25 organizations
How LGBTQ+ services work in Atlanta
Atlanta has the deepest LGBTQ+ resource bench in the Southeast — the skill is knowing the specialized doors. For young people (under 26) facing homelessness, Lost-n-Found Youth is the dedicated front door: housing, drop-in support, and staff who get it. For health care, several Atlanta clinics specialize in affirming care — HIV prevention and treatment (PrEP is free or cheap through assistance programs at most of these clinics), hormone therapy, and primary care where you never have to explain yourself first.
For everything else in this directory — shelters, counseling, job programs — you can ask us or the organization directly: "is this program affirming?" Community verifications on listings often answer it before you have to.
What to expect when you call: you set the terms. Share what's relevant when it's relevant; a good intake worker follows your lead, and the organizations in this category are practiced at exactly that.
SisterLove Inc is an Atlanta nonprofit focused on HIV, sexual health, reproductive justice, and rights for women, Black women, LGBTQ+ people, and other marginalized communities. It helps with free HIV/STI and pregnancy testing, sexual health education, home HIV self-test kits, peer support, community research, and policy advocacy. Its website says operations are slowed right now, with testing concentrated on Thursdays from 10am to 2pm.
11 services
Fireweed Collective offers mental health education, peer support, and mutual aid through healing justice and disability justice. Its support groups meet online and center people who are queer, trans, BIPOC, disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent, or dealing with mental health struggles.
6 services
Cheeky Charity is a queer-led nonprofit that raises awareness about colorectal and anal cancer, especially for LGBTQ+ people and younger adults. It offers virtual cancer support groups, health education, surveys, awareness campaigns, and partnerships with clinics to improve screening.
11 services
Transgender Law Center is a national trans-led civil rights group. It helps transgender and gender-nonconforming people through legal information, policy advocacy, lawsuits, community programs, and online resources. Its Legal Information Helpdesk gives basic information but does not give individual legal advice or representation through the helpdesk.
12 services
The Mind Spa is a Georgia telepsychiatry practice founded by Bianca Ferguson, PMHNP-BC. It helps adults in Georgia with psychiatric evaluations, medication management, ADHD care, trauma and PTSD support, women’s mental health, anxiety, depression, and LGBTQ+ affirming care.
9 services
LGBT National Help Center is a national nonprofit that gives free, confidential peer support for LGBTQIA+ people by phone, chat, email, and online tools. Trained LGBTQIA+ volunteers listen, offer information, and help people find local resources, including in Atlanta, but they do not provide in-person services in Georgia.
10 services
Trans Housing Coalition is a trans-led group in Atlanta that helps transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming adults who are chronically homeless. They use a Housing First model and connect people to long-term housing, case management, and support like health care, counseling, employment, education, addiction treatment, and name-change help.
3 services
Pineapple Support is a nonprofit that helps people who work in the online adult industry get mental health support. They offer online therapy, support groups, education, and 24/7 emotional support from sex-worker-friendly and LGBTQ+ affirming providers.
12 services
All 1 Family, Inc. is an Atlanta nonprofit mental health organization for LGBTQ+ people, especially people of color, and their allies. They offer low-cost counseling, family and couples therapy, groups, teen and parent programs, and LGBTQ+ care training.
Candler Park11 services
Someone Cares Atlanta appears to be a community health organization connected to LGBTQ+ and HIV-related care. I could verify its live website and branding, but I could not verify current hours, address, intake steps, or active programs from accessible official pages today.
3 services
carafem is a nonprofit reproductive health provider with an Atlanta health center and online care in some states. They help with abortion care, birth control, STI and vaginal infection testing and treatment, UTI care, ultrasounds, and financial help when available.
Ardmore7 services
MISTR is an online sexual health service for adults. It helps people get PrEP, STI testing, DoxyPEP, long-term HIV care, and some ED medicines through online visits, lab testing, and discreet home delivery.
5 services
Feminist Women's Health Center is now called Feminist Center for Reproductive Liberation, and it is still the same nonprofit clinic in Atlanta. They provide abortion care, miscarriage care, wellness exams, STI and HIV testing, birth control, pregnancy testing, gender-affirming care, menopause care, postpartum care, and community education and advocacy.
13 services
Postpartum Support International helps pregnant and postpartum parents, people after pregnancy loss, and families with perinatal mental health support. They offer a non-crisis HelpLine, text support, free online peer support groups, peer mentors, local resource referrals, and Spanish-language support. Services are mostly phone, text, app, and virtual, with no Atlanta walk-in office verified.
13 services
AID Atlanta is an Atlanta HIV/AIDS service organization connected with AIDS Healthcare Foundation. It helps people with HIV care, HIV and STI testing, PrEP, pharmacy support, and links to treatment and other health services.
Midtown13 services
Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered, also called FORCE, is a national nonprofit for people and families facing hereditary cancer risk. They help by phone and online with peer support, support meetings, webinars, genetic cancer information, and tools to find resources and health providers.
14 services
THRIVE Lifeline is a trans-led nonprofit that offers non-police, non-carceral crisis and mental health support for adults with marginalized identities. Its official site says the text lifeline is temporarily down while they raise funds, and it points people to partner peer support groups, Discord communities, coping guides, and Stronger U programs in the meantime.
6 services
youthSpark is an Atlanta nonprofit that helps vulnerable teens who have faced abuse, exploitation, trafficking, violence, running away, or trauma. Its Youth Services Center offers case management, counseling, support groups, crisis help, school and court advocacy, job readiness, life skills, and basic items like clothes and toiletries.
Mechanicsville10 services
Ellie Mental Health - Athens, GA is a mental health therapy clinic in the Bishop Park area of Athens. They offer counseling for individuals, couples, and families, plus online therapy, grief therapy, and trauma-informed therapy.
8 services
ACLU of Georgia is a statewide civil rights group. It uses lawsuits, advocacy, voter rights work, public education, and volunteer action to protect civil liberties for people in Georgia. It does not usually provide direct legal aid for individual cases, but people can share rights violations and use its legal resource list.
10 services
