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Steve Goldstein, a leading gay rights activist, announced that he would be leaving as the chair of the prominent LGBT rights organization, Garden State Equality, at the end of the month, to take a job at Rutgers University.

EDGE Media Network reached out to the nation’s LGBT organizations before Election Day to ask what they wanted to see from the new president, from HIV funding to protection of service members and seniors, to combating homelessness and bullying.

The president of the principal LGBT organization in Ft. Worth, Texas, was found dead in a park in what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

On Thursday, November 10, Youth Pride, Inc. will host its annual Awards Dinner and Dance to support Rhode Island’s gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQQ) youth.

Manchester Pride has announced that it has raised a grand total of £105,000 this year. This figure means that, since 2003, the annual festival has raised over £1M distributed to LGBT organisations and HIV charities and organisations.

The Hispanic Black Gay Coalition (HBGC) and Greater Boston Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) will host its first annual Lesbian, Gay Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Youth Empowerment Conference.

On Sept. 20, GetEQUAL - a national civil rights organization fighting for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) equality - will mobilize organizers across the country to hold a "Day of Discontent."

GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network, will honor Chaz Bono, Michele and Rob Reiner, Wells Fargo, Phoenix Suns President and CEO Rick Welts and the 2011 Student Advocate of the Year at its seventh annual Respect Awards.

The White House named GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network, a Champion of Change for the organization’s two decades of pioneering work to fight bullying, violence and stigma directed at lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.

Rainbow World Fund (RWF), the only international humanitarian aid organization that is based in the LGBT community, just returned from a ten-day humanitarian aid journey to Guatemala.