To enlighten ourselves and others about the unique challenges facing people who are LGBTQ.
PFLAG Community Outreach program brings together parents and other family members with audiences of all kinds. We tell our own stories and encourage questions. Our audiences include businesses, schools, health professionals, churches, youth-serving professionals, and service agencies. For further information please contact us.
PFLAG Online Resources
An update to the perennial favorite PFLAG publication, OUR DAUGHTERS AND SONS, OUR CHILDREN offers a fresh eye for families and others about what to do when a loved ones comes out. Full of useful knowledge, helpful tips, expert opinions and first-person stories, OUR CHILDREN--which has a focus on sexual orientation and gender expression--is a must read for anyone looking to learn more about how to support LGBTQ loved ones...or looking for support for themselves.
A fresh new update to one of PFLAG's most popular publications! This publication offers a supportive and understanding approach to today's most common questions and concerns from youth regarding sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression. With youth coming out--and disclosing--at younger and younger ages, BE YOURSELF has never been more important. The publication also includes an up-to-date list of resources, including hotline numbers, other organizations, and more.
Our Trans Loved Ones: Questions and Answers for Parents, Families, and Friends of People Who Are Transgender and Gender Expansive. Our Trans Loved Ones is a brand-new, updated resource. Written by PFLAG staff members, and created with the help of content experts, reviewers, and PFLAGers with experience to share, it is full of information, first-person stories, and expert input geared to those who have a loved one who has come out as trans or gender expansive.
Discovering that a loved one is gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender can pose new questions about your faith and may prompt you to re-evaluate beliefs that you previously took for granted. By using personal experiences, this publication provides examples for reconciling your faith with the knowledge that a loved one is gay. This publication includes an updated list of gay and lesbian religious and spiritual groups to watch out for.
This guide will help you understand how straight allies fit in the effort to achieve equality for all. Learn more about what it means to be a straight ally and get some great tips and tools to being more supportive of your LGBT friends, family, and colleagues.
This publication, from our Straight for Equality program, will help you learn more about what transgender means, develop competency around talking about the issue, become better informed about the challenges that many trans people face, and know specific ways that you can be a strong trans ally.
be not afraid – help is on the way! straight for equality in faith communities aims to move the way we understand our religious beliefs and our relationships with LGBTQ people – and support for equality – away from the either/or, “love the sinner, hate the sin” framework and to a place where people can try to understand that you can be a person of faith, loyal to your religion’s teachings, and someone who supports their LGBTQ friends and family.
Other Resources
Promoting Resiliency for Gender Diverse and Sexual Minority Students in Schools
Resources developed to address the full range of recommendations of the Resolution on Gender and Sexual Orientation Diversity in Children and Adolescents in Schools.
This series, “Promoting Resiliency for Gender Diverse and Sexual Minority Students in Schools,” sets out best practices for educators, school counselors, administrators and personnel, based on the latest research on the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, gender diverse, questioning and intersex students. The series includes topics such as gender diversity among students, helping to support families with LGBT children and youth, risk factors and resiliency factors within schools around health and well-being of LGBT youth, and basic facts about gender diversity and sexual orientation among children and youth.
Series Includes:
How Educators Can Support Families With Gender Diverse And Sexual Minority Youth: Promoting Resiliency for Gender Diverse and Sexual Minority Students in Schools
Key Terms and Concepts in Understanding Gender Diversity and Sexual Orientation Among Students
School-Based Risk and Protective Factors for Gender Diverse and Sexual Minority Children and Youth: Improving School Climate
Supporting Transgender and Gender Diverse Students in Schools: Key Recommendations for School Administrators
