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News - wondering what’s going on with the Queer community?
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This is the United State’s best national gay and lesbian newsmagazine. Hard copies are available at the CAYA House, or visit their website: www.advocate.com
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Here you can find links to current news stories concerning the GLBT community, as well as whatever is on the mind of the RU officers. http://rainbowunion.blogspot.com/
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Resources On the Drake campus: |
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Counselors are available to help you with any stress you might have related to your sexuality. They also offer free condoms and information about sexually transmitted infections. www.drake.edu/health
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Stay up to date with RU and network with other RUers! www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=3423034275&ref=ts
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The Human Rights Campaign is America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender equality. By inspiring and engaging all Americans, HRC strives to end discrimination against GLBT citizens and realize a nation that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all.
www.hrc.org/
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A networking site for all Iowan GLBT students.
www.iowapridenetwork.org/
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Formed in 1984, the LGBT Community Center of Central Iowa serves as a center for the LGBT community to come for information on support groups, social groups and other activities associated within the community.
www.lgbt-dsm.com
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The annual Des Moines Pride celebration is held the second weekend of June every summer. The celebration consists of a street party, parade, and a show of various community exhibitors and entertainers. Capital City Pride’s mission is to “promote acceptance, tolerance, and understanding of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community through education, programming, and visibility.”
www.capitalcitypride.org
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One Iowa is the state’s largest GLBT Equality organization. Through lobbying, voter identification, grassroots efforts and educational events, One Iowa’s mission is to unite the GLBT Equality movement with the fair-minded elected officials responsible for change.
www.one-iowa.org
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The Des Moines WCC is an Iowa women’s organization which seeks to promote community building and to provide a safe atmosphere for lesbians. They invite all women to attend their activities and events.
www.iowawcc.org
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An Iowan, educational, non-profit corporation for gay men who gather on the first Friday of every month to provide mutual support, to be educated on community affairs, and to further educate community opinion leaders with more positive images of gay men. Their resources page has a lot of great stuff that is Des Moines and Iowa specific!
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PPGI works to ensure that sexuality is understood as an essential, lifelong aspect of being human and that is it celebrated with respect, openness, and mutuality. PPGI provides affordable health care and healthy sex education to all persons, regardless of gender, sex, or sexual orientation.
www.plannedparenthood.org/greater-iowa/
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PFLAG promotes the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender 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. PFLAG provides opportunity for dialogue about sexual orientation and gender identity, and acts to creat a society that is healthy and respectful of human diversity.
www.pflag.org
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