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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) related organizations and conferences range from social and support groups to organizations that are political in nature. Some groups are independent, while others are officially recognized
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s within mainstream religious organizations. * For groups whose primary purpose is campaigning for the legal
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''. * For organizations affiliated with
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International

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Affirming Pentecostal Church International Affirming Pentecostal Church International (APCI) is a Pentecostal Christian denomination, denomination. It is currently the largest LGBT affirming Pentecostal organization in the World. History It was founded December 5, 2010 in Indianapolis, I ...
— an Apostolic Pentecostal denomination operating in the US and many other countries * All Out — a global not-for-profit organisation that is focused on political advocacy for the human rights of LGBT people *
Axios Axios commonly refers to: * Axios (river), a river that runs through Greece and North Macedonia * ''Axios'' (website), an American news and information website Axios may also refer to: Brands and enterprises * Axios, a brand of suspension produ ...
— organization of Eastern Orthodox, Byzantine Rite, and Eastern Catholic Christians who are LGBT *
Emergence International Emergence International (EI) is a worldwide community of Christian Scientists and their families and friends, with the purpose of supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and to advocate for change in the Christian Science ...
— support group for LGBT Christian Scientists (''not to be confused with Scientology'') *
Federation of Gay Games The Gay Games is a worldwide sport and cultural event that promotes acceptance of sexual diversity, featuring lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) athletes, artists and other individuals. Founded as the Gay Olympics, it was star ...
— fosters LGBT self-respect through the Gay Games, an organized international participatory athletic and cultural event *
Frontrunners International Front Runners (Frontrunners) is an umbrella organization of LGBT running and walking clubs around the world. The walking clubs are called Frontwalkers. Activities Most Front Runners clubs host one or more weekly fun runs. Followin ...
— LGBT running and walking clubs *
GALA Choruses The Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses ("GALA Choruses") is an international association of LGBT choruses founded in 1982. In its inaugural performance 14 choruses performed together in September 1982 in San Francisco as part of the first Gay ...
— Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses *
Gay Games The Gay Games is a worldwide sport and cultural event that promotes acceptance of sexual diversity, featuring lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) athletes, artists and other individuals. Founded as the Gay Olympics, it was starte ...
— an organized international participatory athletic and cultural event held every four years * Global Alliance of Affirming Apostolic Pentecostals (GAAAP) (Encompasses the former Apostolic Restoration Mission) International LGBT-Affirming Apostolic (Oneness) Pentecostal denomination *
GRIN Campaign GRIN Campaign, Global Respect in Education, is a transatlantic non-profit organisation and advocacy group which campaigns primarily for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/ questioning (LGBTQ) people's social and political equality in e ...
— campaigning for social and political equality in education *
Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference The Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference is an international conference for LGBT linguistics and other related queer language research and discourse studies. It provides a place for emerging queer linguistics scholarship. The conference i ...
— an international conference for queer linguistics *
International Association of Gay Square Dance Clubs The International Association of Gay Square Dance Clubs (or IAGSDC) is an international umbrella organization for gay square dance. The association includes over eighty clubs. Most clubs are in the United States and Canada, with one club in Japan ...
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International Conference on Bisexuality The International Conference on Bisexuality (ICB), also known as the International BiCon, was a periodic gathering of bisexual activists and academics from around the world. Started by Fritz Klein and a group of fellow activists, the first ICB ...
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International Mister Leather International Mr. Leather (IML) is an international, though largely American, conference and contest of leather subculture, leathermen held annually in May since 1979 in Chicago, Illinois. Every year, the event corresponds to the weekend of the ...
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InterPride InterPride is the international organization that brings together Pride organizers from across the World to network, share knowledge, and maximize impact. To this end, Pride organizers design InterPride’s structure, programs, and initiatives, to ...
— an organization of over 200
Pride Pride is defined by Merriam-Webster as "reasonable self-esteem" or "confidence and satisfaction in oneself". A healthy amount of pride is good, however, pride sometimes is used interchangeably with "conceit" or "arrogance" (among other words) wh ...
event organisers *
Metropolitan Community Church The Metropolitan Community Church (MCC), also known as the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches (UFMCC), is an international LGBT-affirming mainline Protestant Christian denomination. There are 222 member congregations in 37 ...
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OutRight Action International OutRight Action International (OutRight) is a LGBTIQ human rights non-governmental organization that addresses human rights violations and abuses against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people. OutRight Action International doc ...
— international human rights organization dedicated to improving the lives of people who experience discrimination or abuse on the basis of their sexual orientation, gender identity or expression *
Q Christian Fellowship The Q Christian Fellowship (QCF) is an ecumenical Christianity, Christian Christian ministry, ministry focused on serving lesbian, bisexual, gay, transgender, queer, and straight ally Christians. It was founded in 2001 as the Gay Christian Networ ...
— global membership and attendance, but conference has only been hosted in the United States *
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (SPI), also called Order of Perpetual Indulgence (OPI) is a charity, protest, and street performance organization that uses drag and religious imagery to call attention to sexual intolerance and satirizes issue ...


