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Queer Connect became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in April 2019. Founder Lisa Carton recognized the dire need to build a safe and inclusive LGBTQ+ community here in our corner of Vermont. Immediately after Queer Connect’s inception in April of that year, we successfully planned and hosted the first ever Bennington Pride Weekend in June.
From the start, Queer Connect has been committed to engaging with our LGBTQ+ youth. It was them, in fact, that inspired Queer Connect into action by telling us that they need “to see adults like us out in the streets.” As our mission statement above reads, our purpose is to provide visibility and resources for our LGBTQ+ individuals and families, and we are devoted to making that a reality for our full community.
We are dedicated to increasing our visibility in the community and to building resources for LGBTQIA people and their families living in and around Bennington, Vermont. We are especially committed to supporting queer youth and their families.
Queer Connect is dedicated to doing the hard work of a community to fight for the human rights of all people. We seek to create spaces that both acknowledge the multiple marginalization, increased discrimination, and oppression individuals might experience in our community. We believe an intersectional approach to providing LGBTQ+ programs and services allows us to better support our community members and our collective liberation.
Pride Center of Vermont (PCVT) is the region’s most comprehensive community center dedicated to advancing community and the health and safety of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ+) Vermonters.
The mission of Pride Center of Vermont is to celebrate, educate, and advocate with and for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) Vermonters.
There are many ways to be involved with community building. From volunteering your time helping to produce networking and social events to sponsoring programs that bring essential services to the community, being involved means being a part of changing lives and creating history.
Out in the Open connects rural LGBTQ people to build community, visibility, knowledge and power. We are a 501(c)3 nonprofit supported by donations, volunteers, and foundations.
Based in the Wabanaki Confederacy in the town and state of Brattleboro, Vermont, we work locally and regionally.
We envision a resilient community of communities that works toward the transformation of our economic, social, and political relationships.
We are building a multi-issue social justice movement of rural LGBTQ people.
Outright Vermont is a 501(c)(3) non-profit under federal and state regulations. Since 1989, we have been building hope, equity, and power with LGBTQ+ youth in Vermont.
We envision and practice our work as follows:
- An organizational model built on youth-adult partnerships which create mutual opportunities for growth, learning, and skill development.
- A queer and allied community who invest in our mission through a variety of resources that include, but are not limited to, donations of skills, time, goods, and money.
- An organization that does not give up or back down from furthering our work as an anti-oppression organization.
- A state where all queer youth have access to all of the resources they need to live safe, healthy, authentic lives.
- An organization that actively creates intentional, safe, and vibrant queer space wherever we go, in whatever we do, and wherever we live.
PFLAG Dorset formed in 2010 as a response from concerned community members – parents and friends of the LGBTQ+ community. Since 2010 PFLAG Dorset has been providing the southern Vermont with a forum for learning, advocacy and support for our LGBTQ+ friends and family.
PFLAG Dorset creates avenues for advocacy by bringing together the parents, families, and allies of LGBTQ+ persons. Using one unified voice of support, PFLAG has a unique position to speak up and speak out in support of our LGBTQ+ loved one.
PFLAG promotes the health and well-being of lesbian, gay, 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 create a society that is healthy and respectful of human diversity.
