Resources in VA by Cities and Areas
Charlottesville
Charlottesville Pride Community Network
Charlottesville Pride Community Network exists: To create a vibrant, visible, and inclusive LGBTQ community presence in Charlottesville, Albemarle, and the surrounding region that promotes equality through events, education, outreach, and advocacy.
Diversity in Recovery is a group of LGBTQ BIPOC and allies promoting recovery from drugs and alcohol in the Piedmont area including Charlottesville, Albermarle, Fluvanna, Orange, Louisa, Nelson, Buckingham, and Greene counties.
PFLAG Blue Ridge was founded in October 2010, but its board members have been publicly and outspokenly supporting the LGBTQ community in Charlottesville for decades. PFLAG Blue Ridge, based in Charlottesville, Virginia, is a chapter of PFLAG National, and is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. PFLAG Blue Ridge enthusiastically embraces PFLAG National's mission of support, education, and advocacy. In addition to our monthly support group meetings, we participate in various community service and education projects and advocacy campaigns.
Transgender Health Alliance of Central Virginia
Transgender Health Alliance of Central Virginia works to ensure affordable, respectful, comprehensive healthcare for every member of the transgender community through education, advocacy, and outreach.
Farmville
Farmville Pride is an inclusive group for the Heart of Virginia’s LGBTQ+ community and allies. Founded in 2018, Farmville Pride works to create spaces to support the LGBTQ+ community in Farmville and surrounding communities.
Floyd
As a small, rural chapter of PFLAG, we in the Floyd community welcome your participation in whatever positive ways you are able to involve yourself.
Fredericksburg
PFLAG Fredericksburg meets the second Tuesday of every month from 6:30-7:30pm at Christ Lutheran Church, 1300 Augustine Street, Fredericksburg VA 22401. We are a re-birth of the original Fredericksburg PFLAG, started a many years ago. Our email address is PFLAGfburg@gmail.com.
Hampton + Newport News
Hampton Roads’ LGBTQ News & Lifestyle Magazine
OutWire757.com is the online news, entertainment, and lifestyle resource for the Hampton Roads' LGBTQ community.
Hampton Roads Pride is a volunteer-led and volunteer-driven 501(c)(3) non-profit, community-based organization incorporated in 1997.
LGBT Life Center is a trusted leader that empowers the LGBTQ communities and all people affected by HIV through improving health and wellness, strengthening families and communities, and providing transformative education and advocacy.
PFLAG of Norfolk/Hampton Roads
Uniting people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA) with families, friends, and allies, PFLAG is committed to advancing equality through its mission of support, education, and advocacy.
Southeastern Transgender Resource Center
Based in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, STRC is a non-profit community outreach center which is dedicated solely to the empowerment of today’s transgender community.
Norfolk
LGBT Life Center is a trusted leader that empowers the LGBTQ communities and all people affected by HIV through improving health and wellness, strengthening families and communities, and providing transformative education and advocacy.
Stonewall sports, founded in 2010 is an LGBTQ & ally community-based, non-profit sports organization that strives to raise funds for local non-profit organizations through organized sports. Our league values each player for who they are and what they bring to each league's community.
Northern Virginia
AGLA is a vibrant, grassroots membership organization that strives to improve the quality of life and meet the needs of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning (LGBTQ) community and allies. AGLA respects diversity and builds relationships with civic groups and community leaders.
DC Front Runners is a running, walking, and social club for LGBTQ+ people and their friends in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
DCATS (DC Area Transmasculine Society) is a trans-led nonprofit organization that serves to advance the lives of transmasculine folx by providing resources that help overcome the social, economic, and health-related barriers to living authentically. Founded in 1998 as a monthly support group, DCATS has transformed into an organization that offers a variety of services to meet our community's needs.
Dignity/NoVA's primary purpose is to sponsor a weekly mass in the Roman Catholic tradition for the local Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender, Questioning (LGBTQ) community of Northern Virginia.
Dulles Triangles a successful and long-lasting LBGT social group in Northern Virginia.
Equality Chamber of Commerce DC Metro Area
The Equality Chamber of Commerce DC Metro Area (ECCDC, or just “the Chamber”) is the non-profit, not-partisan network of several hundred queer and allied (Q&A) businesses and business leaders in the DC metropolitan area. Through its extended network of community partners and event participants in the capital area LGBT community, it regularly reaches approximately 5,000 individuals through is messaging, networking events, and workshops.
Equality Loudoun is a grassroots organization fighting to promote, protect and defend LGBTQ+ equality in Loudoun County.
Equality Prince William is committed to recognizing the diversity of the Greater Prince William community. We don’t seek special privileges – only equality for all.
GLSEN Northern Virginia is a chapter of GLSEN, a national organization fighting for every student’s right to a safe, supportive education.
Impacto LGBT fue fundado el 10 de julio del 2017 como un grupo comunitario independiente, liderado por Victor Claros, surge ante la inexistencia de espacios y servicios con igualdad de oportunidades dirigidos a la comunidad LGBT Latina en el Norte de Virginia.
