Resources
The Pride Center offers this listing as a service to the CSUN community. Inclusion in this list does not constitute an endorsement by the Pride Center, nor does it assume responsibility for the information contained in those sites.
Contact the Matador Involvement Center for information on student clubs and organizations.
- Beth Chayim Chadashim – Los Angeles
Beth Chayim Chadashim is a progressive and diverse community of people who come together to celebrate Jewish faith and culture. - Good Shepard Church Pasadena
Good Shepherd Church Pasadena is a congregation of full inclusion. All are welcome regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation or sexual identity. They warmly welcome the LGBT Community and its allies. - The Institute for Judaism, Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity — Los Angeles
The mission of the Institute for Judaism, Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity — Los Angeles is to achieve complete inclusion, integration and welcoming of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in congregations and communities. - International Buddhist Meditation Center – Los Angeles
A welcoming Buddhist meditation center in Los Angeles. - Metropolitan Community Church Los Angeles (MCCLA)
MCCLA is a prophetic, liberating and progressive Christian community of faith that honors, values and welcomes all people. - Metropolitan Community Church – North Hollywood
MCC in the valley is an inclusive and green Christian community of faith. - St. Matthews Lutheran Church – North Hollywood
We welcome all with an intentional ministry supporting the gay and lesbian community. - West Hollywood United Church of Christ
WeHo Church was created to be a place for you to celebrate god's love and make new friends in a safe and non-religious setting.
- ACE Los Angeles
ACE Los Angeles is a social meetup, educational and outreach group for asexuals (ACE for short) and aromantics in the Southern California area. We host social meetups twice a month. Additionally, we raise awareness through outreach and educational presentations and events. - Anagnori Ace Tumbler
- Asexuality 101
Transcending Boundaries’ Guide to Asexuality - The Asexual
The Asexual is an independent platform elevating discourse on (a)sexuality, gender, and attraction. - The Asexual Agenda
A forum dedicated to giving resources and building (online) community. - The Asexuality and Visibility Network (AVEN)
This organization hosts the world's largest online asexual community and has a large archive with resources on asexuality. They seek to create an open and honest discussion about asexuality between asexual and sexual people alike. Good site if new to asexuality and want to learn more.
- amBi
A social/activity group for bisexual adults and friends across Greater Los Angeles. - American Institute of Bisexuality
A project designed to introduce our community to the world. - Bi/Pan/Fluid 101
Transcending Boundaries' Introduction to Bisexuality, Pansexuality and Related Identities. - Bisexual Resource Center
Committed to providing support to the bisexual community and raising public awareness about bisexuality and bisexual people. - Los Angeles Bi Task Force
Promotes education, advocacy, and cultural enrichment for the bisexual/fluid/pansexual communities in the Greater Los Angeles area.
- American Civil Liberties Union – LGBT Project
National activist and advocacy organization for people born with intersex conditions. - interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth
InterACT believes that improving communication is a crucial part of improving care for children born with intersex traits. - Intersex Society of North America
ISNA is devoted to systemic change to end shame, secrecy, and unwanted genital surgeries for people born with an anatomy that someone decided is not standard for male or female.
- Lesbian Foundation for Justice
An organization working exclusively to advance LGBTQI human rights around the globe. - Lesbian Herstory Archive
The Lesbian Herstory Archives is home to the world's largest collection of materials by and about lesbians and their communities. - Los Angeles Women's Network (LAWN)
The Los Angeles Women’s Network is a diverse membership organization that supports the Los Angeles LGBT Center's vital services for women and girls by providing opportunities for service, education and networking. - National Center for Lesbian Rights
A national legal organization committed to advancing the civil and human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. - Women On A Roll
A social organization that strives to enrich the lives of lesbians.
General Resources
- The Audre Lorde Project
The Audre Lorde Project is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, two spirit, trans and gender non-conforming people of color center for community organizing. - The Brown Boi Project
The Brown Boi Project is a community of masculine of center womyn, men, two-spirit people, transmen, and our allies committed to changing the way that communities of color talk about gender. - Immigration Equality
A national organization fighting for equality under U.S. immigration law for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and HIV-positive individuals. - Reach LA
Our mission is to train youth of color in Los Angeles, and empower them with skills to develop innovative program initiatives that lead to social change in their own community.
