APPENDIX NINE - A

RELATED ORGANISATIONS AND WEB SITES

Provincial Gay and Lesbian Contact Line - "Prideline BC"
Phone: 1.800.566.1170
Line access Monday to Saturday 1pm - 4pm: Monday, Wednesday and Friday 7pm - 10pm. Other times message service available. Access to services and resources in designated areas.

PFAME (Pacific Foundation for the Advancement of Minority Equality)
The Centre, 1170 Bute Street, Vancouver, BC, V6E 1Z6
Phone: 604.684.5307
Administers The Centre, sponsors a variety of programs, services.

The Centre: A Community Centre Serving and Supporting Lesbian, Gay, Transgendered and Bisexual People and their Allies
1170 Bute Street, Vancouver, BC, V6E 1Z
Phone: 604.684.5307 Fax: 604.684.5309
Help line: 604.684.6869 7pm-10pm all week
Email: thecentre@intergate.bc.ca
Web: www.intergate.bc.ca\business\thecentre
Drop in, library services, advocacy, health clinic, support, counselling

YOUTH SPECIFIC

Gab Youth Services at the Centre
1170 Bute Street, Vancouver, BC, V6E 1Z6
Phone: 604.684.4901 Fax: 604.5309 Toll Free: 1.800.566.1170
(7pm-10pm)
Email: gabyouth@yahoo.ca
Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth groups, advocacy, support, networking and safe social space.

Asian Gab Phone: 604.669.5567
Email: asiangab@yahoo.com
Support for LGBT and questioning Asian youth

Love Knows No Gender
Contact: Becky Phone: 250.562.6253 Fax: 250.562.4253
Email: lkngyouth@hotmail.com
Web: www.geocities.com/westhollywood/village/4651
Love Knows No Gender: a social support group for Prince George and area Gay/Les/Bi youth and young adults to come "out" and chat...discuss issues pertaining to gay youth, or meet a new friend. Proudly Presented By Gala North.

BC Rural Queer Youth Contact
Powell River - queer youth contact in Powell River
Contact: Daniel Cunningham
Phone: 250.485.2721

BC Rural Queer Youth Contact
Squamish: no group but local youth centre willing to offer support
Contact: 604.892.2207

Rainbow Y
Kelowna queer youth support group.
Address: c/o OUCSAK . 3333 College Way, Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7
Contact: Sharisse Simpkins
Tel: 250.470.6067 Fax: 250.491.1083
Email: rainbowy_ouc@hotmail.com
In early September of 1997, the Association for Social Knowledge at Okanagan University College created a new youth arm to deal with the growing concern over the position of GLBT teens in Kelowna and coming out in what many consider a hostile environment (such as high school). Rainbow Y meets monthly for "coffee with a purpose" in an effort to establish a social support group for queer youth up to age 25.

Kamloops Gay and Lesbian Centre
Address: 433.Lansdowne Street, Kamloops, BC Tel: 250.372.7585 Fax: 250.374.1147 Email: safespaces@mailcity.com
Web: www.safepaces.org
Safe Spaces is a youth based program that celebrates gay/lesbian/bisexual/2 spirited youth in Kamloops and the surrounding regions. We provide a safe space for youth to gather together and provide info on G/L/BI/2SP issues. Safe Spaces also provides a resource and information exchange, gay, lesbian, bisexual and two-spirited drop-in program, crisis intervention and direct support, an outreach program and awareness and sensitivity training. Their web site contains many LGBT youth positive links.

Love Knows No Gender2
Address: Victoria St., Kamloops, BC
Contact: Brian or Heather
Email: lkngyouth2@hotmail.com
Web: www.geocities.com/westhollywood/village/465
This is a youth group for gay/les/bi/trans youth under the age of 25. No phone number yet, but call A.S.K. (AIDS Society of Kamloops) and you can leave a message there. They offer peer counselling and suicide prevention, resources and referrals.

