What can you do to support your LGBTQ+ colleagues and clients this Pride Month? Compiled by the Indiana State Bar Association Diversity Committee
Attend Pride Festivals
For a list of celebrations occurring throughout the Indianapolis area, visit https://indypride.org/. June 1 June 3 June 4 June 10 June 17 June 24 June 25 Beyond June
Donate to Supportive Organizations
Local Organizations
- Indiana Youth Group >>
Indiana Youth Group (IYG) serves young people ages 12-24 who self-identify as LGBTQ+, as well as their allies. All programs and services are offered
free of charge. IYG strives to provide safer spaces to build self-confidence, explore individualism, and develop friendships within the LGBTQ+ community. IYG also advocates for LGBTQ+ youth in schools, the community, and through family support
services.
- Damien Center >>
Damien Center is Indiana’s oldest and largest AIDS service organization (ASO) and serves more than 4,000 individuals affected and infected by HIV/AIDS through a comprehensive,
innovative approach to HIV care and prevention. - GenderNexus >>
GenderNexus has been created for trans and nonbinary people, to address all components of individual wellness – physical, emotional, social, spiritual, occupational, intellectual, and environmental. We also focus on building healthy relationships – relationship with self, with a partner, with parents, family, and friends. - The LGBTQ Center >>
The LGBTQ Center is Northern Indiana's only Center dedicated to the promotion of LGBTQ+ experiences and inclusivity. Our purpose is to see a community where every individual is valued, respected, and empowered. - Pride Center of Terre Haute >>
The Pride Center of Terre Haute Inc., was established to serve the LGBTQIAP+ community in the Wabash Valley. - Spencer Pride commUnity center >>
Offers a variety of services at the center, including Gathering Place & meeting room, which is available free to local, LGBTQ+ affirming, not-for-profit organizations (or other organizations with a not-for-profit purpose). - The Tree House >>
An inclusive space in South Bend, Indiana. It is a safe community place to network and meet. - Muncie Outreach >>
Delaware County's only LGBTQ youth group. - Shelly's Voice >>
Empowering Young Activists. Advancing LGBTQ Equality - Indy Pride, Inc >>
Indy Pride, Inc. produces events which educate, honor our history, and celebrate the diversity of the Indianapolis Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer community.
National Organizations
- Trevor Project >>
The Trevor Project is the world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer,
and questioning) young people.
- Lambda Legal >>
Lambda Legal is the oldest and largest national legal organization whose mission is to achieve full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals,
transgender people and everyone living with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work.
- Trans Lifeline >>
Trans Lifeline is a grassroots hotline and microgrants 501(c)(3) non-profit organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis
– for the trans community, by the trans community.
- Center for Black Equity >>
The Center for Black Equity strives to promote a multinational LGBTQ+ network dedicated to improving health and wellness opportunities, economic empowerment,
and equal rights while promoting individual and collective work, responsibility, and self-determination.
Educate Yourself and Others
See where your employer stands in the movement for LGBTQ equality on the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index.
CLE Read
Watch
- The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson on Netflix
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson is about the death of Marsha P. Johnson, a black gay rights activist who was prominent in the 1969 Stonewall riots and whose body
was found in the Hudson River after Pride in 1992. As well as investigating what happened, the documentary celebrates Marsha’s life and achievements.
- Disclosure on Netflix
Disclosure is about the impact Hollywood has had on the trans community. It features many trans actors and filmmakers, including Laverne Cox, Alexandra Billings and Jamie Clayton. They talk about the importance
of positive representation, but also the dangers that may come with this.
- How to Survive a Plague on Amazon Prime
David France’s How to Survive a Plague follows the activists who made it their life’s work to find treatment for the AIDS/HIV epidemic. Through hundreds of hours of archival footage
and interviews, the movie focuses on the founders of the activist group Act-Up, which formed in 1987 in an effort to halt the AIDS crisis. The film chronicles how a passionate group of young people made real change as the U.S. government and drug
companies languished in responding to the epidemic.
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