Camp Lightbulb

Website: https://www.camplightbulb.org/
Location: New York City or Los Angeles
Contact: info@camplightbulb.org | (323) 484-7993
Description: LGBTQ+ summer camp for youth ages 14 to 18. Since 2011, they have welcomed over 2,500 youth nationally and internationally. Camps incorporate principles of art, community, fun, learning, outdoors, service, and wellness. Financial assistance and pay-what-you-can payment plans are available.

imi

Website: https://imi.guide/
Description: Guides and activities built for and with LGBTQ+ teens to explore identity and support mental health. Topics include stress, queerness, stigma, and gender.

Give Us The Floor

Website: https://giveusthefloor.org/
Description: A US-based nonprofit providing 2SLGBTQIA+ youth across the US with a supportive, safe, and anonymous online community via a free mobile app. Trained youth facilitate group chats that help break cycles of isolation and shame, addressing mental health and social issues such as depression, anxiety, identity, discrimination, bullying, relationships, domestic violence, and body image. While specializing in Queer and Trans youth support, all allies are welcome to join.

Lambert House

Website: https://www.lamberthouse.org/
Description: Lambert House’s programs and services are evidence-based and informed by Positive Youth Development Theory and Minority Stress Theory. Their work spans eight categories:

1. Social Connection, Peer Support, Resilience, and Self-Esteem Building;

2. Family Success, Bullying Resistance and School Retention;

3. Mentoring;

4. Homeless Services including Meals, Clothing, Personal Hygiene Items, and LGBTQ-Competent Housing, Medical, and Mental Health Referrals;

5. HIV and STI Prevention Education, and Violence Prevention through Healthy Relationships Education;

6. Culture, Sports, and Outdoor Recreation;

7. Youth Leadership, Workplace Skills Development, and Academic Internships;

8. Systems Advocacy and Training for Professionals.

Future Perfect Project

Website: https://www.thefutureperfectproject.org/
Description: The Future Perfect Project is a national arts initiative amplifying the voices of LGBTQIA+ youth across the United States through high-quality creative programming and professional artistic mentorship. By producing and facilitating in-person and remote programs in podcasting, music, creative writing, and more, we provide young people with queer-affirming spaces and professional tools to express themselves authentically, connect with others, and share their vision of a better future for us all, one in which everyone is free to be themselves.

Forge

Website: https://forge-forward.org/
Contact: (414) 559-2123
Description: Forge's work is trauma-informed, research based and empowerment-focused. They provide training & technical assistance for professionals who work with transgender individuals. Find resources & support for service providers and transgender and non-binary individuals, survivors of violence, family and friends. They foster connection & awareness building healthy relationships and interactions with the general public.

Black Educated Lesbians

Website: http://blackeducatedlesbians.com
Contact: admin@blackeducatedlesbians.com
Description: Black Educated Lesbians (BEL) is a global nonprofit organization supporting Black queer women through mentorship, leadership development, economic empowerment, and community building. Founded in 2014, BEL provides tools for professional growth and social advocacy.

Bisexual Resource Center

Website: http://biresource.org/
Contact: brc@biresource.org
Description: The Bisexual Resource Center provides support for the bisexual community and raises public awareness about bisexuality. Their vision is a world where love is celebrated regardless of sexual orientation or gender expression.

Harbor Camps

Website: https://harborcamps.org/our-story/
Contact: (781) 400-1617
Description: Harbor Camps, formerly Camp Aranu’tiq, was the first summer camp specifically for transgender and non-binary/gender-nonconforming youth. Their mission is to build confidence, resilience, and community through immersive camp experiences, ensuring accessibility regardless of financial need.

Camp Lost Boys

Website: https://www.camplostboys.org/
Description: Camp Lost Boys is a summer camp experience for trans men over the age of 18. Focused on self-empowerment and self-esteem building through traditional outdoor activities, the camp offers a dedicated space to celebrate male identities in a safe and supportive environment.