Africa


Algeria

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Trans Homos DZ Trans Homos DZ is an Algerian organization that advocates for the rights of LGBTQI+ communities in Algeria. Since its creation, the NGO has been working to document violations based on sexual differences and to implement strategies to protect the ...


Nigeria

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Bisi Alimi Foundation The Bisi Alimi Foundation (BAF) is a non-profit organization founded in 2015, and registered in England and Wales, but operating in Nigeria as a result of the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act 2013 (SSMPA). The foundation aspires to create a Ni ...


Morocco

* Kif-Kif


South Africa

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Coalition of African Lesbians The Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL) is a network that comprises 14 non-profit organizations that are spread across 10 different countries in the sub-Saharan region of Africa.{{Cite journal , last1=Ngubane , first1=Musa , last2=Frank , first2=L ...
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Lesbian and Gay Equality Project The Lesbian and Gay Equality Project (LGEP), formerly known as the National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality (NCGLE), is a non-profit, non-governmental organization in South Africa that focuses on the expansion of LGBT civil rights in South A ...

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Zimbabwe

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GALZ GALZ An Association of LGBTI People in Zimbabwe (formerly Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe) is an organisation established in 1990 in Harare to serve the needs of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community in Zimbabwe. GA ...


Asia


China

* Tong-Kwang Light House Presbyterian Church *
Beijing Queer Chorus Founded in 2008 at Beijing, the Beijing Queer Chorus (北京酷儿合唱团) is now, with around 60 regular performing members, the first public performing LGBT chorus in mainland China. BQC is a member of the GALA Choruses. The Chorus was known ...


Hong Kong


Transgender Resource Center


India

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Fifty Shades of Gay Fifty Shades of Gay (saiouma.) is a Bangalore-based LGBT organisation. It was started in 2016 by social activist and founder of Laudco Media, Shubham Mehrotra to raise awareness about the LGBT population. In 2017, the team was operating across 24 ...
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Orinam Orinam (Tamil: ஓரினம்) is a non-funded, social, and activist collective that works to enhance understanding of alternate sexualities and gender identities among families, communities and society. It was founded in 2003 in Chennai un ...
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Srishti Madurai Srishti Madurai was established on 2 September 2011 by Gopi Shankar Madurai as the first genderqueer and LGBT student volunteer group designed to target the problems of LGBT people in non-metro cities of Tamil Nadu. In October 2011 Srishti Mad ...
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LABIA The labia are part of the female genitalia; they are the major externally visible portions of the vulva. In humans, there are two pairs of labia: the ''labia majora'' (or the outer labia) are larger and thicker, while the ''labia minora'' are fol ...
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Gay Bombay Gay Bombay is an LGBT social organization in Mumbai, India, which promotes LGBT rights. It was founded in 1998. The organization works to create an awareness of gay rights through workshops, film screenings, and parties. The organisation aims t ...
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Sangama (human rights group) Sangama is an LGBT rights group based in Bangalore, India. When it began in 1999, Sangama acted as a documentation center but it has since grown to become an LGBT rights and HIV prevention NGO that mobilizes against sexual harassment and discriminat ...
* Sappho for Equality * Sahodari Foundation


Israel

* Black Laundry — Israeli LGBT anarchist group which campaigns against the occupation of the Palestinian territories, and other issues *
Israel Gay Youth Israel Gay Youth (IGY) ( he, ארגון נוער גאה, ''Irgun Noar Ge'eh'', lit. "Proud Youth Organization"; he, איגי, ''Igy'', "IGY") was founded in 2001 in Israel as a non-profit NGO, branching off from the Israeli Gay, Lesbian, Bisexu ...
(IGY) * The
Israeli Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Association Israeli may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the State of Israel * Israelis, citizens or permanent residents of the State of Israel * Modern Hebrew, a language * ''Israeli'' (newspaper), published from 2006 to 2008 * Guni Israeli ...
— also called "the Aguda", the biggest LGBT rights association in Israel * Tehila — Support for the parents of LGBT people *
Tel Aviv Municipal LGBT Community Center The Tel Aviv Municipal LGBT Center (Hebrew: המרכז העירוני לקהילה הגאה, ''HaMerkaz HaIroni LaKehila HaGe'a'') is a municipal establishment, housing various social and cultural community services provided by the City of Tel Avi ...
— Tel Aviv-Yafo's City community center for LGBTQ people.


