LGBT NETWORK – Be Yourself. Stay Healthy. Change The World.

National Coming Out Day Street Fair

It’s almost National Coming Out Day! Come on down to 31st Avenue between 33rd Street and 35th Street in Astoria, Queens for this Open Street Festival. Find resources for your students and yourself, have some fun, and enjoy community.

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Join the LGBT Network for a special National Coming Out Day Happy Hour and Networking event with the Long Island LGBT Chamber of Commerce at Necromantic Brew Co.!

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LGBT Workplace Summit

The LGBT Network is holding our third annual LGBT Workplace Summit on Wednesday, October 25, 2023 from 8am to 2pm to convene and help businesses advance their LGBT diversity and inclusion efforts in the workplace to create safer spaces for LGBT employees.

Pride Patrol

Join Pride Patrol, a force of LGBT and allied community members whose goal is to promote visibility at our local school and library board meetings

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LI LGBT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

The mission of the Long Island LGBT Chamber of Commerce is to promote and foster growth for LGBT-affirming and welcoming businesses of all types and sizes, especially LGBT-owned businesses, through networking, education, and uniting the broader business community.

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LGBT Network School District Ambassador

Visibility, education, opportunity, and safe schools are critical for our LGBTQ youth. Become an official LGBT Network School District Ambassador for your local community and school district and work together to ensure that every school has age-appropriate education about LGBTQ people, families and issues.

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Served Since 1993

About The Network

The LGBT Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that is a home and voice for LGBT people, their families, and support systems of Long Island and Queens. The LGBT Network’s community centers help LGBT people to be themselves, stay healthy, and change the world. Since 1993, the LGBT Network has been pioneering advocacy and social change to promote safe spaces where LGBT people live, learn, work, play, and pray.

Serving the Community

30+ Programs a Week

Hosting 30+ in-person and virtual programs a week to reach and impact all corners of the LGBT Community from Long Island, Queens, and beyond.

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Education & Anti-Bullying Programs

300+ Schools

Supporting youth and students in over 300+ school districts throughout Long Island, Queens and New York City.

Safe Schools

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LGBT/LGBT-friendly Affordable Senior Housing and Community Center

We are excited to announce that applications are now being accepted for the LGBT Network’s LGBT/LGBT Friendly Senior Housing, featuring 75 newly constructed affordable apartments for LGBT seniors ages 55 and above in Bay Shore, anchored by a brand new 8,000 square foot LGBT community center.

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Education & Anti-Bullying Programs

CONFERENCE EMPOWERS LGBTQ+ YOUTH TO CHANGE THE WORLD

Over 650 LGBTQ and allied students from across New York City and Long Island held the largest rally in the country to denounce Florida’s hateful “Don’t Say Gay Bill” at the LGBT Network’s 26th Annual LGBT Youth Conference at Citi Field on March 16th. LGBTQ students, their allies, and local leaders showed support and solidarity, by proudly proclaiming and chanting “WE SAY GAY” so loud that it could be heard all the way down South.

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NEWS & MEDIA

LGBT NETWORK RESPONDS TO ANTI-LGBT HATE AND LEGISLATION

ANNOUNCES EXPANSION OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ANTI-BULLYING PROGRAMS September 25, 2023, Hauppauge, NY – The LGBT Network announces the expansion of both its mental health services and anti-bullying programs in response

READ LI HEARLD : Threats to LGBTQ community loomed large this Pride Month

READ NEWSDAY: A Place to ‘Express Ourselves’ (LGBT Youth Prom)

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The LGBT Network relies on the support of their many volunteers to serve Long Island and Queens LGBT communities. As a volunteer, you will join the ranks of other kind, compassionate, generous, hardworking individuals who have affected tremendous and far-reaching change for our community.