LGBTQIA2S+ Resources

Helpful Information

  • Personal Pronouns & Why They Matter

  • Why Deadnaming is Harmful

  • Transgender affirming care article

    Crisis/Helplines

  • Trevor Project - Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention for LGBTQ Youth
    1-866-488-7386

  • Trans Lifeline - Hotline staffed by transgender people for transgender people
    877-330-8860

  • LGBTQIA2S+ National Hotline - LGBTQIA+ people of all ages: Offers peer support, information, and local resource referrals; also has email and online chat options via their website 888-843-4564

  • Call Blackline - Provides a space for peer support, counseling, reporting of mistreatment, witnessing and affirming the lived experiences for folxs who are most impacted by systematic oppression with an LGBTQ+ Black Femme Lens. Call BlackLine® prioritizes BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color). By us for us. 1 (800) 604-5841

    Local Organizations

  • Portland Q Center - Portland’s LGBTQIA2S+ Community Center

  • Friendly House Elder Pride Services-Works to enhance the lives of older LGBTQ+ community members through education, advocacy, outreach and resource development.

  • SMYRC - Sexual and Gender Minority Youth Center

  • Marie Equi Center: Community health program, trans and queer services center, housing navigation support, harm reduction and recovery meetings and events in Portland. 

  • Rahab’s Sisters: A community for women, trans, and nonbinary folks experiencing poverty, houselessness, and isolation, offering clothing and supply boutiques, resource navigation, benefits enrollment, peer support, harm reduction and hygiene supplies, ID and document replacement support, gender-affirming primary care, chiropractic, massage, cosmetology services, activities, community gatherings and meals.

  • Basic Rights Oregon - Ensures that all LGBTQ2SIA+ Oregonians experience equality by advancing pro-queer & trans legislation, advocating for progressive statewide leaders, providing resource navigation & referrals, and community organizing & education

  • Black & Beyond the Binary Collective - Black & Beyond the Binary Collective builds the leadership, healing, and safety for Black - African transgender, queer, nonbinary, Two-Spirit, intersex and asexual (TQN2SIA+) Oregonians.

  • Bradley Angle - Offers one of the onlyculturally specific domestic violence services program for the LGBTQIA+ community in the entire state of Oregon, welcoming of all genders, sexualities, identities, relationships, and experiences.

  • PFLAG - Connecting LGBTQ+ people, families, and allies with community to build an affirming Portland. Offers in-person and on-line support circles, advocacy, and programs lifting up LGBTQ+ student and other community organizations.

  • Dian’s Well Counseling - Healing for trans and gender expansive adults in Oregon, offering compassionate, culturally humble therapy addressing trauma, dissociation, and gender-affirming care.

  • Glitter Mental Health - Offers individual therapy to the queer community, along with referral support, OCD assessments, WPATH assessments, workshops, education, and consultation focused on trauma-informed care and queer competency.

  • Portland Healing House - Postoperative recovery support and lodging for trans people recovering from surgery