Membership in FON will ensure that you learn of and are invited to all Network activities. Friends of the Network holds members-only events, and all members are individually invited to all Network events. Formed in 1992 to meet the needs of gay and lesbian analysts and candidates of the various analytic institutes in New York City, GALA offers academic presentations, social gatherings, supervisions and reading groups, and net-working. The group offers social support for its members and educational meetings on gay-affirmative subjects. Full membership is open to psychologists, social workers, mental health professionals in other disciplines, physicians in all specialties, and medical and graduate students.
GOAL addresses the needs and concerns of gay, lesbian, and bisexual law-enforcement personnel.
The organization is both an active advocacy group and a haven of friendship for its membership. It continually fights against bigotry, brutality, and prejudice in all forms. One key aim is to reduce homophobia in the New York City Police Department. It includes the LeGaL Foundation, which sponsors a weekly walk-in legal clinic at the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center in Manhattan. Manhattan Dental Guild , which formed about sixteen years ago, currently has about fifty members.