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Big-time lobbyists at their victory over the VoteOnMarriage amendment, June 14, 2007. Arline Isaacson of MGLPC ( red hair, 2nd from left); Norma Shapiro of ACLU of Massachusetts (gray hair & glasses); former Mass. State Rep. Patrick Guerriero ( 3rd from left in rear), director of Gill Foundation Action Fund $$$); and Mark Solomon (red necktie) of MassEquality. (Photo: InNews Weekly) |
Other Massachusetts groups behind transgender rights
- ACLU of Massachusetts, http://www.aclu-mass.org/
- AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, http://www.aac.org/
- Anti-Defamation League (New England Regional), http://regions.adl.org/new-england/programs/ & “No Place for Hate” program. http://regions.adl.org/new-england/programs/no-place-for-hate.html
- BAGLY, Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth. http://www.bagly.org/about.html Headed by “male-to-female” transsexual. Resource page: http://www.bagly.org/resources/
- Bisexual Resource Center, http://www.biresource.org/
- Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth (Massachusetts), http://www.mass.gov/cgly/. Commission members (2007), http://www.mass.gov/cgly/MembersoftheCommission.htm
- Friends of GLBT Youth, http://www.friendsofglbtyouth.org/
- GALLAN, Gay and Lesbian Labor Activist Network (AFL-CIO), http://www.gallan.org/
- GLSEN Boston, http://www.glsenboston.org/ Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network. Holds annual conference for teens and adults in April or May, where the fisting workshop occurred in 2000, and the pornographic homosexual sex guide Little Black Book was given out. “Day of Silence” sponsor, etc. (see GLSEN national below).
- International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE) and Transgender Tapestry magazine, www.ifge.org (Office and store in Waltham, MA.)
- Mass. Youth Pride, http://www.massyouthpride.org/
- NOW (National Organization of Women) Mass. Chapter, http://www.massnow.org/
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Pamela Garramone, director of PFLAG of Greater Boston, which co-sponsored a transgender conference ("Transcending Boundaries 2006") promoting sexual sadism and polyamory (group sex). PFLAG is pushing transgenderism on children. At Youth Pride 2007 in Boston. (MassResistance photo) |
- PFLAG of Greater Boston (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), http://www.gbpflag.org/
- Planned Parenthood of Mass., http://www.plannedparenthood.org/ma/
- Transgender American Veterans Association, Massachusetts chapter, www.tavausa.org/Chapters/MassChapter.html
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Transgender American Veterans Association, Mass. chapter leaders. Note: man on right and woman on left. (TAVA photo) |
Other Massachusetts groups with transgender focus
- Boston GLASS Community Health Center (youth), http://www.bostonglass.org/ “Drop-in center for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning young people between the [note:] ages of 13 and 25.”
- Boston Pride Committee, http://www.bostonpride.org/
- Colage of Greater Boston, http://www.colage.org/boston/ “GLBT families”
- Fenway Community Health Center, http://www.fenwayhealth.org/site/PageServer ; caters to GLBT community; also has new Trans Health Navigator Program, http://www.fenwayhealth.org/site/PageServer?pagename=FCHC_wel_wellness_transnav
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Public Health, Massachusetts style: Fenway Community Health Center’s “Dr. Cox”. |
- GenderCrash, http://www.gendercrash.com/ (Run by Gunner Scott, MTPC director.) “The intersection of Boston’s Queer, Transgender, and Gender Queer Communities.”
- Gender Management Service Clinic, Boston Children’s Hospital. http://www.childrenshospital.org/views/april07/new_clinic_addresses_intersex_and_gender_issues.html
Gill Action Fund & Gill Foundation, groups funded in Massachusetts: http://www.gillfoundation.org/democracyproject/democracyproject_show.htm?doc_id=334005 - Mass. Transgender Legal Advocates, joint project of MTPC, Cambridge Cares about AIDS, AIDS Action Committee. http://www.masstpc.org/projects/legalclinic.shtml
- The Network /La Red, http://www.thenetworklared.org/eindex.htm. (Run by Gunner Scott, MTPC director.) “Ending abuse in lesbian, bisexual women's and transgender communities.”
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This is a man walking with transgender girls at Youth Pride 2007 in Boston, sponsored by the “Friends of the Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth” and BAGLY. (MassResistance was told by the BAGLY office manager that this man was a “performer” at that event.) If passed, Bill H1722 will promote such events with our school children all over the state, not just in Boston, not just once a year. |
- New England Leather Alliance, http://www.nelaonline.org/ [allied with Transcending Boundaries conference]
- Sidney Borum Health Center, www.jri.org/indexflash.htm
- SpeakOut, http://www.speakoutboston.org/
- Tapestry Health (Western Massachusetts), http://tapestryhealth.org/
- Tiffany Club of New England, http://www.tcne.org/ (male-to-females).
- Transcend/CCAA (Cambridge Cares About AIDS) http://www.ccaa.org/programs/transcend.htm
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Photo from Transcend web site for transgender “women” (really men) at Cambridge Cares About AIDS. “We work to address how all forms of discrimination impact HIV prevention and health education.” |
- Transcending Boundaries Conference 2006 (co-sponsor PFLAG New England), http://transcendingboundaries.org/ and http://www.transcendingboundaries.org/workshops/descriptions.php.
- Transcending Boundaries Conference 2002, 2003, 2005. http://www.transcendingboundaries.org/about/
Local GLBT News
- Bay Windows, http://www.baywindows.com/
- EdgeBoston, http://edgeboston.com/
- InNews Weekly, http://innewsweekly.com/
- The Phoenix, http://www.thephoenix.com/ (pan-sexual; pro-LGBT)
National & International Groups
ACLU American Civil Liberties Union, http://www.aclu.org/lgbt/transgender/index.html & http://www.aclu.org/lgbt/transgender/kyr_transgender.html
Anti-Defamation League, http://www.aclu.org/lgbt/transgender/index.html
Gender Education and Media, http://www.genderedmedia.org/index.shtml
GenderPAC, http://www.gpac.org/
GenderTalk Radio http://www.gendertalk.com/
GLAAD, Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, http://www.glaad.org/
GLSEN (national), http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/home/index.html. Behind “gay-straight alliance” clubs in the high schools (GSAs), “Day of Silence,” “Transgender Day of Remembrance,” “Ally Week,” “No Name-Calling Week,” and anti-bullying programs.
Human Rights Campaign, http://hrc.org/
Human Rights Watch, LGBT Rights Program. http://www.hrw.org/doc/?t=lgbt
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. http://www.iglhrc.org/site/iglhrc/
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, http://www.lambdalegal.org/our-work/issues/rights-of-transgender-people/
National Center for Lesbian Rights, http://www.nclrights.org/site/PageServer?pagename=issue_transgender
National Center for Transgender Equality, www.nctequality.org. Video interview with executive director Mara Keisling (man dressing as woman) on CNN:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U18_vppEKoI
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, http://www.thetaskforce.org/
PFLAG National Transgender Network, http://www.pflag.org/TNET_Leaders.717.0.html and http://www.pflag.org/
Planned Parenthood, http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-topics/sexual-orientation-gender-4329.htm
Pride Foundation, http://www.pridefoundation.org/aboutus_whatsnew_main.php
Southern Poverty Law Center, http://www.splcenter.org/index.jsp
Transgender Law & Policy Institute, http://www.transgenderlaw.org/employer/index.htm
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