LGBT rights organization

LGBT rights organization

LGBT rights organizations are civil rights, health, and community organizations created and existing to further the civil and human rights and health of sexual minorities and to improve the gay community.

LGBT organizations may range from more moderate, liberal, organizations such as Stonewall (UK), to more extreme, radical, organizations such as Outrage!, in the U.K., to the conservative, Log Cabin Republicans, in the U.S..

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*List of LGBT-related organizations


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