RESOURCES

PITTSBURGH/GREATER ALLEGHENY REGION

The Pittsburgh Equality Center
The PEC provides LGBTQ+ individuals, their families and supporters in Western Pennsylvania with resources and opportunities to promote visibility, understanding, and equality within the LGBTQ+ communities and the community at large.

Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force t/a Allies for Health + Wellbeing
The oldest and largest AIDS service organization in Southwestern Pennsylvania, serving Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Cambria, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Somerset, Washington, and Westmoreland counties.

Parents, Family And Friends Of Gay And Lesbians (PFLAG), Pittsburgh Chapter
Promotes the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth by support groups, community education programs, and advocacy to end discrimination. Also offers support services to family and friends of gay and lesbian individuals.

PERSAD Center
Provides counseling to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender individuals as well as HIV+ individuals and their family members. PERSAD is able to offer counseling services to individuals regardless of their ability to pay and will not turn anyone down for services.

Garden of Peace Project
Created to uplift, uphold, and empower the narratives and lived experiences of LGBTQIA+ individuals and to address the lack of education, employment, healthcare, and housing, and the violence that impacts all LGBTQIA+ individuals.

Central Outreach Wellness Center
 Located on Pittsburgh's North Side, COWC provides transgender hormone replacement therapy, PrEP, HIV/AIDS treatment, and STI/STD testing.

Equality Pennsylvania
The Center advocates equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Pennsylvanians through direct legal services, education and policy reform.

NATIONAL

Open To All Campaign
Open to All is nationwide public engagement campaign to build understanding and discussion about the importance of our nation’s nondiscrimination laws—and the bedrock principle that when businesses open their doors to the public, they should be Open to All.

NGLCC's 2017 America's LGBT Economy Report
The NGLCC released a report demonstrating the economic and social impact of LGBT entrepreneurs and business owners.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) National Help Center
Provides vital peer-support, community connections and resource information to people with questions regarding sexual orientation and/or gender identity. Utilizing a diverse group of LGBT volunteers, we operate three national hotlines, the LGBT National Hotline, the LGBT National Youth Talkline, and the LGBT National Senior Hotline as well as private, volunteer one-to-one online chat, that helps both youth and adults with coming-out issues, safer-sex information, school bullying, family concerns, relationship problems and a lot more.

The Trevor Helpline
A 24-hour, toll free, 365 day-a-year confidential suicide hotline for gay, lesbian, transgender and questioning youth.