Campus Pride

Website: https://www.campuspride.org/
Contact: info@campuspride.org | (704) 277-6710
Description: Campus Pride serves LGBTQ and ally student leaders and campus organizations in the areas of leadership development, support programs, and services to create safer, more inclusive LGBTQ-friendly colleges and universities. It exists to develop, support, and give “voice and action” in building future LGBTQ and ally student leaders.

CenterLink – The Community of LGBT Centers

Website: https://www.lgbtcenters.org/
Contact: (954) 765-6024
Description: CenterLink develops strong, sustainable LGBT community centers and builds a thriving center network that creates healthy, vibrant communities. Serving over 250 LGBTQ community centers, CenterLink assists newly forming community centers and helps strengthen existing LGBT centers through networking opportunities for center leaders, peer-based technical assistance and training, and a variety of capacity building services.

COLAGE

Website: https://www.colage.org/
Contact: info@colage.org
Description: COLAGE unites people with LGBTQIA+ parents and caregivers into a network of peers and supports them as they nurture and empower each other to be skilled, self-confident, and just leaders in our collective communities.

Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals

Website: https://www.lgbtcampus.org/
Contact: Not listed
Description: A member-based organization working toward the liberation of LGBTQ people in higher education. They support campus professionals in educating and advocating for diverse sexual orientations and gender identities using an intersectional and racial justice framework.

Equality Federation

Website: https://www.equalityfederation.org/
Contact: info@equalityfederation.org | (929) 373-3370
Description: Equality Federation is the movement builder and strategic partner to state-based organizations advocating for LGBTQ people. They work collaboratively on critical issues—such as workplace fairness, family recognition, and defeating anti-trans bathroom bans and HIV criminalization laws—while addressing racial equity, reproductive justice, and immigration.

Family Equality Council

Website: https://www.familyequality.org/
Contact: (646) 880-3005
Description: Family Equality’s mission is to advance legal and lived equality for LGBTQ families, and for those who wish to form them, through building community, changing hearts and minds, and driving policy change.

Gamma Mu Foundation

Website: https://gammamufoundation.org/
Contact: info@gammamufoundation.org
Description: Provides financial grants to organizations that serve clients and communities primarily in the rural and/or under-served United States. The Foundation makes available direct assistance through HIV/AIDS services, community services, or research and public education. The Foundation also awards financial support to members of the LGBT community who demonstrate financial need and the desire to pursue additional training through academic or vocational education.

Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA)

Website: https://glma.org/
Address: 1629 K St. NW Suite 300, Washington, DC, 20006
Contact: info@glma.org | (833) 456-2202
Description: GLMA is a national organization committed to ensuring health equity for LGBTQ and all sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals, and equality for LGBTQ/SGM health professionals in their work and learning environments. To achieve this mission, GLMA utilizes the scientific expertise of its diverse multidisciplinary membership to inform and drive advocacy, education, and research.

GLSEN - Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network

Website: https://www.glsen.org/
Address: 244 Madison Ave. #108, New York, NY, 10016
Contact: info@glsen.org | (212) 727-0135 Ext. 6565
Description: Championing LGBTQ issues in K-12 education since 1990, GLSEN works to ensure that LGBTQ students are able to learn and grow in a school environment free from bullying and harassment. Together they want to transform our nation's schools into the safe and affirming environment all youth deserve.

GLAAD

Website: https://www.glaad.org/
Description: GLAAD is an American non-governmental media monitoring organization founded by LGBTQ people in the media. Founded in 1985, GLAAD is a non-profit organization focused on LGBTQ advocacy and cultural change. GLAAD works to ensure fair, accurate, and inclusive representation and creates national and local programs that advance LGBTQ acceptance. Serving as a storyteller, media force, resource, and advocate, GLAAD tackles tough issues and provokes dialogue so that authentic LGBTQ stories are seen, heard, and actualized.