How to Join PFLAG

PFLAG is an organization for parents, families and friends of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people. The organization was founded in 1972 by Jeanne Manford whose gay son was beaten during a gay rights protest. The police did nothing. Today, there are over 200,000 PFLAG members and supporters.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

1. Join PFLAG to support, educate and advocate for lesbians, gays, bisexual and transgendered people. PFLAG's mission is to promote health and well-being to these persons, their families and friends.
2. Celebrate diversity and help enlighten society to embrace and include everyone equally. Joining or supporting PFLAG helps realize this vision.
3. Support gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people, their friends and families by joining a local PFLAG organization. There are more than 500 local affiliates across the United States and abroad. PFLAG is not associated with any political or religious institutions.
4. Pay yearly dues to PFLAG to help fund local and other scholarship programs, education programs in schools and respond and help with harassment and bullying issues, lobbying programs in local and federal government, voting registration work and other local and national civil rights and legal programs. Yearly PFLAG dues are $15.00 for students or $35.00 per household.
5. Get involved. PFLAG helps promote the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people and their families by offering advocacy, education and support. PFLAG helps by offering support to cope with an adverse society, education to enlighten the public who is ill-informed about such matters, and PFLAG helps by advocating to end all discrimination and secure equal rights for everyone in the gay, lesbian and transgendered community.

Tips & Warnings

• PFLAG has a home page with PFLAG-Talk, a helpline, mailing list and chapter listings among other topics.