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SafeZone
The Safe Zone Project is a campus-wide program that offers a visible message of inclusion, affirmation, and support to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people in the university community. Seton Hill SafeZone members will display the SafeZone logo in their offices, syllabus, or email signatures to identify themselves to the LGBTQI community.
The following is a list of websites across the nation that address LGBTQI concerns. This list is not exhaustive and is only meant to be a starting point.
Advocate: www.advocate.com
Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere: www.colage.org
Gays & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation: www.glaad.org
Gay, Lesbian, & Straight Education Network: www.glsen.org
Gender Public Advocacy Coalition (Gender Pac):www.gpac.org
Human Rights Campaign (HRC): www.hrc.org
Lambda Legal Association: www.lambdalegal.org
National Association of LGBT community centers:www.lgbtcenters.org
National Center for Lesbian Rights:www.lambdalegal.org
National Consortium of Directors of GLBT Resources:www.lbgtcampus.org
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force: www.ngltf.org
National Transgender Advocacy Coalition:www.ntac.org
Out & Equal:www.outandequal.org
The Name Change Project:(free legal name change services to transgender people) namechange@transgenderlegal.org
Washington Blade:www.washingtonblade.com
How to change your Social Security records: https://secure.ssa.gov/apps10/poms.nsf/lnx/0110212200
How to change your passport: http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/passports/information/gender.html
How to change your immigration documentation: https://transequality.org/know-your-rights/immigration-documents
National Center for Transgender Equality: https://transequality.org/documents
Westmoreland LGBTQ Interfaith Network
Who We Are
The Westmoreland LGBTQ Interfaith Network is a collaborative of clergy, congregations and laity who support the following Ten Affirmations:
1. We celebrate the unity we create in the midst of our diversity.
2. We affirm the inherent beauty, worth and dignity of every LGBTQ and straight person.
3. There are many paths to the sacred. The spiritual paths of LGBTQ persons are among them.
4. The choice is not whether to be LGBTQ or straight, but whether or not to live an authentic life.
5. Coming out is a courageous and spiritual act.
6. Sexual expression is one of the many sacred ways that LGBTQ and straight adults can express the depth of love in their relationships.
7. We support each person's journey of integrating spirituality and sexuality, which leads to wholeness.
8. Marriage is a sacred union for people who are committed to each other without regard to gender. Love makes a family.
9. Spiritual leaders must take responsibility to lead, protect and affirm LGBTQ people: children, adults, and their families.
10. No one is free when others are oppressed.
Our Services
§ Provide resources of pastoral care in the form of supportive clergy and congregations.
§ Offer spiritual care in crisis situations involving issues of sexual and gender identity.
§ Serve as helpful resources in the coming out process.
§ Help with healing processes in family relationships and friendships impacted by issues of sexual and gender identity.
§ Provide referrals for persons suffering from addictions/depression/suicidal ideations resulting from sexual and gender identity issues.
§ Offer LGBTQ-affirming worship services throughout the Westmoreland area
§ Help in building self-esteem among LGBTQ persons.
§ Offer educational opportunities, resources and coping skills for dealing with bigotry, hatred, and ignorance in our society.
Our Goal
The Westmoreland LGBTQ Interfaith Network provides pastoral care to the LGBTQ community as well as concerned family and friends. As representatives of a variety of faith communities in Westmoreland County, we offer a message of affirmation and love for the many gifts the LGBTQ can share.
We reject the deep wounds and isolation some religious traditions offer the LGBTQ community, and we strive to nurture spiritual healing. We hope our compassionate voices will promote acceptance and healing in our religious institutions, our communities, our nation, and our world.
Our Mission
The Westmoreland LGBTQ Interfaith Network is a group of people who affirm the Spirituality of all Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and Questioning people and provide pastoral care and education on LGBTQ issues.
Visit us on Facebook or contact us through Persad Center’s
Community Safe Zone project
1-888-873-7723 x218
Sexual Orientation discrimination complaints should be directed to Keisha Jimmerson, Dean of Students and Diversity Officer, at jimmerson@setonhill.edu or 724-830-1089.
Sexual Orientation discrimination complaints should be directed to Keisha Jimmerson, Dean of Students and Diversity Officer, at jimmerson@setonhill.edu or 724-830-1089.
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