National Organizations:  A

ACLU -- American Civil Liberties Union

The American Civil Liberties Union is the nation's foremost advocate of individual rights -- litigating, legislating, and educating the public on a broad array of issues affecting individual freedom in the United States. This is a general introduction and history to the ACLU, the first in a series of briefing papers. Other briefing papers, produced by the ACLU Office of Public Education, explain the organization's position on a range of specific civil liberties issues.

ACT UP 

ACT UP is a diverse, non-partisan group of individuals united in anger
and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis.  ACT UP is a decentralized political organization with local chapters worldwide.

American Library Association

The GLBTRT is a unit of the American Library Association. The GLBTRT was founded in 1970 as the Task Force on Gay Liberation. We are considered to be the nation's first gay, lesbian & bisexual professional organization. 

Shari Clifton
University of Oklahoma
Robert M. Bird Health Sciences Library
P.O. Box 26901
Purchasing Department
Oklahoma City, OK 73190
Phone: (405) 271-2036
Fax: (405) 271-3297
e-mail: Shari-Clifton@ouhsc.edu

Roland C. Hansen
Readers' Services Librarian
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Flaxman Library
37 S. Wabash
Chicago IL 60603
Phone: (312) 899-5097
Fax: (312) 899-1851
e-mail: rhanse@artic.edu

And Justice for All

And Justice for All is dedicated to achieving equality for everyone without regard to sexual orientation and to raising the visibility of heterosexuals in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights movement.

And Justice for All
P.O. Box 53079
Washington, DC 20009
Phone:  (202) 547-0508
Email:  justice@clark.net

Astraea National Lesbian Action Foundation, Inc.

The Astraea National Lesbian Action Foundation, Inc. is a national nonprofit public charity.  Our purpose is to:

Astraea's programs benefit lesbians, all women and girls, gay men, bisexual and transgendered individuals both in the United States and internationally, and work to eliminate all forms of oppression and exploitation, to advance the economic, political, educational and cultural well-being of lesbians.

Asian Lesbian Bisexual Alliance

Events run the gamut from the social to the political, and from the cultural to the culinary.