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UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST

The Stonewall Center
Crampton House, SW; 256 Sunset Avenue
phone: 413-545-4824; fax: 413-545-6667
stonewall@stuaf.umass.edu; AOL IM: UMassLGBT
office hours: Monday-Friday 9-5
Stonewall provides information and referral services, educational and cultural programming, a Speakers Bureau, a weekly events listserv, a free lending library, support for individuals who experience harassment and discrimination, and advocacy for LGBT people at UMass Amherst. Volunteer opportunities are available.

Center for Educational Policy Advocacy (CEPA)
[formerly the Student Center for Educational Research and Advocacy (SCERA)]
432 Student Union
413-545-0355
scera@stuaf.umass.edu; www.umass.edu/rso/scera
A Student Affairs office supported through the Student Government Association, CEPA advocates on behalf of UMass students, especially underrepresented groups like LGBT students.

Everywoman's Center
Wilder Hall; 221 Stockbridge Road
413-545-0883; ewcmail@admin.umass.edu ; www.umass.edu/ewc
office hours: Mon, Wed, Thurs, Fri 9-1, Tues noon-4
24-hour rape crisis hotline: 413-545-0800
The Everywoman's Center provides resources, referrals, and individual/couples counseling for lesbians and bisexual women. It also offers crisis services for survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence, including individuals in same-sex relationships. Volunteer opportunities are available.

LGBT Support Group
c/o Mental Health Services
127 Hills North
413-545-2337 (8-5 weekdays); 413-577-5000 (emergency on-call situations after weekday hours and on weekends)
www.umass.edu/uhs/mentalhealth.
Mental Health Services offers a safe and confidential support group when demand warrants one. Individual counseling is also available.

Pride Alliance
413B Student Union
413-545-0154
pride@stuaf.umass.edu; www.umass.edu/rso/pride
The undergraduate LBGT student group at UMass Amherst, the Pride Alliance sponsors regular social events, including QueerFest each spring. The group meets Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in the Campus Center during the school year.

2 in 20 Floor
For more information, contact the Northeast Area Housing Office: 413-545-0290, or Housing Assignments: 413-545-2100.
The 2 in 20 Program is a supportive residential community for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students and their allies. Residents organize potluck dinners, movie nights, coffeehouses, educational workshops, and other activities.


OTHER AREA COLLEGE GROUPS


AMHERST COLLEGE

LGBTQA Student Services and Support
Craig Cullinane, Coordinator
Rainbow Room, basement of James Dormitory
ccullinane@amherst.edu ; 413-542-5114

Pride Alliance
pridealliance@amherst.edu; www.amherst.edu/~pridealliance
The Amherst LGBT and ally student group.


HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE

Queer Community Alliance
www.hampshire.edu/cms/index.php?id=3011
The Queer Community Alliance seeks to foster awareness of LGBTQ issues and to create a comfortable space for their discussion through social events and political activism both at Hampshire and in the community at large.


HOLYOKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Queer/Straight Alliance
c/o Student Activities: 413-552-2418


MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE

Mount Holyoke Lyon's Pride
www.mhlp.org
A group for Mount Holyoke LGBT alumnae/alumni and their partners.

True Colors
www.mtholyoke.edu/org/colors
The Mount Holyoke LGBT and ally student group.


SMITH COLLEGE

Gender Action and Advocacy Alliance (G3A)
aburt@email.smith.edu

Prism: LGBTQ People of Color
http://sophia.smith.edu/prism

Resource Center for Sexuality and Gender
Basement of Wesley House
Jenny Kurtz, Advisor
jkurtz2@smith.edu

Spectrum
http://sophia.smith.edu/spectrum
spectrum@smith.edu
A political and social organization for all Smith students.


SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE

Pride Alliance
c/o Student Activities: 413-748-3141


SPRINGFIELD TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Alliance
c/o Student Activities Center: 413-755-4912

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Pioneer Valley LGBT Resources


COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS

East Coast Female-to-Male Group
413-584-7616; betpower@yahoo.com
Peer support network for female-to-male transgender people, transsexuals, and partners.

Family Diversity Projects
413-256-0502; info@familydiv.org; www.familydiv.org
Organizes traveling diversity exhibits.

Freedom to Marry Coalition of Massachusetts
617-482-1600; www.equalmarriage.org

GLBT Alcoholics Anonymous Group
Meetings are Fridays, 7:30 p.m., at St. John's Episcopal Church, 48 Elm Street, Northampton

Gay Men's Domestic Violence Project
955 Mass Avenue, PMB 131, Cambridge, MA 02139
617-354-6056; hotline: 800-832-1901 (Voice/TTY)
support@gmdvp.org; www.gmdvp.org
Statewide program providing education and direct services for gay, bisexual, and trans male survivors of domestic violence.

