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.
OutCare Health is a national nonprofit that helps LGBTQ+ people find affirming health care and support. It offers online tools like a provider directory, care navigation, peer support, mentoring, webinars, research opportunities, and health education.
11 services
OUTstandingLIFE is a free virtual community for LGBTQ+ older adults and allies. It helps people stay connected through online programs, social events, learning sessions, and caregiver support. Its website points to Massachusetts and Boston-area partners, not a physical Atlanta office.
7 services
Love Positive Counseling is a mental health practice in Roswell, Georgia. They offer individual, relationship, and group counseling, plus coaching and affirming support groups for LGBTQ+, transgender, polyamorous, and kink/BDSM communities.
10 services
Soaring Spirits International helps people after the death of a spouse or partner. They offer online peer community, mailed resources, pen pals, local social groups, Camp Widow events, and grief education for professionals and communities.
8 services
Trans Needle Exchange is a nonprofit mail-based service that sends free HRT injection supplies to trans people who cannot get or afford their own. They also offer harm reduction supplies like Narcan, fentanyl test strips, safer injection supplies, safer smoking supplies, sexual health products, and menstrual products.
4 services
Sex Workers Outreach Project-USA is a national grassroots network for the rights and safety of sex workers and their communities. It helps through advocacy, education, community support, resource sharing, and work to end violence and stigma.
5 services
The Network/La Red is a survivor-led group based in Boston that helps LGBTQ+, kink, and polyamorous people who are being hurt or controlled by a partner. They offer a free 24-hour hotline, safety planning, support groups, individual advocacy, and housing help for survivors.
9 services
Brain Positive Therapy is a neurodiversity-affirming speech therapy clinic for children and adults. They provide virtual speech screenings, evaluations, and treatment for communication needs like articulation, language, social skills, voice, fluency, literacy, AAC, and cognition. They also offer autism/ADHD coaching, adult social skills groups, and neurodiversity consulting for organizations.
7 services
The Galano Club is a nonprofit clubhouse in Atlanta for the LGBTQ+ recovery community and friends. It provides a safe place for many 12-step groups to meet in person, with some virtual and hybrid meetings.
Morningside/Lenox Park11 services
BlackLine is a national phone and text support line for people in crisis or people who have faced mistreatment by police, vigilantes, stores, or other public spaces. It centers Black, Indigenous, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, Black femmes, Native people, Brown people, and Muslim communities, but says no one is turned away.
7 services
The Trevor Project is a national nonprofit that helps LGBTQ+ young people who feel alone, unsafe, or in crisis. Trained counselors answer by phone, text, and chat 24/7, and the group also offers peer support, online resources, trainings, research, and advocacy.
10 services
I Support the Girls is a national nonprofit that gives bras, underwear, period products, and hygiene items to people who need them. It works through local affiliates and partner agencies, and it also mails some care kits to people in the U.S., including survivors fleeing abuse.
6 services
Pay What You Can Peer Support is a nonprofit that runs online peer support groups for mental health and life challenges. People choose a group, book online, join by Zoom, and pay what they can after the session.
13 services
Immigration Equality is a national legal and advocacy group for LGBTQ and HIV-positive immigrants and their families. They help with immigration questions, asylum, detention, family immigration issues, referrals, and connections to pro bono lawyers.
4 services
NCLR is now called the National Center for LGBTQ Rights. It is a national legal nonprofit that helps LGBTQ people and families through a legal helpline, free legal information, court cases, policy work, and public education.
6 services
National Alliance for Eating Disorders is a national nonprofit that helps people with eating disorders and their loved ones. It offers a free weekday helpline, treatment referrals, a treatment-search website, free therapist-led support groups, education, advocacy, and events.
10 services
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