MAGIC DC (Metro Area Gender Identity Connection of Washington DC) is a peer support group for Transsexual, Gender Queer and other Gender Identity Questioning people living in the greater Washington DC Metropolitan Area.
Metro Weekly has been a central part of Washington, DC’s gay and lesbian community since May 1994, and is now the largest and longest-running LGBTQ publication and website in the region.
Cultivate and grow a coalition to educate, advocate, and celebrate in service to LGBTQ+ Northern Virginians and its’ straight allies.
Virginia group happening the third Tuesday of every month from 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Reston Pride is made up of LGBTQIA+ persons and their allies. For the past few years, we have had the honor and privilege of providing the Reston area with resources and opportunities to engage, celebrate, empower, and advocate for the LGBTQIA+ community.
Safe Space NOVA is dedicated to providing a safe, accepting, and supportive environment to combat social stigmas, bullying, and other challenges faced by LGBTQ+ youth.
In 1984, local youth service professionals and community activists organized a conference on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth issues after an LGBTQ-identifying youth was hospitalized. Through this conference, advocates founded SMYAL to meet the needs of LGBTQ youth in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area.
Parents can often feel isolation and loneliness throughout this experience. Establishing TransParent support groups around the country creates safe spaces for parents to be open about their feelings; breaking free of the stigma society puts on the trans community. In doing so, we stabilize parents and give them strength and confidence to become advocates for their children.
The Washington Blade was founded in 1969 as a black and white, one-sheet community newsletter distributed in D.C.-area bars. In October 2009, the Blade celebrated its 40th anniversary as an award-winning news source with a large following in print and online. Readers locally and around the world have come to rely on the Blade’s unmatched coverage of LGBT news, earning the paper the moniker “the newspaper of record for the LGBT community.”
We strive to provide a safe, respectful and affirming environment that meets the needs of our transgender and gender-expansive patients. From medical, behavioral health and other supportive services, you deserve care that honors your experience.
Rappahannock
Rappahannock Region Transgender Group
This is a public page for the Rappahannock Region Transgender Group to share information that we want known publicly and to help others find us!
Richmond
DHR Virginia Commonwealth University Area LGBTQ History Walking Tour
DHR Richmond LGBTQ History Walking Tour
Self-guided walking tours of the Virginia Commonwealth University central campus and downtown Richmond developed for Virginia PrideFest enable visitors and residents to explore LGBTQ history on their own.
Diversity Richmond is a leader in the effort to create a permanent and sustainable non-profit structure in Richmond dedicated to serving the LGBTQ+ community, their families and allies. We advocate for fairness, working closely with others who share our vision.
RVA Mag is all about community empowerment. How do we do this? By delivering new and innovative ways to tell stories from our city and Commonwealth.
He She Ze and We is an inclusive community comprised of parents, caregivers, and loved ones of transgender and non-binary individuals of all ages, with the majority being youth. We are dedicated to supporting families throughout their journey with gender identity in Richmond, Virginia and surrounding communities. He She Ze and We was initially formed in 2012 as a group for parents of young gender-expansive children. Very quickly, the need to expand was clear to include families with transgender and/or non-binary loved ones of ALL AGES. Now, He She Ze and We has increased services to meet the needs of the families of the transgender and/or nonbinary community in partnership with other organizations like Side by Side.
James River Transgender Society
The James River Transgender Society is a support group based in Richmond, Virginia and offers support for anyone who is gender variant.
Nationz Foundation a 501(c)3 non-profit organization was organized to fulfill our mission to "provide education and information related to HIV prevention and overall health and wellness, while inspiring the community to take responsibility for their health while working towards a more inclusive Central Virginia for LGBTQIA+ identified individuals."
PFLAG Richmond has been a fixture in the community for over 20 years. We celebrated our 20th birthday with friends and allies on October 23, 2015 at Diversity Richmond.
We are the chamber of commerce that enriches, uplifts, and connects all members of the LGBTQ+ community and its allies in Central Virginia.
ROBIN is an association of Social & Support Groups for ALL Bisexual, Non-monosexual & Queer/Questioning folks in the Central + Tidewater areas of Virginia.
Stonewall Sports | Richmond is a sports league for LGBTQIA+ individuals and allies, and Stonewall Sports' 12th city expansion. We are a non-profit and aim to create a low-cost, highly social, safe, and inclusive community where individuals are comfortable being themselves while taking part in a fun sport or activity.
Us Giving Richmond Connections
Our mission is to connect the Black LGBTQ+ experience of Greater Richmond through engaging community, empowering transformation and creating change.
Roanoke
Mission: To support, educate, empower, and advocate for LGBT individuals and groups in the Roanoke region, and to encourage collaborative efforts with the greater community to improve the quality of life for all.
Shenandoah
Since its founding, the Shenandoah LGBTQ Center has prioritized community collaboration to listen to and address the issues that LGBTQ valley residents find most pressing. That community input has led us to create peer-to-peer support groups and a series of life skills classes to address the mental and physical health, job readiness, and resiliency of LGBTQ people of all ages.
The mission of Shenandoah Valley Equality is to build inclusive community for LGBTQ people in the Shenandoah Valley.
