As a service to our community, we offer selected links to informational referrals for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and/or Transgender people, their allies, parents and friends. Links with an asterisk (*) next to them denote beneficiaries of the Federation's annual campaign.

Jewish life and resources in the Bay Area

• Jewish Community Information & Referral*
• Resource Guide to Jewish Life in the Bay Area
• Congregation Sha'ar Zahav
• Out and About at Temple Sinai
• Keshet at Congregation Beth Shalom  
• Kulanu group at Congregation Beth Am

Jewish culture & spirituality

• HUC - Institute for Judaism and Sexual Orientation
• Gay and Lesbian Yeshiva and Day School Alumni Association
• Keshet JTS (Jewish Theological Seminary)
• Keshet Rabbis (Conservative Movement)
• Nehirim
• World Congress of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Jews

Community centers, education & employment  

• Mosaic: The National Jewish Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity
• Harvey Milk Institute
• Jewish Vocational Services Transgender Economic Empowerment Initiative
• LGBT Community Center (San Francisco)
• Spectrum Center (Marin County)
• Pacific Center (Berkeley)
• Rainbow Community Center (Contra Costa County)
• Out & Equal Workplace Advocates

Students & youth

• National Union of Jewish LGBT Students (NUJLS)
• Lavender Youth Recreation & Information Center (LYRIC)
  New Leaf
• GLSEN: Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (SF/East Bay)

Seniors

• Services and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Elders (SAGE)

Civil & legal rights

• Community United Against Violence (CUAV)
• National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR)
• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Northern California office
• Northern California Anti-Defamation League (ADL): *
• Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC)*
• Transgender Law Center (TLC)
• Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
• International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission
• National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
• Intersex Society of North America
• FTM International
• Advocates for Informed Choice
• National Center for Transgender Equality
• Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund
• SF Human Rights Commission, LGBT Division
  

 Marriage and family

• Marriage Equality USA  
• New Family Organization
• Freedom to Marry
• Equality California
• Our Family Coalition
• Parents’ Place
• Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (COLAGE)
• Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays