UCSF Resources
Center of Excellence for Transgender Health
The mission of The Center of Excellence for Transgender Health (CoE) is to advance health equity for trans and gender non-binary communities.
- The Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS)
- UCSF Transgender Care
- Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center
- Center for Sexual & Gender Minority Health
- Provider and community education and training
The mission of the UCSF Alliance Health Project is to support the mental health and wellness of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) and HIV-affected communities in constructing healthy and meaningful lives.
At UCSF 360 Wellness Center, we believe everyone should have access to the very best care and support to prevent and treat HIV, and to reach their ideal whole-person health.
- Sexual Health Improvement Program
- Silver Project
- Men of Color Program and Black Health Center of Excellence
- Urban HIV Telemedicine Program
We work toward creating and maintaining a safe, inclusive, and equitable environment for LGBTQIA+ students, staff, faculty, post-docs, residents, fellows, alumnae and patients. The Center aims to sustain visibility and a sense of community throughout the campus and medical center. We are committed to building workplace equity, promoting student and staff leadership, and providing high quality, culturally sensitive care to our patients.
Show support, take action, and increase LGBTQ+ visibility by taking the "Pride Pin Pledge." Join providers and students, and stand with LGBTQ+ communities at UCSF.
Gender Recognition and Lived Name Policy - GRLN Initiative
At UCSF, we strive to cultivate a culture of belonging, an environment free of discrimination and harassment in which all members of our community — including transgender and nonbinary people — can thrive. We are implementing the UC Presidential Policy on Gender Recognition and Lived Name (GRLN) to ensure that all employees, learners, patients, and affiliates are identified by their accurate gender identity and lived names.
Mental Health Support & Crisis Services
San Francisco Suicide Prevention
San Francisco Suicide Prevention is the oldest community-based telephone crisis center in the United States.?To this day, the agency trains local volunteers who provide suicide prevention and crisis intervention services to callers. In addition to our crisis hotlines, we provide services to youths, outreach in the community, grief support for loss survivors, and clinical supervision groups for qualifying volunteers.
Trans Lifeline is a grassroots hotline and microgrants 501(c)(3) non-profit organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community. Trans Lifeline connects trans people to the community support and resources we need to survive and thrive.
The Trevor Project is the leading suicide prevention and crisis intervention nonprofit organization for LGBTQ+ young people. We provide information & support to LGBTQ+ young people 24/7, all year round.
For queer teens & young adults ages 13-24
24/7 non-crisis emotional support phone and chat line serving residents of California
National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network
National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network (NQTTCN) is a healing justice organization actively working to transform mental health for queer and trans Black, Indigenous and People of Color (QTBIPOC).
Providing Long-Term, Low-Fee Mental Health and Substance Abuse Therapy for the Queer Community
LGBTQ+ Bay Area Community Centers
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.
- Arts & culture events
- Community programming & resources
- Employment services
- Financial services
- Small business services
- Volunteering
- Youth services & programming
Oakland LGBTQ Community Center
The Oakland LGBTQ Community Center is dedicated to enhancing and sustaining the well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals, our families and allies, by providing educational, social, and health related activities, programs and services.
- Senior services
- Support groups & clubs
- Glenn Burke Wellness Clinic
- Addiction recovery services
- Housing assistance
- Mental health services
- Food pantry
- Youth programming
Pacific Center for Human Growth
To enhance the mental health and overall well-being of the LGBTQIA+ and QTBIPOC communities by providing culturally responsive therapy, peer to peer support groups, community outreach services, and facilitated workshops. To incorporate strong social justice and trauma-informed frameworks in our clinical training and peer-to-peer support programs that contribute to equitable mental health service delivery. To provide the most comprehensive care possible for all who seek our services.
- Mental health services
- Clinical training for future clinicians
- Youth drop-in program
- Senior programming
- Peer support groups
- Training & consultation services
Rainbow builds community, equity, and well-being among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning and Intersex (LGBTQIA+) people & our allies.
- Mental health services
- Peer support groups
- HIV services & support
- Youth programming & resources
- Senior programming
- Houseless Transitional youth programming
Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center
The Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center provides community, leadership, advocacy, services and support to the Silicon Valley’s LGBTQ+ People and their Allies.
- Adult programming, activities & events
- Senior programming
- Lending library and cyber center
- HIV testing
LGBTQ+ Organizations in Bay Area
Mobiliz(ing) communities to power queer and trans movements.
Build(ing) the power of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) communities to transform violence and oppression.
Gender Spectrum’s mission is to create a gender-inclusive world for all children and youth. To accomplish this, we help families, organizations, and institutions increase their understanding of gender and consider the implications that evolving views have for each of us.
PFLAG SF works to create an equitable, inclusive world where every LGBTQ+ person is safe, celebrated, empowered, and loved.
