One of the most important aspects in the LGBT community is the ability to network with other services and organizations. Here are some similar services in North Carolina and around the U.S. that may be of interest: The Triangle Business and Professional Guild Human Rights Campaign North Carolina Pride Gay Work The Advocate, The national gay & lesbian news magazine The Gay Financial Network VolunteerMatch ACLU Gay and Lesbian Rights Gay People of African Decent A Powerful Essay... The Coming Out of a Lesbian's Mother Gay Stories-Coming Out Coming Out as Transgendered Gay Dads, Gay Fathers Greenville Area Queer Announcements (GVLAQUA) The GVLAQUA weekly calendar is sent out once per week unless otherwise specified. Join by going to http://www.egroups.com/subscribe/GVLAQUA/ Subscribers can send announcements to GVLAQUA@egroups.com. Non-subscribers can send announcements to rich@esn.net. UNCW PRIDE is a newsgroup for the Wilmington area and local events. St. Jude's MCC, the Men's Potluck, the newly formed Film Festival Committee, local Equality North Carolina events, and many other contributors are banding together to create a resource for people in Southeastern North Carolina to get information about local events. The address to subscribe is: http://www.egroups.com/subscribe/LGBTWilmingtonNews. Carolina Pride Newsletter (CPN) Established by The Front Page, CPN is a free e–mail newsletter. It provides local and regional news and events of interest to the lesbian and gay communities of the Carolinas. Primarily focused on the Triad (Greensboro, Winston-Salem, High Point), the Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill) and eastwards. For more information and to subscribe, go to http://www.egroups.com/group/carolinapride. Community Liasion Organization for Support Education and Reform (CLOSER) Our e–mail list keeps you informed of upcoming CLOSER programs and events or issues within the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered community. For more information, visit their webpage at http://hometown.aol.com/closermail/index/Main.html. Carolina Rainbow News, established in 1997 in Charlotte, is a free e–mail newsletter providing local, regional, and national news and events of interest to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community of the Carolinas and beyond. To subscribe, send a blank e–mail message to cm-subscribe@egroups.com AMITY ALLIES all postings to this list are expected to be courteous, respectful, supportive, constructive, and in good taste, as they aim to contribute to the community building and supportive intentions of this social group. Visit our website at http://www.amityallies.org, and our eGroups site at http://www.egroups.com/group/amityallies. For Triangle area resources, see JoEllen's GLBT Community Resource Directory