Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI): June - LGBTQ+ Pride Month

Hagerstown Hope is a Hagerstown, MD nonprofit focused on bringing unity, education, and services to support our local LGBTQ+ and local communities.

The organization educates LGBTQ+ people about their rights as workers, the organized labor movement and the principles of trade union solidarity; encourages and assists LGBTQ+ workers to organize and to become active participants in the trade union movement

The Trevor Project is an American nonprofit organization founded in 1998. Focused on suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth, they offer a toll-free telephone number where confidential assistance is provided by trained counselors.

History UnErased is an education non-profit bringing life-affirming, life-changing, and life-saving LGBTQ US history into the mainstream curriculum in K-12 schools across the nation.

A compilation of photos, videos, newspapers, and radio broadcasts that show groundbreaking LGBTQ history as it happened.

An in depth history lesson about the Stonewall Uprising and how it sparked the gay rights movement.

Current population count and percentage state by state of people who identify as LGBTQ in 2023.

HRC envisions a world where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people plus community members who use different language to describe identity are ensured equality and embraced as full members of society at home, at work and in every community.

An initiative of the United Nations Human Rights Office to create a public information campaign aimed at promoting equal rights and fair treatment of LGBTI people.

The UN's Trans Visibility campaign strives to educate governments and individuals about the unjust treatment of trans individuals. They provide guidelines and recommendations for fair and compassionate behaviors and laws.

The National Center for Transgender Equality advocates to change policies and society to increase understanding and acceptance of transgender people. In the nation’s capital and throughout the country, NCTE works to replace disrespect, discrimination, and violence with empathy, opportunity, and justice. (Mission Statement)