My website is up to date on most news that is of interest to our community and I also have a links page that is pretty good also.

And if no one minds, I would love to take the links they offer here and also put there.

For the one's who have not noticed, my website is in my sig line.

Fearless

(18,458 posts)

4. Nonsense! Added!

Reply to William769 (Reply #3)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 05:03 PM

Oct 2012

TomChicago

(29 posts)

5. Midwest GLBT Community Center here in Chicago

Reply to Fearless (Original post)

Fri Nov 16, 2012, 10:11 AM

Nov 2012

www.centeronhalsted.org

Fearless

(18,458 posts)

6. Happily added. Thanks!

Reply to TomChicago (Reply #5)

Fri Nov 16, 2012, 01:13 PM

Nov 2012

It-Gets-Better

(31 posts)

7. It Gets Better

Reply to Fearless (Original post)

Sat Nov 17, 2012, 09:28 PM

Nov 2012

It Gets Better

http://www.itgetsbetter.org/

Fearless

(18,458 posts)

8. Done!

Reply to It-Gets-Better (Reply #7)

Sat Nov 17, 2012, 10:37 PM

Nov 2012

redqueen

(115,172 posts)

9. I searched but didn't see this mentioned: The Jim Collins Foundation

Reply to Fearless (Original post)

Mon Dec 3, 2012, 10:49 AM

Dec 2012

http://jimcollinsfoundation.org/

The mission of the Jim Collins Foundation is to provide financial assistance to transgender people for gender-confirming surgeries. The Jim Collins Foundation recognizes that not every transgender person needs or wants surgery to achieve a healthy transition. But for those who do, gender-confirming surgeries are an important step in their transition to being their true selves. However, access to gender-confirming surgery is impossible...

Fearless

(18,458 posts)

10. Happily adding to the list... n/t

Reply to redqueen (Reply #9)

Mon Dec 3, 2012, 04:55 PM

Dec 2012

MC891

(1 post)

11. LGBT Housing resource

Reply to Fearless (Original post)

Fri Dec 14, 2012, 12:12 PM

Dec 2012

Just found this thread and thought this guide on home buying for same sex couples might be helpful:
http://www.totalmortgage.com/total-guide/home-buying-same-sex-couples.asp
Home Buying for Same Sex Couples
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Fearless

(18,458 posts)

12. Added and welcome to DU!

Reply to MC891 (Reply #11)

Fri Dec 14, 2012, 03:06 PM

Dec 2012

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)

13. Welcome to DU and I hope you enjoy the site.

Reply to MC891 (Reply #11)

Fri Dec 14, 2012, 05:49 PM

Dec 2012

pinto

(106,886 posts)

14. POZ

Reply to Fearless (Original post)

Fri Jan 4, 2013, 03:27 PM

Jan 2013

Mission Statement

POZ is an award-winning print and online brand for people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. Offering unparalleled editorial excellence since 1994, POZ and poz.com are identified by our readers as their most trusted sources of information about the disease.

AIDSmeds is dedicated to providing people living with HIV, along with their health care providers, the necessary information they need to make empowered health care decisions. By offering complete, but not complicated, up-to-date information since 2000, AIDSmeds seeks to help those who are both new and old to these challenges, and to remain a powerful resource for years to come.

http://www.poz.com/

Fearless

(18,458 posts)

15. Added! Thanks!

Reply to pinto (Reply #14)

Mon Jan 7, 2013, 11:47 AM

Jan 2013

marginlized

(357 posts)

16. How about general lgbt friendly directories?

Reply to Fearless (Original post)

Mon Feb 4, 2013, 09:32 PM

Feb 2013

I mean, you could spend a lot of time searching and listing every business, organization, etc. in every area. Or...

http://www.myrainbowpages.com/about.php

which covers just one part of one state, but maybe other states have similar directories?

Zorra

(27,670 posts)

17. What Is Intersex?

Reply to Fearless (Original post)

Wed Oct 23, 2013, 02:05 PM

Oct 2013

What Is Intersex?

