FOR K-12 STUDENTS

• ACLU’s “Know Your Rights” – List and explanation of K-12 public school student rights in the United States.
• Advocates for Youth – Advocacy organization that focuses on topics such as youth sexual health, reproductive health, sexual violence, racial identity, and LGBTQ+ identities.
• Brave Trails – Offers accredited summer camps, backpacking trips, family camps, mental health services, meet-up groups, and year-round leadership programming.
• Campus Pride – Works to create safer and more inclusive college environments for LGBTQ+ students through resources, advocacy, and leadership programs; includes an index that assesses and rates colleges and universities based on their LGBTQ+ inclusiveness and policies.
• imi – Guides and resources built for and with LGBTQ+ teens to help them explore their identity and support their mental health.
• GLSEN – Ensuring that LGBTQ+ students are able to learn and grow in a school environment free from bullying and harassment, including providing GSA support.
• GSA Network – LGBTQ+ racial and gender justice organization that empowers and trains queer, trans and allied youth leaders to advocate, organize, and mobilize an intersectional movement for safer schools and healthier communities.
• LGBT National Youth TalkLine – Confidential safe space where callers of any age can speak about sexual orientation or gender identity/expression issues. Call 800-246-7743
• Point Foundation – Scholarships for LGBTQ+ students applying to community colleges and 4-year universities.
• Q Chat Space – Provides live, chat-based, professionally facilitated, online support and discussion groups for LGBTQ+ teens 13-19.
• The Trevor Project – Suicide prevention and crisis intervention support 24/7 to young people via text, online chat, and phone call. Text ‘START’ to 678-678/Call 866-488-7386
• Trans LifeLine – Connects trans people to the community support and resources we need to survive and thrive, including peer support hotline. Call 877-565-8860

FOR EDUCATORS

• American Civil Liberties Union – National nonprofit organization defending and preserving individual rights.
• CenterLink LGBT Community Center Directory – Directory of LGBTQ+ centers across the country.
• Educator Amplifier – Offers free downloadable artwork and LGBTQ+ educational content.
• The Family Acceptance Project’s Educator Q&A – Guides educators and school providers to provide help and support for parents and caregivers of LGBTQ+ students.
• Facing History & Ourselves – Equipping schools, districts, and teachers with the tools they need to shape the future by nurturing empathy, curiosity, and civic responsibility in young people.
• Gender Spectrum’s Gender Inclusive Schools – Materials, tools and resources to create a more gender inclusive school.
• GLSEN’s 2024 National School Climate Survey – Extensive, annual report focused on the experiences of LGBTQ+ youth in schools.
• GSA Network – LGBTQ+ racial and gender justice organization that empowers and trains queer, trans and allied youth leaders to advocate, organize, and mobilize an intersectional movement for safer schools and healthier communities.
• Lambda Legal – Civil rights organization that focuses on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities, as well as people living with HIV and AIDS.
• Learning for Justice (Formerly Teaching Tolerance) – Community education program of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) that cultivates and nurtures dialogue, learning, reflection, and action from those closest to and harmed most by injustices.
• National Education Association (NEA) – Resources designed to provide educators with LGBTQ+ information, tools, and resources.
• One Institute’s (formerly ONE Archives Foundation) Professional Development Programs – Empowering educators to diversify their curricula and create an affirming learning environment.
• Trevor Project: 2024 National Survey on LGBTQ+ Student Mental Health – Research related to LGBTQ+ youth mental health and suicide prevention.

FOR FAMILIES

• COLAGE – Unites people with one or more lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and/or asexual parent into a network of peers and supports them.
• The Family Acceptance Project – Focuses on promoting best practices through research, educational resources, and advocacy to improve their well-being and reduce the negative effects of rejection, including resources for families navigating conversations around the intersection of faith and LGBTQ+ identities.
• Family Equality – Offers resources and support for LGBTQ+ families, including advocacy tools and community connections.
• Free Mom Hugs – Network of chapters in all 50 states providing visibility, conversation, and education with the hope of reconciling relationships.
• Gender Spectrum – Helping families increase their understanding of gender including support groups and resources for families of gender expansive youth.
• Gender Diversity– Improving the well-being of children and adults of all gender identities and expression by providing education, increasing awareness, and offering insight into the wider range of human experience.
• Human Rights Campaign – Includes resources for parents, including guides on supporting LGBTQ+ children and navigating conversations about gender and sexual orientation.
• It Gets Better Project – Shares stories and resources to support LGBTQ+ youth, including guides for parents on how to be supportive allies.
• InterAct – Empowering intersex youth and advancing the rights of all people with innate variations in their physical sex characteristics through advocacy, public engagement and community connection including resources for parents.
• Parents’ Guide to School Board Advocacy – Resource on advocating for changes in your local school district.
• PFLAG – Support, education, and advocacy for LGBTQ+ individuals and their families including local support groups.
• Queering Faith – Project from the National LGBTQ Task Force including resources for finding LGBTQ+ affirming communities of faith.
• Strong Family Alliance – Preserving families by helping children come out and parents become informed supporters and allies.

• Straight for Equality – Empowering new allies who don’t necessarily have a family connection to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) community.
• Victory Fund – Supports pro-equality, pro-choice, out LGBTQ+ candidates at all levels of government.

FOR COMMUNITY MEMBERS

• Advocates for Trans Equality – Provides advocacy resources, policy information, and support for transgender individuals and their allies.
• Athlete Ally – Working to end homophobia and transphobia in sports and to activate the athletic community to exercise their leadership to champion LGBTQI+ equality.
• CenterLink LGBT Community Center Directory – Directory of LGBTQ+ centers across the United States.
• Lambda Legal – Civil rights organization that focuses on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities, as well as people living with HIV and AIDS.
• Made, Known, Loved – Shows congregations how to create a program that affirms LGBTQ youth in their faith and their identity, accepts and welcomes diverse sexual orientations and gender identities, and equips future leaders for the church and the LGBTQ community.
• The Movement Advancement Project (MAP) – Nonprofit think tank that provides research and analysis on LGBTQ+ issues to advance equality.
• National Black Justice Collective – Working to end racism, homophobia, and LGBTQ/SGL bias and stigma.
• National LGBTQ Task Force – Non-advocates for the civil rights of LGBTQ+ people and their families.
• Power-Mapping by the Center for Nonprofit Management – Helpful tool used to build strategy and assess progress while driving change for our communities.
• Straight for Equality – Empowering new allies who don’t necessarily have a family connection to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) community.
• Victory Fund – Supports pro-equality, pro-choice, out LGBTQ+ candidates at all levels of government.