Lavender Country and Folk Dancers
413-247-9604; http://www.lcfd.org
"A community for gender role free dancing."

Lesbian Empowerment Group
Northampton Council on Aging: 413-587-1228
A support group for lesbians aged 55+

Mass Equality
11 Beacon Street, Suite 1125, Boston, MA 02108-3011
617-878-2300; info@MassEquality.org; www.massequality.org
Group defending same-sex marriages in Massachusetts.

Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus
PO Box 246, State House, Boston, MA 02133
617-248-0776; www.mglpc.org
Statewide LGBT lobbying group.

Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition
PO Box 301897, Jamaica Plains, MA 02130
617-983-0219; info@masstpc.org; www.masstpc.org
Statewide group fighting for transgender rights.

Men of Northampton (MoNoho)
www.monoho.com/home.html
A social and recreational group for gay men in the Northampton area.

Men's Resource Center for Change
236 N. Pleasant Street, Amherst
413-253-9887; mrc@mrcforchange.org; www.mrcforchange.org
Information and referrals on issues important to men, domestic violence intervention, educational programs, Voice Male (quarterly magazine), youth programs, support groups, and a drop-in group for gay, bisexual, and questioning men on Mondays 7-9 p.m.

The Network/La Red
PO Box 6011, Boston, MA 02114
Hotline: 617-423-SAFE; Office: 617-695-0877
info@thenetworklared.org; www.thenetworklared.org
Services for lesbians, bisexual women, and transgender people who are survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.

New England SOFFAs
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewEnglandSOFFAs
A group for significant others, family, friends, and allies of transgender people (SOFFAs) who live in the Western New England area.

Northampton Pride
413-586-5602; 877-743-3627 (toll-free)
info@northamptonpride.org; www.northamptonpride.org
Organizes Northampton's annual LGBT Pride march and rally.

PFLAG Greenfield
413-625-6636, pflagpv@valinet.com
Meetings are at 7 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month at the Franklin Medical Center, 164 High Street, Greenfield.

Safe Passage
43 Center Street, Suite G, Northampton
413-586-1125; 24-hr. crisis hotline: 413-586-5066, 888-345-5282 (toll-free)
www.safepass.org
Provides support to survivors of relationship violence in Hampshire County. Offers a support Groups for battered women, including lesbians, in abusive relationships.

Sexual Minorities Archives
413-584-7616; betpower@yahoo.com
Local, regional, and national collection of LGBT literature, history, and art. Researchers and visitors welcome. Call or email for an appointment.

Straight Spouse Network
Jane: 413-625-6636; janenrosie@hotmail.com
Confidential support and resources for heterosexual spouses and partners of LGBT people.

The Sunshine Club
P.O. Box 564, Hadley, MA 01035
413-586-5004; rsteel@att.net; www.thesunshineclub.org
An education, support, and social group for transgender individuals and their partners, families, and allies that meets monthly.

UniTy of the Pioneer Valley
Keri: 413-782-2581; Janie: 860-543-4757
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unity-of-the-pioneer-valley
Support group for transgender individuals and their partners, families, and allies. The group meets in Springfield twice a month. Check website for meeting times and locations.

Valley Women's Martial Arts
1 Cottage Street (Route 141), Easthampton
413-527-0101; www.vwma.org
Introductory and ongoing instruction in self-defense and martial arts to women and girls, offered on a sliding scale.

W2W Datebook
http://w2wdatebook.com
An online calendar of events for lesbians in the Northampton and Springfield areas.


RELIGIOUS GROUPS

FRIENDS (QUAKER)

Northampton Friends
43 Center Street, 2nd Floor, Northampton
413-587-4622; http://northampton.quaker.org
Services: Sundays, 11 a.m.


JEWISH

Beit Ahavah: Reform Congregation of Northampton
413-587-3770; www.beitahavah.org
Services are held at the Florence Congregational Church, 130 Pine St., Florence

Congregation B'nai Israel
253 Prospect Street, Northampton
413-584-3593; www.cbinorthampton.org
"An egalitarian Conservative congregation." Shabbat services information: www.cbinorthampton.org/calendar.html

Jewish Community of Amherst
742 Main Street, Amherst
413-256-0160; www.j-c-a.org
A Reconstructionist synagogue.
Shabbat service information: www.j-c-a.org/services.html

UMass Hillel
388 North Pleasant Street, Amherst
413-549-1710; http://umasshillel.org
Shabbat service information: http://umasshillel.org/shabbat.htm


METHODIST

United Methodist Church of Holyoke, South Hadley, and Granby
30 Carew Street, South Hadley
413-532-0500; http://thesteepleinthefalls.org
A Reconciling Congregation (supports the full inclusion of LGBT people)
Services: Sundays, 9:30 a.m.


