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.

Uplift Outreach Center

Website: https://upliftoutreachcenter.org/
Location: Spartanburg, SC
Contact: upliftoutreachcenter@gmail.com | (864) 381-7234
Description: Providing a safe space where youth are accepted and partnering with local organizations to provide LGBTQ+ specific resources to our community. They offer support, increase self-advocacy and culturally competent services to decrease suicide and suicidality. They promote tolerance and acceptance while welcoming and encouraging other community members and organizations to participate in their mission of supporting LGBTQ+ youth and their straight allies. Uplift Outreach Center is located behind Fernwood Baptist Church off of Greengate Lane. They are within walking distance of the SPARTA Hillcrest bus route. The Center is now open a few afternoons a week to youth up to age 23. Please call for current open hours.

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.

Lost-n-Found Youth

Website: https://www.lnfy.org/
Location: 2585 Chantilly Dr NE, Atlanta, GA, 30324
Contact: (678) 856-7824
Description: 24/7 Youth Support Hotline: 678.856.7824 extension 201

Lost-n-Found Youth Inc. is a transitional housing facility that is the primary solution for homeless LGBT youth (between 13 and 25 years) in the Atlanta, GA area. Providing emergency and transitional housing, emergency clothing and food for youth on the street, mental health evaluations and counseling, referrals to HIV/STD testing, health, and dental services, GED and education resources, assistance with lost birth certificates and driver's licenses, and job skills training. The Youth Drop-In Center provides a safe space, access to emergency clothing, meals, hygiene supplies, showers, laundry facility, and blankets.

Youth Drop-In Center Hours: Monday - Saturday 10 AM - 5 PM, Sunday 10 AM - 3 PM

Pride Myrtle Beach

Website: https://pridemyrtlebeach.org/
Location: Myrtle Beach, SC
Contact: (843) 839-2052
Description: Pride Myrtle Beach is the primary and most active organization advocating for the Myrtle Beach area LGBTQ+ community. Collaborating closely with community organizations, medical providers and local government, they provide easy access to essential services such as medical care, HIV testing and prevention, and educational opportunities. They are also host to a number of cultural events, family spaces, and festivals, including the June Pride Month Picnic and the Myrtle Beach Pride in the Park Festival, drawing thousands of visitors each year. Through their inclusive approach and diverse offerings, Pride Myrtle Beach celebrates and empowers all members of the LGBTQ+ community, ensuring they feel supported and valued year-round.

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.

Alliance For Full Acceptance (AFFA)

Website: https://www.affa-sc.org/
Contact: info@affa-sc.org | (843) 883-0343
Address: 3265 N. Carolina Avenue Suite 202, North Charleston, SC 29405
Description: The Alliance For Full Acceptance (AFFA) is a Charleston-based nonprofit working to achieve, nurture, and defend equality and full acceptance for LGBTQ+ people in South Carolina. AFFA builds partnerships and advocates for awareness, protections, and equality. AFFA Action is its 501(c)(4) sibling focused on legislative advocacy and political action.

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.

Campaign for Southern Equality

Website: https://southernequality.org/
Contact: (828) 242-1559
Description: The Campaign for Southern Equality is working to build a South where LGBTQ people are equal in every part of life. Their work includes the Legal Equality Project, the Southern Equality Fund empowering LGBTQ leaders, and a Community Health Program offering services and resources for LGBTQ Southerners.

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.

Charleston Black Pride

Website: https://www.charlestonblackpride.org/
Contact: blackpridecharleston@gmail.com | (718) 807-8599
Description: Charleston Black Pride creates opportunities to educate, inspire, improve, and celebrate LGBTQIA people of color. Through events and forums, they foster visibility and safe spaces that showcase the diverse experiences within the community.

Charleston Pride

Website: https://www.charlestonpride.org/
Contact: info@charlestonpride.org
Description: Charleston Pride's mission is to promote LGBTQ visibility through education, heritage celebration, advocacy, and community-wide events like the Charleston Pride Parade and Festival.

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.