LGBTQ RESOURCES
PFLAG National
FIND A PFLAG chapter
https://www.pflag.org/find-a-chapter
DOWNLOADABLE PDF BOOKLETS
http://pflagaustin.org/booklets
2-1-1 Texas
2-1-1 Texas is a collaboration of United Way Capital Area and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. Anyone inside Texas can call 2-1-1 for free information and referrals to health, employment, educational legal, housing, counseling, transportation, human service agencies, nonprofit, faith-based organizations, disaster relief resources, and volunteer opportunities. It is free and confidential, available 24/7, accessible by TTY/TDD, multilingual.
Out Youth
Central Texas LGBTQ+ (lesbian/gay/bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning) youth/allies. Services to ensure these promising young people develop into happy, healthy, successful adults. Provide trainings and resources for parents, teachers, and community members.
www.outyouth.org
(512)419-1233
The Trevor Project
The leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) young people ages 13-24. - 24/7
www.thetrevorproject.org/pages/get-help-now
1-866-488-7386
Texas Youth Hotline
The Texas Youth Hotline provides prevention services to youths, parents, siblings, and other family members who are in need of a caring voice and sympathetic ear. It is for any youth, doesn't have to be LGBTQ.
Call 1-800-989-6884
Text 512-872-5777
www.dfps.state.tx.us/Youth_Hotline
Facebook group: “Texas Name and Gender Marker Change”
A closed Facebook group where one can ask for instructions, direction, information, experience, on changing one’s name and gender marker in Texas. There are many knowledgeable people in the group, ranging from attorneys to people who have “been there and done that” who are willing to help.
GLBT National Help Center
The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) Youth Talkline provides telephone, online private one-to-one chat and email peer-support, as well as factual information and local resources for cities and towns across the United States.
Hours: Monday-to-Friday 3PM to 11PM CST and Saturday 11AM to 4PM CST
1-800-246-7743
www.glnh.org/talkline
Parents of LGBTQ children:
https://serendipitydodah.wordpress.com/resources-2/
Hatch Youth
Social group for LGBTQ+ youths at the Montrose Center, Houston, TX: empowering lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual and allied youth to become positive contributors to society by providing a safe social environment, offering role models and peer support.
American Psychological Association LGBTQ Resources
http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx
Gender Spectrum
https://www.genderspectrum.org/
Straight allies
http://www.straightforequality.org
GLSEN (formerly Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network)
Safe Space programs for schools. Resources for LGBT students, their allies, and their families, including support to create a school gay-straight alliance
National Center for Transgender Equality
The nation's leading social justice advocacy organization
Trans Lifeline
Trans Lifeline is a non-profit dedicated to the well-being of transgender people. We run a hotline staffed by transgender people for transgender people. Trans Lifeline volunteers are ready to respond to whatever support needs members of our community might have.
1-877-565-8860
Human Rights Campaign
As the largest national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, HRC envisions a world where LGBT people are ensured of their basic equal rights, and can be open, honest and safe at home, at work and in the community.
Equality Texas
Works to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Texans through political action, education, community organizing, and collaboration.
Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT)
Dedicated to halting discrimination and furthering the gender diverse equity in the State of Texas by social, legal, legislative, and corporate education, and through networking in both public and private forums.
Southerners On New Ground (SONG)
SONG is a home for LGBTQ liberation across all lines of race, class, abilities, age, culture, gender, and sexuality in the South.
Transgender Law Center
The Legal Information Helpline provides basic information about laws that affect transgender people, including employment, health care, civil rights, family law, and identity document changes.
NCTE Transgender Legal Services Network
NCTE created the Trans Legal Services Network to ensure that every transgender person has access to assistance navigating the complicated name and gender change process and any other legal issues they may face.
www.transequality.org/id-documents-center/transgender-legal-services-network
Lambda Legal
Lambda Legal is the oldest and largest national legal organization whose mission is to achieve 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.
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
LGBT Rights Project - A special division of the national ACLU, staffed by experts in constitutional law and civil rights making the case for fair and equal treatment regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity.
www.aclu.org/issues/lgbt-rights
National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR)
NCLR is a national legal organization committed to advancing the civil and human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families through litigation, legislation, policy, and public education.
LGBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders (GLAD)
Through strategic litigation, public policy advocacy, and education, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders works in New England and nationally to create a just society free of discrimination based on gender identity and expression, HIV status, and sexual orientation.