Center Information & Referral
@ Lesbian and Gay Community Services CenterLocation: 208 W 13th St (Seventh)
Phone #: 212-620-7310
Hours: Daily 9am-11pm
The Lowdown: Information clearing house for the G, L, Bi, Trans community.
This service from the Center fields hundreds of calls each week and dispenses information on everything queer related in NYC, including coming out resources.
Gay & Lesbian Switchboard of New York
Phone #: 212-777-1800Hours: Daily 10:30am-midnight
The Lowdown: Information, peer counseling and referral line.
Volunteer hotline run by truly helpful and caring individuals trained in crisis intervention and ready with helpful info and a friendly ear.
Hetrick Martin Institute
Location: 2 Astor Place (Broadway)Phone #: 212-674-2400
TTY: 212-674-8695
E-Mail: hmi@hmi.org
Hours: Call for times
The Lowdown: THE organization for queer youth in NYC.
Home of the Harvey Milk School, a high school just for queer teens, a drop-in center, Cafe HMI, counseling and advocacy, Hetrick-Martin has been serving the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth since 1979, as well as trying to educate the greater world around us on the needs of queer youth everywhere.
HOTT Healthline (Health Outreach To Teens)
Phone #: 212-255-1517Hours: Mon-Thu 7pm-9pm
The Lowdown: Safe haven and help for queer youth.
Confidential primary health care services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, cross-dressing and homeless, runaway, throw-aways youth. Get off the streets and into the care of people who understand.
Identity House
Location: 39 W 14th St, #205 (Fifth/Sixth)Phone #: 212-243-8181
Mailing Address:
PO Box 572
Old Chelsea Station
NY, NY 10011-0572
Hours:
Walk-in counseling: Sun-Tue 6pm-9pm
Women's coming out session: Fri 6:30pm-8:30pm
Women's discussion group: Sat 3pm-5pm
The Lowdown: All-volunteer peer-counseling for those just coming out.
Therapy center for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community with groups, workshops, referrals, counseling and special events.
Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center
Location: 208 W 13th St (Seventh)Phone #: 212-620-7310
Website: http://www.gaycenter.org
Hours: Daily 9am-11pm
The Lowdown: Safe, supportive, and friendly environment for coming out at the organizational heart of NYC's queer community.
The Center is the center of New York's GLBiTrans community, and as such, is home to many support groups, Coming Out groups chief among them. With peer counseling - from youth groups to the over-60 crowd - support and open arms abound. The Center hosts free movies, alcohol-free parties, a lending library, history museum, garden, health clinic, theater space and a general meeting area with bulletin boards crammed full of flyers and business cards. Families, couples, and individuals of all sexual orientations are welcome.
Lesbian Switchboard of NYC
Phone #: 212-741-2610Hours: Mon-Fri 6pm-10pm
The Lowdown: Friendly dyke ears and voices.
This is the only lesbian volunteer telephone hotline in the New York metro area. These ladies are connected to the community with compassion and information, ready to help and listen.
NYC Gay/Lesbian Anti-Violence Project
Location: 647 Hudson St, NY, NY 10014Phone #: 212-807-0197
Hours: 24 hrs, 7 days a week, 365 days a year
The Lowdown: Counseling and advocacy for queer crime victims.
AVP provides free and confidential counseling and advocacy to crime victims including victims of bias crime, domestic violence, sexual assault, HIV-related violence and robbery/burglary. It's a safe haven and protector to those who need it most.
PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays)
The Lowdown: Worldwide non-profit organization dedicated to supporting queer people and their loved ones.Their mission: "Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays promotes the health and well-being of gay, lesbian and bisexual persons, their families and friends through: support, to cope with an adverse society; education, to enlighten an ill-informed public; and advocacy, to end discrimination and to secure equal civil rights. Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays provides opportunity for dialogue about sexual orientation, and acts to create a society that is healthy and respectful of human diversity."
Branches:
Manhattan
PO Box 553
Lenox Hill Station
NY, NY 10021
212-463-0629
Fourth Sunday of every month, call for location
Brooklyn
7304 Fifth Ave. #307
Brooklyn, NY 11209
718-646-3390
3pm-5pm, first Sunday of every month
@ Christ Church Bay Ridge
7301 Ridge Blvd (73rd/74th)
Queens
PO Box 580460
Flushing, NY 11358
718-271-6663
http://www.dorsai.org/~pflag
3rd Sunday of every month, call for location
Westchester
c/o Rose Dinolfo
3 Leather Stocking Lane
Mamaroneck, NY 10543
914-698-3619
2nd Monday of every month, call for location
Shades of Lavender
(Brooklyn AIDS Task Force)Location: 470 Bergen St (Flatbush/5th), Brooklyn
Phone #: 718-622-2910
Hours: Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Tue 3pm-6pm closed space for Youth Group only
The Lowdown: Comfy community center for queer Brooklyn women and their friends.
Shades of Lavender resembles a big living room and for the new members of the lesbian and bisexual community in Brooklyn it's a safe haven for queer youth just coming out. An alternative to the bar scene, Shades runs groups for writers, Jewish women and women of color, poetry nights and movie nights as well as HIV prevention, safe sex workshops and individual counseling.
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