Stand Up! – Don’t Stand for Homophobic Bullying
This is a great wee t.v advert i stumbled upon. it’s great when your researching something so horrible and find something like this.
Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI)
Our Work
Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI) seeks to improve conditions and advance the rights and equality of trans* people and their families.
Despite significant progress in the past years, Ireland remains a place where it is difficult for trans people to lead safe, healthy and integrated lives. TENI is dedicated to ending transphobia, including stigma, discrimination and inequality.
Our vision is an Ireland where trans people are understood, accepted and respected, and can participate fully in all aspects of Irish society.
TENI engages in activities that promote the equality and well-being of trans people in Ireland. We work in four main areas:
- Support: We offer a range of support services that aim to increase the well-being of trans people and their families by providing support that mitigates common experiences of isolation, misunderstanding and exclusion.
- Advocacy: We advocate across legal, medical, societal and political structures to ensure that policy development and legislative reform reflects the positive recognition of trans inclusion, rights and equality.
- Education: We provide workshops and trainings that increase awareness, understanding and inclusion of trans issues across key sectors of Irish society.
- Capacity Building: We work directly with voluntary and statutory organisations (including those within the LGBT sector) to enhance their capacity to provide support and services that are both effective and inclusive to the needs of trans people. We also strive to strengthen the trans community through skills building, participation and empowerment.
Our Vision and Mission
• TENI seeks to improve conditions and advance the rights, equality and well-being of transgender people and their families.
• TENI’s vision is an Ireland where trans people are understood, accepted and respected, and can participate fully in all aspects of Irish society.
• TENI is an inclusive organisation and we recognise and represent diverse trans and intersex identities and experiences.
• TENI represents and works with all trans and intersex people in Ireland, regardless of how they self-identify.
• TENI provides support and education, advocates for equality and rights, and helps other organisations and institutions to become trans-inclusive.
• TENI works within a human rights framework
• TENI collaborates with other LGBT organisations in Ireland and Europe.
Our Organisation
• TENI is a non-profit member-driven organisation, founded in 2005 and registered as a company limited by guarantee in February 2010.
• governance is provided by a volunteer Board.
• operations are led by a full-time Director assisted by a part-time development worker, communications officer and bookkeeper and a number of volunteers.
• community engagement is an essential part of TENI’s identity and our mandate is based on a substantial membership, which elects the Board and is involved in long-term strategic planning.
Our Focus
• Under the current strategic plan the primary focus of TENI’s work is the transgender strand of the Building Sustainable LGBT Communities Programme, for which funding from Atlantic Philanthropies has been secured.
• We collaborate with a broad working group of Irish lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) organisations, operating as LGBT Diversity, to promote self esteem, confidence, visibility, health and safety through the development of strong LGBT communities locally, regionally and nationally.
• In the next 16 months, much of the Board’s attention will be devoted to securing the sustainability of operations after December 2012.
Partnership Working
TENI is a member of LGBT Diversity and participates in the Your Rights, Right Now campaign, the Equality Rights Alliance and the HSE LGBT Health Advisory Committee.
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*Transgender or Trans is an umbrella term for people whose gender identity or gender expression differs from the sex assigned to them at birth.
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TENI is proud to be one of the 47 charities resident at the Carmichael Centre. For further information see: www.carmichaelcentre.ie
Crisis!!! Stumble Upon = Massive Blip In My Campaign
I have stumbled upon this website that is fantastic, and is exactly what I am trying to accomplish minus the Social Network. I have spent months searching the web making sure that this kind of website doesn’t exist. This was extremely hard to find, and now that I am finished the major research for my campaign, this stumble has put a slight dent in my plans and has made me nervous about my entire campaign.
Then again to think about it, this website is just situated for Scotland yougth. So maybe then my thinking shouldn’t be for the whole of the U.K. Maybe I should start at home, and just stick to Ireland.
