LGBTQ Organizations
Use the filters below to find organizations that support and serve the LGBTQ community.
Category: Youth
Queer Wellness Center
Upstate SC(864) 655-5193
info@queerwellnesscenter.org
As the first of it’s kind, the QWC provides a safe and accepting environment where the queer community in Upstate SC can gain access to affirming resources and businesses alike. They have several programs: BLOOM provides LGBTQ+ competency training for school personnel/counselors and other adolescent mental health providers in Spartanburg, Greenville and Anderson counties. BLOOM also provides free group, individual, and family therapy to LGBTQ+ youth and their families. LEAP provides an open no-cost peer support group to the trans community. AFFIRM SC provides safe spaces for professionals within and outside the health and human services field to learn and grow in their understanding of cultural competency, diversity, and inclusivity. Project HEART works to bring affirming medical care to the LGBTQ+ community of Upstate SC. The Queer Wellness Center offers scholarships to provide financial aid to cover partial or full cost of medical visits for hormones, prescriptions, therapy, temporary housing and medical procedures.
Camp Lightbulb
New York City or Los Angeles,
(323) 484-7993
info@camplightbulb.org
Camp Lightbulb is an LGBTQ+ summer camp for youth age 14 to 18. Since 2011 they have welcomed more than 2500 youth from across the US and around the world. Each trip is unique and incorporates their core principles of Art, Community, Fun, Learning, Outdoors, Service, and Wellness. Participants can expect a mix of fun, inspiration and celebration. Expect 25 to 35 participants per trip, which is the perfect number: large enough to make lots of friends, but small enough for plenty of individual attention. They offer financial assistance and payment plans on a Pay What You Can basis.
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Guides and activities built for and with LGBTQ+ teens to help you explore your identity and support your mental health. Topics include: Stress, Queerness, Stigma, and Gender.
Give Us The Floor
Give Us The Floor (GUTF) is a US-based non-profit organization providing 2SLGBTQIA+ youth across the US with a supportive community of their peers when they need it most in a safe, online environment. Their inclusive group chats provided through our free mobile app give 2SLGBTQIA+ youth and their allies a safe coping tool to break the isolation and shame cycles they so often experience. Trained youth facilitate the confidential and anonymous groups, and participants help each other talk through prevalent mental health and social issues such as depression, loneliness, anxiety, identity, discrimination, bullying, relationships, domestic violence, and body image. Though they specialize in support for Queer and Trans youth, all who share our mission to provide a safer, more supportive world for Queer and Trans youth are welcome to join our community!
Uplift Outreach Center
Spartanburg, SC 29301
(864) 381-7234
upliftoutreachcenter@gmail.com
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
Since 1981 the Lambert House LGBTQ Youth Center has cared for, championed, and celebrated over 15,000 individual minors and young adults through over 500,000 service contacts. They provide in-person and online programs to more LGBTQ+ youth than any other organization in the Northwestern United States. 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, and; 8) Systems Advocacy and Training for Professionals (from 30 countries to date).
Future Perfect Project
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.
Harriet Hancock Center
1108 Woodrow Street
Columbia, SC 29205
(803) 771-7713
Founded in 1993, HHC provides a safe space for the LGBTQ+ community. They host regular social groups, peer-support groups for different communities, Youth OUTLOUD for 6th-12th grade students, and special events. They also provide the Legal Name & Gender Marker Change Program (limited to SC residents).
Lost-n-Found Youth
2585 Chantilly Dr NE
Atlanta, GA 30324
(678) 856-7824
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