Resources

Besides the programs offered at the IYG house, Indiana Youth Group offers a wide variety of resources and referrals to youth and their families. This ranges from LGBT friendly counseling referrals to health services. Please contact us for more information. Email us at info@indianayouthgroup.org. Or call us at: 317-541-8726

The following are lists with more information on:


Movies

Indianapolis LGBT bookstore

National LGBT Religious Organizations

Inclusive churches in Indiana

Good web sites

Books



Movies:

Both of these documentaries are excellent. They show how families have dealt with the coming out of their child. Copies are available for purchase on their website.


For the Bible Tells Me So, www.forthebibletellsmeso.org

Anyone and Everyone, www.anyoneandeveryone.com


These movies are fun mainstream movies that in some way involve the LGBT community. You can probably find them at most video rental stores. All are appropriate for teens.


Big Eden

Brother to Brother

But I’m just a Cheerleader

I Now Pronounce you Chuck and Larry

If These Walls Could Talk 2

Fat Girls

Imagine Me & You

Outing Riley

Loving Annabelle

Prom Queen

Kinky Boots



Local (Indianapolis) LGBT bookstore:

Out Word Bound

Books, DVDs, cards, magazines, and community information

625 N. East St.

Indianapolis, IN 46202

317-951-9100

office@outwordbound.com



Gay and Lesbian Religious Organizations

(much of this information taken from the Liberty Education Forum’s web site)

Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists (AWAB); www.bpfna.org/

Dignity USA; www.dignityusa.org/ Through their national organization and many local chapters, Dignity works for education, for the reform of the Roman Catholic Church's teachings and pastoral practices toward sexual minorities, and for the acceptance of all people as full members of the Church.

Emergence International, www.emergence-international.org/, is a world-wide community of Christian Scientists, their families and friends providing spiritual and educational support for LGBT people.

Evangelicals Concerned, www.ecinc.org/, is the national network of gay and lesbian evangelical Christians and friends.

Gay, Lesbian and Affirming Disciples Alliance, www.gladalliance.org GLAD’s mission is to be a safe and faithful place for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Affirming community. Relying on Holy Spirit, we speak truth to power, advocating for inclusivity, diversity, and justice in all manifestations of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

Integrity, www.integrityusa.org, is a nonprofit organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Episcopalians and their straight friends.

The Interfaith Alliance, www.interfaithalliance.org/. Founded in 1994 by a diverse group of religious leaders, The Interfaith Alliance works to promote interfaith cooperation around shared religious values to strengthen the public's commitment to the American values of civic participation, freedom of religion, diversity, and civility in public discourse.

Keshet Ga’avah: www.glbtjews.org/. The World Congress of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Jews consists of around 50 member organizations in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Mexico, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The World Congress holds conferences and workshops representing the interests of lesbian, gay, bisexual, & transgender Jews around the world.

Lutherans Concerned North America, www.lcna.org, stands as a community of faith, modeling the gospel with the church and within the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered communities. They seek to employ the Gospel's principles of inclusiveness and justice, celebrating God's gifts of sexuality and diversity.

Lutheran Lesbian and Gay Ministries; www.elm.org/

Rainbow Baptists, www.rainbowbaptists.org, is a website providing support, information and advocacy for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer identified Baptists, their family and friends.

Seventh-day Adventist Kinship International (Kinship), www.sdakinship.org/, is a nonprofit support organization which ministers to the spiritual, emotional, social, and physical well-being of Seventh-day Adventist lesbian, gay men, bisexual, and trans-gendered individuals and their families and friends.

Soulforce, www.soulforce.org, is an interfaith movement committed to ending spiritual violence perpetuated by religious policies and teachings against gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people.

United Methodist Reconciling Ministries Network, www.rmnetwork.org/, is a national grassroots organization that exists to enable full participation of people of all sexual orientations and gender identities in the life of the United Methodist Church, both in policy and practice.

Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches: www.mccchurch.org. All are welcome in the Metropolitan Community Church; a worldwide fellowship of Christian churches with a special outreach to the world's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities.





Inclusive churches in Indiana

(These are member organizations of the Interfaith Coalition on Nondiscrimination and are just a sampling of the inclusive churches in the state):



Good web sites

Institute for Welcoming Resources: www.welcomingresources.org contains an authoritative listing of religious resources: books, articles, sermons, liturgies, songs, and films, needed to advocate on behalf of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons and IWR-produced worship resources, LGBT-affirming Bible study, transgender education, and other resources developed for local congregations


GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, is the leading national education organization focused on ensuring safe schools for all students. www.glsen.org


HRC, Human Rights Campaign, is the largest civil rights organization working to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans. www.hrc.org


Liberty Educational Forum is a non-partisan foundation that educates people about the importance of achieving freedom and fairness for gay and lesbian Americans. They publish an excellent pamphlet that compares being gay or lesbian to someone who is left-handed! www.libertyeducationforum.org/


PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays is a national organization with local chapters. It promotes the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons, their families and friends through support, to education, and advocacy. www.pflag.org


www.eskimo.com/~rmisaac/gayjews.html This site has many resources for gay and lesbian Jews. It includes many other related websites, email lists, and information on Judaism and homosexuality.


GLAD Alliance www.gladalliance.org/resources.html is a great list of books, links, and bible study curriculums





Books:

These books are on the topic of Sexuality and Religion:



Other non-fiction books that may be helpful:


LGBT fiction for teens and young adults:
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