Japan


Arima LGBT Support Group ありまま(LGBTグループ)

プライドハウス東京 - Pride House Tokyo Japan 2020

Clinic For Rainbows

Kobe IDAHO 神戸IDAHO

LGBT Gakushin Circle 学習院大学LGBTサークルにじがく

LGBT Families and Friends Association LGBTの家族と友人をつなぐ会

Miyoshi Real Estate Group for LGBT 三好不動産フレンズ（LGBT）

Nijidiversity NPO

Nijiro Kazoku / Rainbow Families にじいろかぞく

Osaka Sexual Minorities and Neurodiversity Support Group 発達障害 × セクマイの会 @大阪

Rainbow Pride Ehime Film Festival

Sapporo Rainbow Pride (March) さっぽろレインボープライド

Startline Home Care Agency NPO法人Startline. net / 訪問介護事業所SAISON

Stonewall Japan Nonprofit

Takarazuka Human Rights Division ありのままに自分らしく【宝塚市人権男女共同参画課】


Nepal

* Blue Diamond Society


Philippines

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Philippine LGBT Chamber of Commerce The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...


Singapore


Taiwan

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Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline Association Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline Association (TTHA; ) is an organization that provides the LGBT community with peer counseling, support networks, and a community resource center. It is the first LGBT non-governmental organization (NGO) registered in Tai ...


Australia and Oceania


Australia

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Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives The Australian Queer Archives (AQuA) (formerly the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives - ALGA) is a community-based non-profit organisation committed to the collection, preservation and celebration of material reflecting the lives and experienc ...
— community-based organization committed to the collection and preservation of material reflecting the lives and experiences of LGBT Australians * Queers in Science - a Melbourne-based initiative aiming to build community and improve support for LGBTQIA+ people working in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine) in Australia


Coral Sea Islands

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Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands (also known as The Gay Kingdom of the Coral Sea) was a putative micronation established as a symbolic political protest by a group of gay rights activists based in Australia. Declared in 200 ...
— world's first LGBT
micronation A micronation is a political entity whose members claim that they belong to an independent nation or sovereign state, but which lacks legal recognition by world governments or major international organizations. Micronations are classified se ...


New Zealand

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Intersex Trust Aotearoa New Zealand Intersex Aotearoa is a nonprofit organisation based in New Zealand, and is a national advocacy and peer support organisation for intersex people. The organisation was founded in 1996 by Mani Mitchell, and has previously been known as the Intersex ...
— also known as Intersex Awareness New Zealand


Europe

BGLBC – BeNeLux LGBTIQ+ Business ChamberEast meets West
-- a network of LGBTIQ professionals from Western & (primarily) Eastern Europe founded in 2013. It acts as the LGBTIQ Business Chamber for CEE Region (Central & Eastern Europe).
EGLCC – European LGBTIQ Chamber of Commerce
- umbrella organization for national European LGBTIQ Chambers of Commerce
European Forum of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Christian Groups European, or Europeans, or Europeneans, may refer to: In general * ''European'', an adjective referring to something of, from, or related to Europe ** Ethnic groups in Europe ** Demographics of Europe ** European cuisine, the cuisines of Europe a ...
— an association of LGBT Christian groups in Europe for equality and inclusion for LGBT people within and through Christian churches and other religious bodies and multilateral organisations.


Germany

* Berlin LGBTIQ+ Tech Week *BiBerlin e.V. *BVT* - Der Bundesverband Trans* setzt sich für eine Gesellschaft ein, in der alle trans* Personen in Würde leben. Sicher, selbstbewusst und selbstbestimmt.
Casa Kuà
- Trans*Inter*Queer Community Health Center
DIE LINKE.queerGGLBC German LGBTIQ+ Business Chamber
-- GGLBC German LGBTIQ+ Business Chamber was founded as part of a ceremony in the Cologne Chamber of Commerce and Industry in 2019 *LGBTQ STEM Berlin *QueerJS Berlin
Quaurteera
- Russian-speaking queer community in Germany *Proudr *RAHM * UHLALA *Schwarz-Lila Panke *she*claim *STICKS & STONES - The LGBTIQ+ Job & Career Fair & Platform *Trans Day of Visibility Berlin * Unicorns in Tech (conference)


