Resources for educating, protecting and advocating for ourselves and our loved ones.
Browse our library for fiction and non-fiction books, documentaries and movies or contact our librarian, June Horner at junehorner@gmail.com.
Need to put a face on the issue? Invite someone from our Speakers Bureau to present to your workplace or congregation or social group.
General LGBT Support and Information
- Equality Maryland
- Rainbow Families D.C.
- Military Community Services Network
- D.C. Metropolitan Police Department Gay and Lesbian Liason Unit
- LGBT Political Investment Caucus
- COLAGE – Families of GLBT Parents
- Gay & Lesbian National Hotline
- Resources at ‘In the Life’ website
Health Resources
- Chase-Brexton Health Services, Inc., serving the LGBT community in Maryland with offices in Baltimore City, Randallstown, Columbia and Easton
- Whitman Walker Health, serving the LGBT community in the District of Columbia with offices in Northwest and Southeast
- HCDrugFree
- The Trevor Project, preventing suicide among LGBTQ youth
Legal and Family Services
- Adoption Pride – Great Source for LGBT Adoption Information
- Maryland Attorney General’s Office – Advance Directives
- Howard County Department of Finance – Affidavit of Domestic Partnership
- Free State Legal Project, offering pro-bono and reduced fee legal service for low-income lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Marylanders: 410.625.LGBT; intake call-in hours: Monday (9-1); Wednesday (5-7); Thursday (9-1)
- Nolo – Commercial Legal Site
- Lambda GLBT Community Services
PFLAG Across Maryland
- View all Maryland PFLAG Chapters
- National PFLAG and its Blog
- Baltimore County PFLAG
- Carroll County PFLAG Chapter
- Frederick PFLAG Chapter
Reading Lists, Community Publications & Online Media Resources
- Suggested Reading – Boston PFLAG
- GLSEN Booklink
- Welcoming Schools: Books to Engage Students
- Baltimore Out Loud
- Baltimore Gay Life
- The Advocate Magazine
- In The Life Media: In The Life Media produces change through innovative media that exposes social injustice by chronicling lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender life
Religious Support: Open and Affirming Congregations
- Christ United Methodist Church, Owen Brown Interfaith Center, 7246 Cradlerock Way, Columbia, MD 21045
- Columbia Congregation of Unitarian Universalists, Owen Brown Interfaith Center, 7246 Cradlerock Way, Columbia, MD 21045
- Columbia United Christian Church, 5885 Robert Oliver Place, Columbia, MD 21045
- Laurel Presbyterian Church, 7610 Sandy Spring Rd., Laurel, MD 20707
- New Covenant Metropolitan Community Church
- Columbia Jewish Congregation 5885 Robert Oliver Place,Columbia, MD 21045
School Support
Social Support
- PW’s Sports Bar and Grill, Howard County’s only gay and lesbian sports bar
- Club HIPPO, in Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore city; where everyone is welcome
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center of Baltimore (GLCCB), offers everything from support groups to yoga classes
Transgender Resources
- Download Welcome Trans Parents to PFLAG
- Download Definitions, Facts and Figures
- Play a Gender Spectrum Plotting Game
- Gender Odyssey annual national conference
- Gender Spectrum resources and education for families and schools, including a national conference
- Trans Youth Family Allies (TYFA) resources for kids, families and schools
- Learn how one Maryland family changed their child’s gender marker
- ABC Primetime Nightline: My (Extra)Ordinary Family: Transgender
- CNN, May 18, 2009: Boy to Live as a Girl
- 20/20 with Barbara Walters (date?): My Secret Self, first of five parts
- Anderson Cooper, AC360: The Sissy Boy Experiment Part 1, June 8; Part 2, June 9; Part 3, June 10, 2011
- Maryland Findings of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey (2011) conducted by the National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