Asian and Pacific Islander Resources
- API Equality
A leading organizations advocating and organizing for fairness and equality in the Asian and Pacific Islander (API) and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) communities. - Asian Pacific Gays and Friends Los Angeles
A support system for gay men and women of Asian/Pacific Islander descent. - GABRIELA Los Angeles
An organization serving Filipinas in the Los Angeles community, GABRIELA Los Angeles addresses the rights and welfare of women through education, organizing, campaigns and cultural work. - Q&A Space
The goal of Q&A Space is to provide API LGBT youth who do wish to come out and are struggling with the process with linguistically appropriate and culturally confident tools and resources to come out to whomever they'd like at whatever time they're comfortable. - Satrang: South Asian LGBTIQQ
Satrang is a cultural, social, and support organization providing a safe space to empower and advocate for the rights of the south asian LGBTIQQ.
Black and African American Resources
- Black Lesbians United
The Black Lesbians United (BLU) retreat is an opportunity for women of African descent to celebrate, build community, and share good times with women who love women. - Center for Black Equity
The mission of the Center for Black Equity is to promote a multinational LGBT network dedicated to improving health and wellness opportunities, economic empowerment, and equal rights while promoting individual and collective work, responsibility and self-determination. - Gay Men and African Descent
Gay Men and African Descent is a group who mobilize to embark on a mission to empower black gay men. - In The Meantime Men
In The Meantime Men’s Group was created to enrich and empower the lives of intergenerational black men. - LA Black Pride
LA Black Pride brings together members of the black same-gender loving (GSL) lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, their friends, allies and supporters in celebration of being black and gay. - The National Black Justice Coalition
NBJC is a civil rights organization dedicated to empowering black lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. - Red Bone Press
Red Bone Press publishes work celebrating the cultures of black lesbians and gay men, and work that further promotes understanding between black gays and lesbians and the black mainstream. - ZAMI NOBLA
ZAMI provides a support base of discussion, information and programming for lesbians with African heritage. - Zuna Institute
Zuna Institute is a not a profit national advocacy organization for Black Lesbians. Its focus is the economic development, education public policy support, and improved health of its constituents.
Chicanx and Latinx Resources
- BIENESTAR
BIENESTAR is a social service organization dedicated to positively impacting the health and well-being of the Latino community and other underserved communities in southern California. - Familias por la Diversidad
Familias por la Diversidad (FDS) is an organization that aims to maintain family unity. They fight for the safety and well-beingof their gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender members, giving them support in dealing with a hostile society. FDS promotes information and education as tools to eradicate hatred, prejudice, homophobia, and all forms of related discrimination. - Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement
Familia: TQLM seeks to build a national organization to address, organize, educate and advocate for the issues that are important to the LGBTQ Latin@ community. - The Latinx Roundtable
The Latinx Roundtable works to promote understanding, acceptance and affirmation of Latino/a LGBTQ persons and their families by transforming Latino/a faith communities and the wider Latino/a community. - The Network/La Red
A survivor-led, social justice organization that works to end partner abuse in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, BDSM, polyamorous, and queer communities. Rooted in anti-oppression principles, their work aims to create a world where all people are free from oppression. They strengthen communities through organizing, education, and the provision of support services. - Unity Coalition
The first and only organization for the Latino/Hispanic/LGBTQ2 (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, two-spirited) community - advancing equality and fairness- through education, leadership and awareness since 2002. - The Wall-Las Memorias Project
Serves low-income and hard to reach communities throughout Los Angeles—educating community members on the importance of HIV/AIDS, substance abuse prevention and community building in the LGBT community.
Native American Resources
- National Native American Aids Prevention Center
- National leader in addressing HIV/AIDS issues that impact native communities, such as stigma, discrimination, homophobia, complacency, incomplete or absent educational information and many other social issues.
- Red Circle Project
HIV prevention program in Los Angeles county that specifically provides services to the Native American/Alaska native community. - Two-Spirit Society of Southern California
Two-Spirit Society of Southern California 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.
Middle Eastern Resources
- Gay and Lesbian Armenian Society
GALAS encourages acceptance and promote equality of its gay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, transgender and queer/questioning members. - Iranian Queer Organization
IRQO mission is to defend human and civil rights of Iranian gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transsexual individuals living in Iran or as refugees in diaspora.
- Rainbow Alliance of the Deaf (RAD)
The Rainbow Alliance of the Deaf (RAD) is a nonprofit Deaf LGBTQ organization. Every 2 years RAD hosts a national conference. - Deaf Queer Resource Center
The Deaf Queer Resource Center is a national nonprofit volunteer-run organization for, by and about the Deaf Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer communities committed to social justice. - Planet Deaf Queer
A community website devoted to empowering the deaf queer community and our allies through information, knowledge, visibility, resources, support and activism.