Hungary

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Háttér Society Háttér Society (''Háttér Társaság'' in Hungarian, ''háttér'' means ''background'') is an NGO representing LGBTQI people in Hungary. It operates a telephone hotline, a legal aid service, an HIV/AIDS prevention program and an archive. Beside ...
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LGBT+ Hedgehog club ' is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the initialism, as well as some of its common variants, functions as an umbrella term for sexuality and gender identity. The LGBT term is ...
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Labrisz Lesbian Association Labrisz Lesbian Association was founded in 1999 in Budapest, Hungary. Its purpose is making the lives and issues of lesbian, bisexual and transgender women more visible, along with seeking to aid these women with various cultural programs and di ...
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Budapest Pride Budapest Pride, or Budapest Pride Film and Cultural Festival, is Hungary's largest annual LGBT event. Of the week-long festival, the march is the most visible event. The march has historically been known under several names, including ''Budapest G ...
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Hungarian LGBT Alliance The Hungarian LGBT Alliance is an umbrella organization that brings together gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender organizations in Hungary. It was founded on January 25, 2009, and currently has seven member organizations. Member organizations ...


Ireland

* Hirschfeld Centre — an LGBT community centre operating in Dublin, Ireland, from 1979 to 1997 * House of STEM — a community-led initiative to improve LGBTQ+ support, visibility and representation in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) and STEM-related fields in Ireland * Outhouse — an LGBT community and resource centre operating in Dublin, Ireland, from 1996 to present day


Italy


Italian GLBT Business Chamber
(IGLBC)


Scotland

* Affirmation Scotland — advocacy group composed of Church of Scotland members, works for a more LGBT-affirming denomination * OutScotland


Sweden

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Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights The Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Rights ( sv, Riksförbundet för homosexuellas, bisexuellas, transpersoners och queeras rättigheter, RFSL, formerly ) is a Swedish organization working for LGBT rights. Lawy ...
(RFSL)
Scandinavian LGBT Chamber of Commerce
(SGLCC)


Switzerland

* Pink Cross — Swiss LGBT umbrella organization


United Kingdom

* Albert Kennedy Trust — organization supporting LGBT homeless *
Albany Trust The Albany Trust was founded in the United Kingdom as a registered charity in May 1958 to complement the Homosexual Law Reform Society (HLRS). It takes its name from The Albany, in Piccadilly, London, where J.B. Priestley and his wife Jacquetta Haw ...
— educational and counseling organization *
BiCon (UK) The UK BiCon (more formally known as the UK National Bisexual Convention or UK National Bisexual Conference), is the largest and most consistent annual gathering of the United Kingdom's bisexual community. While the format does vary, the typi ...
- organization for bisexuals that hosts an annual convention. *
BiFest A BiFest is a one-day festival celebrating bisexuality, usually with workshops and discussions during the day and social events in the evening, complementing the larger convention BiCon. Currently there have been at least sixteen BiFests around t ...
— social-support organization for bisexuals * Broken Rainbow — charity and support group for victims of same-sex domestic violence *
Ditch the Label Ditch the Label is a global youth charity, dedicated to helping young people through a range of issues, such as mental wellbeing, bullying, identity, relationships and digital literacy. They are a digital charity, which means that most of the sup ...
— a non-profit anti-bullying organisation * InterEngineering — a professional network aiming to connect, inform and empower lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender engineers and their straight allies * FLAGS – Active Support Unit for Lesbians and Gays in Scouting — active Support Unit for LGBT people in
The Scout Association The Scout Association is the largest Scouting organisation in the United Kingdom and is the World Organization of the Scout Movement's recognised member for the United Kingdom. Following the origin of Scouting in 1907, the association was for ...
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London Gay Men's Chorus London Gay Men's Chorus is a gay choir that was founded in 1991 by a group of nine gay men. The group now has around 150 singing members at any one time and almost 300 members in total. Introduction With a widely varying repertoire from class ...

OutBritain
- UK’s first LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce *
Outdoor Lads Outdoor(s) may refer to: * Wilderness *Natural environment * Outdoor cooking * Outdoor education *Outdoor equipment *Outdoor fitness *Outdoor literature *Outdoor recreation *Outdoor Channel, an American pay television channel focused on the outdoo ...
- social gay men’s group * Pride in STEM - a charitable trust that aims to showcase LGBT people in STEM fields *
Project for Advice, Counselling and Education Project for Advice, Counselling and Education (PACE) is London's leading charity promoting the health and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT ' is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans ...
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Proud2Serve Proud may refer to: Music * ''Proud'' (Heather Small album), the debut album by Heather Small ** "Proud" (Heather Small song), a song by Heather Small that was the official song for the London 2012 Olympic bid * ''Proud'' (compilation album), ...
— online network for UK Armed Forces *
Ski Bums Ski Bums was a travel and social club for LGBT skiers and snowboarders, with hundreds of members from across North America. It hosted social events and group trips to ski resorts throughout North America, South America and Europe. History Ski ...
* Switchboard — helpline providing support for LGBT+ *
Quakers Quakers are people who belong to a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations known formally as the Religious Society of Friends. Members of these movements ("theFriends") are generally united by a belief in each human's abil ...
— religious society of friends. Allows gay marriage and considers all equal


