PFLAG Texas State Council

PFLAG El Paso is a member of the PFLAG Texas State Council. The PFLAG Texas State Councils is essentially a coalition of PFLAG chapters, representatives, and at-large members who want to establish a formal, legally recognized relationship to take advantage of the power of organizing together on the statewide level. The Texas State Council provides a structured way to network, plan, share resources and ideas, and to raise money for programs and projects that impact the entire state. With the membership and chapter base of PFLAG expanding, in many states, state councils are a sensible development in PFLAG's organizational structure.

One of the main objectives of the Texas State Council is to promote advocacy for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered communities in the state.  The Council can do this by joining in the fight to educate law makers to help pass bills in the Texas legislation that are GLBT friendly.  We also advocate for GLBT youth by getting in touch with public schools with the Safe Schools Program, offered through PFLAG National.

The PFLAG Texas State Council is comprised of the current chapters and affiliates across the state.  Each chapter has one or more representative who is appointed to serve on the council and report back to the individual chapter.  The Council is broken up into four districts (since the state is so "grand"). Those districts are North/Northeast/East Texas, Southern/Southeast, Central, and West Central/ Northwest/Westernmost.

"In Texas, we usually do things 'bigger and better.' I want our Council to stand out and be bigger and better than any other council in the organization," said Dave Gleason at the first PFLAG Texas State Council meeting on February 23, 2003.

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