National Treasury Employee's Union - Employees at DOE headquarters and some field sites are represented by NTEU. NTEU works with DOE GLOBE to foster workplace diversity.
Chapter 228 Office, DOE Headquarters, Germantown - (301) 903-3029
Chapter 213, President, Ellis H. Maupin, Washington D.C. - (202) 586-6178
DOE's Office of Economic Impact and Diversity - The office's mission is to devise and lead diversity strategies that will ensure full participation of all employees and to create full partnerships with small and disadvantaged businesses and minority educational institutions. The office also provides oversight to the Secretary's Diversity Council, which works to promote excellence and equality in the Department's workforce, thereby creating and maintaining a positive work environment; to eliminate unlawful discrimination; to achieve equal opportunity and affirmative action; and to reflect and value at all levels, in all activities, and among all its contractors the diversity of American society.
Gay Organizations at other Government Agencies
Internal Revenue Service GLOBE - tax information provided by the Seattle District Office of the Internal Revenue Service through the auspices of its employee chapter of GLOBE (Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Employees)
Justice Pride - employee's organization at the Department of Justice.
NIH GLEF - National Institutes of Health Gay and Lesbian Employees Forum
Family and Youth Related Organizations
Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) - A National Support, Education and Advocacy Organization Celebrating Family and Its Diversity. From one family's pain and anger over a brutal hate crime against their gay son has grown a vibrant national family-based organization - PFLAG. Founded in 1981, PFLAG has become one of the most respected and effective grassroots organizations in the United States. Today, PFLAG represents more than 56,000 families - and speaks for countless others - concerned about society's attitudes toward their gay, lesbian and bisexual loved ones.
Youth Assistance Organization, Youth Action Online - a service, run by volunteers, created to help self-identifying gay, lesbian, bisexual and questioning youth. YAO exists to provide young people with a safe space online to be themselves. This organization was formed to provide for the needs of queer youth; the need for a rare opportunity to express themselves, to know they are not alone, and to interact with others who have already accepted their sexuality.
