LGBTQI+ Programs, Organizations, & Centers

Organizations

  • The Family Acceptance Project launched a national, integrated online resource to help LGBTQ Youth and Families find services and increase support for youth. Resources accessible through the new site include: support services for LGBTQ youth; peer support for parents, caregivers, and families; LGBTQ community centers; LGBTQ health clinics; gender clinics; school supports; affirming faith-based organizations and resources; and a national list of culture-based resources for ethnically and racially diverse LGBTQ communities.

  • The Alliance for Full Acceptance (AFFA) has a new resource hub that will connect the LGBTQ community to resources and service providers. Categories include: LGBTQ+ Support, Medical, Mental Health, Legal, Religious/Spiritual, and more.

  • Campaign for Southern Equality uses a range of tools in including direct services, direct action, litigation, grant-making, and long-term organizing strategies to respond to immediate community needs, support a new generation of LGBTQ leaders and build political power over the long term.

  • CenterLink is a member-based coalition to support the development of strong, sustainable, LGBTQ community centers. They strengthen, support, and connect LGBTQ community centers, and help build the capacity of these centers to address the social, cultural, health, and political advocacy needs of LGBTQ community members across the country.

  • FORGE reduces the impact of trauma on trans/non-binary survivors and communities by empowering service providers, advocating for systems reform, and connecting survivors to healing possibilities. FORGE strives to create a world where ALL voices, people and bodies are valued, respected, honored, and celebrated; where every individual feels safe, supported, respected, and empowered.

  • SMYAL (Supporting and Mentoring Youth Advocates and Leaders) is a LGBTQ+ organization based in Washington, DC. They have a resource list that includes everything from crisis support lines to scholarships.

  • Future Perfect Project offers art & songwriting workshops, animation series, and much more! By making safe spaces for LGBTQ+ Youth & Allies to express themselves through the arts, connect with one another, and amplify their voices, FPP is creating a future where every young person feels safe, seen, and celebrated in their home and community.

  • one•n•ten provides empowering social and service programs for LGBTQ+ youth and young adults that promote self‐expression, self‐acceptance, leadership development, and healthy life choices. They have virtual camps, book clubs, workforce development, and much more!

  • Lambert House offers LGBTQ youth over 30 different annual and ongoing programs, activities, resources, and services including numerous online Zoom groups, Discord, Minecraft, and more!

  • Stand With Trans is dedicated to developing programs, educational events and support groups to serve transgender youth. They offer support groups, parent support, book clubs and many other events and resources!

  • Highlander Research and Education Center - serves as a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement building in Appalachia and the South. Through popular education, language justice, participatory research, cultural work, and intergenerational organizing, they create spaces where people gain knowledge, hope and courage, expanding their ideas of what is possible.

Camps

Online Support

  • Q Chat Space

    • Live chat discussion groups for LGBTQ+ teens

    • Check out the website for group topics and times

  • TRUTH is a youth-led program for trans and gender nonconforming young people to build public understanding, empathy, and a movement for liberation through storytelling and media organizing.

    • truth@gsanetwork.org

  • LGBTQ National Youth Talkline

    • Open 4pm-12am EST

    • 1-800-246-7743

    • help@LGBThotline.org

  • Roses Youth Council

    Are you a trans girl of color who is sparking change around your community and want to connect with other leading girls nationwide? Do you want to boost your organizing, research, and leadership skills and build movement experience with other young activists? Do you want to share your own story and support other trans youth in sharing theirs?

    The Roses Initiative is a trans youth leadership program supported by GSA Network and Transgender Law Center via Gender Justice Leadership Programs. The initiative centers the expertise and leadership of trans girls of color who are organizing toward a future free from the violence trans women and girls of color face for living as their authentic selves.

  • GSA Network's Black Trans Queer Space
    Are you a Black Trans or Queer Young Person who is looking for other young people in the Black Trans and Queer Community sparking change around your community and want to connect with other Black Trans and Queer Folk throughout the South? Do you want to boost your organizing, research, and leadership skills and build movement experience with other young activists? Do you want to share your own story and support other Black Trans and Queer youth in sharing theirs?

    GSA Network’s Black Trans and Queer Space is a 6-month initiative centering the expertise and leadership of Black Trans and Queer youth who are organizing toward our liberated future, free from the violence toward Black and Trans folk while creating an environment for living as our authentic selves.

  • Trans Family Support Services works to shape a gender affirming and accepting community by offering family engagement services, support groups, trainings and education.

Resource Centers

Sports and Social Groups

  • CYAP (Carolina Youth Action Project): an abolitionist organization that centers political education and community organizing to build power among girls, trans youth, and gender nonconforming youth.

  • Harriot Hancock Center: For over 30 years, the Harriet Hancock Center has been providing support & services for the LGBTQ+ community in the Midlands area. 

  • LIT! (Lowcountry in Transition): LIT is a group by and for trans and nonbinary* people trying to support each other through creating community, hosting support and social events, and sharing resources. We meet from 1:00-2:30 on the 4th Saturday of the month.

  • Lowcountry Neurodiverse Network: a grassroots effort to create a community for individuals and families in the Lowcountry.

  • PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbian and Gays): the first and largest organization dedicated to supporting, educating, and advocating for LGBTQ+ people and their families.

  • PrideLink: a community center and wellness space for Upstate, SC LGBTQ+ people.

  • Time Out Youth (TOY): offers support, advocacy, and opportunities for personal development and social interaction to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQ) youth ages 13-24 in Charlotte, NC.

Religious Centers