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Local Support

ACLU's Monterey County Chapter is working to protect and advance civil liberties and civil rights in Monterey County. They meet monthly here in Monterey. Visit their webpage or call their affiliate at (415) 621-2493.

Monterey County Address:
340 Church St.
Salinas, CA 93601
(831) 975-5016

The Otter Cross Cultural Center (OC3) cultivates a collection vision towards critical consciousness by offering educational programs, holistic leadership development, academic resources, and experiential learning opportunities to bridge passion into practice so that students, staff, and faculty grow into leaders of change to eliminate social inequalities. By fostering meaningful dialogue and activism while also promoting empathy and social justice, the OC3 takes proactive approaches that respects people's evolving sense of self, perspectives, identities, and voices.

CSUMB Student Center

oc3@csumb.edu

(831) 582-4685

  • Community Human Services (They also have a Facebook Page) Community Human Services is now offering a free counseling and support group for LGBTQ adults, led by master’s level mental health clinician, Edgar Rondon. Sessions will be held alternating Saturdays from 1:30-3:00 p.m. at Family Services Center, 1178 Broadway Avenue in Seaside. This group will provide a safe space for LGBTQ individuals and their families to share their experiences in an anonymous, supportive and encouraging environment. 
  • Triangle Speakers Website (They also have a Facebook Page)
  • Yahoo Group: "Gay/Lesbian Email Network for the Monterey Area" (You must join the group in order to see any information)
  • The Epicenter: Seeks to empower at risk and system involved youth ages 16-24 to flourish by connecting them to community resources that provide opportunities for equity and hope in order to improve youth outcomes in Monterey County. 
  • Rainbow Speakers and Friends : Rainbow Speakers and Friends is a volunteer group that presents representative panels of the LGBTQI (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, Queer, Intersex) community.
  • UCSC Cantu Queer Center

Find a compiled list of LGBTQ Books from the MPC Library here.

Health Resources

This local organization provides HIV testing and a variety of services for people living with HIV/AIDS. Additional information found here.

Toll Free: 1-877-663-5433

Crisis lines to call for more immediate help:

Academic Resources

This website provides a list of scholarships, fellowships and grants for LGBTQ and allied students at both the undergraduate and graduate-level.

Point Foundation (Point) is the nation’s largest scholarship-granting organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) students of merit. Point promotes change through scholarship funding, mentorship, leadership development, and community service training.

Over 50 Scholarships. Only 1 Application. Pride Foundation offers a diversity of scholarships, which encourage students of different backgrounds and educational interests to apply. They offer over 50 different types of scholarships, but students only need to complete one application. Most scholarships are available for ally or questioning students as well. All funds promote leadership and diversity in the LGBTQ community. Scholarships are organized into four distinct categories: academic pursuits, community leadership, cultural identities, and geography.

  Visit the Scholarships Page for more information.

External Resources

The ACLU is our nation's guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.

Lambda legal is a national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work.

In exercising our strength as a Bar Association, our mission is to provide a strong leadership presence of and for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons in the legal profession and in the community at large, through education, legal advocacy, and participation in political and civic activities and social functions. BALIF members and supporters include San Francisco Bay Area judges, lawyers, law students and legal workers.

Important! You do not need a court ordered gender change to change your California driver's license, social security card, or U.S. passport. You also no longer need a court order to have a new birth certificate issued reflecting a change of gender (for California birth records). You may want to get a court ordered gender change to amend your birth certificate if you were born outside of California. You DO need a court order for a change of name.

The Gender Recognition Act (California Senate Bill 179) went into effect January 1, 2019. The bill makes the process easier for Californians to apply to change their gender markers on California birth certificates, drivers’ licenses, gender-change court orders and identity cards. Most significant, the bill creates a non-binary gender category (the letter “x”). These easier processes will allow many people in our community, including transgender, intersex and nonbinary people, to have full recognition in the State of California.

Based in New York City and Washington D.C., Immigration Equality is the national leader in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and HIV immigration rights. We helped end the HIV travel ban, and we led the successful fight to secure green cards for LGBT families.

TLC’s Trans Immigrant Defense Effort (TIDE) recruits and trains pro bono attorneys to meet the urgent need for legal services for transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) immigrants.

Transgender Law Center (TLC) is the largest national trans-led organization advocating self-determination for all people. Grounded in legal expertise and committed to racial justice, TLC employs a variety of community-driven strategies to keep transgender and gender nonconforming people alive, thriving, and fighting for liberation.

Out Serve SLDN:

Mission: OutServe-SLDN empowers, supports, and defends the Department of Defense and military service LGBT community, LGBT veterans, and their families, while working to strengthen out military's culture of inclusion.

Out & Equal Workplace Advocates:

Out & Equal is committed to ending employment discrimination for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender employees.