Who we are

Our Mission:

We are dedicated to helping lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people in Upstate NY achieve their goals of building and sustaining healthy families.

The Project offers provider trainings, educational programs, information and referral services, a Directory of LGBTQ-Inclusive Services, and support for LGBTQ families and prospective parents. Our network of Pride and Joy Families provides social and educational opportunities, and a sense of community to LGBTQ parents and their children.

Brief History:

The Project was founded in April 2000 with a $43,000 competitive grant award for LGBT Health and Human Services from the NYS Dept. of Health to the Ferre Institute Inc. in Binghamton. Since then, we have reapplied for and received these funds in lesser and greater amounts and for shorter and longer periods of time.

The Project joined forces with the Binghamton University Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program in 2013 was awarded a 5-year, $625,000 grant through the Research Foundation at SUNY Binghamton. That funding was recently extended. The move to campus gave the Project a very happy and supportive home base, plus access to resources such as University facilities for conferences and trainings, graduate and undergraduate student assistance in carrying out our programs, and a multidisciplinary scholarly advisory committee (MSAC) composed of BU faculty in clinical psychology, social work, human development, nursing, and women, gender and sexuality studies.

Our Staff and Administration

Co-Principal Investigators

Our Advisory Boards

Multidisciplinary Scholarly Advisory Board

(coming soon)

Please join us! Contact us to learn more about our programs and services.

Lesbian and Gay Family Building Project
Binghamton University, LN-2408 
PO Box 6000
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000