PFLAG
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PFLAG is an LGBTQ advocacy organization founded and led by friends and family of LGBTQ people. PFLAG is a national organization presiding over decentralized local and regional chapters. PFLAG has over 360 chapters across the United States, with more than 550,000 members and supporters.
Key facts
- Organization.name
- PFLAG National
- Organization.formation
- March 11, 1973
- Organization.founder
- Jeanne Manford
- Organization.founding_location
- New York City, US
- Organization.area_served
- United States
- Organization.focus
- LGBTQ activism
- Organization.headquarters
- Washington, D.C.
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Programs
- Campaigns
- Advocacy work
- List of presidents
- Outside the United States
- Other organizations
- References
- Footnotes
- Bibliography
- External links
PFLAG is an LGBTQ advocacy organization founded and led by friends and family of LGBTQ people. PFLAG is a national organization presiding over decentralized local and regional chapters. PFLAG has over 360 chapters across the United States, with more than 550,000 members and supporters.
PFLAG (pronounced ) was originally an acronym, standing for Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (later broadened to Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays). Until 1993, the name was hyphenated as P-FLAG. In 2014, the organization's members voted to make PFLAG the group's only official name and drop the phrase for which it previously stood, citing wider advocacy for groups beyond homosexual people.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “PFLAG” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.