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Social Organizations
New Mexico Outdoors (NMO) - Social Networking and Fun
Check the calendar on Common Bond's web site for NMO events.
The Wilde Bunch - Square Dancing
Dance... We move to the music... all kinds of music.
Game... It's realtime puzzle solving, with the caller making sure we win.
Team Sport... You can't do this by yourself; it's you and seven other dancers playing together.
Exercise... At the end of an evening's dancing, you'll have moved several miles. It sure beats a treadmill!
Social Activity... Because square dancers "do it" in groups of 8, we tend to be friendly folk.
Community... We're a community of dancers, and we're part of larger communities... our own local gay and lesbian community and the worldwide community of gay and lesbian square dancers.
Lifestyle... Life is short, so we dance hard.
Fun... Participation in group smiling, laughter, and hugs required! (from the Wilde Bunch Web site)
ABQWomen
This is a Yahoo group devoted to helping develop community spirit and encourage the celebration of women and their work by disseminating information throughout the New Mexico women's community. Topics include political announcements, event announcements, spaces for rent and roommates needed, things for sale, and job posting, and anything else that may be of interest to the women's community in Albuquerque and the surrounding areas. Additionally, ABQ Women members gather once a month and plan a variety of activities for the following month. Our activities include hiking, bowling, BBQs, backpacking, white water rafting, softball, networking for professional women, movie nights, etc...
Rainbow Roadrunners Car Club
Rainbow Roadrunners Car Club is dedicated to the enjoyment and pursuit of cars. Old cars, new cars, fancy cars, project cars, we love them all. Our members own from none to thirty cars, all enjoy driving, talking about, tinkering with or ogling cars. A few of our members can talk about the type of bolt used in a 57 Mercury Turnpike Cruiser suspension and some of us just know where the key goes... So come along and join us for some car fun.
Prime Timers of New Mexico
Prime Timers New Mexico was established as a chapter of Prime Timers Worldwide in January of 1998. It has developed into a dynamic organization of men who enjoy having fun together and who have become a close-knit, supportive “extended family.” It is composed of mature Gay and Bisexual men, and their admirers who share and enrich their lives through social, educational and recreational activities.
American Veterans for Equal Rights
New Mexico's Bataan Chapter of the American Veterans for Equal Rights (AVER) provides support and recognition for gay veterans and current service members from all services, Active, Reserve and Guard, their families, friends and anyone who supports them whether or not they are gay in Central New Mexico. Across America AVER and its chapters are dedicated to equal rights and treatment under the law for all gay, lesbian and bisexual service members and veterans of the active and reserve armed forces.
U21
The Under 21 Group meets every Friday evening from 7:00 to 9:30 at the Metropolitan Community Church of Albuquerque,1101 Texas NE, Albuquerque, NM. It is open to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, intersex, queer, and questioning youth under 21 and their allies under 21. This is a youth space. It is largely a social time with some planned events and sessions, such as arts & crafts, poetry, information on the community, films, dances, workshops, field trips, etc. There are trained adults there to facilitate the group and assist as needed.
United Court of the Sandias
The United Court of the Sandias, Inc. is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to increase education and awareness as to health and social issues, and to conduct charitable service projects which benefit legitimate charities and medical/educational/social service organizations within the State of New Mexico, the United States, and Internationally which serve members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and heterosexual populations.
New Mexico Leather League (NMLL)
The New Mexico Leather League was formalized as a membership organization in early 2006, the result of many open community meetings that followed the production of the Rio Grande Leather Weekend 2005. The League is intended to act as a resource network and community foundation, helping individuals to produce fun, educational and/or fundraising events of interest to the leather, BDSM, kink & fetish cultures of New Mexico.
New Mexico Leather Wolves
Formed in 2002 as an ad-hoc fellowship of New Mexican men into kink & fetish with other men, the Wolves formalized into a Leathermen's Fraternity in August of 2005. Leather Wolves are not about asserting the supremacy of any particular fetish or kinky activity over any other. Instead, we believe that sexuality expresses itself in many ways, each of which adds to the richness of human sexual experience. Sexual activity, especially when it pushes boundaries, explores trust and plays with the dynamics of power. It can teach us about our inner selves and can build strong bonds of brotherhood.
Sandia Bears
New Mexico Transaction
New Mexico Transaction provides a means for gender variant people such as transgender people and their friends/families to meet and participate together in activities such as shopping, going to movies, participating in outdoor activities i.e. hiking, biking, visiting art museums, the zoo, parks, dance studios etc. These will be non-alcohol events. People of any gender presentation or any gender identity who wish to become involved in outdoor group activities with gender variant people are invited to attend. Friends and families are welcome.
New Mexico Transgender Resource Center
TGRCNM is dedicated to serving the transgender community of the state of New Mexico and strives to exist as a clearing house for resources which can support, assist, educate, and advocate for the transgender population of this state and their families and loved ones. It provides social, educational, emotional, and functional support for all facets of transgender living and will promote mutual understanding, acceptance, and equality to achieve a more positive and healthy society.
TGRCNM has a TG Youth Group (18 and younger) that meets every Sunday night from 5:00 to 7:00 at 120 Morningside NE.
Sports Organizations
New Mexico Gay Rodeo Association
The New Mexico Gay Rodeo Association was established in 1984 as a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering the western lifestyle within the gay community. NMGRA also has a proud history of fundraising for charitable organizations within New Mexico. The New Mexico Gay Rodeo Association is a member of the International Gay Rodeo Association. In addition to regular membership meetings and social gatherings, NMGRA holds bi-monthly fundraisers in community venues.
Sunday Night Out
Sunday Night Out is An International Gay Bowling Organiztion affiliated gay league in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Support Organizations
New Mexico AIDS Services
New Mexico AIDS Services (NMAS) is a 501(c)3 non-profit community based organization whose mission is to enhance the quality of life for people and communities affected by HIV/AIDS through innovative and comprehensive services, support and prevention education.
MPower
STD Clinics, Testing & Prevention
NM Dept. of Health web site to STD info and providers of testing, treatment & eduction on STD's.
American Veterans for Equal Rights
New Mexico's Bataan Chapter of the American Veterans for Equal Rights (AVER) provides support and recognition for gay veterans and current service members from all services, Active, Reserve and Guard, their families, friends and anyone who supports them whether or not they are gay in Central New Mexico. Across America AVER and its chapters are dedicated to equal rights and treatment under the law for all gay, lesbian and bisexual service members and veterans of the active and reserve armed forces.
Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG Albuquerque)
Albuquerque Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) promotes the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered persons, their families and friends 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. "PFLAG provides the opportunity for dialogue about sexual orientation and gender identity and acts to create a society that is healthy and respectful of human diversity" (mission statement)
Stop Tobacco On My People (STOMP)
The Stop Tobacco On My People (STOMP) organization, funded through the NM Dept. of Health (Tobacco Use Prevention & Control Program), works to reduce the health disparities experienced by subpopulations that are targeted by tobacco and which use tobacco at higher rates, including the LGBTQ community.
S.U.R.E. Foundation - transgender support
The S. U. R. E. Foundation, is a Transgender Educational Consultation Practice which educates/assists those going through the process of Transition as well as their supporting partners, family, friends and work place environment.
