Pride Center

• Beyond Stonewall (2024) Exploring LGBTQ+ History Through the Smithsonian Archives
• Indigiqueer (2023) Two-Spirit People: Indigenous Communities Reclaiming Their Queer History
• Assembly (2025)  This is Black Queer Culture of the Past, Present, and Future.

• Beyond Gay (2011) The Politics of Pride

• Paris is Burning (1990)

• How Do I Look? (2007)

• Disclosure (2020)

• The ILRC (Immigrant Legal Resource Center) page on LGBT Immigrant Rights is focused on helping LGBTQ+ immigrants understand their rights, the unique challenges they face, and how to navigate the U.S. immigration system safely and effectively.
• “A Short History of LGBTQ Immigration Policy”—The Boundless article “A Short History of LGBTQ Immigration Policy” explains how U.S. immigration laws have treated LGBTQ+ individuals over the past century. It illustrates how things evolved from criminalization and exclusion to recognition and legal protections, while also warning that serious risks and challenges persist.
• Legal Services for LGBTQ Immigrants—This website describes their LGBTQ Immigrant Rights Initiative, which provides specialized legal assistance to low-income immigrants who are LGBTQ or living with HIV.
• International Rescue Committee (IRC) San Jose Chapter—National network offering refugee resettlement, asylum support, job readiness, and cultural orientation.
• SIREN (Services, Immigrant Rights & Education Network) - Community organizing, legal services, advocacy, and workshops for immigrants, with a focus on undocumented rights.
• Oasis Legal Services—LGBTQ+-focused legal services for asylum, green cards, citizenship, and family petitions; trauma-informed care.
• Transgender Law Center—National advocacy and legal assistance for trans immigrants, including asylum guides and detention resources.
• Santa Clara County Office of LGBTQ Affairs—LGBTQ community resources, support groups, and rights information, with outreach to immigrant communities.

South Bay

• Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center: Located in San Jose, the center builds community and promotes healing through a variety of programming. The purpose is to foster social connection among the LGBTQ+ community and allies.
• San Mateo Pride Center: A one-stop shop offering robust programs and services to support LGBTQ+ community members of all ages. The Pride Center offers education, training, community events, peer support groups, daily programming, clinical therapy, and case management.
• Outlet: Working in partnership with the San Mateo Pride Center, Outlet is a youth-centered organization (ages 5-25) building safe and accepting communities through support, education, and advocacy.

San Francisco

• SF LGBT Center: Provides a wide array of programs and services, from financial and immigration services to their Trans Employment Program. Their goal is to address structural and societal issues within the community.
• LYRIC Center for LGBTQQ+ Youth: Offers education enhancement, career trainings, health promotion, and leadership development with youth (under 24), their families, and allies of all races, classes, genders, and abilities.
• The Miss Major Alexander L. Lee TGIJP Black Trans Cultural Center: Ran by a team of transgender, gender-variant, and intersex people, for 20 years, they have worked to fight oppression in its many forms and seek to create a world rooted in self-determination, freedom of expression, and gender justice.
• Transgender Gender-Variant and Intersex Justice Project: The mission of the Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP) is to challenge and end the human rights abuses committed against Black, Black/Brown Trans people inside of California prisons, jails, detention centers, and beyond.
• Queer Lifespace: A nonprofit counseling agency offering queer-informed training programs, including group sessions, and providing low-fee, sliding-scale medical services.
• Alliance Health Project: Services include sexual health, mental health and substance use, support groups and wellness workshops, training, and research. AHP also uses the power of community to promote a world of well-being through workshops and forums on both LGBTQ+ and HIV-related topics.
• Trikone: 60 29th St., #614. This nonprofit is for LGBTQ people of South Asian descent and is 100% volunteer-powered. They host occasional events like potlucks, Bollywood dance parties, and game nights to bring the community together and celebrate their heritage alongside their sexual identities.
• San Francisico Community Health Center: This umbrella organization has several LGBTQ+ organizations and programs under it, including the (Trans/GNC) Wellness Clinic, API Drop-In Clinic. The Lotus Project and more.

East Bay

• The Oakland LGBTQ Community Center: Provides family support, youth groups, mental health care, crisis assistance, and many events.
• The Pacific Center: Located in Berkeley, focused on enhancing the mental health and overall well-being of the LGBTQIA+ and QTBIPOC communities, the center offers culturally responsive therapy, peer-to-peer support groups, community outreach services, and facilitated workshops. Resources include a gender-affirming closet and library, etc.
• Rainbow Community Center: Located in Concord, providing mental health services, community programs, housing support, HIV prevention services, advocacy, and social connections that empower LGBTQIA2S+ individuals and allies to thrive.
• Somos Familia: Somos Familia develops leadership in our LGBTQ+ Latino families and communities to create a culture where people of diverse genders and sexual orientations can thrive. Somos Familia desarrolla de liderazgo en nuestres familias y comunidades LGBTQ+ latine para crear una cultura donde las personas de diversos géneros y orientaciones sexuales puedan prosperar.

More Bay Area Resources

• Queer Resources in the Bay Area—DoTheBay 
• USCF LGBTQIA+ Community Resources