Talk:List of LGBT rights organizations

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To be included on this stand-alone list, each entry should meet the following list criteria:

Per common list selection criterion #1, every entry should meet the notability criteria for its own article in the English Wikipedia.

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A picky point. I can certainly understand why gay rights folks would NOT want NAMBLA on this page. But the unfortunate fact is that NAMBLA is a "gay organization" by definition (man/boy). The category is unfortunately titled "gay organizations" not "gay rights organizations" or "gay organizations acceptable to the majority of gay people".

I would suggest that perhaps the entry should be renamed to be a list of "gay rights" organizations, or the addition of a caveat about consenting adults, or something of that nature so there is a valid reason to keep NAMBLA off the list or shuffle it off to a list that better fits it.

Well, the first sentence ends with " .. which have made contributions to the gay community and the process of gay rights." Groups such as NAMBLA have been used to discredit the gay community on the basis that they were portrayed as a bunch of child molesters, looking for children to "recruit". Furthermore, the term "homosexuality" is not generally understood to include "the desire to seek sexual relationships with minors of the same gender". That is why there is a separate term, pederasty, for this sexual orientation. Similarly, a man attracted to young girls would not be simply described as a heterosexual, but as a pedophile, or a heterosexual pedophile -- the interest towards partners of a much younger age is so specific (and much differently perceived) that it cannot be included in a single common designation.—Eloquence 02:56, Aug 12, 2003 (UTC)

I merely suggested that it might be a good idea to make the distinctions you just made a bit clearer on the page. Even the addition of something like "mainstream organizations that have...." would help clarify the situation. Just a suggestion.

It's a thorny issue, really. The article is not necessarily about mainstream groups, but it should also not sound like a Monty Python sketch: "This is a list of gay organizations. And they don't have anything to do with buggering children or animals, honest."—Eloquence 03:39, Aug 12, 2003 (UTC)

Sorry, Eloquence, I meant to creat a page about gay rights organizations or something like that, I don't know much about that in America ( what is NAMBLA? ). See, I am from China, and I just want to put all the gay organizations together, hmm... gay organizations or something like that, you know, there is not a single one in China, so in fact, I don't know exactly what they are. The idea of creating this page came into my mind when I read gay rights, I think there should be a lot abroad! About the sentence you mentioned above, just forgive my poor English! ( I hope you can understand this discussion :p ) If you think this page is not appropriate, just delete it, or move it or improve it, thanks! --Gboy 17:21, 12 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Anyone knows anything about the gay-rights organizations in Hong Kong if there is any? --Yacht 11:09, Feb 29, 2004 (UTC)

Deletion[edit]

The article List of transgender-support organizations was recently deleted, and now List of transgender-rights organizations is up for deletion. Please weigh in on the discussion there, as the outcome will inevitably set a precendent for this article as well. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of transgender-rights organizations. ntennis 23:34, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Update: the List of transgender-support organizations deletion discussion has been re-opened. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of transgender-support organizations. ntennis 02:39, 4 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pruning[edit]

I have pruned this bloated and indiscriminate list:

As this ought to be a list of noteworthy LGBT rights organizations, I have removed all redlinked entries. Feel free to restore any of these once they are demonstrated to be sufficiently noteworthy to merit an article (See Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)).
I have also removed all the external links in accordance with Wikipedia:External links, which states that "links to web pages outside Wikipedia ... should not normally be used in the body of an article."
I have removed organizations not principally known as LGBT rights organizations, like the American Medical Association.

I have been guided by Wikipedia:Verifiability, WP:NOTDIRECTORY, WP:NOTPROMOTION, Wikipedia:External links, Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies) and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (stand-alone lists)#Common selection criteria in deciding what to remove. -- Rrburke (talk) 18:36, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

New Organization ready for a page UN LGBTI CORE GROUP[edit]

The United Nations LGBTI Core Group is referred to both in the OUTRIGHT INT'L's article and in LGBT Rights in the UN article. SHOULD IT BE ON THIS LIST? Mrphilip (talk) 06:19, 19 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Generally speaking, each entry on a Wikipedia list should have its own Wikipedia article. If you look at this list, you'll see that all of the entries are blue links, not red, which means each has an article of its own. It may well be that the organization you mention meets notability guidelines (see WP:NOTABLE and WP:ORG), in which case one would ideally write the article first before trying to list it here. Rivertorch^FIRE_WATER 13:39, 19 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Freedom and acceptance[edit]

Is been long bumpy road since I understood that ostracizing people of same sex behaviors is very wrong. Arinze Goodman (talk) 11:54, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]