Through support to cope with an adverse society, education to enlighten an ill-informed public, and advocacy to end discrimination and to secure equal civil rights, we provide the opportunity for dialogue about sexual orientation and gender identity and act to create a society that is healthy and respectful of human diversity.
National/Regional LGBTQ+ Advocacy & Programs
TGI Justice Project is a group of transgender, gender-variant and intersex people, inside and outside of prisons, jails, and detention centers, creating a united family in the struggle for survival and freedom. We work in collaboration with others to forge a culture of resistance and resilience to strengthen us for the fight against human rights abuses, imprisonment, police violence, racism, poverty, and societal pressures. We seek to create a world rooted in self-determination, freedom of expression, and gender justice
Founded in 1985, GLAAD is a non-profit organization focused on LGBTQ advocacy and cultural change. GLAAD works to ensure fair, accurate, and inclusive representation and creates national and local programs that advance LGBTQ acceptance. Serving as a storyteller, media force, resource, and advocate, GLAAD tackles tough issues and provokes dialogue so that authentic LGBTQ stories are seen, heard, and actualized. GLAAD strives to protect all that has been accomplished and helps create a world where everyone can live the life they love.
Transgender Law Center changes law, policy, and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression.
Transgender Law Center (TLC) is the largest national trans-led organization advocating for a world in which all people are free to define themselves and their futures. Grounded in legal expertise and committed to racial justice, TLC employs a variety of community-driven strategies to keep transgender and gender nonconforming people alive, thriving, and fighting for liberation.
National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR)
NCLR is a non-profit, public interest law firm that litigates precedent-setting cases at the trial and appellate court levels; advocates for equitable public policies affecting the LGBTQ community; provides free legal assistance to LGBTQ people and their legal advocates; and conducts community education on LGBTQ issues.
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.
Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom (BALIF)
BALIF is a community of LGBTQI+ legal professionals that envisions a world where LGBTQI+ people live with dignity and equality under the law. (Our mission is) to lead our LGBTQI+ legal community through advocacy, justice, community empowerment, and professional development.
COLAGE unites people with one or more lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and/or asexual parent into a network of peers and supports them as they nurture and empower each other to be skilled, self-confident, and just leaders in our collective communities.
Founded in 1969, Centro Legal de la Raza is a legal services agency protecting and advancing the rights of low-income, immigrant, Black, and Latinx communities through bilingual legal representation, education, and advocacy. By combining quality legal services with know-your-rights education and youth development, Centro Legal de la Raza ensures access to justice for thousands of individuals throughout Northern and Central California.
ORAM protects and empowers LGBTIQ asylum seekers and refugees globally, creating sustainability and systemic change.
Modern Military Association of America
As the nation’s largest organization of LGBTQ+ service members, military spouses, veterans, their families, and allies we provide a united voice for the LGBTQ+ military and veteran community. MMAA works to uphold and expand LGBTQ+ civil rights progress through education, advocacy, support networks, and discrimination tracking.
BIPOC LGBTQ+ Bay Area Organizations
BAAITS (Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits)
Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS) exists to restore and recover the role of Two-Spirit people within the American Indian/First Nations community by creating a forum for the spiritual, cultural and artistic expression of Two-Spirit people.
We work to build a world where translatinas feel we deserve to protect, love and develop ourselves. By building this base, we support each other in protecting ourselves against violence, abuse and illness.
QWOCMAP (Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project)
Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP) uses film to shatter stereotypes and bias, reveal the lived truth of inequality, and build community around art and activism.
Lavender Phoenix is a bridge between personal transformation and political work to meet our needs. Grounded in the histories and experiences of trans and queer API people, our role is to build movement leaders across oppressed communities.
Sogorea Te’ Land Trust is an urban Indigenous women-led land trust based in the San Francisco Bay Area that facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people.
Serving over 6,000 clients each year, IFR provides health & wellness programs & services targeting the San Francisco Latino community. Our programs recognize the full spectrum of wellness, spanning a continuum of mental health, HIV-related & social services, including health promotion & prevention, family support, early intervention, case management, violence prevention, comprehensive behavioral health services, and cultural activities and practices.
Trikone offers a supportive, empowering and non-judgmental environment where LGBTQ South Asians and their allies can meet, make connections, and proudly promote awareness and acceptance of their sexual identity.
We envision a powerful queer and transgender Asian and Pacific Islander (QTAPI) community that is seen, heard and celebrated. Our mission is to unite our families and allies to build a community through advocacy, inclusion and love.
The LGBT Asylum Project provides direct legal advice, counsel, and representation to immigrants that identify as LGBTQ+ and need assistance to submit and process their affirmative asylum application.
