LGBTQ Rights Content Topic Results
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January 2015
Immigration Issues and Resources
Publisher(s):This fact sheet provides legal information to immigrants who identify as LGBT and immigrants who are HIV-positive.
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January 2015
After DOMA: Tax Filing FAQs for Same-Sex Married Couples
Publisher(s):This fact sheet includes questions and answers designed to give general information about tax issues that same-sex couples will be dealing with in tax year 2013 and beyond, and is not meant to be exhaustive. It is intended for general information purposes only.
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- NRCDV Publications
September 2014
How can I make my center an affirming place for people who identify as LGBTQ?
Publisher(s): Achieving equity and inclusivity for people who are traditionally on the margins of our culture is a multi-step process. NRCDV's September 2014 TA Question of the Month discusses strategies for promoting LGBTQ inclusion.
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September 2014
Sheltering Transgender Women: Providing Welcoming Services
Publisher(s):This Technical Assistance Guidance highlights effective strategies for integrating trans women into shelter, building on the knowledge that most shelter staff and allied professionals have already developed practice, familiarity, and skill in providing shelter services to women.
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- Training Tools
September 2014
Moving Beyond the Wheel: Advocacy & Support for LGBTQ Survivors of Domestic Violence
Publisher(s):Battered Women's Justice Project (BWJP), The NW Network of Bi, Trans, Lesbian and Gay Survivors of Abuse
This webinar focuses on strategies for support and advocacy when working with LGBTQ survivors, with a particular emphasis on the needs and experiences of LGBTQ service members and veterans.
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June 2014
Responding to Transgender Victims of Sexual Assault
Publisher(s):This guide provides practical information supported by the experiences of transgender survivors and some specific challenges that victim service providers may encounter.
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January 2014
Our Gender Revolution
Publisher(s):This website provides educational conversations to explore gender, inequality, and gender violence to promote youth led social change.
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January 2014
The Right to (Trans) Parent: A Reproductive Justice Approach to Reproductive Rights, Fertility, and Family-Building Issues Facing Transgender People
Publisher(s):This article uses reproductive justice principles to provide new entry points for LGBT advocates and reproductive health and rights advocates to build alliances around gender, sexuality, and reproduction by highlighting opportunities for reproductive justice advocates to engage on reproductive health and rights issues facing transgender people.
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January 2014
Transgender People, Intimate Partner Violence, and the Legal System
Publisher(s): Leigh Goodmark’s article, "Transgender People, Intimate Partner Abuse, and the Legal System," is the first law review article to concentrate specifically on intimate partner abuse and the transgender community. In this webinar, Leigh Goodmark presents this research, and Terra Slavin and michael munson comment on critical analysis in the article and reflect its utility for practitioners and victims.
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December 2013
It Takes a Village, People! Advocacy, Friends and Family & LGBT Survivors of Abuse
Publisher(s):This toolkit discusses the unique opportunities in LGBTQ communities for engaging friends and family in advocacy and provides advocates with practical strategies for doing so.
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November 2013
Ending Gender
Publisher(s): In this TED Talk, Scott Turner Schofield discusses transgender identity and what it could mean to "end gender."
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November 2013
Tribal Equity Toolkit: Tribal Resolutions and Codes to Support Two Spirit & LGBT Justice in Indian Country
Publisher(s):Native American Program of Legal Aid Services of Oregon (NAPOLS), Indigenous Ways of Knowing (IWOK) Program, Western States Center
This toolkit contains resources to support tribal equity of two spirit and LGBT people. Topics covered include marriage, domestic partnerships and civil unions, children, employment, housing, education, health and end of life care, and hate and bias related crimes. Tribal Equity Toolkit 2.0 includes updates and more resources.