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![]() Local Organizations Queer Housing Queer Classes Websites Books Films Definitions Symbols This webpage is under construction! Sorry for the mess... ![]() ![]() Outright Vermont - Outright Vermont is a statewide organization offering support and resources for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (glbtq) youth (age 22 and under) and for those who work with them. Outright is dedicated to building a more glbtq positive community while instilling pride and confidence in youth through empowerment. P.O. Box 5235 Burlington, VT. 05402 tel: (802) 865-9677 or 1-800-GLB-CHAT Website: www.outrightvt.org ![]() ![]() ![]() R.U.1.2? - R.U.1.2? Community Center is a charitable organization with the purpose of providing venues for the social, cultural, artistic, and educational endeavors of our lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, questioning and allied communities through visibilty, awareness, and community building. P.O. Box 5883 Burlington, VT. 05402 tel: (802) 860-7812 Website: www.ru12.org ![]() ![]() ![]() UVM - LGBTQA Services - LGBTQA Services is one of four programs of the Diversity and Equity Unit of UVM. The program exists to assess and help the University meet the needs of: students, staff, and faculty who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender; who are questioning their sexual orientation, and their allies. 461 Main Street, Ste. 300 Burlington, VT. 05405 tel: (802) 656-8637 fax: (802) 656-5235 Website: www.uvm.edu/~lgbtqa ![]() ![]() ![]() Out in the Mountains - A newspaper to serve as a voice for the LGBT community of Vermont. P.O. Box 1078 Richmond, VT. 05477 tel: (802) 434-6486 fax: (802) 434-7046 Website: www.mountainpridemedia.org/oitm_index.htm ![]() ![]() ![]() Samara Foundation - The Samara Foundation of Vermont is a charitable foundation whose mission is to support and strengthen Vermont's gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered communities today and build an endowment for tomorrow. P.O. Box 1263 Burlington, VT. 05402 tel: (802) 860-6236 fax: (802) 860-6315 Website: www.samarafoundation.org/index.html ![]() ![]() ![]() SafeSpace - SafeSpace is a social change and social service organization working to end physical, sexual, and emotional violence in the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQQ) people. They provide information, support, referrals, and advocacy to LGBTQQ survivors of violence and offer education and outreach programs in the wider community.. PO Box 158 Burlington, VT 05402 tel: (802) 863-0003 or (866) 869-7341 Website: www.safespacevt.org ![]() P.R.I.D.E. - A co-ed suite arrangement in the L/L Center for LGBT students. Director: Meghan L/L C Building Burlington, VT. 05405 ![]() ![]() ![]() GLBT and Allies Program - This program is a supportive residential community for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students and their allies. Residents are committed to working together to end homophobia and heterosexism. The program is run through the department of Residential Life. Director: Kathy Cook tel: (802) 656-7945 email: cook@house.uvm.edu ![]() Free To Be, in coalition with LGBTQA Services and the Women's Studies Program, is working on making a Queer Studies Minor available at UVM. Because no such thing currently exists, Queer classes are somewhat sparse. However, those that are available are excellent. They are: HDFS 167 - Sexual Identities Instructor: Jackie Weinstock HDFS 264 - Contemporary Issues in Parenting: Who's Fit to Be a Parent? Instructor: Jackie Weinstock HDFS 267 - Advanced Seminar in Sexual Identities Instructor: Jackie Weinstock ENG 196 A - Queer American Literature Instructor: Valerie Rohy GEOG 178 -Gender, Space and Environment Instructor: Glen Elder GEOG 274 -Sexuality and Space Instructor: Glen Elder WST 141 - Gender and the Law Instructor: Kerin Stackpole ![]() ![]() OutProud.org Gay ![]() Gay Men's Domestic Violence Project Gay Men's Health Information and Resources for Gay and Bisexual Men Lesbian ![]() Isle of Lesbos Lesbian News Online Lesbian.org National Center for Lesbian Rights Bisexual ![]() Bisexual.org Bisexual Resource Center Robyn Ochs Transgender ![]() Ethan's Personal Site Gender.org Gender PAC Trans-Health The TransitionalMale.Com Intersexed ![]() Intersection Intersex Society of North America Intersex Support Group International ![]() How to be an Ally Parents Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays SOFFA ![]() This is an ongoing list of books that we at Free To Be recommend. Those that have a call number next to them such as "HQ 76.2 1998" are available at the UVM Bailey/Howe Library and can be found at the call number next to them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits by Loren Cameron Boys Like Her: Transfictions by Taste This FTM: Female-to-Male Transsexuals in Society by Holly Devor - HQ77.9 .D49 1997 Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and The Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein - HQ77.9 .B67 1994 My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely by Kate Bornstein - HQ1075 .B69 1998 Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by Leslie Feinberg - HQ77.9 .F45 1996 Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue by Leslie Feinberg - HQ77.95.U6 F45 1998 ![]() ![]() True Selves : Understanding Transsexualism--For Families, Friends, Coworkers, and Helping Professionals by Mildred Brown - HQ77.9 .B76 1996 Transsexual Workers: An Employer's Guide by Janis Walworth ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The queer community offers a lot of new words and identities that many people, both within and outside of the queer community, may not be familiar with. The LGBTQA Services page offers a list definitions of the many words that are used in queer studies. This is a great resource to familiarize yourself with sometimes foriegn terms like heterosexism, MTF and bigendered. Click here to view this page. ![]() The queer community also uses a lot of symbols. Perhaps the two most common are the pride rainbow and the pink triangle, but there are many more. The LGBTQA Services page offers a list of the various queer symbols and their meanings. Click here to view this page. |