NON-DENOMINATIONAL

Hope Community Church
20 Gaylord Street, Amherst
413-253-2522
Services: Sundays,10:15 a.m.


UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST

Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst
121 North Pleasant Street, Amherst
413-253-2848; www.uusocietyamherst.org/
Services: Sundays,10 a.m.

Unitarian Universalist Society of Northampton and Florence
220 Main Street, Northampton
413-584-1390; www.uunorthampton.org
Services: Sundays, 9:15 a.m. and 11 a.m.


UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
Open and Affirming Congregations (UCC congregations that have publicly committed to the full inclusion of LGBT people).

Edwards Church
299 Main Street, Northampton
413-584-5500; www.uccwebsites.net/edwardschurchnorthampton.html
Services: Sundays, 10:30

First Church of Christ
129 Main Street, Northampton
413-584-9392
Services: Sundays, 10 a.m.

First Congregational Church
165 Main Street, Amherst
www.firstchurchamherst.org
Services: Sundays, 10:30 a.m.

North Congregational Church
1193 North Pleasant Street, Amherst
413-549-0500; www.north-church.org
Services: Sundays, 10 a.m.

South Congregational Church
1066 South East Street, Amherst
413-253-2977; www.southchurchamherst.org
Services: Sundays, 10 a.m.


EATERIES AND NIGHTCLUBS

Diva's Nightclub
492 Pleasant Street, Northampton
413-586-8161; divasofnoho@aol.com
www.divasofnoho.com
Mixed nightclub for everyone over 21, with certain nights 18+ or 19+.

BOOKSTORES

Food For Thought Books
106 North Pleasant Street, Amherst
413-253-5432; info@foodforthoughtbooks.com
www.foodforthoughtbooks.com
A non-profit workers' collective.

Montague Book Mill
Rt. 47, Montague
413-367-9206; www.montaguebookmill.com

The Odyssey Bookshop
9 College Street, South Hadley
413-534-7307; odysseybks@aol.com
www.odysseybks.com

Pride & Joy
20 Crafts Avenue, Northampton
413-585-0683; info@nohoprideandjoy.com
www.nohoprideandjoy.com
The Valley's LGBT book and gifts store.


REAL ESTATE

Tami Gaylor and Joanne McGowan
Upton-Massamont Realtors, Coldwell Banker
4 Elm Street, South Deerfield, MA; 413-665-3771
gam@cbupton-massamont.com



YOUTH RESOURCES

Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Society (GLASS)
Community Action Youth Programs, Greenfield
Shera Wolf: 413-774-7028; glass@fcac.net
A social and support group for LGBT and questioning youth and allies, aged 12-22.
Meetings are held Tuesdays. Call for time and place.

Generation Q (formerly Pride Zone)
Maplewood Shops #34, 2 Conz St., Northampton
413-582-7861; Alex: apangborn@communityaction.us
A 21 and under LGBT youth group and center. Drop-in hours are 4-9 p.m. on Thursdays and Fridays.

Out Now, Inc.
800-429-9990; outnow@rcn.com
A community-based youth group in Springfield.


HEALTH RESOURCES

AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts
www.aac.org
HIV/AIDS hotline: 800-235-2331; Hepatitis-C hotline: 888-443-4972
Both hotlines are staffed M-Th 9-9 and Fri 9-7:30.

AIDS CARE/Hampshire County
10 Main Street, Florence
413-586-8288; aidscarehamp@cooley-dickinson.org
www.cooley-dickinson.org/aidscare
ACHC provides case management and comprehensive support services for people living with HIV infection and their families and friends.

LifeCourse Counseling Center
Northampton; 413-585-1655; www.lifecourse.net
Provides individual and couples counseling/psychotherapy and telephone counseling to LGBTQ people.

National Institutes of Health's AIDS Info
800-448-0440, M-F noon-5
contactus@aidsinfo.nih.gov; http://aidsinfo.nih.gov

Tapestry Health Systems
27 Pray Street, Amherst; 413-548-9992
16 Center Street, 4th Floor, Northampton; 413-586-2539
800-696-7752; www.tapestryhealth.org
Affordable, LGBT-friendly health care. Services include free breast and cervical cancer screenings for uninsured and underinsured women, a needle exchange program, and free, anonymous HIV testing.