- AIDS Healthcare Foundation
A global organization providing cutting-edge medicine and advocacy to more than 200,000 patients in 28 countries. - AIDS Info
Offers information on HIV/AIDS prevention, research, and treatment. - AIDS Project Los Angeles
We serve more than 11,000 with first-rate HIV/AIDS care and prevention programs and fight for smart, effective HIV-related public policy. - AIDS Web Site
Expand visibility of timely and relevant federal HIV policies, programs, and resources to the American public. - Black Women for Wellness
Committed to healing, educating, inspiring, and supporting black women, so we may tap our personal power to enhance and improve our health and well-being. - The Body
The complete HIV/AIDS resource page. - Center for Disease Control (CDC) — HIV
Our mission consists of preventing HIV infection and reducing the incidence of HIV-related illness and death. - Common Ground
We’re unique. Small, effective and responsive to our community’s needs, we provide an evolving mix of services which help make the west side of Los Angeles a healthier place. - Free HIV Testing Sites & Care Services
Find free HIV testing facilities near you. - HealthHIV
HealthHIV is a national nonprofit working with organizations, communities, and health care providers to advance effective prevention, care, and support for people living with, or at risk for, HIV and HCV through education and training, technical assistance and capacity building, advocacy, and health services research and evaluation. - In The Meantime Men
Our mission is to train youth of color in Los Angeles, and empower them with skills to develop innovative program initiatives that lead to social change in their own community. - LA County Commission on HIV
The commission reflects the thoughts, views and actions of different Los Angeles county communities, people with HIV, providers serving them, public health interests and other perspectives impacted by this devastating epidemic. - LA County Office of AIDS Programs and Policy
Respond to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Los Angeles County by preventing its spread, maximizing health and social outcomes, and coordinating effective and efficient targeted services. - Los Angeles LGBT Center
HIV testing services at L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center. - Mpowerment Project
The Mpowerment Project is a model HIV prevention program that has been specifically designed to address the needs of young gay and bisexual men. - Office of AIDS
HIV/AIDS resources and information on HIV testing and prevention. - Women Alive — Resources for and by women with HIV and AIDS
Our goal is to advocate, collaborate, and educate to improve the physical, mental, and emotional health of women. - Young Men's Connection program
Dedicated to reducing the spread of HIV and reduce/eliminate substance use among young men who have sex with men and who are African-American or Latino.
- American Civil Liberties Union — LGBT Project
Our purpose is to create a society where all LGBT people enjoy the constitutional rights of equality, privacy and personal autonomy and freedom of expression and association. - Equality California
Equality California is the nation’s largest statewide lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender civil rights organization dedicated to creating a fair and just society. - Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
GLAAD rewrites the script for LGBT acceptance. As a dynamic media force, GLAAD tackles tough issues to shape the narrative and provoke dialogue that leads to cultural change. GLAAD protects all that has been accomplished and creates a world where everyone can live the life they love. - Human Rights Campaign
As the largest civil rights organization working to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans, the Human Rights Campaign represents a force of more than 1.5 million members and supporters nationwide — all committed to making HRC's vision a reality. - L.A. County LGBT Child Abuse Prevention Council
Promote the safety and well-being of LGBTQ youth and children in Los Angeles County, and facilitate their transition to early adulthood by educating communities, parents, families, caregivers and mandated reporters about sexual orientation and gender identity. - Lambda Legal
Lambda Legal, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, 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. - National Association of LGBT Community Centers (CenterLink)
CenterLink exists to support the development of strong, sustainable LGBT community centers and to build a unified center movement. - National Gay and Lesbian Taskforce
We bolster the strength of local LGBT activism in rural enclaves, small towns and cities nationwide. - Outfest
The leading organization that promotes LGBT equality by creating, sharing, and protecting LGBT stories on screen. - PFLAG
Founded in 1972 with the simple act of a mother publicly supporting her gay son, PFLAG is the nation's largest family and ally organization. Uniting people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer with families, friends, and allies, PFLAG is committed to advancing equality and full societal affirmation of LGBTQ people through its threefold mission of support, education, and advocacy. - Transgender Law Center
Transgender Law Center works to change law, policy and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression. We envision a future where gender self-determination and authentic expression are seen as basic rights and matters of common human dignity.
- Coming out Workshop for Men
Closed social networking group for men at the Los Angeles LGBT Center - I Think I Might Be Gay, What Do I Do?
A brochure by and for young men.