North America

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North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance The North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance (NAGAAA) is a non-profit, international association of gay and lesbian softball leagues. As of 2023, NAGAAA rebranded to International Pride Softball. NAGAAA was founded in 1977 and the first ele ...
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Pink Pistols The Pink Pistols are an LGBTQ gun rights organization in the United States and Canada. Their motto is "Pick on someone your own caliber". History Inspired by a Salon.com article written by Jonathan Rauch, Krikket (aka Doug Krick), a libertaria ...
- a gay gun rights organization *
ReconcilingWorks ReconcilingWorks, initially named Lutherans Concerned for Gay People and subsequently Lutherans Concerned/North America, is an organization of laypeople, pastors, and congregations primarily from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) ...


Canada

* Chouettes Coquettes — social group for lesbian and bisexual women in Montreal who are their 20s and 30s * Church of Nomromism — LGBT-affirming religious organization based in British Columbia * Gay Line — a non-profit telephone helpline in Montreal, Canada *
GLBTTQ Community Centre of Ottawa The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans, Two-Spirit, and Queer Community Centre of Ottawa was an incorporated non-profit organization which worked towards providing a community centre for the LGBT community in Ottawa, the capital of Canada. History ...
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Kind Space Kind Space (formerly known as PTS - Pink Triangle Services) is an LGBT community centre located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. They are the oldest registered LGBT-specific charity in Canada, becoming registered in 1984. The organization serves gay, ...
— a queer community centre located in Ottawa, Ontario *
Pride Library Western Libraries is the library system of the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. In 1898, the university Senate appointed James Waddell Tupper as the University of Western Ontario's first University Librarian. In 1918, John Davis ...
* 129th Toronto Scouting Group * The 519 — serving both the Church and Wellesley neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, and the broader lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities in the Toronto area *
Lambda Foundation The Lambda Foundation (french: Fondation lambda), officially the Lambda Scholarship Foundation Canada, is a registered Canadian charity with the mission of creating scholarships, awards, and bursaries in support of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgen ...