Black Brothers Esteem (A San Francisco AIDS Foundation program)
Established in 1996, Black Brothers Esteem supports and empowers African American men living with HIV or those at risk of transmission through community events and social support. Black Brothers Esteem (BBE) is a psychosocial support program for African American men who have sex with men, and gay or bisexual, gender variant, and same-gender loving men who are at risk for HIV transmission.
Rafiki Coalition’s mission is to eliminate health inequities in San Francisco’s Black and marginalized communities through education, advocacy, and by providing holistic health and wellness services in a culturally affirming environment.
BIPOC LGBTQ+ National Organizations
Queer Crescent imagines futures where LGBTQIA+ Muslims are building possibilities towards collective liberation. Our work is shaped by resisting gendered violence and islamophobia through cultural organizing, base-building, and defining Muslimness as an expansive, racialized and self-determined identity.
As a Black trans-led collective rooted in self-advocacy and mutual aid for Black trans women globally, our mission is to provide travel support, connect communities internationally, and establish paths towards opportunities, safety, and success.
Prism Foundation empowers the Asian & Pacific Islander LGBTQIA+ community by raising critical funds and mobilizing resources to build a more just and equitable society.
LGBTQ+ Health Clinics in Bay Area
Lyon-Martin Community Health Services
The mission of Lyon-Martin Community Health Services is to provide high quality, compassionate and trauma-informed medical, gynecological, and mental health care services targeting trans, non-binary, gender non-conforming, and intersex (TGI) communities and cis-gender women with specific sensitivity to LGBQA+ sexual orientation, disability, size, race, ethnicity, and language regardless of immigration status or ability to pay.
San Francisco AIDS Foundation promotes health, wellness, and social justice for communities most impacted by HIV, through sexual health and substance use services, advocacy, and community partnerships.
San Francisco Community Health Center
We are an LGBTQ and people of color health organization that believes EVERYONE deserves access to high quality health care. We foster resilience, strength, connection, health, and wellness for all communities. To us, health care will always be grounded in social justice.
Tom Waddell Health Center - Transgender Clinic
Tom Waddell Urban Health (TWUH) serves adults experiencing homelessness, residents of supportive housing, and other members of San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood community. Services are aligned with Health Care for the Homeless and Harm Reduction models.
Established in 1965, Castro-Mission Health Center (CMHC) is located in the Castro neighborhood at 3850 17th St. CMHC was the first public health center to open in San Francisco and one of the first clinics to offer treatment for HIV/AIDS. Formerly known as Health Center 1, today the clinic serves about 4,200 patients annually. We provide a full range of primary care for adults, children and pregnant people.
We work to increase access to quality gender-affirming health care for underserved transgender, nonbinary, and gender expansive people in San Francisco, regardless of immigration status or level of income.
LYRIC Center for LGBTQQ+ Youth
LYRIC’s mission is to build community and inspire positive social change through education enhancement, career trainings, health promotion, and leadership development with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQQ) youth, their families, and allies of all races, classes, genders, and abilities.
- Community groups
- Housing navigation
- PReP/HIV care
- rans/gender non-conforming services
The mission of the UCSF Alliance Health Project is to support the mental health and wellness of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) and HIV-affected communities in constructing healthy and meaningful lives.
The LGBTQ Perinatal Wellness Center
The LGBTQ Perinatal Wellness Center is a grassroots, interdisciplinary collaborative of compassionate and community-trusted, exceptionally experienced and highly skillful, LGBTQ+ identified wellness providers based in the SF Bay Area. Our aim is to create innovative approaches to perinatal health equity through financially accessible, culturally competent care, and through LGBTQIA reproductive rights advocacy, as well, to promote the inestimable health value of safe community.
The mission of Dimensions Clinic is to increase the physical and mental health and wellness of LGBTQIQ young people in a culturally competent environment.
The Lotus Collaborative specializes in the treatment of eating disorders, depression, anxiety, and trauma. Serving clients of all genders and sexual orientations, ages 14 and up.
NAHC is on a mission to provide comprehensive services to improve the health and wellbeing of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and residents of the surrounding communities with respect to cultural and linguistic differences. Our philosophy is that culture is key to prevention. NAHC recognizes and respects the culture, identity, and traditions of all people. We utilize a holistic model of care, which treats each member as a whole person, acknowledging and responding to their physical, emotional, spiritual, and social service needs.
Maitri strives to provide care that is dignified, nonjudgmental, and unconditional. No one should have to suffer, transition, or die alone. Maitri is Sanskrit for “compassionate friendship.” We provide compassionate residential care for people in need of hospice or 24-hour medical care.
LGBTQ+ Recreation/Community Building/History/Art/Media
OutLoud Sports is the nation's original LGBTQAI+ and Allies recreational sports league, founded in 2007 and proudly representing over 60,000+ Queer+ & allied athletes across the US.