- BIENESTAR
A social service organization dedicated to positively impacting the health and well-being of the Latino community and other underserved communities in Southern California. - Colors LGBTQ Youth Counseling Center
We provide LGBT-affirmative counseling to address bullying and oppression and to nurture a new generation of empowered LGBTQ persons and leaders. - LifeWorks
LifeWorks is a youth development and mentoring program of the LA Gay and Lesbian Center. - Los Angeles Gender Center
The Los Angeles Gender Center provides an environment of safety, support and understanding for exploring gender and sexuality. - The Network/La Red
A survivor-led, social justice organization that works to end partner abuse in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, BDSM, polyamorous, and queer communities. Rooted in anti-oppression principles, their work aims to create a world where all people are free from oppression. They strengthen communities through organizing, education, and the provision of support services. - Methology
Crystal methamphetamine is a dangerous and highly addictive drug. If it — or other any other substance — is becoming a problem in your life, or in the life of someone close to you, the Los Angeles LGBT Center offers affordable services to help. - Trans Lifeline
Trans Lifeline is a 501(C)(3) non-profit dedicated to the well-being of transgender people. We run a hotline staffed by transgender people for transgender people. Trans Lifeline volunteers are ready to respond to whatever support needs members of our community might have. - The Trevor Project
Founded in 1998 by the creators of the Academy Award®-winning short film TREVOR, The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) young people ages 13-24.
- Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce
The LAGLCC promotes business networking among our members and within our community at large. - Out & Equal LGBT Equality in the Workplace
Out & Equal are your go to workplace advocates. They have resources and events to give you support on being out in the workplace. - Out for Work
Out for Work functions as a complimentary component in the total educational experience of LGBT students, primarily in the development, evaluation, initiation and implementation of career plans and opportunities. - Pride @ Work
Pride @ Work is a nonprofit organization that represents LGBT union members and their allies. - Transgender Economic Empowerment Project (TEEP)
Unfortunately, discrimination in the workplace against transgender people is still alarmingly common. That’s why the Los Angeles LGBT Center offers services to help transgender women and men develop professional skills, find employment with trans-friendly employers and thrive in the workplace.
- oSTEM
Out in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (oSTEM) is a national society dedicated to educating and fostering leadership for the LGBTQA communities in the STEM fields. - Campus Pride
Serves LGBT and ally student leaders and campus organizations in the areas of leadership development, support programs and services to create safer, more inclusive campuses. - Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals
Our goal is to critically transform higher education environments so that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, faculty, administrators, staff and alumni/ae have equity in every respect. - Gay Lesbian Education Straight Network
The leading national education organization focused on ensuring safe schools for all students. - Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) Network
A national youth leadership organization that connects school-based Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) to each other and community resources. - ONE Archives Foundation
The oldest active lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQ) organization with the largest repository of LGBTQ materials in the world. - Out for Undergrad
Our mission is to help high-achieving LGBTQ undergraduates reach their full potential. (Business, engineering, marketing and technology fields).
- Blind LGBTQ Pride International
The purpose of Blind LGBT Pride is to provide for the betterment of the lives of those who are visually impaired and who are LGBT By providing a forum for the views and concerns of visually impaired persons interested in issues facing those who are LGBT. - Queerability
Queerability seeks to increase visibility of LGBTQ disabled people by honoring the intersection of the disability and LGBTQ experience. - Queer Disability Group
This listserve is for the discussion of Queer/Disability (Q/D) issues, focused on the development of ideas, challenging existing norms, and providing much needed information for the Q/D community.
- Avatar Club Los Angeles
Avatar Club Los Angeles, Inc. is a non-profit organization providing information and education about safe, and consensual bondage, discipline, kinky and sadomasochistic (BDSM) sex between adults. - BDSM Communities and the Intersection of Queerness
Explaining the history of and connections between BDSM and the queer community. - FetLife
FetLife is a free social network for the BDSM and fetish community. - Los Angeles Leather Coalition (LALC)
LALC is a non-profit 501(c)4 organization which facilitates communications and mutual understanding among different segments of the leather-affiliated community, as well as promotes unity through cooperative endeavors that offer entertainment, education, social interaction, and community service. - So what is BDSM?
Not safe for work. A detailed description of what BDSM is, what it consists of, and myths surrounding the lifestyle. - Threshold
Threshold Society is a Los Angeles BDSM/Leather Club located in North Hollywood. It is a non-profit [501(c)] social organization concerned with exploring and enjoying the world of bondage, discipline, sado-masochism and related activities. They are active in the local community, and Threshold is considered the first place for those who are interested in the BDSM lifestyle to explore.