This Information on this website is exactly what I want to give to the LGBTQ Youth. The have the Advice for all the Sexual Orientations and Have the advice for the Friends and Family too. They are right on track to what I want to achieve. Though they do not have a social network along side of the Information. They do however have parents and friends who help with giving advice to other parents that are struggling with the sexual orientation of their child. They have a series of youth groups though out scotland and have events on going thought out the year. The only campaign I can see that they have running now is one for equal marriage. I understand why they are looking at this, but this is one of the few things that I want to stay away from. I want to focus mainly on help the youth coming out and understanding their sexuality.
Im thinking there may be a possibility of contacting this group and asking for some information for my website and saking how their funding works etc. The important questions I still need to answer.
Like I said they don’t have a Social Network But they Do have a fourm but its not as popular as they would like they only have 6 members.
This is the link to The Rainbow Project Which is based over Northern Ireland, and focuses on just the health of gay men. So it may be better for me to launch my campaign throughout Ireland as there is nothing like my campaign. So Im thinking now starting at home is the way to go.
Nikolai Alekseev first to be convicted of ‘gay propaganda’ in St Petersburg
Gay rights campaigner Nikolai Alekseev has become the first man to be convicted under St Petersburg’s recent ‘gay propaganda’ laws.
Mr Alekseev was said to have been fined 5,000 roubles, just over £100, by a court in Russia’s second city for the promotion of homosexuality among minors, AP reports.
The law was approved in February; this is the first time a citizen has been successfully prosecuted under it.
Mr Alekseev had held up a sign reading “Homosexuality is not a perversion” outside the Smolny Institute in April in public view.
A former journalist, Mr Alekseev turned his attention to full-time gay rights campaigning in 2005, setting up the gay rights advocacy group GayRussia.ru.
He has appeared regularly on Russian television and has been honoured for his work by LGBT organisations worldwide.
He has been arrested on numerous occasions for holding illegal Pride marches and gay rights demonstrations and launched lawsuits against Moscow authorities for banning the events and had announced his intention to retire last year.
Amelia – 15yrs – Make It Safe Project!
Welcome to The Make It Safe Project!
Donating Books to Schools and Youth Homeless Shelters Nationwide
The Make It Safe Project donates books about sexual orientation and gender expression to schools and youth homeless shelters that lack the resources to keep their teens safe.
Giving: We donate books to K-12 schools, their Gay-Straight Alliances (a group that educates the school community about equality), and LGBT-inclusive youth homeless shelters nationwide. For information on how you can help give books or receive books for your school or shelter, please clickhere (or donate using the “Donate” button to the right).
Support: If you are wondering what starting, leading, or joining a GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) would be like, you can browse through stories written by teens who have been involved with GSAs here.
Advice: If you have experience starting, leading, or being in a GSA, you can anonymously submit a story about your experience here.
One book can save a life.
About Me
My name is Amelia. I am an openly lesbian teen from California and am the founder and president of The Make It Safe Project.
I am a 2011-2012 GLSEN Student Ambassador, one of The Advocate’s Top 40, Under 40 LGBT Activists of 2012, and a NorCal Youth Council Member for GSA Network. From 2010-2011, I founded and ran a GSA at a private PreK-8 school and was one of the school’s student representatives on the Diversity Committee. My story about coming out was published in The New York Times online here. I have also been on LA Talk Radio’s show Teen Talk Live to discuss bullying and equal rights and interviewed about The Make It Safe Project in numerous newspapers which you can view here.
I am a member of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, GSA Network, the NOH8 Campaign (as seen in the picture above), Self-Evident Truths, the Give a Damn Campaign, Freedom to Marry, the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Human Rights Campaign, Change.org, and ThinkB4YouSpeak.
When not working on The Make It Safe Project, I play steel drums in the Pandhandlers Steel Drum Band, write novels, make costumes for San Francisco Carnival, swim, and sing.
Kiss It Forward…
Calling All Couples: Watch the Kiss It Forward PSA
Marriage Equality USA and Revenge Is… have teamed up to sponsor one kissable PSA.