Youthquest!
Address: 12424 Harris Road, Pitt Meadows, BC V3Y 2J4
Contact: Address all correspondence to Office Manager.
Phone: 604.460.9115 Fax: 604.460.9116 Toll Free: 1.877.944.6293
Email: yqinfo@youthquest.bc.ca
Web: www.youthquest.bc.ca
Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth groups, advocacy, support, networking and safe social space. See below for information on drop-ins throughout BC.
Nanaimo: Phone: 250.754.0665
Port Alberni: Phone: 250.723.6292 Contact Antonia Email: anotonia@pop.alberni.net
Victoria (VYPS): Phone: 250.413.3177

YouthQuest! has drop-in groups throughout BC as well as links to other queer youth specific groups. They have a growing list of groups in the following locations:
Abbotsford
Coquitlam - Creating Our Own (girls 11-15)
Delta
Vancouver - GRRRLquest! (wimmin's program)
Langley
Nanaimo
New Westminster
Port Alberni
Port Moody
Surrey
White Rock

Eastside Youth Drop-in
Britannia Community Centre
1661 Napier Street, Vancouver, BC, V5L 4X4
Phone: 604.253.4391 or 604.876.6694
Queerlings - A support group for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered youth 15 - 24. Access and support information, activity and discussion groups

Inside Out
609 Helmeken Street, Vancouver, BC, V6B 5R1
Phone: 604.665.2391
Drop in, as well as support and information, for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered street youth.

YouthCo Aids Society
240-440 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC, V6B 1L1
Phone: 604.688.1441
Web: www.YouthCo.org
A peer-driven organization that strives to enable youth from all communities to address youth issues concerning HIV/AIDS, by acting as a resource and facilitator for educational initiatives and support services. Youth for youth organization providing education and support on HIV/AIDS issues

Victoria Youth Pride Society (VYPS)
For information call 250.413.3177 or contact them through the UVIC - LGBA, ask for VYPS or write c/o Fairfield Community Place - 1330 Fairfield Road, Victoria BC . V8S 5J1
Phone: 250.472.4393 Fax: 250.382.4613
Email: VYPS@writeme.com or try members.home.net/vyps
Peer support, safe social space for gay and lesbian youth (a YouthQuest! Affiliate). VYPS also does public speaking. VYPS meets several times a week in different locations throughout Victoria.

Pride House
Pride Care Society,
206-2328 Oxford St., Vancouver BC, V5L 1G3
Phone: 604.254.6416
Email: pridehouse@pacificcoast.net
Web: www.pacificcoast.net/~pridehouse
Pride House is an initiative of Pride Care Society - a registered non-profit society - intending to house LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and Questioning) youth aged 15-20 years. We intend to provide services to approximately 5 to 8 youths who may be homeless or have issues with drugs, suicide, prostitution, and AIDS etc.

Two-Spirit Youth Group
1058 Seymour Street, Vancouver, British Columbia
Phone: 604.254.7746
Email: kirkd@direct.ca or glerat@unya.bc.ca
Support group for queer Native youth. The facilitators are also available for some one-to-one counselling. This project started in September 1997 and is a joint project of Family Services of Greater Vancouver and Urban Native Youth Association.

FTM Etc.
Phone: 604.254.7292
Email: bcftmnet@hotmail.com
Peer-run FTM (Female to Male Transgender Persons) group, including youth support and discussion group for persons who are questioning whether their physical and psychological genders match..

Vancouver Japanese Canadian Youth (VJCY)
Web: www.multinova.com/vjcy/

Outreach
Web: www.also.org.au/outreach
A site for lesbian, gay, bisexual youth in Australia.

Oasis
Web: www.oasismag.com
An online magazine for gay, lesbian, bisexual and questioning youth.

Blair
Web: www.blairmag.com
An ezine for queer youth.

Elight
Web: www.elight.org
A youth ezine for the Web created by and for lesbigay youth.

Youth Assistance Organization (or Youth Action Online)
Web: www.youth.org
A safe space online for self-identifying gay, lesbian, bisexual and questioning youth. Youth Org also produces and posts on their web site insideOUT.

The Essential Queer Youth Magazine
Youth can also find, Elight, Oasis and Blair on this site.
Web: www.bi.org/db/youth.html
This website provides links to other web pages, support to GLBT youth and is Canadian based.

Egal
Web: www.belin.qc.ca/regie/legroupegr.html
A support group for youth in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec.

Projet Jeunesse Idem
Web: www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/1453
A support group for youth in the Outaouais region of Quebec.

Jeunesse Lambda, Montreal
Web: www.kiosque.com/lambda
A francophone community based service for gay, lesbian and bisexual youth.

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