LGBTQ+ Resource List 

 

• https://rainbowguidebook.com/chapters/introduction/ : This guidebook is about understanding the lives and experiences of LGBTQ+ people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. LGBTQ+ self-advocates wrote this guidebook for supporters, such as family members and service providers, so that they can learn how we want to be treated and supported.

 

• https://www.wearemass.org/rainbow-group : Rainbow groups are groups for self-advocates who are members of both the intellectual and developmental disability community as well as the LGBTQ+ community. This group is on Zoom and is open to people from any region in MA and other states. Meetings are the last Tuesday of each month from 5:30-7:00pm.

 

• Here is a link to the sexual health chat line. It's a great place for people to ask a health educator questions and get support making a plan on how to take care of their needs. https://www.plannedparenthood.org/online-tools/chat

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• Spot-on is our period and birth-control tracking app meant to support people in taking care of their own reproductive health needs. The app is designed to be more gender neutral, accurate, and private compared to similar trackers. Learn more about it here.

 

• Survivor Support Services is a 24/7 program serving Chemung and Schuyler county (among others). They offer in-person and virtual services, including a 24-hour hotline at 866-307-4086.

 

• Roo is our 24/7 sexual health chatbot who can answer basic questions. Roo is a great way to ensure you are getting accurate information since it can be hard to sort through sources online.  https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/roo-sexual-health-chatbot

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• Planned Parenthood recently launched Project Shine, an online sex education website, featuring an interactive online game (Our Stories, Our Journeys: A Sexual Health Game) created for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and the people who support them. https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-greater-new-york/learn/community-programs/project-shine

 

• A Self-Advocate’s Guide to Gender Affirming Health Care:

  • Gender affirming health care is health care that helps someone feel more like their gender, and more comfortable in their body. Transgender and nonbinary people with intellectual and developmental disabilities deserve equal access to information about gender affirming health care. 

  • https://autisticadvocacy.org/resources/proud/?emci=ce38255f-ce34-ef11-86d2-6045bdd9e096&emdi=a0793362-1b37-ef11-86d2-6045bdd9e096&ceid=30788122#a-self-advocates-guide-to-gender-affirming-health-care

 

• Barriers to Gender Affirming Health Care Resource:

  • Many transgender and nonbinary people face barriers to getting gender affirming health care. Some of these barriers have existed for a long time, like rules about what you need to do to get gender affirming care. Other barriers are new, like new state laws that try to limit or ban gender affirming care. 

  • https://autisticadvocacy.org/resources/proud/?emci=ce38255f-ce34-ef11-86d2-6045bdd9e096&emdi=a0793362-1b37-ef11-86d2-6045bdd9e096&ceid=30788122#barriers-to-gender-affirming-health-care

 

• Autistic Self-Advocacy Network Video Sessions:

Advocacy 101: Legislative Advocacy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKGvz9qYV00

 

Advocacy 101: Building Organizing Communities

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2mJ-hJMqOM

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This group is formed in association with PrideAbility: a growing initiative, whose mission it is to expand LGBTQIA Advocacy across New York State, for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (ID/DD). 

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