If you’re looking for a great reason to smooch your partner for a good cause, look no further. With the help of Marriage Equality USA and Revenge Is…, a popular activism fashion website, there’s a new PSA in town. “Kiss It Forward” is a short film that according to Revenge Is…, “celebrates Equal Marriage Rights and the undeniable fact that All Love Is Equal.”
“Kiss It Forward” ran a contest in February, calling all gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and straight couples to support their cause by uploading a “kiss photo” to the “Kiss It Forward” Facebook page. Readers then had the chance to vote for their favorite photo. Two women won the challenge, walking away with Revenge Is…All Love Is Equal tee shirts.
Check out the “Kiss It Forward” PSA below, or for more information on the cause, have a look at their Facebook page.
It Gets Better Project.
About the It Gets Better Project
The It Gets Better Project was created to show young LGBT people the levels of happiness, potential, and positivity their lives will reach – if they can just get through their teen years. The It Gets Better Project wants to remind teenagers in the LGBT community that they are not alone — and it WILL get better.
Growing up isn’t easy. Many young people face daily tormenting and bullying, leading them to feel like they have nowhere to turn. This is especially true for LGBT kids and teens, who often hide their sexuality for fear of bullying. Without other openly gay adults and mentors in their lives, they can’t imagine what their future may hold. In many instances, gay and lesbian adolescents are taunted — even tortured — simply for being themselves.
Justin Aaberg. Billy Lucas. Cody Barker. Asher Brown. Seth Walsh. Raymond Chase. Tyler Clementi. They were tragic examples of youth who could not believe that it does actually get better.
While many of these teens couldn’t see a positive future for themselves, we can. The It Gets Better Project was created to show young LGBT people the levels of happiness, potential, and positivity their lives will reach – if they can just get through their teen years. The It Gets Better Project wants to remind teenagers in the LGBT community that they are not alone — and it WILL get better.
What is the It Gets Better Project?
In September 2010, syndicated columnist and author Dan Savage created a YouTube video with his partner Terry Miller to inspire hope for young people facing harassment. In response to a number of students taking their own lives after being bullied in school, they wanted to create a personal way for supporters everywhere to tell LGBT youth that, yes, it does indeed get better.
The It Gets Better Project™ has become a worldwide movement, inspiring more than 40,000 user-created videos viewed more than 40 million times. To date, the project has received submissions from celebrities, organizations, activists, politicians and media personalities, including President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Adam Lambert, Anne Hathaway, Colin Farrell, Matthew Morrison of “Glee”, Joe Jonas, Joel Madden, Ke$ha, Sarah Silverman, Tim Gunn, Ellen DeGeneres, Suze Orman, the staffs of The Gap, Google, Facebook, Pixar, the Broadway community, and many more. For us, every video changes a life. It doesn’t matter who makes it.
ItGetsBetter.org is a place where young people who are lesbian, gay, bi, or trans can see how love and happiness can be a reality in their future. It’s a place where our straight allies can visit and support their friends and family members. It’s a place where people can share their stories, take the It Gets Better Project pledge and watch videos of love and support.
On March 22, 2011, six months following the launch of the project, the It Gets Better Project book was released. The book , It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living is on-sale wherever books are sold. It includes essays and new material from more than 100 contributors, including celebrities, religious leaders, politicians, parents, educators, youth just out of high school, and many more. For more details and to purchase the book, visitHTTP://ITGETSBETTER.ORG/BOOK.
Website : http://www.itgetsbetter.org
Fantastic Pflag.Canada Campaign!
I just happen to stumble upon this campaign. It is Fantactic. It has also made me realize that for my campaign a few videos would be great. it would help my target audience connect more with the people in my campaign and help them understand a lot more. Just watching these videos made me realize how easy I was able to come out and how every one was supportive of me, this made me realize that not everyone has it as easy as i do and that people do need help with this transition in their life.
I Am Who I Am 