JQYouth
JQYouth is a New York-based social and support group for LGBT people from Orthodox and traditional Jewish backgrounds. The group was founded in 2001 as an online list-serve, and began meeting in the Manhattan JCC in 2003. The organization is nondenominational and is accommodating of various views of homosexuality in Judaism. It is aimed primarily at those from 17 to 30-year of age.
The organization contributed a video to the It Gets Better Project.
JQY marched with Eshel and other Jewish LGBTQ organizations in the Celebrate Israel Parade of 2012, the first year openly LGBT groups were permitted to participate. Participation in pride parades has been a contentious issue in the Orthodox LGBT community.
Recent research suggests that JQY successfully helps their members build an essential peer network and negotiate tensions between religion and sexual orientation.
