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AFSCME Pride Online Network

Whether it’s fighting for domestic partner benefits or against discrimination, AFSCME has a long and proud tradition of supporting equal rights for all. Join your brothers and sisters in the AFSCME Pride Network to discuss issues, learn about what’s going on around the country, and exchange information and ideas.

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Resources and Links

Workplace Issues

• Pride At Work
• Human Rights Campaign - WorkNet — HRC's employer database provides the nation's most comprehensive data on public and private employers, including colleges, universities, and municipalities, that offer domestic partner benefits.
• Achieving Domestic Partner Benefits, Collective Bargaining Reporter, 1999/1
• The Domestic Partnership Organizing Manual For Employee Benefits — National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
• How To Achieve Domestic Partner Benefits In Your Workplace — Human Rights Campaign
• Domestic Partner Benefits: Facts and Background — Employee Benefits Research Institute
• Domestic Partnership Benefits: Company List
• Requesting Benefits: How to Go About Getting Them
• Factoids on Domestic Partner Benefits
• Resource List on Domestic Partner Benefits
• Benefit Roadblocks: Issues raised by Employers
• Employers Providing Domestic Partner Benefits to Same-sex and Opposite-sex Partners: Cost Analysis
• Workplace Non-Discrimination Policies That Include Sexual Orientation — Human Rights Campaign; list broken down by type of employer
• LAMBDA Legal: States Which Prohibit Sexual Orientation Employment Discrimination
• LAMBDA Legal: State Government Employers Offering Domestic Partnership Benefits
• Seven Easy Steps For Adding Domestic Partner Benefits To Your Union Contract — Pride at Work
• What's Good for the Goose: A Critical Review of Unions as Employers and the Continuing Struggle Towards Equal Benefits in the Workplace, by T. Santora, Working USA, Spring 2001
   

Gay and Lesbian Public Employee Groups

• U.S. Department of Energy Gay, Lesbian or Bisexual Employees (GLOBE)
• Federal GLOBE
• Federal Aviation Administration GLOBE
• GLIFAA: Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies in USA
• Interior GLOBE
• U.S. Department of Justice Pride
• U.S. Department of Labor GLOBE
• SALUTARIS: National Institutes of Health Gay and Lesbian Employees Forum
• National Institute of Standards and Technology GLOBE
• U.S. Department of the Treasury Financial Management Service GLOBE

• StatePride — Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered and Allied Employees of the State of Texas
• Pride in Wisconsin Government

• Law Enforcement Gays and Lesbians International
  • Gay Officers Action League of New York
  • Gay Officers Action League of New England
  • Florida LEGAL, Inc.
  • Golden State Peace Officers Association of California

• FireFLAG/EMS — New York City

• Gay and Lesbian Employees at Miami University (OH)
• Gay, Bisexual, & Lesbian Faculty, Staff & Supporters at Columbia University (NY)
• Gay and Lesbian University Employees at the University of Washington (WA/merged with BOHGOF - scroll down)
   

Indexes

• Queer Resources Directory
• Pridenet.com
• L/G/B/Ts on the WWW (And Justice for All)

• Moving Ideas: Gay and Lesbian Issues
• Out of the Past — PBS special on gay and lesbian history in America
• The American Gay Rights Movement: A Timeline — InfoPlease
• The Gay Financial Network — see The gnf.com 50 ranking of the most gay-friendly public companies
• PlanetOut.com
• Gay.com
• Purple Roofs: Your GLBT Key to World Travel
• GLBTQ: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture
• Buying for Equality — Human Rights Campaign guide rates companies on fairness to gays and lesbians
   

Organizations

• National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
• LAMBDA Legal Defense and Education Fund
• National Consortium of Directors of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Resources in Higher Education
• Lesbian and Gay Aging Issues Network

• National Stonewall Democrats
• Log Cabin Republicans
• Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund
   

Transgender Resources

• Gender Education & Advocacy
• Transgender Employment Links
• Transgender Employment Resource Page
• National Transgender Advocacy Coalition — employment-related materials are under "Media Information Kits"

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