Community Resources for LGBTQQ youth

Bay Area Organizations

Billy DeFrank LGBT Community Center - The South Bay’s biggest LGBT community center

The Center – San Francisco’s LGBT Community Center

PFLAG – The Peninsula’s support organization for parents, families, and friends of LGBT folks

GSA Network – Resources, support and training for California Gay-Straight Alliance Clubs

LYRIC – Queer youth organization in San Francisco

The Pacific Center – LGBTQ community service center in Berkeley

Marin AIDS Project – HIV/AIDS info and services as well as groups for queer youth

Spectrum – LGBTQQ Center in the North Bay

Lambda Youth Project - LGBTQ Youth support services in Hayward

ProLatino - a non-profit organization which provides Prevention, Education and Advocacy to the Latino GLBT Community in Santa Clara County

CUAV - Community United Against Violence - a multicultural organization working to end violence against and within our lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQQ) communities

Mpowerment Project - an HIV prevention and support program set up specifially for young gay and bisexual men

Ally Action - provides comprehensive approaches to eliminating anti-LGBT bias and violence in local school communities

South Bay Bisexual Organizers and Activists (soboa) - social group in the south San Francisco Bay Area for bi and bi-friendly people

Transgender and Intersex Specific Resources -Local

note: many of the organizations above provide transgender/intersex friendly support/advocacy and education.

Transgender Law Center - works with community members and allies to make California a state in which we can all fully and freely express our gender identities

TransPowerment - working to reduce HIV infection and transmission among transgender persons and their partners in Santa Clara County