United States

* 8th Day Center for Justice * Adodi — one of the oldest black gay organizations in the US *
American Institute of Bisexuality The American Institute of Bisexuality (AIB) is a charity founded on July 23, 1998, by sex researcher, psychiatrist and bisexual rights activist Fritz Klein to promote research and education about bisexuality. AIB produces the ''Journal of Bisexua ...
— organization for bisexuals *
Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists The Association of Welcoming & Affirming Baptists (AWAB) is a Baptist Christian denomination. The headquarters is in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. History The Association was founded by a dozen churches of the American Baptist Churches US ...
— group of individuals, organizations, and congregations which advocate full LGBT-inclusion in Baptist churches *
BAGLY The Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth (BAGLY) is a non-profit organization located in Boston that works to protect, expand, and raise awareness for the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, and quest ...
— organization for LGBTQ+ youth in Greater Boston *
Bash Back Bash Back! was a network of queer, Insurrectionary anarchism, insurrectionary anarchist cells active in the United States between 2007 and 2011. Formed in Chicago in 2007 to facilitate a convergence of radical trans and gay activists from arou ...
— network of anarchist and anti-authoritarian queer projects * Bay Area Bi+ & Pan Network — organization for bisexuals * Bay View Garden and Yard Society (BVGAYS) — a non-profit gardening and community organization in Milwaukee, Wisconsin *
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— Jewish worshiping community in Washington, D.C. *
Bialogue Bialogue, a portmanteau of the words ''bisexual'' and ''dialogue'', is an American activist group that started in New York City, working on issues of local, national, and international interest to the bisexual, fluid, pansexual, queer-identified co ...
— organization for bisexuals *
BiNet USA BiNet USA (officially Bi/Net USA, The Bisexual Network of the USA Inc.) was an American national nonprofit bisexual community whose mission was to "facilitate the development of a cohesive network of bisexual communities, promote bisexual visibi ...
— organization for bisexuals *
Bisexual Resource Center The Bisexual Resource Center (BRC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, that has served the bisexual community since 1985. Originally known as The East Coast Bisexual Network, it incorporated ...
— organization for bisexuals * Bisexual Social Network — Program for bisexuals under non-profit organization
Step Up For Mental Health Step(s) or STEP may refer to: Common meanings * Steps, making a staircase * Walking * Dance move Dance moves or dance steps (more complex dance moves are called dance patterns, dance figures, dance movements, or dance variations) are usually i ...
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Center for Sex Positive Culture The Center for Sex Positive Culture (CSPC), formerly known as The Wet Spot, is a non-profit, membership-based organization located in Seattle, Washington. It organizes events and provides space for several different sex-positive subcultures, not ...
— aka the Wet Spot * Chinese Rainbow Network (CRN) * Commercial Closet Association *
Connecticut Gay Men's Chorus The Connecticut Gay Men's Chorus (CGMC) is Connecticut's first and, until 2012, its only performing arts organization composed of openly gay men — though their rules have been changed, and now any person who self-identifies as male may join, regar ...
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Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals The Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals, which was founded as the National Consortium of Directors of LGBT Resources in Higher Education, originated in 1997 at the San Diego NGLTF Creating Change Conference. In 2008 they c ...
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DignityUSA DignityUSA is an organization with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts, that focuses on LGBT rights and the Homosexuality and Catholicism, Catholic Church. Dignity Canada exists as the Canadian sister organization. The organization is made up of ...
— lay organization of LGBT-affirming Roman Catholics, not a church-sanctioned organization * El/La Para TransLatinas *
Gay and Lesbian Labor Activists Network The Gay and Lesbian Labor Activists Network (GALLAN) is a non-profit organization of trade unionists founded in 1987 by Tess Ewing, Harneen Chernow, Susan Moir, Cheryl Schaffer, Nancy Marks, Gerry Thomas, Tom Barbara and Diane Fry and a few o ...
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Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Straight Alliance The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Straight Alliance (GLBTSA) of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the largest LGBTIQ student organization in the Southeastern United States. GLBTSA sponsors the annual Southeast Regiona ...
(GLBTSA) at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States ...
(UNC-CH) *
Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles The Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles (GMCLA) is an amateur choral group composed of gay men from the Los Angeles area. Established in 1979, GMCLA has grown in size, gained professional artistic and administrative staff, toured nationally and int ...
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Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, D.C. The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C. (GMCW), is one of the oldest LGBT choral organizations in the United States. With more than 300 singing members, it is also one of the largest. The chorus's stated mission is that it "delights audiences ...
* Gayglers *
Gender Justice League Gender Justice League (GJL) is an advocacy group for transgender, genderqueer, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming individuals in Washington State in the United States. The group advocates for transgender legal, political, and medical rights as w ...
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GLAAD GLAAD (), an acronym of Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, is an American non-governmental media monitoring organization originally founded as a protest against defamatory coverage of gay and lesbian demographics and their portrayals ...
* Global LGBTQI+ Employee & Allies at Microsoft *
GLSEN GLSEN (pronounced ''glisten''; formerly the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network) is an American education organization working to end discrimination, harassment, and bullying based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expres ...
* Grace Gospel Chapel — a LGBT friendly Evangelical Christian church in Seattle, Washington *
Greater Seattle Business Association The Greater Seattle Business Association (GSBA) is an LGBTQ+ chamber of commerce based in Seattle, Washington. The majority of the organization's membership are small businesses located throughout the Puget Sound area. The association's stated ...
— a.k.a. GSBA, the largest regional LGBT & allied chamber of commerce in the United States and second-largest chamber of commerce in Washington State *
Growing American Youth Growing may refer to: * Growth (disambiguation) * Growing (band), a noise band based in Brooklyn, New York * ''Growing'' (Sleeping People album), 2007 *Growing (Rina Chinen album) * Growing, a children's song sung on the television program Barney ...
of St. Louis * Gulf Coast Archive and Museum of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender History (GCAM) — formed in Houston, Texas, by a group of concerned activists so that our collective histories could be saved – as well as be available for educational uses – through the utilization of a museum or similar venue *
Horizon Services Horizon Services, Inc. (HSI) is a nonprofit social service organization providing alcohol and drug treatment and recovery, mental health recovery, and substance abuse prevention services in Alameda, San Mateo , and Santa Clara counties in th ...
— alcohol and drug recovery organization based in the
San Francisco Bay Area The San Francisco Bay Area, often referred to as simply the Bay Area, is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun Bay estuaries in Northern California. The Bay Area is defined by the Association of Bay Area Go ...
— which operates some programs specifically targeting the LGBT community * Hudson Pride Connections Center *
IntegrityUSA Integrity USA was a nonprofit organization affiliated with the Episcopal Church in the United States. It was founded in 1974 to promote the inclusion of Q members and their Straight allies, allies for equal access to Episcopal liturgy, rites, bu ...
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Independent Gay Forum The Independent Gay Forum was an organization that sponsored a website featuring free access to articles and opinions penned by gay economical conservative, center-right Independent and libertarian gay authors. Its ''raison d'etre'' was dissatisfa ...
* Indy Pride, Inc. – serving the LGBTQ community in and near
Indianapolis Indianapolis (), colloquially known as Indy, is the state capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the consolidated population of Indianapolis and Marion ...
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Indiana Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s ...
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Lesbian Avengers The Lesbian Avengers were founded in 1992 in New York City, the direct action group was formed with the intent to create an organization that focuses on lesbian issues and visibility through humorous and untraditional activism. The group was foun ...
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Lesbian Herstory Archives The Lesbian Herstory Archives (LHA) is a New York City-based archive, community center, and museum dedicated to preserving lesbian history, located in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The Archives contain the world's largest collection of materials by and a ...
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Lesbian Sex Mafia The Lesbian Sex Mafia (LSM) is an information and support group for bisexual women and lesbians interested in sexual activities involving BDSM, fetishes, costumes, etc. Founded in 1981 by Jo Arnone and Dorothy Allison, it is located in New York Cit ...
* LGBT Chamber of Commerce Illinois *
Mazzoni Center Mazzoni Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit health care provider in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that serves the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. About Mission To provide quality comprehensive health and wellness serv ...
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MASALA (Massachusetts Area South Asian Lambda Association) The Massachusetts Area South Asian Lambda Association (MASALA) is a Boston-based organization for "Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Trans, and Questioning" people of South Asian ethnicity. It was founded in 1994 and is the only organization designed specifical ...
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Montrose Center The Montrose Center is an LGBTQ community center located in Houston, Texas, in the United States. The organization provides an array of programs and services for the LGBTQ community, including mental and behavioral health, anti-violence service ...
* More Light Presbyterians *
Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity The Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD), founded in 2013, is an American support and advocacy organization for LGBTQ Muslims. History The Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity was launched in January 2013 in Atlanta. ...
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National Gay Basketball Association The National Gay Basketball Association (NGBA) is an LGBTQ sports organization which exists to promote gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender athletic participation in basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly ...
* National Gay Prisoners Coalition *
National LGBT Chamber of Commerce The National LGBT Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) is a U.S. not-for-profit advocacy group that aims to expand the economic opportunities and advancement of the LGBT business community. Its headquarters are in Northwest, Washington, D.C., NW in Washi ...
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National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists, is an American professional association dedicated to unbiased coverage of LGBTQ issues in the media. It is based in Washington, D.C., and the membership consists primarily of journalists, students, edu ...
* National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals Inc (NOGLSTP) *
New Ways Ministry New Ways Ministry is a ministry of advocacy and justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Catholics. The national organization is primarily based in the state of Maryland. It was one of the earliest groups attempting to broaden the way Ca ...
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New York Area Bisexual Network New York Area Bisexual Network (NYABN) is a central communications network for bisexual and bi-friendly groups and resources in the five boroughs (Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island) of New York City and the surrounding Tri ...
— organization for bisexuals *
Oakland Gay Men's Chorus Oakland Gay Men's Chorus (OGMC) is a choral ensemble of some 60 voices, headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area's East Bay. Membership is open to singers with voices in the tenor, baritone, and bass ranges. The chorus sings an annual season of ...