James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center
The James C. Hormel LGBTQIA+ Center is the gateway to the Library’s broader collections documenting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual and allies’ history and culture, with a special emphasis on the San Francisco Bay Area.
Frameline’s mission is to change the world through the power of queer cinema. As a media arts nonprofit, Frameline’s programs connect filmmakers and audiences in the Bay Area and around the world.
The GLBT Historical Society collects, preserves, exhibits and makes accessible to the public materials and knowledge to support and promote understanding of LGBTQ history, culture and arts in all their diversity.
Queer Cultural Center promotes social justice and the creative and financial development of queer artists and culture makers. We steward artists whose programs nourish, connect, and mobilize trans & queer communities in San Francisco and its diaspora.
“Nice Queer Pals” is a grassroots, volunteer-led nonprofit project providing support and community for queer women and non-binary folks. We provide health and wellness resources and education through our weekly sports events and socials in San Mateo County, provide engaging online discussions, train people in leadership skills, bring in guest speakers to educate the community on the breadth of LGBTQ+ identities and issues, host a Discord server, and provide a positive space for folks to be themselves.
Oaklash is dedicated to building new and ever-expanding stages to showcase & elevate Bay Area queer talent. Our programming aims to create safe and accessible environments that celebrate the queer community, especially queer and trans people of color. Our organization was created to showcase performances that are boundary pushing, provocative, and unique to the sensibility of the Bay Area. We aim to stay true to the history of Oakland as a home to creative renaissance rooted in diversity. We hope that by amplifying and supporting the queer art community in the Bay Area, we can emphasize the need for investment in the arts in the face of systemic racism, growing economic disparities, and the Bay Area housing crisis.
We’re a SF Bay Area based, queer and trans Black, Indigenous, and people of color (QTBIPOC) crew of artist-activist-healers. Best known for Brouhaha, our comedy training program; Liberating Ourselves Locally, our former maker space, and Liberate 23rd Ave., the first queer and trans BIPOC -centered land trust in the US, we make sassy sexy art to help build social justice futures, with an emphasis on healing justice and disability justice.
The Queer Ancestors Project is devoted to forging sturdy relationships between LGBTQI people and our ancestors. Using history as a linchpin, we build community by providing Queer and Trans artists, age 18 to 26, free interdisciplinary workshops in printmaking, writing, and Queer history.
(Queens of the Castro) bring(s) drag to schools and universities throughout California. Their mission is "To mentor, empower, support and create safer spaces for LGBTQ+ youth ages 16 - 25." Draglab: drag mentorship program
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence® are a leading-edge Order of queer and trans nuns. We believe all people have a right to express their unique joy and beauty. Since our first appearance in San Francisco on Easter Sunday, 1979, the Sisters have devoted ourselves to community service, ministry and outreach to those on the edges, and to promoting human rights, respect for diversity and spiritual enlightenment. We use humor and irreverent wit to expose the forces of bigotry, complacency and guilt that chain the human spirit.
Sundance Association for Country-Western Dancing
The Sundance Association for Country-Western Dancing provides education in and programs for country-western dancing for the LGBT+ community. As an all-volunteer and community-supported nonprofit organization, the Sundance Association fosters individual growth and passion, encourages volunteerism and philanthropic giving, and strives to create an inclusive and welcoming community.
Theatre Rhinoceros fosters a bold and inclusive community of artists and arts supporters who develop and produce theatre that enlightens, challenges, and brings joy to our diverse global community. We strive to be a leader in LGBTQ+ storytelling that encourages and empowers artists and patrons to fight for a more just, equitable, and inclusive world where all are welcome and have a voice.
The Stonewall Project supports folks who have concerns about their drug and alcohol use and are thinking about making changes. Our harm reduction counseling services center queer, gay, bisexual, and same-gender-loving men; trans and nonbinary folks; and other men who have sex with men.
Support group and community for transgender and gender-fluid individuals.
The San Francisco Hiking Club organizes hikes and similar outings for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer people, and their friends.
LGBTQ+ Bay Area Housing Resources
Openhouse enables San Francisco Bay Area LGBTQ+ seniors to overcome the unique challenges they face as they age by providing housing, direct services and community programs.
- Housing assistance
- Aging & disability resources
- Case management
- Mental health
THP (TAJA’s Housing Program) was initially started by CEO Akira Jackson to meet the needs of the TGNB community facing homelessness in the city of San Francisco. The program has been expanded to include three distinct arms to help protect TGNB housing and to provide an equitable living for all community members.
Jazzie's Place is part of the Delores Street Community Services Shelter. Jazzie's Place has 24 beds to serve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender homeless adults who are seeking shelter beds. Jazzie's Place is unique in that if offers sectioned rooms for male/male-identified useeers, female/female-identified users and gender non conforming, male or female users.
Increasing access and defending housing for diverse, vulnerable, low-income populations in San Francisco.
