California 2SLGBTQIA+ Resources

Statewide

  • Equality California
    • With over 900,000 members, Equality California is the nation’s largest statewide LGBTQ+ civil rights organization. And we’re California’s only LGBTQ+ civil rights organization working at the local, state and national levels.
  • California Transcends
    • California TRANScends is a nonprofit organization dedicated to transgender advocacy and empowerment. Our mission is to uplift, support, and advocate for the rights of transgender individuals. Established in 2019 in response to the alarming attacks on transgender Americans and the growing threat of fascism, our organization recognizes the urgent need for a transgender civil rights campaign.
  • California LGBTQ Health and Human Services Network
    • The California LGBTQ Health & Human Services Network is an LGBTQ-specific program of Health Access, bringing together more than 60 non-profit providers, community centers, and researchers to advocate collectively for state level policies and resources that will advance LGBTQ health.

Bay Area

  • Pacific Center for Human Growth
    • To enhance the mental health and overall well-being of the LGBTQIA+ and QTBIPOC communities by providing culturally responsive therapy, peer to peer support groups, community outreach services, and facilitated workshops. To incorporate strong social justice and trauma-informed frameworks in our clinical training and peer-to-peer support programs that contribute to equitable mental health service delivery. To provide the most comprehensive care possible for all who seek our services.
  • Rainbow Community Center
    • Rainbow builds community, equity, and well-being among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, asexual or agender, and two-spirit (LGBTQIA2S+) people & our allies.
  • Solano Pride Center
    • Solano Pride Center builds community and provides services for Solano County’s LGBTQ+ people and our allies. Solano Pride Center envisions a community where all LGBTQ+ people live freely and authentically.
  • LGBTQ Fremont
    • LGBTQ Fremont is Fremont’s newest LGBTQ+ activism group. Join us as we create an open, democratic, and radically inclusive and transparent LGBTQ+ organization, dedicated to the future of Fremont and our surrounding area.
  • Coast Pride
    • Bringing together the San Mateo County Coastside in support of our LGBTQ community
  • Oakland LGBTQ Community Center
    • The Oakland LGBTQ Community Center is dedicated to enhancing and sustaining the well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals, our families and allies, by providing educational, social, and health related activities, programs and services. 
  • Grass Roots Gay Rights Foundation
    • The Grass Roots Gay Rights Foundation changes lives by supporting organizations that promote a happy, healthy and connected Bay Area LGBTQ community.
  • Lyric Center for LGBTQQ+ Youth
    • LYRIC’s mission is to build community and inspire positive social change through education enhancement, career trainings, health promotion, and leadership development with LGBTQQ youth, their families, and allies of all races, classes, genders, and abilities.
  • Openhouse
    • Openhouse enables San Francisco Bay Area LGBTQ+ seniors to overcome the unique challenges they face as they age by providing housing, direct services and community programs.
  • Our Family Coalition
    • Our Family Coalition advances equity for the full and expanding spectrum of LGBTQ families and children through support, education, and advocacy.
  • San Francisco LGBT Center
    • The Center supports the needs of the entire LGBTQ community and allies through robust programming. We also connect people to a rich network of organizations in San Francisco serving the LGBTQ community.
  • Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center
    • The Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Center is building community by hosting discussion and leadership groups, and diverse educational and social activities and events
  • Queer Silicon Valley
    • Welcome to Queer Silicon Valley. This website is an effort by the BAYMEC Community Foundation to celebrate the people and leaders and document the milestones and accomplishments of the LGBTQ+ community in Santa Clara County
  • San Mateo County Pride Center
    • Our mission is to create a welcoming, safe, inclusive, and affirming community climate that fosters personal growth, health, and opportunities to thrive for individuals of all ages, sexual orientations, and gender identities through education, counseling, advocacy, and support.
  • The Diversity Center Santa Cruz County
    • The Diversity Center inspires and advocates for the LGBTQ+ people of Santa Cruz and Monterey counties by providing critical services, spaces, education, and events that enhance our community’s well-being allowing individuals to build resiliency and thrive.
  • Positive Images
    • We provide support to the North Bay’s LGBTQIA+ population, with an emphasis on identities and individuals at the margins – including transgender and nonbinary individuals, LGBTQIA+ people of color, Latine families, neurodivergent people, and disabled people. We are dedicated to providing essential services that encompass mental health support, advocacy, and education.
  • BAYMEC Community Foundation
    • The BAYMEC Community Foundation is dedicated to the creation of a more equal future for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ+) community in Silicon Valley and neighboring regions.
  • Give Us The Floor
    • Give Us The Floor (GUTF) is a San Francisco-based non-profit organization. We provide LGBTQ+ youth in distress with the peer-positive human connection that they are too often missing. We help LGBTQ+ youth deal with distress through inclusive, innovative and unique online peer Supportive Group Chats that provide constant contact and anonymity in a safe youth-only community, breaking the isolation and shame cycles they are experiencing. Trained youth facilitate the confidential groups and participants help each other with prevalent mental health and social issues such as depression, isolation, anxiety, identity, discrimination, bullying, relationships, domestic violence, and body image. 
  • LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District
    • The specific purpose and mission of the Organization is:
    • 1) To preserve, advance, and promote San Francisco’s LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District as a local, national, and international resource, and as a culturally and commercially enriched neighborhood and district;
    • 2) To strengthen the Leather and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer communities of San Francisco by bringing together our diverse histories and cultures for ALL persons to enjoy and share;
    • 3) To create an atmosphere of safety, creativity, vitality, and prosperity for present and future Leather and LGBTQ participants, organizations, institutions, and commercial activity.
    • 4) To augment and make sustainable Leather and LGBTQ: housing, healthcare, commerce, community development, cultural resources, and physical spaces.
  • Lyon-Martin Community Health Services
    • The mission of Lyon-Martin Community Health Services is to provide high quality, compassionate and trauma-informed medical, gynecological, and mental health care services targeting trans, non-binary, gender non-conforming, and intersex (TGI) communities and cis-gender women with specific sensitivity to LGBQA+ sexual orientation, disability, size, race, ethnicity, and language regardless of immigration status or ability to pay.

