LGBTQIA+ RESOURCES
BELOW YOU’LL FIND A LIST OF RESOURCES TO NON-PROFITS AND ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE focused on LGBTQIA+ communities. THEY ARE ORGANIZED BY THE CHICAGO-LOCAL, STATE AND NATIONAL LEVEL.
NATIONAL LEVEL
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. Transgender Law Center (TLC) is the largest national trans-led organization advocating for a world in which all people are free to define themselves and their futures.
The Trans Justice Funding Project
The Trans Justice Funding Project is a community-led funding initiative founded in 2012 to support grassroots, trans justice groups run by and for trans people.
Black Aids Institute
Our mission is to stop the AIDS epidemic in Black communities by engaging and mobilizing Black institutions and individuals in efforts to confront HIV.
TRANS WOMEN OF COLOR COLLECTIVE
Trans Women of Color Collective (TWOCC) was created to cultivate economic opportunities and affirming spaces for trans people of color and our families, to foster kinship, build community engage in healing and restorative justice through arts, culture, media, advocacy and activism.
trans lifeline
Trans Lifeline is a trans-led organization that connects trans people to the community, support, and resources they need to survive and thrive.
hotline: 877-565-8860
The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people under 25.
THE OKRA PROJECT
The Okra Project is a collective that seeks to address the global crisis faced by Black Trans people by bringing home cooked, healthy, and culturally specific meals and resources to Black Trans People wherever we can reach them.
LGBTQ Freedom Fund
LGBTQ Freedom Fund posts bail to secure the safety and liberty of individuals in US jails and immigration facilities. We work to build a critical mass against the mass detention of LGBTQ individuals - a tangle of discrimination and poverty disproportionately puts them behind bars.
Lambda Legal
Lambda Legal is the oldest and largest national legal organization whose mission is to achieve full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and everyone living with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work.
STATE LEVEL (ILLINOIS + OTHERS)
Equality Illinois (IL)
Equality Illinois builds a better Illinois by advancing equal treatment and full acceptance of the LGBTQ community.
PRINCESS JANAE PLACE (NY)
The mission of Princess Janae Place is to help people of trans experience maximize their full potential as they transition from homelessness to independent living. THEY OFFER a safe space for people of trans experience to connect with community, access gender affirming support, as well as engage in educational and recreational activities.
peoria proud (il)
Peoria Proud encourages and supports diversity and equality throughout the Peoria Metropolitan Area. The coalition seeks to unify the community as a whole, through advocacy, education and social outreach.
TRANSGENDER DISTRICT (CA)
The mission of the Transgender District is to create an urban environment that fosters the rich history, culture, legacy, and empowerment of transgender people and its deep roots in the southeastern Tenderloin neighborhood. The transgender district aims to stabilize and economically empower the transgender community through ownership of homes, businesses, historic and cultural sites, and safe community spaces.
BREAKOUT! (LA)
BreakOUT! seeks to end the criminalization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth to build a safer and more just New Orleans. We build on the rich cultural tradition of resistance in the South to build the power of LGBTQ youth ages 13-25 and directly impacted by the criminal justice system through youth organizing, healing justice, and leadership development programs.
CHICAGO-LOCAL LEVEL
The LGBT Community Fund
an endowment-based fund that strategically supports non-profit organizations that provide essential services to Chicago’s LGBT community. ORGANIZED BY The Chicago Community Trust.
Project Fierce Chicago
Project Fierce Chicago seeks to create affirming transitional housing for LGTBQIA+ youth in Chicago that is responsive to the needs of young people. By mobilizing our communities, we provide pathways to independence.
Center on Halsted
center on Halsted is the Midwest's most comprehensive community center dedicated to advancing community and securing the health and well-being of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) people of Chicagoland.
care2prevent
C2P works to radically reduce HIV transmission events through the provision of comprehensive HIV treatment and prevention services for HIV positive, LGBTQ, and underserved youth communities on the South Side of Chicago.
Brave Space Alliance
Brave Space Alliance was created to fill a gap in the organizing of and services to trans and gender-nonconforming people. Currently, very few LGBTQ social services or advocacy networks exist on the South and West Sides of Chicago.
howard brown health
Howard Brown exists to eliminate the disparities in healthcare experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people through research, education and the provision of services that promote health and wellness.