Research Guides: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion LibGuide: LGBTQ

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer (LGBTQ) information

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Featured LGBTQ Books in PPCC Libraries

Asegi Stories : Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory by Qwo-Li Driskill
Call Number: PPCC - Centennial - Stacks E99 .C5 D795 2016
ISBN: 9780816530489
Publication Date: 2016-04-07
Saving Alex : when I was fifteen I told my Mormon parents I was gay, and that's when my nightmare began by Alex Cooper; Joanna Brooks
Call Number: PPCC - Centennial - Stacks HQ75.4 .C57 A3 2016
ISBN: 9780062374608
Publication Date: 2016-03-01
Homintern : how gay culture liberated the modern world by Gregory Woods
Call Number: PPCC - Centennial - Stacks HQ75.15 .W66 2016
ISBN: 9780300218039
Publication Date: 2016-05-03
Queer virtue : what LGBTQ people know about life and love and how it can revitalize Christianity by Elizabeth M. Edman
Call Number: PPCC - Rampart Range - Stacks HQ75.15 .E36 2016
ISBN: 9780807061343
Publication Date: 2016-05-17

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Over 600 LGBTQ eBooks from PPCC subscriptions

Link to PPCC eBooks on LGBTQ topics
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Featured LGBTQ eBooks from PPCC subscriptions

Girls Will Be Boys : Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934 by Laura Horak
ISBN: 9780813574837
Publication Date: 2016-02-26
Making Out in the Mainstream : GLAAD and the Politics of Respectability by Vincent Doyle
ISBN: 9780773546783
Publication Date: 2016-03-18
Travels in a Gay Nation : Portraits of LGBTQ Americans by Philip Gambone
ISBN: 9780299236847
Publication Date: 2010-06-30

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Colorado Springs LGBTQ Organizations

Inside Out Youth Services
Non-profit organization that serves lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and questioning youth between 13-22 years old in El Paso County.
Springs Equality
We are a network of individuals and business owners within various facets of the Colorado Springs community. We partner with Allies and other LGBT organizations in the state of Colorado to keep equality awareness alive and to provide understanding and mentorship to those in need. Our mission is simple - Connect, Enrich, and Inspire the LGBT and greater Allied Community.
Transgender Support Groups of Colorado Springs
PAGE (Peak Area Gender Expressions)
BRIDGE (Building Real Identities anD Gender Expressions) Focuses on TG persons 16 years to 30.
Transgender Family Support Group
Colorado Springs PFLAG
csPFLAG --- Parents, Families, Friends, and Allies
United with LGBTQ People to move equality forward!

Colorado LGBTQ Organizations

The Center (Denver)
The Center opened in 1976 and over the years has grown to become the largest community center in the Rocky Mountain region, giving voice to Colorado’s LGBT community and playing a pivotal role in statewide initiatives to reduce harassment and discrimination. Today, we are focused on fulfilling our mission – To engage, empower, enrich, and advance the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community of Colorado – by ensuring that every member of the LGBT community has access to the programs and resources they need to live happy, healthy, and productive lives.
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The Center currently operates on an annual budget of $2.2 million, employs 19 staff members, and utilizes more than 520 community volunteers to serve more than 46,000 people each year.
Gender Identity Center of Colorado
The mission of the GIC is to provide support for all gender identities and expressions through direct services and social change utilizing empowerment, identity affirmation, outreach, education, advocacy, creating safe spaces, and a sense of community.
One Colorado
One Colorado is the state’s leading advocacy organization dedicated to advancing equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) Coloradans and their families.

National LGBTQ Organizations

Human Rights Campaign
The Human Rights Campaign represents a force of more than 1.5 million members and supporters nationwide. As the largest national lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer civil rights organization, HRC envisions a world where LGBTQ people are ensured of their basic equal rights, and can be open, honest and safe at home, at work and in the community.
The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth.