Inland Deserts

  • The LGBTQ Community Center of the Desert
    • Creating vibrant community by helping LGBTQ+ people along their way.
  • Joshua Home
    • We are committed to ending LGBTQ+ youth homelessness in the Inland Empire
  • Imperial Valley LGBT Resource Center
    • The mission of the IV LGBT RC is “to create a safe place and empower the LGBT community by connecting them to essential resources.”
  • Rainbow Pride Youth Alliance
    • We’re a non-profit service organization for LGBTQ+ youth and allies in the Inland Empire. We provide a safe space for young people to meet, make friends and participate in various weekly events and activities. We also offer support and resources for gender affirmation and community building.

North Central

  • Sacramento LGBT Community Center
    • The Center works to create a region where all LGBTQ+ people thrive; we support health and wellness, advocate for equity and justice, and work to uplift our diverse and culturally rich LGBTQ+ community.
  • Central Valley Gender Health & Wellness
    • Central Valley Gender Health and Wellness is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and empowering the QTPOC (Queer, Transgender, and People of Color) community in  the Central Valley and San Joaquin County, CA.
  • San Joaquin Pride Center
    • The San Joaquin Pride Center serves diverse LGBTQ+ communities in San Joaquin County and the surrounding areas by creating a safe and welcoming space for unique identities to thrive. We provide holistic resources for adults and transitional age youth, and also serve our community by educating the public in affirming ways, in order to nurture and show respect for all people within the LGBTQ+ community.
  • Tri-County Diversity
    • Tri-County Diversity provides resources, information, and support to the 2SLGBTQIA+ community of Yuba , Sutter, and Colusa Counties in Northern California. 

Central

  • The Center for Sexuality and Gender Diversity
    • Founded in 2011, The Center for Sexuality & Gender Diversity has been a beacon for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community in Kern County, offering a a safe space and message of acceptance and love.
  • LGBT Community Network
    • The mission of LGBT Community Network is to enhance the well-being of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender communities by providing activities, programs and services that create and support community; empower community members; provide essential resources; and embrace, promote and support our cultural diversity.
  • LGBTQ Fresno
    • The mission of LGBTQ Fresno is to enhance the well-being of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and two spirit communities by providing activities, programs and services that create and support community; empower community members; provide essential resources; and embrace, promote and support our cultural diversity.
  • LGBTQ Clovis
    • LGBTQ Clovis is here to make our city more inclusive and accepting.
  • LGBTQ Merced
    • LGBTQ Merced was established in 2023 in order to create a central place for queer folks in Merced County and the surrounding areas to find community and resources.
  • LGBTQ Porterville
    • The mission of LGBTQ Porterville is to enhance the well-being of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and two spirit communities by providing activities, programs and services that create and support community; empower community members; provide essential resources; and embrace, promote and support our cultural diversity.
  • LGBTQ Yosemite Foothills
    • The mission of LGBTQ Yosemite Foothills is to enhance the well-being of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and two spirit communities by providing activities, programs and services that create and support community; empower community members; provide essential resources; and embrace, promote and support our cultural diversity.
  • Fresno Spectrum Center
    • Providing activities, events and groups in a safe zone. Where all are welcome
  • MoPride
    • Building and celebrating the LGBTQ+ community in Modesto and the Central Valley through education, outreach, and advocacy
  • Gala Pride and Diversity Center
    • The Gala Pride & Diversity Center supports and empowers people of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and expressions to strengthen and unite our Central Coast Community.
  • The Source LGBT+ Center
    • Our mission is to provide supportive spaces within our communities for LGBTQ+ people to learn, grow, belong, and thrive.
  • Santa Barbara Transgender Advocacy Network
    • The Santa Barbara Transgender Advocacy Network educates individuals and organizations on best practices for transgender & gender expansive clients, patients, students, congregants and families; creates and develops spaces, actions, and policies that advance the welfare of transgender and diverse gender non-conforming individuals, their families, and allies in California’s Central Coast communities.

