Resources

For more information on how you can help Interactive Male continue the fight for marriage equality, please visit and support these important organizations.

California

Asian Pacific Islanders for Equality
API Equality is a San Francisco-based California group committed to obtaining equal marriage rights for LGBT couples. API Equality is an informal coalition of organizations. Member of "Equality For All".

Bienestar
Bienestar is a grass-roots, non-profit community service organization; a multi-service, multi-center agency in the Los Angeles, CA area services include drug and alcohol education and prevention, LGBT services and HIV/AIDS services. Member of "Equality For All".

California NOW (National Organization for Women)
In 1999 the NOW Foundation held the Lesbian Rights Summit in conjunction with over 100 various co-sponsors, drawing over 800 participants to Washington DC. Previously, NOW held National Conferences in 1984 and 1988 specifically addressing lesbian rights. Annually, NOW's membership takes action in support of National Coming Out Day in October, as well as Freedom to Marry Day in February. While it is a multi-issue organization, NOW is large enough to have an equal amount of impact in the area of lesbian rights as many other organizations founded solely for that purpose. Public supporter of marriage equality; member of "Equality For All".

California State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people (CA-NAACP)
The California unit of the NAACP endorsed the issue of marriage equality in 2005. Our goal is to provide you with timely information regarding the status of civil rights in California and the nation. The California NAACP is committed to equality and justice for all. Your oldest and most effective civil rights organization in the country will continue the fight for freedom until all people have realized the equal hand of justice.

Courage to Love Institute
The Courage to Love Institute, located in San Francisco, CA provides a program focused on building healthy personal relationships, as well as, Shades of Relating, a program focused on organizational development within our culturally diverse world.

Equality for All Campaign
Equality for All is leading the fight against the proponents of discrimination who tried to get a constitutional amendment on the ballot in 2006 to prevent same-sex marriage. We will continue to lead the fight against proposed constitutional amendments in California in the future. We are a growing coalition of LGBT and civil rights organizations, labor and business, straight and gay, coming together NOW to beat such initiatives.

Health Initiatives for Youth
HIFY is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA the organization exists to improve the health and well-being of young people by empowering them through education, advocacy and leadership opportunities.

Marriage Equality USA-California chapter
A network of Marriage Equality USA chapters throughout the state of California working at the grassroots level to secure the freedom and the right of same-sex couples to enter into legally-recognized civil marriage.

New Leaf: Services For Our Community
New Leaf is the nonprofit multi-purpose counseling center for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities of San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area.

Project 10
Project 10 is a Los Angeles Unified School District (Southern California) program that offers technical and educational support to schools and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students.

Connecticut

Love Makes a Family (LMF)
A statewide coalition of organizations and individuals working to expand Connecticut's marriage laws to include same-gender couples.

Hawaii

Hawaii Gay Marriage Bureau
Provides a registration, referral and informational forum for those interested in same-sex marriage registration, marriage certificates, related services and updates on the legal front.

Kentucky

Kentucky Equality Federation
Kentucky Equality Federation is Kentucky's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights and advocacy organization. Kentucky Equality leads efforts for LGBT civil rights at the state level through an array of strategies to bring equality and fairness to Kentucky.

Marriage Equality Kentucky
Marriage Equality Kentucky ("MEKY") is a grassroots movement that seeks legal recognition of same-sex couples through civil marriage in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Massachusetts

Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAAD)
New England's leading legal rights organization dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation, HIV status and gender identity and expression.

The Freedom to Marry Collation of Massachusetts
Engages in grassroots education, advocacy, and lobbying in support of civil marriage rights for same-sex couples.

The Massachusetts Campaign for Equality (aka MassEquality)
A coalition of many religious, civic, business, labor and civil rights leaders and organizations that have joined together to stand up for equality.

Norwood-Walpole Citizens for All Families
Supporting all families, traditional and non-traditional.

New Hampshire

New Hampshire Freedom to Marry
Providing the grassroots effort and support necessary to successfully advocate for and pass legislation that will grant same-sex couples the legal right to marry in New Hampshire.

New York

Civil Rights 4 All
We advocate for same sex marriage and work towards ensuring marriage equality for all couples. Another goal is to illustrate the blatant inadequacies between civil unions and domestic partnerships when compared to the rights afforded to married couples. We strongly support the separation of church and state, especially to ensure that religious beliefs do not dictate our civil laws.

Marriage Equality New York (MENY)
Marriage Equality New York is a grass-roots organization committed to ending discrimination in civil marriage.

The Wedding Party
A coalition that supports same-sex commitment and equal marriage rights.

Ohio

Marriage Equality USA- Central Ohio
The Central Ohio chapter of Marriage Equality USA, is a Columbus based, grass-roots chapter committed to ending discrimination in civil marriage.

Oregon

Love Makes a Family
Working for social change to create a supportive environment within our communities and to provide a public voice for all families, especially those subjected to social, economic, and legal discrimination due to sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.

Pennsylvania

Marriage Equality USA- Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania chapter of Marriage Equality USA, is at this time a Pittsburgh based, grass-roots chapter committed to ending discrimination in civil marriage.

Center for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights
The center advocates equality for LGBT Pennsylvanians through direct legal services, education and policy reform.

Vermont

Vermont Freedom to Marry Action Committee
A lobbying organization dedicated to protecting the civil union law from repeal or undermining changes.

Vermont Freedom to Marry Task Force
The core values that unite VFMTF are the beliefs that gay and lesbian Vermonters should have the same legal choices as our heterosexual counterparts, and that laws which treat us and our relationships as second class denigrate all of us, regardless of our desire to marry.

Washington

Gay Into Straight America
Two women and a poodle on a one-year mission to transform themselves and the world, one person at a time! Engaging hearts & minds...creating authentic connections...dissolving differences that separate us.

Straight Into Gay America
Pastor Lars Clausen unicycled 1000 miles to show that queer is normal. On his equal rights journey he visited hundereds of LGBT and Straight people who yearn for an American united by equality.

Legal Marriage Alliance of Washington
A nonprofit organization educating the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered community and the general public on how to advance the civil right of same-sex couples to legal marriage.

Marriage Equality Now
Marriage Equality Now is a Seattle based grassroots organization, focused on educating, mobilizing, and advocating for marriage equality at the state and federal level for all couples.

Wisconsin

A Fair Wisconsin
Fair Wisconsin Action Networks are local organizing committees comprised of community members who educate their communities about the upcoming ban on Civil Unions and Same-Sex Marriage in Wisconsin.

Canada

Canadians for Equal Marriage
Canadians for Equal Marriage is a nation-wide, bilingual campaign made up of individuals and organizations from all walks of Canadian life. Their priority is to persuade MPs to oppose any measures to take away equal marriage by channeling grass-roots web-based lobbying, directly lobbying MPs, and encouraging gay and non-gay organizations and individuals to speak out.