University Health Services, UMass Amherst
150 Infirmary Way, UMass Amherst
413-577-5000; www.umass.edu/uhs
Free, anonymous HIV testing available for UMass and Hampshire students, staff, and faculty. Call 577-5126 for an appointment and for information about support groups and counseling.

University Health Services, Health Education Division
413-577-5181
Provides LGBT-related education and outreach.

University Health Services, Mental Health Services
127 Hills North
413-545-2337 (8-5 weekdays); 413-577-5000 (emergency on-call situations after weekday hours and on weekends)
www.umass.edu/uhs/mentalhealth.
Offers LGBT-supportive counseling.

Western Massachusetts Center for Healthy Communities
489 Whitney Avenue, Holyoke
413-540-0600; 800-850-3880; 413-540-0348 (TTY)
info@westernmasshealthycommunities.org; www.westernmasshealthycommunities.org
Training and education on substance abuse prevention. Support prevention and health promotion efforts on a range of public health topics. Extensive resource library.


LEGAL RESOURCES

Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD)
30 Winter Street, Suite 800, Boston
617-426-1350; gladlaw@glad.org
www.glad.org
Legal hotline for information and referrals related to HIV and LGBT legal issues:
800-455-GLAD, M-F 1:30-4:30 p.m.

Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination
436 Dwight Street, Suite 220, Springfield
413-739-2145; www.mass.gov/mcad

Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association
www.mlgba.org
Statewide professional association of LGBT lawyers and allies.

UMass Student Legal Services Office
922 Campus Center, UMass Amherst
413-545-1995; www.umass.edu/rso/slso
Office hours: M-F 9-5
Free legal advice and services for UMass Amherst students who pay the Student Activities Fee.


PUBLICATIONS

Bay Windows
www.baywindows.com
New England's largest weekly LGBT newspaper.

In Newsweekly
www.innewsweekly.com
New England LBGT weekly newspaper.

Metroline
www.metroline-online.com
Bi-weekly New England magazine of news and events.

The Rainbow Times
www.therainbowtimesmass.com
Bi-weekly newspaper serving Western MA, Southern VT, and Northern CT

Voice Male
www.mrcforchange.org/voicemale.html
A quarterly magazine published by the Men's Resource Center for Change in Amherst.

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National Resources


NATIONAL LGBT ORGANIZATIONS/SITES

Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere: www.colage.org

glbtq (an encyclopedia of glbtq culture): www.glbtq.com

Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation: www.glaad.org

Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network: www.glsen.org

Human Rights Campaign: www.hrc.org

LGBT Health Channel: www.gayhealthchannel.com

National Center for Lesbian Rights: www.nclrights.org

National Consortium of Directors of LGBT Resources in Higher Education: www.lgbtcampus.org

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force: www.thetaskforce.org

Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays: www.pflag.org



YOUTH

Campus PrideNet: www.campuspride.net

The Cool Page for Queer Teens: www.bidstrup.com/cool.htm

Fierce!: www.fiercenyc.org

Lambda 10 Project (GLBT fraternity and sorority issues): www.lambda10.org

National Youth Advocacy Coalition: www.nyacyouth.org

Out Proud: www.outproud.org

Youth Resources: www.youthresource.com



TRANSGENDER

FTM International: www.ftmi.org

Gender Crash: www.gendercrash.com

Gender Education and Advocacy: www.gender.org

International Foundation for Gender Education: www.ifge.org

Kids of Transgender People (COLAGE): www.colage.org/programs/trans

National Center for Transgender Equality: www.nctequality.org

PFLAG Transgender Net: http://pflag.org/TNET.tnet.0.html

Partners of Transgender People (Live Journal): http://community.livejournal.com/partners_of_tg

Remembering Our Dead: www.gender.org/remember/index.html

Renaissance Transgender Association: www.ren.org

Southern Belle Society: www.southernbellesociety.com

Trans-Academics.org: www.Trans-Academics.org

Transfamily: www.transfamily.org

TransGenderCare: www.transgendercare.com

Trans-Health: www.trans-health.com

Transgender Law and Policy Institute: www.transgenderlaw.org

Transsensual Femme: www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Cafe/6603/home2.html

