Youth & Families

The Trevor Project operates the only nationwide, around-the-clock suicide prevention helpline for gay and questioning youth. Every day, The Trevor Project saves lives though its free and confidential helpline, its website and its educational services.

The Trevor Project operates the only nationwide, around-the-clock suicide prevention helpline for gay and questioning youth. Every day, The Trevor Project saves lives though its free and confidential helpline, its website and its educational services.

The Trevor Project operates the only nationwide, around-the-clock suicide prevention helpline for gay and questioning youth. Every day, The Trevor Project saves lives though its free and confidential helpline, its website and its educational services.

The Trevor Project operates the only nationwide, around-the-clock suicide prevention helpline for gay and questioning youth. Every day, The Trevor Project saves lives though its free and confidential helpline, its website and its educational services.

Since
1988, Rise n' Shine, has been providing emotional support programs,
stability, advocacy, and AIDS education for children and teens affected by
HIV and AIDS. 
This includes children and teens
who have been orphaned by the disease, children and teens who live with a 
parent or other close family member with HIV or AIDS, and those who are
infected themselves.

Lambert House is a safe place for queer youth ages 22 and under. Our calendar is packed with
fun activities, support groups, planning meetings, dances, and other events.
We are here to make life better for each other as GLBTQ youth.

Come see what we are all about! We are located at 1818 15th Ave on Capitol
Hill in Seattle (between E Howell & E Denny Way).
Click here for map.
Metro Buses 8, 10, and 43 stop nearby. The drop-in center is open Mon-Sat
4-9:30.

Everyday, approximately 25 youth visit us. The drop-in center has a full
kitchen, living room with a pool table; and a stereo for tunes, a library with
queer books, TV, games, and people to talk with about anything.

You might be surprised how easy it can be to meet
someone going through the same things you are!

You can join a support group, come to a once-a-month Girls Nite, Trans Nite or Boys Nite, talk to a counselor, use our computer lab, get dinner, shoot pool, play games or whatever you want to do.
Also, check out our
calendar for more detailed info.

Camp Ten Trees (CTT) is an overnight summer camp located in Washington State. It features one week for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth and their allies, and one week for the children of LGBTQ and/or non-traditional families. It is a place for diverse youth who share common experiences to come together and form a community that is truly their own. In addition to typical camp activities, campers will engage in age-appropriate workshops centered around diversity, homophobia, identity, and youth coalition building.

CTT is a fiscally-sponsored project of the Seattle LGBT Community Center/Queen City Community Development, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Donations, grants, and other contributions allow Camp Ten Trees to maintain acessibility and low cost for our youth. We appreciate any donations either financial or in-kind. To make a tax-deductible donation, or to find out more about how you can
help CTT, click here

Camp Ten Trees was founded in 2000 by four Co-Directors and offered its first summer camp in August 2001 with 20 campers. We have recently grown to over 200 campers and continue to grow year after year. Camp Ten Trees was the first of its kind in the world and is the only summer camp of its kind in the United States.

Founded as a local group in 1990, the Gay and Lesbian Independent School Teachers Network (GLSTN) began as a volunteer group of 70 gay and lesbian educators. At that time, there were two Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) in the nation, only one state with policy in place to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students, and a general lack of awareness of the needs of LGBT students. LGBT youth did not have a voice in the education community or in the LGBT movement. There were few, if any, resources available for teachers to discuss LGBT issues.

However, groups of concerned individuals began to establish chapters across the country, advocating locally and regionally for safe schools for students who were, or were perceived to be, LGBT.

In 1995 GLSTN became a national organization and hired its first full time staff person, GLSTN’s founder and Executive Director Kevin Jennings. In 1997, GLSTN staged its first national conference in Salt Lake City, UT to respond to the legislature’s move to ban all student groups in an effort to prevent the formation of GSAs in the state. It is also this year that GLSTN changes its name to the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, or GLSEN, in order to attract new members to the struggle for safe schools for all students, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/ expression.

Currently, GLSEN has registered more than 3,500 GSAs, has approximately 40 full time staff, a governing board of 20 members and two advisory committees at the national level. At this point GLSEN has successfully hosted 8 national conferences to bring together student leaders, educators, chapter leaders and activists. GLSEN also sponsors the National Day of Silence, which close to millions of students, teachers, and staff have been a part of at thousands of school campuses across the country. GLSEN’s newest national project is National No Name Calling Week. In coalition with leading education organizations, including the National Education Association and the National Middle School Association, GLSEN is proud to be a part of an event geared toward educating middle school students about the negative impact of bullying and harassment.

The mission of Diverse Harmony, a gay/straight alliance youth chorus, is to create a safe, affirming environment where everyone is accepted for who they are. We use our passion and the power of music to inspire the celebration of differences in our homes, community and world.

Our guiding values are:

• Musical excellence
• Fun and friendship Safety and support for being true self
• Inclusiveness
• Courage
• Self-responsibility
• Community service

We proudly invite all gay, lesbian, straight, bisexual and trans-gendered youth (ages 13-22) to participate in a choral community of their own.