ADDITIONAL LGBTQ RESOURCES

AffordableColleges.com provides a guide to LGBTQ colleges that breaks down the individual components that make a campus LGBTQ-friendly, and is intended to help you navigate potential schools.

Find the right student loan to pay for college expenses. See how to maximize federal and free financial aid and choose a student loan with the best terms.

Manage payments and save money with student loan consolidation. Find the best terms to consolidate your student debt with a federal or private student loan.

Free online dynamic database provides LGBT and ally students with the largest, most comprehensive source of LGBT scholarship and funding resources in the nation. Individuals can find how to apply and search scholarships available at certain campuses, state by state, regionally or nationally. New scholarships may be listed by a campus or any funding organization by simply logging into the database. There are no charges to view scholarships or to list scholarships.

It’s more important than ever for students and former students to make smart decisions about financing their college education. Whether you’re attending college soon, are a current student, or already have student loans, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau put together some tools and resources to help you make the best decisions for you.

Chegg

Based on their comprehensive student profile, they can match students to over $1 billion in scholarships and merit aid awards. Chegg allows students to learn about, get recruited by, and interact with more than 850 colleges and universities from all over the world.

Provides clear, correct info and advice on the many options students have to reduce the cost of their degree, and to offer a fresh analysis of which colleges are doing the most to make high-quality education affordable.

Dedicated to meeting the needs of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community and those questioning their sexual orientation and gender identity.

Indiana Youth Group National
Hotline
(1-800-347-TEEN)

Provides a safe place, a confidential environment and services which foster self-esteem, resiliency, and positive decision-making skills among self-identified lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender young people, and to advocate on their behalf in schools, on the streets and in the community.

Trans Lifeline
(1-877-565-8860)

Trans Lifeline is a non-profit dedicated to the well being of transgender people. The hotline is primarily for transgender people experiencing a crisis and staffed by transgender people for transgender people.

Highly-trained advocates are available 24/7 to talk confidentially with anyone experiencing domestic violence, seeking resources or information, or questioning unhealthy aspects of their relationship.

Trevor Helpline
(1-866-488-7386)

The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth.

Helps protect young people’s right to express themselves, start gay-straight alliance clubs, have their gender identity respected, and be taught in a safe environment.

Advocates for Youth

Helps young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health.

Asian and Pacific Islander Queers United for Action (AQUA)

DC-based volunteer organization serving the LGBTQ members of the Asian and Pacific Islander community in the metro Washington, DC area.

Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice

Provides critically needed financial and technical support to lesbian-led, LGBTQI and progressive organizations.

Audre Lorde Project

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non Conforming People of Color center for community organizing, focusing on the New York City area.

Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits

Exists to restore and recover the role of Two-Spirited people within the American Indian community by creating forums for the spiritual, cultural, and artistic expression of Two-Spirit people.

Blacklight Online

An online magazine for LGBT people of color.

Campus Pride

Campus Pride serves LGBTQ and ally student leaders and campus organizations in the areas of leadership development, support programs and services to create safer, more inclusive LGBTQ-friendly colleges and universities. It exists to develop, support and give “voice and action” in building future LGBTQ and ally student leaders.

College Scorecard

College Scorecards in the U.S. Department of Education’s College Affordability and Transparency Center make it easier for you to  find out more about a college’s affordability and value so you can make more informed decisions about which college to attend.

Deaf & Queer

Information center for, by and about the Deaf Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Intersex and Questioning communities (hereafter referred to as the “Deaf Queer community”).

Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN)

Education organization focused on ensuring safe schools for all students regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.

Gay-Straight Alliance Network

Youth leadership organization that connects school-based Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) to each other and community resources through peer support, leadership development and training.

Hetrick-Martin Institute

Provides after school programs, supportive services, internships and advocacy & capacity building. It is the home of the Harvey Milk High School in NYC.

Medical Student Pride Alliance

The Medical Student Pride Alliance (MSPA) is an activist and social organization committed to empowering sexual and gender minority medical students and allies, increasing the number of physicians trained in LGBTQ-inclusive healthcare, and addressing the unique needs of queer communities through research, advocacy, education, and service.

OutRight Action International

OutRight seeks to advance human rights and opportunities for LGBTIQ people around the world by developing partnerships at global, regional, and national levels to build capacity, document human rights violations, advocate for inclusion and equality, and hold leaders accountable for protecting the rights of LGBTIQ people.

LGBTQ-Friendly Campus Pride Index

Provides online access to search colleges and universities based on their LGBTQ-friendly campus life

LGBTQ Professional Societies & Caucuses

Resource list maintained by Academic and scholarly books publisher Harrington Park Press.

Larkin Street Youth

Provides street outreach and emergency shelter, primary medical care, transitional housing, and job training and scholarship assistance to get homeless and at risk kids off the streets.

The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE)

A social justice organization dedicated to advancing the equality of transgender people through advocacy, collaboration and empowerment.

National Consortium of Higher Education Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Professionals

Goal is to support colleagues and develop curriculum to professionally enhance this work; to seek climate improvement on campuses; and to advocate for policy change, program development, and establishment of LGBT Office/Centers.

Parents, Friends, and Families of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)

Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays provides opportunity for dialogue about sexual orientation and gender identity, and acts to create a society that is healthy and respectful of human diversity.

People with a History

Presents the history of LGBT. It includes hundreds of original texts, discussions, and [soon] images, and addresses LGBT history in all periods, and in all regions of the world.

South Bay Queer & Asian

Provides a fun and safe environment for queer Asians and Pacific Islanders in the South Bay to come out and be comfortable with their sexual identity and ethnicity, as well as be vital and visible to the greater community. Sylvia Rivera Law Project – NYC-based law project that provides free legal services to low-income and homeless transgender, gender variant, and intersex people facing gender identity discrimination.

Start Your Recovery

StartYourRecovery.org provides helpful information for people who are dealing with substance use issues — and their family members, friends, and co-workers, too. We know that there is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges faced by those who misuse alcohol, prescription or illegal drugs, or other substances, and we aim to break through the clutter to help people at any stage of recovery.

TransFamily

Transgender support group in the Cleveland, Ohio metropolitan area.

Trans-health.com

Online health and fitness magazine for Trans, gender variant, and intersex people.

Trans Mentors International

Provides aid, support and assistance to Trans-identified individuals.

Trans Youth Family Allies

Empowers children and families by partnering with educators, service providers and communities, to develop supportive environments in which gender may be expressed and respected.

Trikone

Non-profit organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people of South Asian descent based in the San Francisco Bay Area.