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Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays promotes the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered persons, their families and friends. This is done through: support, to cope with an adverse society; education, to enlighten an ill-informed public; and advocacy, to end discrimination and to secure equal civil rights. Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays provides opportunity for dialogue about sexual orientation and gender identity and acts to create a society that is healthy and respectful of human diversity.

Support Meetings & Events of Interest

3rd Wed
 

02/15/12
03/21/12
04/15/12

7-9pm

see bulletin board when you arrive for room location

The 1st Tuesday of the month meetings at the Center for Drug Free Living will be temporarily suspended. Please check here for updates.

For more information about the Support Meeting, call the helpline at (407) 236-9177 or contact us at pflagorlando@yahoo.com. 

Meetings are every 3rd Wednesday of the month at First United Methodist Church is located at 142 E Jackson St. Orlando, FL, 32801. View Map  6:15-7:15pm

Come early for parking and to navigate construction.

PFLAG and its affiliates, regardless of location, are non-sectarian, non-denominational, and not affiliated with any religious institution.

Sunday

03/25/12

8am

PFLAG proudly participates in the Adopt-a-Highway program in the city of Orlando by picking up litter along a strip of E. Colonial in Orlando.  A sign for PFLAG is prominently displayed.

Volunteers Needed!

It's a great family activity teaching community values.  Please bring your children!

Best Buy
4597 E. Colonial Drive
Orlando, FL 32803 View Map

Bring water, gloves and any trash picking type sticks. We go out to breakfast afterwards compliments of PFLAG at TooJay's 2400 East Colonial Drive, Orlando, FL

Contact pflagorlando@yahoo.com

Your Personal Story is Needed!

Mayor Teresa Jacobs announced on Monday that she would not support a Domestic Partnership (DP) Registry for Orange County!

Please help save the Orange County Domestic Partnership Registry!!!  Your story sent to Mayor Jacobs and the County Commissioners  (it may be through the Commissioners that this can truly be accomplished!) will let them know just how many people care deeply about the inequities currently in place and the negative impact on families and our community at large!  Your story can give them the impetus to make a Domestic Partner Registry a reality!

Making this "personal" will make a huge impact. You may use the same email to send to Mayor Jacobs and cc the commissioners.  PFLAG can make a difference by each of us sending a letter - 100 letters from PFLAG and friends on our email list!

If you do not live in Orange County, you would like anyone from the LGBT community to have their families recognized in time of emergencies, etc.  If you do live in Orange County, you are her (their) constituent.  Let them know.

 Forward this information to anyone you know.  Come on PFLAG Let's Get Loud!

 
Please take time now to email them at:

Teresa.jacobs@ocfl.net
fred.brummer@ocfl.net
scott.boyd@ocfl.net
johnmartinez@ocfl.net
Jennifer.thompson@ocfl.net
ted.edwards@ocfl.net
tiffany.moore-russell@ocfl.net

Or, write them at:
  201 S. Rosalind Ave., 5th Floor
  Orlando, FL  32801

There are also two petitions online you can sign and add your personal story if you like:

http:/www.ipetitions.com/petition/oc-domestic-partner-registry/
http://eqfl.org/orangecounty

A Domestic Partner Registry would:

• provide legal recognition of families - this includes not only gay and lesbian families, but also unmarried heterosexual couples.
• provide inherent legal rights,  as opposed to documents that are often not honored at the time of need.

Specifically a Domestic Partner Registry would:

 

1. Allow Health Care Facility Visitation (in hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, surgical centers, etc., within the county)
2. Health Care Decisions (the authority to make medical decisions for an incapacitated partner)
3. Funeral/Burial Decisions
4. Correctional Facility Visitation
5. Notification of Family Members (mandatory or permissible notification during emergency situations)
6. Pre-need Guardian Designation (the right to be designated as guardian for a partner, or a partner's child)
7. Participation in Education (including the right to pick up their child after school!)

When businesses are considering locating in our area, it can be difficult to make a case for employees to move here. Getting on a plane in Portland, they have legal family rights.  When they get off the plane in Orlando, these legal rights no longer exist!

Thank You for taking time to make a difference!!
 

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