81 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.
Community Helpline is a free, confidential crisis, referral, and support hotline. Trained volunteer listeners answer calls from people dealing with stress, loneliness, depression, suicidal thoughts, substance use, grief, identity concerns, abuse, or relationship problems.
4 services
The ACLU of Georgia is a civil rights and civil liberties organization serving people across Georgia. It works through lawsuits, policy advocacy, voter-rights work, public education, volunteer programs, and legal observer work, but it says it usually cannot provide individual legal aid or respond to legal-help requests.
6 services
Reprocare is a national phone, text, and Signal support line for people with questions about abortion pills. Trained peer counselors offer anonymous, nonjudgmental information, emotional support, and referrals, but they are not doctors or lawyers and do not pay for or mail pills.
2 services
COLAGE is a national group for people who have one or more LGBTQ+ parents or caregivers. It helps children, teens, and adults connect with peers, join support spaces, build leadership, and take part in family and advocacy programs, including Atlanta Family Weekend.
10 services
SHE RECOVERS Foundation is a nonprofit recovery community for women, femmes, and non-binary people who identify with women’s communities. They offer online support gatherings, identity-based groups, recovery education, yoga, dance, retreats, and trusted recovery resources for people healing from substance use, trauma, mental health struggles, grief, burnout, and other life challenges.
13 services
Center for Chronic Illness is a national nonprofit that supports people living with chronic illness and their loved ones. It offers free virtual support groups led by licensed mental health professionals, plus online education programs about living with chronic illness.
10 services
PFLAG supports, educates, and advocates for LGBTQ+ people and the people who love them. Its PFLAG Connects groups offer free online support meetings, and PFLAG Black Metro Atlanta offers adult peer support, education, advocacy, and private meeting details for Black LGBTQ+ people, families, and allies in Metro Atlanta.
6 services
Q Chat Space was an online community for LGBTQ+ and questioning teens ages 13 to 19. Its website says it stopped hosting chats as of February 27, 2025, and now points teens to other online resources and local LGBTQ+ centers.
2 services
Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative, also called SnapCo, is a Black trans and queer-led group in Atlanta. They build community safety without police and offer programs like emergency mutual aid, record-clearing help, passport and ID support, member safety tools, political education, and community events.
12 services
Alsana, Inc. is an eating disorder treatment provider. It offers virtual PHP and IOP treatment for adults and teens in Georgia, including Atlanta, plus in-person treatment programs in Alabama and California. Its free online support group is listed as temporarily paused, but its 24/7 live chat and admissions phone line are active.
10 services
All-Options is a reproductive support nonprofit with a free Talkline for people dealing with pregnancy, abortion, adoption, parenting, miscarriage, infertility, and related feelings. Trained peer counselors listen without judgment and can help callers think through options, feelings, and next steps.
5 services
Lambda Legal is a national civil rights legal organization for LGBTQ+ people and people living with HIV. Its Help Desk gives general legal information and resources about discrimination, but it is not an emergency service and does not create an attorney-client relationship.
6 services
Beyond Therapy with Dr. Jo is a licensed psychology practice that serves adults by video in Georgia and other approved states. They provide therapy for trauma, chronic illness, grief, and LGBTQ+ needs, and they also do gender-affirming care letter evaluations.
7 services
The Wildflower Alliance is a peer support, advocacy, and training group based in Western Massachusetts. It helps people who have lived through mental health struggles, trauma, homelessness, substance use, or other hard life experiences through a warmline, online support, groups, respite, advocacy, and community programs.
12 services
Trans Lifeline is a trans-led nonprofit that supports trans and questioning people by phone. Its hotline connects callers with trans and nonbinary peer operators for crisis and non-crisis support, and it also shares resources and ID-change information.
7 services
Trikone is a volunteer-led nonprofit for LGBTQ+ people of South Asian descent and their allies. It builds community through Bay Area gatherings, subgroups, advocacy, and the DeQH phone and email peer-support helpline for LGBTQ+ South Asians in the United States.
6 services
High Focus Centers in Johns Creek is an outpatient mental health and substance use treatment center for adults and teens. They offer therapy groups, individual care planning, psychiatry support, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient care, and some virtual options.
14 services
Nalgona Positivity Pride is an online grassroots eating disorder awareness and harm reduction organization for Black, Indigenous, and communities of color. It offers peer support groups, education, courses, speaking, and events about eating disorders, body image, colonialism, race, and mental health.
7 services
Trans Housing Atlanta Program helps transgender and gender non-binary people in metro Atlanta who are homeless or unstably housed. They offer housing support, small stipends for approved housing costs, case management, and connections to resources like SNAP and HOPWA.
Candler Park4 services
SAGE is a national organization that supports and advocates for LGBTQ+ older adults. Its former National LGBTQ+ Elder Hotline was discontinued in 2023, but SAGE still offers online community, resources, partner referrals, advocacy, housing information, financial wellness tools, and in-person services in New York and Florida.
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