North

  • Queer Humboldt
    • Queer Humboldt is an anti-racist, anti-settler-colonialist resource center, serving 2S/LGBTQIA+ individuals and groups in Humboldt County and local Indigenous Lands through community education, mental health services, micro- grants/mutual aid, the North Coast Two-Spirit Project, networking and resource sharing.
  • Stonewall Alliance Center of Chico
    • We are committed to supporting and celebrating the health, empowerment, and joy of the North State LGBTQ+ community at every intersection of their identities.
  • Wolfpack Clubhouse
    • We are a fun LGBTQ+ women led group who support one another, our youth & the community through leadership, workshops, support groups, art classes, fun activities & events.

South Coast

  • Burbank YMCA Social Impact Center
    • The Burbank Community YMCA Social Impact Center has an important role to play in helping all individuals find their true colors while molding our next generation of change-makers. We believe our communities are strongest when everyone feels safe, valued, supported and able to reach their full potential with dignity and love.
  • San Gabriel Valley LGBTQ Center
    • To promote a safe and inclusive San Gabriel Valley for all people of all orientations and gender identities; To foster advocacy, education, and respect for individuals; To provide resources which encourage cultural diversity, healthy living, and full achievement of personal potential.
  • The OUTreach Center Antelope Valley
    • ​The OUTreach Center demonstrates leadership in community education and outreach on LGBTQ+ issues by advocating for an Antelope Valley that values our humanity and diversity.  We build the foundation of an enduring and thriving LGBTQ+ community through celebration, connection, and empowerment.  We strive to embody dignity, integrity, and courage in our pursuit of social justice.
  • The LGBTQ Center Long Beach
    • The LGBTQ Center Long Beach is dedicated to advancing equity for LGBTQ people through culturally responsive advocacy, education, programs, and services.
  • Los Angeles LGBT Center
    • Since 1969, the Los Angeles LGBT Center has cared for, championed, and celebrated LGBTQ individuals and families in Los Angeles and beyond.
  • Latino Equality Alliance
    • The mission of Latino Equality Alliance (LEA), a project of Community Partners,  is to advocate for safety, equity, and wellness for the Latinx Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer + community. Our organization strongly focuses on youth empowerment, family acceptance, educational equity, public health, and civic engagement. Through coalitions, we strive to build power to elevate the LGBTQ+ voices in Boyle Heights and the greater East Side communities of Los Angeles.  
  • Rainbow Labs
    • Our goal is that all Queer and Gender Nonconforming Youth across the United States has access to our safe and affirming mentoring program. We want to offer a space for youth to create a peer community where they find support in themselves. In years to come, we plan to serve thousands of youth in the future powered by our board, advisory board, staff, and our youth council.
  • North County LGBTQ Resource Center
    • Our mission is to serve, empower, and advocate for North County’s diverse LGBTQI community.
  • Pomona Pride Center
    • The mission of the Pomona Pride Center is to enhance and sustain the well-being of the LGBTQIA+ and allied communities by providing vital social, emotional and support services, educational and arts programs, and advocacy. ​
  • The San Diego LGBT Community Center
    • The San Diego LGBT Community Center enhances and sustains the health & well-being of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, transgender, nonbinary, immigrant, and HIV communities to the betterment of our entire San Diego region.
  • LGBTQ Center Orange County
    • The LGBTQ Center OC’s mission is to advocate on behalf of the Orange County Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Queer/Questioning communities and provide services that ensure its well-being and positive identity.
  • Pacific Pride Foundation
    • Pacific Pride Foundation works to ensure a healthy, visible and vibrant LGBTQ+ community in Santa Barbara County.
  • South Bay LGBTQ Center
    • South Bay LGBTQ Center’s mission is to create spaces where all LGBTQ+/Queer people can thrive though cultural awareness, community building, community service, and learning opportunities. We hope to foster greater inclusion as well as understanding of our LGBTQ+/Queer and other intersecting communities in the South Los Angeles and South Bay area.
  • Diversity Collective
    • We are Ventura County’s LGBTQ community. We believe that all people deserve a diverse, inclusive, accepting and welcoming safe space. In lifting each other up even when it’s hard, we build allies, opportunities and resources to live our best lives and help those around us do the same.
  • TransLatin@ Coalition
    • The mission of The TransLatin@ Coalition (TLC) is to advocate for the specific needs of the Trans Latin@ community that resides in the U.S.A. and to plan strategies that improve our quality of life.