TransYouth Family Allies: http://imatyfa.org

URNotAlone: http://urnotalone.com

Walk For Me Wednesdays (drag ball culture): www.walk4mewednesdays.com

Youth Resources for Transgender Youth: www.youthresource.com/living/trans.htm



INTERSEX

Bodies Like Ours: www.bodieslikeours.org/forums

Intersex Awareness Day: www.intersex-awareness-day.org

Intersex Initiative Portland (ipdx): www.ipdx.org

Intersex Society of North America: www.isna.org

Queer Bodies.Org (Youth Project of Bodies Like Ours): www.queerbodies.org

Survivor Project (Intersex and Trans Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence): www.survivorproject.org



BISEXUAL

Bisexual.org: www.bisexual.org

Bisexual Resource Center: www.biresource.org

Coming Out: Realizing Bisexuality in a Straight World: www.lunamorena.net/pride



LESBIANS AND GAY MEN

Advocate: www.advocate.com

Butch-Femme: www.butch-femme.com

Curve Magazine: www.curvemagazine.com

Gay Health: www.gayhealth.com

Lesbian Herstory Archives: www.lesbianherstoryarchives.org

Mautner Project (Lesbians with Cancer): www.mautnerproject.org

Planet Out: www.planetout.com

Techno-Dyke: www.technodyke.com

Washington Blade: www.washingtonblade.com



PEOPLE OF COLOR

Femme Noir (a web portal for lesbians of color): www.femmenoir.net

Out People of Color : http://members.aol.com/outpeopleofcolor

Resources for GLBT Youth of Color : www.safeschoolscoalition.org/RG-glbt_youth_of_color.html



TWO-SPIRIT PEOPLE

National Native American AIDS Prevention Center: www.nnaapc.org

Native Out: www.nativeout.com

Two-Spirit.com: www.2spirits.com



ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDERS

Asian and Pacific Islander Family Pride: www.apifamilypride.org

Asian Equality: www.asianequality.org

Asian Pacific Islander PFLAG: www.pflag.gapsn.org

Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women and Transgender Coalition: www.apiqwtc.org

Gay Asian Pacific Alliance: www.gapa.org

Gay Asian Pacific Islander Men of New York: www.gapimny.org

O-Moi (Vietnamese Lesbians, Bisexual Women and Transgenders): www.o-moi.org

Queer Asian Pacific Alliance: www.qapa.org

Trikone (LGBT South Asians): www.trikone.org

Utopia: Asian Gay and Lesbian Resources: www.utopia-asia.com



LATINAS/LATINOS

Latino/Latina Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth (in Spanish) : www.ambientejoven.org

Somos Latin@s LGBT Coalition of Mass. : www.somoslatinoslgbt.org



AFRICAN AMERICANS

Keith Boykin
www.keithboykin.com

National Black Justice Coalition
www.nbjcoalition.org

Zuna Institute: National Advocacy Organization for Black Lesbians
www.zunainstitute.org



PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

Being Blind and Gay: www.chanton.com/blindandgay.html

BENT: A Journal of Cripgay Voices: www.bentvoices.org

Blind Friends of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: www.bglag.org

Deaf Queer Resource Center: www.deafqueer.org/index.html

Passing Twice: "A Proud Network of Queer Stutterers and Their Allies": http://www.passingtwice.com

Peggy Munson's Resources about Multiple Chemical Sensitivities and Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome: www.peggymunson.com/index2.html

Queers on Wheels: www.queersonwheels.com

Rainbow Alliance of the Deaf: www.rad.org



SPIRITUALITY

Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons: www.affirmation.org

Affirmation: United Methodists for LGBT Concerns: www.umaffirm.org

Al-Fatiha (GLBT Muslims): www.al-fatiha.org

Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry: www.clgs.org

Christian Lesbians: www.christianlesbians.com

Dignity USA (GLBT Catholics): www.dignityusa.org

Evangelicals Concerned: www.ecwr.org

Friends (Quakers) for LGBTQ Concerns: www.quaker.org/flgbtqc/index.html

GLBT Pagan sites: www.witchvox.net/links/net_gay.html

Integrity (GLBT Episcopalians): www.integrityusa.org

Interweave: Unitarian Universalists for LGBT Concerns: http://www.interweavecontinental.org

JQYouth (Jewish LGBT Youth): www.jqyouth.org

LGBT Religious Archives Network: www.lgbtran.org

More Light Presbyterians: www.mlp.org

Orthodox Jewish Gays: www.orthogays.com

Rainbow Baptists: www.rainbowbaptists.org

Safra Project (LBT Muslim Women): www.safraproject.org

The United Church of Christ Coalition for LGBT Concerns: www.ucccoalition.org

Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches: www.ufmcc.com

Whosoever: An Online Magazine for LGBT Christians: www.whosoever.org

World Congress of Gay and Lesbian Jewish Organizations: http://glbtjews.org