OutCare Health
* Out in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, Inc. (oSTEM) — a global society dedicated to educating, empowering and fostering leadership for LGBTQA+ communities in the STEM fields. *
Pacific Center for Human Growth The Pacific Center for Human Growth, or simply the Pacific Center, is a community center focusing on LGBT people.
* Point Foundation * Pride365 * PrideArts *
Pride Foundation The Pride Foundation is an LGBT philanthropic foundation in the Pacific Northwest. It was founded in 1985, and has issued over $8 million in grants and over $1.65 million to the more than 50 scholarships it manages. In 1993, when The Pride Found ...
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Principle 6 campaign The Principle Six campaign, also Principle 6, or P6, was launched in January 2014 as an Olympic protests of Russian anti-gay laws in conjunction with the 2014 Winter Olympics being held in Sochi, Russia. Principle 6 refers to the sixth principle ...
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Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians The Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians (PLAGAL) is a United States-based interest group opposed to legalized elective abortion and supportive of alternatives to abortion. The group was founded by Tom Sena in 1990 in Minneapolis, Minnesot ...
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Queer Cultural Center Queer Cultural Center is a San Francisco "community building" organization to promote development of San Francisco's LGBT community. It was established in 1993. It is also known as the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Center for Art and Culture. Di ...
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Queer Student Cultural Center The Queer Student Cultural Center is the current incarnation of the coming out, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, genderqueer, intersex, and allied communities organization of the University of Minnesota campuses that has been active since May 19 ...
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Reaching Out MBA Reaching Out MBA, Inc. (ROMBA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that empowers LGBT+ MBA students and LGBT+ MBA graduates to become professionals who will lead the way to equality in business education, the workplace and throughout society. ...
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Rich Eychaner Charitable Foundation Rich may refer to: Common uses * Rich, an entity possessing wealth * Rich, an intense flavor, color, sound, texture, or feeling ** Rich (wine), a descriptor in wine tasting Places United States * Rich, Mississippi, an unincorporated comm ...
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Ruth Ellis Center The Ruth Ellis Center is a Detroit area social services agency that serves the needs of runaway, homeless and at-risk lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth. Among their services are a drop-in center, Street Outreach Program, fo ...
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San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus (SFGMC) is the world's first openly gay chorus, one of the world's largest male choruses and the group most often credited with creating the LGBT choral movement. The chorus was founded by gay music pioneer Jo ...
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Scouting for All Scouting for All is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization American advocacy organization whose stated purpose is to promote tolerance and diversity within the Boy Scouts of America in the face of its policies requiring members to be heterosexuals ...
* Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States *
Ski Bums Ski Bums was a travel and social club for LGBT skiers and snowboarders, with hundreds of members from across North America. It hosted social events and group trips to ski resorts throughout North America, South America and Europe. History Ski ...