“Intersex” is a general term used for a variety of conditions in which a person is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t seem to fit the typical definitions of female or male. For example, a person might be born appearing to be female on the outside, but having mostly male-typical anatomy on the inside. Or a person may be born with genitals that seem to be in-between the usual male and female types—for example, a girl may be born with a noticeably large clitoris, or lacking a vaginal opening, or a boy may be born with a notably small penis, or with a scrotum that is divided so that it has formed more like labia. Or a person may be born with mosaic genetics, so that some of her cells have XX chromosomes and some of them have XY.

Though we speak of intersex as an inborn condition, intersex anatomy doesn’t always show up at birth. Sometimes a person isn’t found to have intersex anatomy until she or he reaches the age of puberty, or finds himself an infertile adult, or dies of old age and is autopsied. Some people live and die with intersex anatomy without anyone (including themselves) ever knowing.

Which variations of sexual anatomy count as intersex? In practice, different people have different answers to that question. That’s not surprising, because intersex isn’t a discreet or natural category.
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In the same way, nature presents us with sex anatomy spectrums. Breasts, penises, clitorises, scrotums, labia, gonads—all of these vary in size and shape and morphology. So-called “sex” chromosomes can vary quite a bit, too. But in human cultures, sex categories get simplified into male, female, and sometimes intersex, in order to simplify social interactions, express what we know and feel, and maintain order.

more

Zorra

(27,670 posts)

18. How Common Is Intersex?

Reply to Zorra (Reply #17)

Wed Oct 23, 2013, 02:14 PM

Oct 2013

How Common Is Intersex?

To answer this question in an uncontroversial way, you’d have to first get everyone to agree on what counts as intersex —and also to agree on what should count as strictly male or strictly female. That’s hard to do. How small does a penis have to be before it counts as intersex? Do you count “sex chromosome” anomalies as intersex if there’s no apparent external sexual ambiguity?1 (Alice Dreger explores this question in greater depth in her book Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex.)

Here’s what we do know: If you ask experts at medical centers how often a child is born so noticeably atypical in terms of genitalia that a specialist in sex differentiation is called in, the number comes out to about 1 in 1500 to 1 in 2000 births. But a lot more people than that are born with subtler forms of sex anatomy variations, some of which won’t show up until later in life.

Below we provide a summary of statistics drawn from an article by Brown University researcher Anne Fausto-Sterling.2 The basis for that article was an extensive review of the medical literature from 1955 to 1998 aimed at producing numeric estimates for the frequency of sex variations. Note that the frequency of some of these conditions, such as congenital adrenal hyperplasia, differs for different populations. These statistics are approximations.

Not XX and not XY one in 1,666 births
Klinefelter (XXY) one in 1,000 births
Androgen insensitivity syndrome one in 13,000 births
Partial androgen insensitivity syndrome one in 130,000 births
Classical congenital adrenal hyperplasia one in 13,000 births
Late onset adrenal hyperplasia one in 66 individuals
Vaginal agenesis one in 6,000 births
Ovotestes one in 83,000 births
Idiopathic (no discernable medical cause) one in 110,000 births
Iatrogenic (caused by medical treatment, for instance progestin administered to pregnant mother) no estimate
5 alpha reductase deficiency no estimate
Mixed gonadal dysgenesis no estimate
Complete gonadal dysgenesis one in 150,000 births
Hypospadias (urethral opening in perineum or along penile shaft) one in 2,000 births
Hypospadias (urethral opening between corona and tip of glans penis) one in 770 births
Total number of people whose bodies differ from standard male or female one in 100 births
Total number of people receiving surgery to “normalize” genital appearance one or two in 1,000 births

Many people who are intersex live out their entire life without ever knowing they are intersex.

