PFLAG provides support for the family. Here is a sampling of the many support groups we recommend:
- Affirmation: Supporting LGBTQ Mormons, their families, and allies
- Allies Supporting LGBTQ Students: A teacher’s guide to sexual orientation & gender identity terms
- API Equality Northern California: Works at the intersections of the Asian and Pacific Islander and LGBTQ communities. Note: For Asian/Pacific Islander PFLAG Project send email to APIFamilyPride@aol.com
- AVER: American Veterans for Equal Rights
- Bay Positives: Young People with HIV Supporting Young People with HIV (Facebook Page)
- Bullying: Don’t be your child’s first bully | The Huffington Post
- California Safe Schools Coalition: Protecting students from discrimination and harrassment
- Campus Pride: represents the leading national nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization for student leaders and campus groups working to create a safer college environment for LGBTQ students.
- Care with PRIDE: An initiative to cultivate respect for all students
- Castro Country Club: A safe haven for LGBTQ people in recovery from drugs and alcohol
- COLAGE: Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere unites people with LGBTQ parents
- Conversion Therapy: In the Aftermath of Conversion Therapy, Counselors Offer Healing Support, to address this complicated issue.
- DignityUSA: Works for respect and justice for LGBTQ Catholics
- EQCA: Equality California works to secure full and lasting equality for and acceptance of LGBTQ people.
- Family Acceptance Project: A research, intervention, education and policy initiative that works to prevent health and mental health risks for LGBTQ people.
- Family Equality Council: Family Equality Council connects, supports, and represents the one million parents who are LGBTQ in this country and their two million children.
- Fortunate Families: Catholic Families with LGBTQ children
- GASP : Gay and Straight People is an unofficial community at Pacific Union College providing supportive conversations about issues facing LGBTQ students
- GCN: Gay Christian Network
- Gender Health Center: Meets the counseling needs of the most underserved communities, including the LGBTQQI community and focusing on the “T” or transgender.
- GLBT National Help Center: Provides free and confidential telephone and internet peer-counseling, information and local resources for the LGBTQ callers.
- IntegrityUSA: For LGBTQ members of the Episcopal Church. Note: For Integrity Northern California, send email to integritync@comcast.net
- LGBT Alliance Official (Facebook Page): An alliance for all Travis AFB community LGBTQ members, families, supporters and friends.
- LGBTQ Connection: A Napa County initiative serving hundreds of LGBTQ people, leaders, allies and community-serving professionals (Facebook Page).
- LYRIC: Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center is a supervised meeting place for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and questioning youth from 17-23 years of age.
- Magnet: Provides free sexual health services for men. It is also a place where gay men connect.
- Marriage Equality (Northern California): Straight Allies for Marriage Equality
- NEWS (Nurturing Empowerment Worth Safety): Domestic Violence & Sexual Abuse Services. They serve EVERYONE!
- PFLAG Napa: Promotes the health and well being of LGBTQ persons along with their families and friends in Napa County, California (Facebook Page).
- PFLAG National: It includes local, national and international Chapter Contacts (Facebook Page)
- Shanti: For people living with HIV disease and AIDS
- Straight Spouse Network: Provides supportive resources for straight spouses
- The Gay Dad Project: It is a is community for everyone to talk with each other when a parent comes out as LGBTQ.
- The Gender Health Center: Meets the counseling needs of Sacramento and surrounding areas by making services accessible to the LGBTQ community and focusing on the “T” or transgender.
- The Trevor Project: Suicide hotline for LGBTQ youth
- Trans Youth Family Allies: Assists families with gender variant youth
- Transgender Forum: Dedicated to the transgender community.
- Trikone: For South Asian Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals
- UnityNapa: An organization whose mission is to enhance the sense of community for LGBTQ citizens & their families, friends and allies. (Facebook Page)
- When You Find Out Your Child Is Gay: Coming out stories and advise