Reform and the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Community (PDF)
Family Policy: Issues Affecting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Families
Caregiving Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender New Yorkers (PDF)
Organizations
Queers for Economic Justice
Center for Community Change
Call to Renewal: People of Faith Overcoming Poverty
Jews for Racial & Economic Justice
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
National Priorities Project
National Center for Children in Poverty
Children's Defense Fund
Pride at Work
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