Fearless

(18,458 posts)

19. Adding to the list!

Reply to Zorra (Reply #18)

Fri Oct 25, 2013, 02:12 AM

Oct 2013

Zorra

(27,670 posts)

20. LGBT Asylum Support Task Force

Reply to Fearless (Original post)

Sat Jan 11, 2014, 09:59 PM

Jan 2014

http://lgbtasylum.com/aboutus.htm

Fearless

(18,458 posts)

21. Added to the list

Reply to Zorra (Reply #20)

Sun Jan 12, 2014, 12:56 AM

Jan 2014

Thanks!

trickyguy

(769 posts)

22. missed information

Reply to Fearless (Original post)

Sun Feb 23, 2014, 05:00 PM

Feb 2014

Did you overlook Lambda Legal under LGBT Support and Services? They do such fine work.
Also there are many Pride events across the country including Chicago - where I lived and paraded for years.
Might be nice to include some more of the major cities in this list.

Fearless

(18,458 posts)

23. Thanks! I added both Lambda Legal and Chicago

Reply to trickyguy (Reply #22)

Tue Feb 25, 2014, 12:48 AM

Feb 2014

I'd be happy to add more quality resources that anyone knows of! Just send 'em my way!

Holy Bullies

(1 post)

24. A good resource to fight anti-gay propaganda

Reply to Fearless (Original post)

Mon Sep 29, 2014, 05:48 PM

Sep 2014

We don't talk about it much but our community needs to expose anti-gay groups and their talking heads. A good resource is something I helped to create - How They See Us: Unmasking the Religious Right War on Gay America.

This website tells you all about it and copies of the booklet are free.

And yes that is former Congressman Barney Frank on the front of the webpage with a copy I was able to give him.

gopiscrap

(24,216 posts)

25. Thank you!!!

Reply to Holy Bullies (Reply #24)

Wed Oct 1, 2014, 06:37 PM

Oct 2014

Maeve

(43,034 posts)

26. This one is from the UK

Reply to Fearless (Original post)

Sun Mar 5, 2017, 10:56 PM

Mar 2017

https://www.gires.org.uk/

I went looking for info helping families and found this:

GIRES' purpose is to improve the lives of trans and gender non-conforming people, including those who are non-binary and non-gender.

Fearless

(18,458 posts)

27. Thanks a lot!

Reply to Maeve (Reply #26)

Mon Mar 6, 2017, 02:37 PM

Mar 2017

I'll be adding it into the list when I get to my laptop.

AllaN01Bear

(23,294 posts)

31. a question if i may?? what is binary . this is a new term that i have seen for a whle and new to me

Reply to Maeve (Reply #26)

Thu Jan 6, 2022, 01:09 PM

Jan 2022

thanks in advance .

Maeve

(43,034 posts)

32. Binary in this case means either male or female, no other choices

Reply to AllaN01Bear (Reply #31)

Thu Jan 6, 2022, 02:10 PM

Jan 2022

"Non-binary" is an umbrella term for gender identities that are neither male nor female‍—‌identities that are outside the gender binary.

From the concept of everything being either 1 or 0 (binary math system). Humans just don't fit that narrow a definition.

Beautiful NM

(22 posts)

28. Thanks!

Reply to Fearless (Original post)

Mon May 15, 2017, 11:29 AM

May 2017

Great job.

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)

29. Here's two more (Not the best, but contains some local input)

Reply to Fearless (Original post)

Thu Apr 19, 2018, 03:05 AM

Apr 2018

San Diego Gay Lesbian News
http://sdgln.com

Gay San Diego (news)
https://gay-sd.com

AllaN01Bear

(23,294 posts)

30. bookmarked as resource.

Reply to Fearless (Original post)

Wed Nov 4, 2020, 10:14 AM

Nov 2020

Love Remains

(1 post)

33. Resources link for SOFFA of Transgender folks

Reply to Fearless (Original post)

Wed Aug 10, 2022, 01:27 PM

Aug 2022

Resources for significant others, friends, families and allies as well as transgender folks too can be found at the link.
This list include websites, blogs, podcasts, chatrooms, books, peer support, ally guides, gender centers, movies and film recommendations, and more. Has youth resources too.

https://www.transgenderpartners.com/resource-for-partners-2