National LGBTQIA+ Resources
National and International
LGBTQAI+
Resources
Resources In the United States and Canada
Across the United States and Canada, numerous organizations and initiatives provide support, advocacy, and resources tailored to the needs of the LGBTQAI+ community. These national resources offer a range of services, from crisis intervention and counseling to legal assistance and community-building opportunities.
For LGBTQAI+ individuals, accessing affirming and culturally competent support can be crucial in navigating challenges related to identity, discrimination, and mental health. Our national resources play a vital role in connecting individuals with the information, services, and networks they need to thrive.
By raising awareness of these national organizations and initiatives, we aim to empower LGBTQAI+ individuals and allies to access the support and resources they need to lead fulfilling and authentic lives. Whether you’re in need of assistance or looking to get involved in advocacy efforts, these national resources are valuable assets in promoting equality, acceptance, and affirmation for all members of the LGBTQAI+ community.
The links below provide information to LGBTQAI+ individuals, families, and others to find trained counselors, peer support, toolkits, fact sheets, and additional resources and information for individual support or about issues within the larger LGBTQAI+ community, including violence against the LGBTQAI+ community.
Important Links
Getting Your Health Care Covered: a Guide for Transgender People
GLAAD: Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation helps spread the message of LGBTQ support and acceptance.
GLSEN: Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network mission is to create safe and affirming schools for all, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.
Human Rights Campaign: The Human Rights Campaign is America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer equality.
I’m a Nonbinary Teen: Here’s What Parents Need to Know
Lamda Legal: Country’s oldest and largest legal organization devoted to civil rights for LGBTQ people. They advocate for public policy and select cases they believe will have the greatest impact on the LGBTQ community.
National Center for Lesbian Rights: NCLR’s programs focus on employment, immigration, youth, elder law, transgender law, sports, marriage, relationship protections, reproductive rights, and family law create safer homes, safer jobs, and a more just world.
National Network of LGBTQ Family Groups: Information on family formation options in the LGBTQ community, state and federal law and policy that impacts LGBTQ families, and the experience of LGBTQ parents and youth in the child welfare system.
PFLAG – Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbian and Gays: Uniting people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) with families, friends, and allies, PFLAG is committed to advancing equality through its mission of support, education, and advocacy. PFLAG has 400 chapters and 200,000 supporters crossing multiple generations of American families in major urban centers, small cities, and rural areas in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
Philadelphia Transgender Health Conference: The mission of the Philadelphia Trans Health Conference (PTHC) is to educate and empower
transgender individuals on issues of health and well-being; educate and inform allies and health service providers; and facilitate networking, community-building, and systemic change.
Police Department Policies Towards Transgender People
Resources for an LGBTQ and Gender Inclusive School
Resources for LGBTQ Parents | Navigating Special Needs Care
LGBTQ parents raising a child with a disability often face unique challenges, but help is available. Learn what useful resources you can access today. www.cerebralpalsyguide.com and the article Cerebral Palsy and LGBTQ.
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Under Human Rights Law
TransBucket: Providing health care and surgery resource for the entire online trans community, from FTMs to MTFs to genderqueers, agender individuals, and everyone else who could benefit from exploring the real life experiences collected here.
Trans-Parenting: Trans-Parenting is an organization dedicated to providing support and educational resources to parents and their advocates (pediatricians, mental health professionals, lawyers, schools, friends, family, and churches) raising a gender independent child.
Trans People of Color Coalition: Founded in 2010, Trans People of Color was created as a response to people of color that felt unheard and underrepresented in the transgender equality movement. TPOCC became an effort to organize transgender people of color to fill the void of representation of people of color voices included in making key decisions that impact the transgender community at large.
TransKids Purple Rainbow Foundation: TKPRF is committed to the premise that Gender Dysphoria is something a child can’t control and it is society that needs to change, not them. Families need to support their children and be encouraged to allow them to grow-up free of gender roles.
Transgender Law Center: Transgender Law Center changes law, policy, and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression. We envision a future where gender self-determination and authentic expression are seen as basic rights and matters of common human dignity.