SPLASH Youth of Northern Colorado
— LGBTQIA+ programming for young people, all identities and orientations, ages 5–20 * StartOut *
Stonewall Shooting Sports of Utah Stonewall Shooting Sports of Utah is a group of Gun politics in the United States, gun rights Advocacy, advocates in Utah. It supports the Pink Pistols' idea that was described nationally in 2000 by writer Jonathan Rauch for the legal, responsible a ...
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The Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada The Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada, known to most simply as The Center, is a nonprofit organization located in Las Vegas, Nevada, that has served the local lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community since 1993. The ...
— serving the LGBTQ community in and near
Las Vegas Las Vegas (; Spanish for "The Meadows"), often known simply as Vegas, is the 25th-most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County. The city anchors the Las Vegas ...
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Nevada Nevada ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, Western region of the United States. It is bordered by Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. N ...
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Transcending Boundaries Conference The Transcending Boundaries Conference (TBC) was a Northeast American convention for bisexual + other middle sexualitites, genderqueer, transgender, intersex, polyamorous and other people who do fall outside strict binaries as well as their fam ...
— a Northeast American convention for the bisexual community; for
genderqueer Non-binary and genderqueer are umbrella terms for gender identities that are not solely male or femaleidentities that are outside the gender binary. Non-binary identities fall under the transgender umbrella, since non-binary people typically ...
, transgender,
intersex Intersex people are individuals born with any of several sex characteristics including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical bina ...
, and polyamorous people, and for their family, friends, and straight allies. * TransTech Summit — The TransTech Summit provides attendees with tools to grow their existing careers, interact with new media technology, network with other
LGBT ' is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the initialism, as well as some of its common variants, functions as an umbrella term for sexuality and gender identity. The LGBT term is a ...
people.


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Intersex civil society organizations Intersex civil society organizations have existed since at least the mid-1980s. They include peer support groups and advocacy organizations active on health and medical issues, human rights, legal recognition, and peer and family support. Some gr ...
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List of LGBT organizations that affiliate with political parties {{LGBT orgs series This is a list of LGBT organizations affiliated with political parties. For groups whose primary purpose is campaigning for the legal LGBT rights by country or territory, rights of LGBT people, please see ''List of LGBT right ...
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List of LGBT rights organizations This is a list of LGBT rights organizations around the world. For social and support groups or organizations affiliated with mainstream religious organizations, please see ''List of LGBT-related organizations and conferences''. For organizations ...
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List of bisexuality-related organizations Bisexual conferences and organizations seek to promote understanding and acceptance, both legally and socially, of bisexual persons. International * International Conference on Bisexuality United Kingdom * BiCon (UK) * BiFest * BiPhoria Unite ...


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lgbt-Related Organizations * Lists of LGBT-related organizations