BOSTON GBLT COMMUNITY RESOURCES:

Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth (BAGLY)
P.O. Box 814
Boston, MA  02103
Telephone: 617-227-4313

BAGLY provides weekly and monthly social activities and special events for people ages 22 and under. These activities provide an opportunity for youth to socialize, have fun and develop a sense of personal and community identity.  BAGLY also has HIV, STD, Drugs, and Alcohol education and prevention programs in place to actively educate and empower youth in making wise decisions regarding their health. Free HIV testing and counseling - Every other Wednesday.  For health care concerns and other needs, BAGLY makes referrals to the appropriate LGBT friendly health service providers.

Boston GLASS -- Justice Resource Institute (JRI) Health
93 Massachusetts Ave., 3rd floor
Boston, MA 02116
Telephone: 617-266-3349
JRI Health: http://www.jri.org/index.php

The Boston GLASS is a drop-in center for homeless or runaway GLBT youth, young women of color, and HIV + youth. Services include counseling, empowerment education, health and legal service referrals, and the distribution of condoms, bleach kits, and food coupons. A related program, “HIV Stops With ME”, is an Internet-based campaign that targets young MSM that do not identify as gay or bisexual, as well as transgendered youth. The focus is on counseling, meeting basic needs, self-empowerment, HIV and peer education.

Boston Glass Community Center -- Shades of Color
93 Massachusetts Ave., 3rd floor
Boston, MA  02115
Telephone: 617.266.3349 *201

Shades of Color, a peer education & leadership development program, addresses issues related to HIV/AIDS; other STDs and Pregnancy; Safer Sex; Homophobia and Transphobia; Racism, Safety and Decision-making; Coming out; and Self-Love. Shades of Color offers workshops for community organizations, colleges and high schools.

Boston Glass Community Center: Slice Of Rice
93 Massachusetts Ave., 3rd Floor
Boston, MA  02115
Telephone: 617-266-3349
Resources: http://www.bostonglass.org/resources.htm

Slice of Rice provides individual support for those Asian and Asian American youth who identify as queer (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) or questioning, building community among those youth, and raising political consciousness, voice, and action within both the Asian Pacific Islander community, and the queer community.

Fenway Community Health Center
7 Haviland Street
Boston, MA 02115
Telephone: 617-267-0900
Fax: 617-859-1250

This program provides MSM & their sex partners with HIV services to engage them and improve their health by increasing their knowledge about HIV, and improving their self-esteem and self-efficacy.  Services include individual & group HIV education, counseling, community events. HIV prevention services include Internet outreach, community-based training, workshops, and small group education in a social setting.

Fenway Community Health Program Center - Peer Listening Line
Telephone: 1-800-399-PEER (7337)

The Peer Listening Line Offers support and information; it also provides referrals for gay and lesbian youth who have been victims of violence and harassment.

Fenway Community Health Program Center - Violence Recovery Program
Telephone: 617-927-6250 / 800-834-3242

The VRP provides counseling, support groups, advocacy, and referral services to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) victims of bias crime, domestic violence, sexual assault and police misconduct.

GLBT Health Access Project
100 Boylston Street Suite # 815
Boston, MA  02116
Telephone: 617-988-2605

The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Health Access Project is a collaborative, community-based program funded by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. The project's mission is to foster the development and implementation of comprehensive, culturally appropriate, quality health promotion policies and health care services for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered (GLBT) people and their families.

Gay and Lesbian Youth Support Project (GLYS)
942 W. Chestnut Street
Brockton, MA  02301
Telephone: 508-583-2250  x224
Resource Page: http://www.hcsm.org/glys/resources.htm

The Gay and Lesbian Youth Support (GLYS) is a program of Health Care of Southeastern Massachusetts, Inc. GLYS works to ensure safe and supportive communities for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) youth and their families.

Massachusetts Area South Asian Lambda Association (MASALA)
MASALA is a social group based in Boston that provides a safe and supportive environment to New England based Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning South Asians (people from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, India, Iran, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Tibet; and from the global South Asian Diaspora). MASALA also takes pride in its cross alliance with organizations in the Boston area which strive against social taboos, ignorance, phobia and help foster general awareness in the realm of public health, HIV awareness, and domestic violence prevention.

Massachusetts Asian AIDS Prevention Project (MAAPP)
Massachusetts Asian and Pacific Islanders for Health (MAP for Health)
59 Temple Place, Suite 300
Boston, MA 02111
Telephone: 617-426-6755
Toll Free: 1-800-479-7251

MAAPP targets Asian Pacific Islander MSM/GLBT through HIV prevention services, including group and individual education, counseling, and outreach, as well as education via the telephone and Internet. The outreach focuses on specific venues, and public sex environment.

MAP for Health is a non-profit organization that promotes health, HIV and sexuality awareness, and access to care in Massachusetts Asian, South Asian and Pacific Islander communities through education, advocacy and technical assistance. We aim to break through the profound stigmas and the cultural, familial, social, and political barriers that silence members of the API community, placing them at high risk for HIV infection.

Massachusetts Commission on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth
c/o Massachusetts Department of Public Health
250 Washington Street, 4th floor
Boston, MA  02108
Telephone: 617-624-5485

This Commission is an independent agency of the Commonwealth and has a mandate to investigate the use of resources from both the public and private sectors to enhance and improve the ability of state agencies to provide services that protect and support the health and safety of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) youth in the schools and communities of Massachusetts, with a focus on suicide prevention, violence intervention, and the promotion of zero-tolerance policies regarding harassment and discrimination against GLBT youth. The Commission is also mandated to make recommendations about policies and programs supporting GLBT youth to the State government and its agencies, and to ask for adequate funding in the annual State budget for effective programs.

Project 10 East
PO Box 382401
Cambridge, MA  02238
Telephone: 617-864-GLBT (4528)

Project 10 East fights oppression through gay-straight student alliances in Massachusetts public high schools. The group conducts after-school and summer programs utilizing peer mentors, parent meetings, and other social and educational activities. Ages served: 13-22.

Queer Asian Pacific-Islander Alliance
Today our organization is known as the Queer Asian Pacific Alliance, reflecting our inclusion of bisexual, transgendered, and questioning individuals, as well as Pacific Islanders. We are committed to providing a supportive social, political, and educational environment for all queer individuals of Asian and Pacific Islander heritage in the Boston and New England area. In 2004, we celebrated our 25th anniversary as the oldest Asian queer organization in the United States.

The Theater Offensive: True Colors Out Youth Theater
43 Thorndike St. Box 14
Cambridge, MA  02141
Telephone: 617-621-6090

The Theater Offensive is New England’s leading LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) theater company.

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