Working for basic rights for transgender and transsexual people to be open, honest, and safe at home, at work, and in the community.
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Gay & Lesbian National Hotline
GLBT National Help Center
The Gay & Lesbian National Hotline, the nation's largest GLBT hotline, announces a major expansion of its services to the community with the establishment of the
GLBT National Help Center (www. GLBTNationalHelpCenter.org) to coincide with a request to also assume responsibility for the GLBT National Youth Talkline.
The GLBT National Help Center is a non- profit, tax-exempt organization dedicated to meeting the needs of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) community and those questioning their sexual orientation or gender identity. We are an outgrowth of the Gay & Lesbian National Hotline, which began operating in 1996 and is now a primary program of the GLBT National Help Center.
We offer several different programs including two national hotlines that help people talk about the important issues that they are facing in their lives.
People call us from all across America. Most of our calls are from small towns in rural, conservative parts of the country, where many of our callers just don't feel safe yet going anywhere and talking to someone face-to-face. Many of our callers talk to us about things that they've often kept bottled up inside for years. Our callers know that we will show them compassion and respect.
The GLBT National Help Center also helps other organizations build the infrastructure they need to provide strong support to our community at the local level.
GAY & LESBIAN NATIONAL HOTLINE
1-888-THE-GLNH (1-888-843-4564)
The Gay & Lesbian National Hotline provides telephone and email peer-counseling, as well as factual information and local resources for cities and towns across the United States.
All of our services are free and confidential.
We speak with callers of all ages about coming-out issues, relationship concerns, HIV/AIDS anxiety and safer-sex information and much more.
We also maintain the largest resource database of its kind in the world, with over 18,000 listings, including local hotlines and community centers, social and support organizations, GLBT-friendly businesses and professionals
GLBT NATIONAL YOUTH TALKLINE
1-800-246-PRIDE (1-800-246-7743)
The GLBT National Youth Talkline provides telephone and email peer-counseling, as well as factual information and local resources for cities and towns across the United States.
Our telephone volunteers are in their teens and early twenties, and we speak with teens and young adults up to age 25 about coming-out issues, relationship concerns, parent issues, school problems, HIV/AIDS anxiety and safer-sex information, and lots more.
Our resource database contains information on social and support groups, as well as gay-friendly religious organizations, sports leagues, student groups and more.
OUR OTHER PROGRAMS
The National Association of GLBT Hotlines acts as a clearinghouse of information for our independent, member organizations. We provide technical assistance to help existing hotlines across the country.
The National GLBT Resource Database of Record currently contains over 18,000 local GLBT resources, and is the largest of its kind in the world. This database acts as a way for tens of thousands of organizations to maintain and access the most current contact and descriptive information in one central location. In addition, the database will become available to other non-profit organizations across the country, thereby eliminating their need to maintain duplicate information.
The GLBT National Help Center also directly operates two local hotlines. The Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of New York is the oldest operating GLBT hotline in the world, having celebrated over 33 years of active service to our community. The phone number for this local hotline is 212-989-0999. The GLBT Hotline of San Francisco can be reached at 415-355- 0999.
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