Research Guides: LGBTQ+ Research: Sites

Local Sites

San Francisco LGBT Center
The mission of the SF LGBT Center is to connect our diverse community to opportunities, resources and each other to achieve our vision of a stronger, healthier, and more equitable world for LGBT people and our allies.
San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus
We envision a world inspired and unified by the music we create.
Los Angeles LGBT Center
The Los Angeles LGBT Center is building a world where LGBT people thrive as healthy, equal, and complete members of society.
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center New York
The Center fosters a welcoming environment where everyone is celebrated for who they are. We offer the LGBTQ communities of NYC advocacy, health and wellness programs; arts, entertainment and cultural events; recovery, parenthood and family support services.
Rehab.com
Rehab.com connects patients with providers who care. Our core values are transparency, community and neutrality. We are committed to visibility of all providers, no matter their size.
Addictions.com
Substance abuse and addiction rates in the LGBTQ+ community are higher than in any other sector of society. Societal stigma, discrimination, mental and physical abuse, and and co-occurring mental health disorders are just a few of the unique substance abuse triggers among this population. The good news, however, is that LGBTQ+ resources for addiction and mental health are readily available to help members of this community conquer substance abuse.

National Sites

Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation’s Center
GLAAD has worked with news, entertainment and social media to bring culture-changing stories of LGBT people into millions of homes and workplaces every day. Read online reports.
LGBT Data & Demographics
Interactive utilize data collected for the Gallup Daily Tracking survey.
Intersex Society of North America
The Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) is devoted to systemic change to end shame, secrecy, and unwanted genital surgeries for people born with an anatomy that someone decided is not standard for male or female.
Lambda Legal
Lambda Legal is a national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work.
National Lesbian & Gay Journalist Association
Founded in 1990, NLGJA is an organization of journalists, media professionals, educators and students working from within the news industry to foster fair and accurate coverage of LGBT issues. NLGJA opposes all forms of workplace bias and provides professional development to its members.
PFLAG: Parents, Families, & Friends of Lesbians and Gays
PFLAG is the extended family of the LGBTQ community. We're made up of LGBTQ individuals, family members and allies. Because together, we're stronger.
Queer Studies
This subcategory of the Gender and Sexuality Studies was developed by Voice of the Shuttle (VoS), University of California, Santa Barbara, and includes selected resources on gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, intersexed, and other antinormative sexual identities, practices, performances, discourses, representations, and communities. Source: Queer Studies VoS.
The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth.

International Sites

FTMInternational
Contributes to FTM advancement through providing information and sponsoring networking meetings around the world.
Human Rights Watch: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Rights
Human Rights Watch is a nonprofit, nongovernmental human rights organization made up of more than 280 staff members around the globe.
ILGA-Europe
ILGA-Europe, a driving force for political, legal and social change in Europe and Central Asia, offers a vision iof a world where dignity, freedoms and full enjoyment of human rights are protected and ensured to everyone.
It Gets Better
The It Gets Better Project was created to show young LGBT people around the globe the levels of happiness, potential, and positivity their lives will reach – if they can just get through their teen years. The It Gets Better Project wants to remind teenagers in the LGBT community that they are not alone — and it WILL get better.
Transgender Europe (TGEU)
TGEU envisions a Europe free from discrimination and works for the equality of all trans people in Europe.
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)
An international multidisciplinary professional Association dedicated to promoting evidence based care, education, research, advocacy, public policy and respect in transgender health.