LOS ANGELES -- Point Foundation, the nation’s largest scholarship-granting organization for LGBTQ students of merit, has opened this year's scholarship application process.

Students who will be enrolled in undergraduate or graduate programs for the 2013-14 school year are eligible to apply for the prestigious, multi-year scholarships. Applicants will have until 11:59 pm PST on Jan. 14, 2013 to submit Part I of the application. Qualifying applicants will be invited to then submit Part II of the application.

SAN DIEGO -- Local students looking for extra money to cover their higher education expenses have until Friday, March 16, to submit applications for the 14th annual PFLAG San Diego LGBTQ Student Scholarship.

Olivia Dorman, chair of PFLAG's scholarship committee, said that her organization granted seven awards last year, ranging from $1,000 tp $2,000, and encouraged all eligible students to apply this year.

MALIBU, Calif. -- Thriving LGBT clubs are almost a given at California's public universities. (And even private, stick-up-its-arse USC has embraced a new age of sexual equality with open-minded institutionals like a new "Queer Worldmaking" exhibit at the school library.)

WASHINGTON -- The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has relaunched its LGBT student scholarship database, providing college students in the U.S. with hundreds of opportunities to apply for funding to support their education.

The database lists hundreds of opportunities sorted by those that are available nationwide, followed by state-specific and school-specific scholarships. Opportunities listed include scholarships, fellowships and grants for LGBT and allied students at both the undergraduate and graduate-level.