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Joan Dressen, co-founder of first Minneapolis chapter of PFLAG and champion of LGBTQ rights, dies at 86
After Joan Dressen learned her son was gay in the early 1980s, she immediately started looking for resources and support for her child and her family.
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Boy Scouts of America Delay Decision On National Policy Change on Inclusiveness
PFLAG National Urges BSA Leadership to use this time to meet with PFLAG parents and their children, educate themselves on the need for inclusiveness.
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PFLAG National Statement on the Passing of Founder Jeanne Manford
Jeanne Manford, founder of PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) and mother of modern-day straight ally movement dies at 92.
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The Newly Updated Guide Is Released as a Growing Chorus of Straight Supporters Is Standing Up for LGBT Equality
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, and its Coming Out Project, in partnership with PFLAG National (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), the original family and ally organization, and its Straight for Equality project, today released a comprehensive update of Coming Out as a Straight Supporter.
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PFLAG National Mourns the Death of Former President Elinor Lewallen
Lewallen, 93, was a longtime champion of Civil Rights for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People – a civil rights pioneer at the local, state and national levels.