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Our mission is building a positive identity among lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender individuals and creating social acceptance for them.
Our Association was established in 1997. We are a national organization, but most of our activities are based in the Warsaw area.
Our members are volunteers and professionals, who spend their time as volunteers, working in our projects.
Our statutory aims are:

• building a positive identity among lesbians and gays,
• promoting social tolerance for LGBT individuals,
• combating HIV/AIDS and STD's infections,
• combating discrimination, especially discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation.

Our mission is building a positive identity among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals and creating social acceptance for them.

Professionalism is an important issue for us. We already implemented the Volunteer's Ethical Code, we became members of the Polish Help-lines Association (PTPT), the Federation of Social Service Organizations Mazowia, the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA-Europe), the National Federation of Non-governmental Originations; we also signed and implemented the Non - governmental Chart of Rules of Service.

We are already implementing several programmes:

An Information and Support Centre , providing information and support to homosexual individuals and their relatives. The centre runs a help line for lesbians, gays and their relatives, support groups which help participants accept their or their relatives' sexuality (groups: for gays, for lesbians, for parents and relatives of lesbians and gays, and a new group for transsexual individuals); legal, medical and psychological counselling specialists holding bimonthly sessions; a library with a reading room providing homosexuality-related literature. 2,174 people used the centre in 2007.

Monitoring media activity in relation to discrimination on the grounds of sexual preference, information on anti-discriminatory laws. The association conducts a survey among homosexuals with regard to discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation. The research provides data for the publication of the Report on Discrimination and Intolerance on the grounds of Sexual Orientation.
As part of the program, the organisation monitors the press and the Internet for discrimination of lesbians and gays in the media, in the public sphere, discriminatory remarks made by politicians and by church representatives.
Volunteers of the association provide information with regard to anti-discriminatory laws in Poland and the European Union to all interested, and, in the pre-referendum period, organise seminars on the observance of gay and lesbian rights in the European Union.

An HIV/AIDS prevention programme "Safer Relationships" . As part of the programme, the organisation initiated harm-reduction programmes preventing damage done by prostitution and high-risk sexual behaviour. The volunteers of the project reach out to high-risk communities, providing them with information, condoms, lubricants and printed materials. Medical advise and counselling made it possible to give access to medical therapy for those in need, to work in the meeting place of the target group and to organise safer-sex workshops for men who are likely to engage in high-risk sexual behaviour.

Programme for the development of organisations already existing in Poland . This programme includes organising workshops preparing future leaders of organisations and informal groups working with LGBT issues. During the training sessions participants gain knowledge and competence necessary for their work.
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