We’re building a bank of resources for Black Queer Southerners.
This community-driven resource hub will be a growing and evolving space where folks can find LGBTQ+ organizations, projects, businesses, and more in their community. Check out our list so far and get the resources you need to thrive.
- National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network
- National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network (NQTTCN) is a healing justice organization actively working to transform mental health for queer and trans Black, Indigenous and People of Color (QTBIPOC). We envision a world where all people have access to health and healing resources rooted in healing justice and collective liberation to recover from trauma, violence, and systemic oppression. Through political education and field building, we work to create a future where health, mental health, and healing practitioners build power to intervene against the harm perpetuated by the medical-industrial complex while actively creating new liberatory ecosystems of care for our communities. We envision a world where our movement organizations are more resilient and strategic with the tools to navigate and collectively heal from violence, trauma, crisis, and uncertainty by organizing with politicized health and healing practitioners aligned with healing justice.
- Prattville Pride
- Prattville Pride is a vibrant and inclusive community dedicated to fostering love, acceptance, and diversity. Nestled in the heart of The River Region in Central Alabama, we strive to create a safe space where everyone can be their authentic selves. Founded in 2024, Prattville Pride made history with our Inaugural Pride event that drew almost 3000 attendees and was featured on Good Morning America. We have faced many challenges and push back as a small, grassroots Pride organization in the Deep South. Through it all we have remained committed to our mission of serving with integrity and providing visibility and representation for those in our community who need it most.
- New Orleans Black Pride
- New Orleans Black Pride is a 501(c)3 non-profit that celebratse and elevates Black and Brown LGBTQ+ lives through culture, joy, and community power. From Pride weekend to year-round impact, we create spaces where you can show up, speak out, and thrive. Black-led. Black-loved. Black to the Future.
- The Southern Queer Survivor Network
- The Southern Queer Survivor Network is an anti-violence project that serves all of North Carolina. We are survivor and queer/trans-led. We believe that we take care of us because only we understand the nuances of survivorship in queer and trans lives and communities. We provide community through support groups, case management, resource referrals, and other affirming services. Above all, we believe our clients are entitled to queer joy, pleasure, rage, and care, and we collaborate with clients on how to reach those possibilities and what safety and liberation looks like for them.
- The Queer Trans Project
- The Queer Trans Project is a Jacksonville-based nonprofit dedicated to providing life-affirming resources for transgender and nonbinary people. Since our founding, we’ve distributed over $1 million worth of free Build-A-Queer Kits, which include binders, packers, breast forms, and other gender-affirming items, to individuals across the country, ensuring that cost is never a barrier to exploring or affirming one’s gender. In addition to our kits, we also coordinate a flight assistance program that helps people safely access care, community, and support. Everything we do is rooted in the belief that trans and nonbinary people deserve safety, dignity, and joy. By removing barriers and offering tangible resources, we make it possible for people to live authentically and thrive.
- The Pauli Murray Center
- The Pauli Murray Center is a nationally significant history site, anchored by Pauli Murray’s childhood home built by her grandparents in 1898 at 906 Carroll Street in Durham, North Carolina. By connecting history to contemporary human rights issues, the Pauli Murray Center activates visitors of all ages to stand up for peace, equity and justice. The Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray was a twentieth-century human rights activist, legal scholar, author, labor organizer, poet, Episcopal priest, multiracial Black, LGBTQ+ Durhamite who lived one of the most remarkable lives of the 20th century.
- The Trevor Project
- The Trevor Project is the leading suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ+ young people. Trevor offers 24/7 crisis services, connecting highly trained counselors with LGBTQ+ young people whenever they need support. Crisis counselors are trained to answer calls, chats, or texts from LGBTQ+ young people who reach out on our free, confidential and secure service when they are struggling with issues such as coming out, LGBTQ+ identity, depression, and suicide.
- Contact The Trevor Project via:
Phone: Call 1-866-488-7386
Text: Send “START” to 678-678
Chat: Visit TheTrevorProject.org/Help
- GLAAD
- 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. GLAAD strives to protect all that has been accomplished and helps create a world where everyone can live the life they love. As a dynamic media force, GLAAD ensures fair, accurate, and inclusive representation that rewrites the script for LGBTQ acceptance. GLAAD tackles tough issues to shape the narrative and provoke dialogue that leads to cultural change. GLAAD protects all that has been accomplished and envisions a world with 100% LGBTQ acceptance.
- Invisible Histories
- Invisible Histories locates, collects, researches, and creates community-based, educational programming around LGBTQ history in the Deep South. Invisible Histories believes archiving is resistance to oppression and history leads to liberation. In our work, we center joy and community while never erasing the painful and complicated experiences of our folks.
- The Knights and Orchids Society (TKO)
- The Knights and Orchids Society (TKO) is a Black trans led non profit in Alabama establishing & providing continuous care for our community in Alabama and across the South. TKO builds the power of TLGB+ Black people across the South by providing a spectrum of health and wellness services.
- The Normal Anomaly Initiative
- Centering Black, queer persons to overcome barriers, end stigma, and problematic narratives, and to actualize a new normal.
- The Magic City Acceptance Center
- The Magic City Acceptance Center is a radically inclusive brave space serving families and individuals of all ages across Alabama.
- Debiryah's Naturals
- Debiryah's Naturals makes natural bath & body products that aid and promote healing the mind and body.
- The Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT)
- The Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT) is the largest policy, education, and advocacy organization in the country that is statewide, BIPOC trans-led, and trans-focused. We are dedicated to furthering gender-diverse equality in Texas and achieving a Texas free from discrimination through education and advocacy in both public and private forums, such as the legislature, community groups, businesses, with families and community.
- Prism United
- Prism United supports LGBTQ youth and their loved ones in Southwest Alabama through support groups, special events, and mental health resources. We also bring LGBTQ+ cultural competency training to local universities, businesses, and nonprofits.
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