If you’re lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning, you are not alone. PFY is a safe place where you can make friends, have fun and get help if you need it.

PFY is for young people ages 13-20. Here’s some ways you can get involved:

Visit the Coffeehouse every week to meet people just like you

Click on our Event Calendar to see what's happening this month

Read the latest Queer Beans

Coming out as LGBT can be a tough road. If you’d like to talk to someone for information and support right now, you can click here and speak one-to-one with a counselor through our on-line counseling program. If you’d like to talk face-to-face with one of our staff, call (516) 679-9000 and you can set up an appointment. You can also check out our Staff Directory and e-mail questions to us.

For information, support, and resources, you can also follow our Program Leaders on any of the following sites:

                    

Queer Beans

Queer Beans is an LGBT youth-interest 'zine published quarterly by Pride for Youth's Peer Educators. It features local and national news stories, creative writing, Homoscopes and health information all from a youth perspective. Pick up your copy @ the Coffeehouse, or download it here!! (adobe acrobat required).

Public Service Announcements

Long Island Crisis Center has developed the following animated PSAs to bring information to the Long Island community about many different issues affecting young people today. By clicking on any of the following images you can find out important facts about these pertinent issues, view the animated clips, and be connected to a crisis-intervention counselor online RIGHT NOW by clicking here.

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Self-Injury Narrated by April Emerson/Stu Whelan	Suicide Narrated by Chris Collins	Domestic Violence Narrated by Jannelle Cortes
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HIV Narrated by Aundaray Guess	Coming Out Narrated by Aundaray Guess	Lesbian Narrated by April Emerson
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Resources

Here are some places where you can get information about coming out, sexuality and HIV on-line:

YouthResource: A youth-run site with questions/answers and postings related to LGBT youth.

Sexetc.org: Peer-to-peer information about many sexuality topics.