Professional Organizations

Consortium of Higher Education Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Professionals
The Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals is a member-based organization working towards the liberation of LGBTQ people in higher education. We support individuals who work on campuses to educate and support people of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities, as well as advocate for more inclusive policies and practices through an intersectional and racial justice framework.
Campus Pride
Campus Pride serves LGBTQ and ally student leaders and campus organizations in the areas of leadership development, support programs and services to create safer, more inclusive LGBTQ-friendly colleges and universities. It exists to develop, support and give “voice and action” in building future LGBTQ and ally student leaders.

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Colorado Guide for Educators working with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students
Legal provisions in Colorado. Dated 2013.

Expanding the Circle : Creating an Inclusive Environment in Higher Education for LGBTQ Students and Studies by John C. Hawley (Editor)
ISBN: 9781438454610
Publication Date: 2015-02-01
Examines strategies and best practices that effectively integrate LGBTQ areas of teaching and research with student life activities.
Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History by Leila J. Rupp (Editor); Susan Kathleen Freeman
Call Number: PPCC - Centennial - Stacks HQ75.16 .U6 U53 2017
ISBN: 9780299313043
Publication Date: 2017-03-14

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Upcoming Local LGBT Events

Local LGBT meetings

SAME Support and Discussion

Stress. Anxiety. Managing. Emotions. It makes a huge difference to go through life stuff with others who understand, who get it, who get YOU, who feel the SAME. Feeling lonely? SAME. Stressed out? SAME. Struggling with LGBTIQ life stuff? SAME. With teenage and young adult life stuff? SAME.

Looking for practical solutions? SAME. That’s what this group is all about.

Mondays from 6 – 7 pm.

Inside/Out Youth Services, 223 North Wahsatch Avenue

PAGE (Peak Area Gender Expressions) all-age transgender support group

We meet every third Sunday of the month at 4pm.

Pikes Peak Metropolitan Community Church, 1102 South 21st Street

BRIDGE (Building Real Identities anD Gender Expressions) Focuses on TG persons 16 years to 30.

We meet the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 7pm.

First Tuesday of the month is Potluck. To view our schedule of Potluck themesPeak!

Pikes Peak Metropolitan Community Church, 1102 South 21st Street

Transgender Veterans meets every first Friday of the month at 9am at:

VA Health Care, 3141 Centennial Blvd

Trans-Genderations of Pueblo meets every 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month at 6:00pm at:

304 S. Union Ave, Pueblo, CO 81005

Local Ally Meetings

Trans* Parenting Support Group

All parents/guardians of trans* or gender expansive youth

Every Third Thursday of the month

Inside Out Youth Services, 223 N. Wahsatch Ave

Transgender Family Support Group

Meetings are held every second Wednesday each month at 7pm.

Pikes Peak Metropolitan Community Church, 1102 South 21st Street

csPFLAG --- Parents, Families, Friends, and Allies United with LGBTQ People to move equality forward!

Held the 3rd Tuesday of the Month at the Dwelling Place

Social time 6:30 pm; meeting at 7:00 pm

508 N. Tejon Street

List of Transgender Organizations and Resources from PAGE
Colorado Springs/Pueblo Transgender Support Groups, Colorado Springs Organizations, Pride Centers in Colorado, Colorado Organizations, National and International Resources, Health, Legal, Name/Gender Change, Other Name /Gender Change Resources, Transgender Conferences, Transgender News, Other On-Line Resources, Colorado Springs Therapists, Medical Doctors, Colorado Springs Area, Colorado Voice Coaches, Surgeons, Crossdresser Specific, FTM specific, FTM Binders and Exchanges, MTF Specific, Youth Specific
Resource lists from Springs Equality
LGBT/Allied Doctors, HIV Testing, Transgender Support, Youth/Minor LGBT, Open/Affirming Churches, LGBT/Allied Counselors, Positive Health Wellness, LGBT Non-Profits Master List

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion LibGuide: LGBTQ

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer (LGBTQ) information

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Colorado Springs LGBTQ Organizations

Colorado LGBTQ Organizations

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