LOCAL RESOURCES
OutFront Minnesota’s mission is to create a state where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people are free to be who they are, love who they love, and live without fear of violence, harassment or discrimination.
OutFront Minnesota’s focus areas include: Community Organizing & Coalition Building, Public Policy, Anti-Violence, Law, Education & Training, Youth and Schools Gender Sexuality Alliance (GSA) Network
RECLAIM works to provide financially and culturally accessible care to queer and trans youth and their families, as well as continue to train practitioners and partner in community to create systems of change at the intersection of gender and racial justice.
Pride Institute is committed to providing LGBTQ+ people (ages 18 or above) with an inclusive and accepting place for recovery through evidence-based treatment for substance abuse, sexual health and mental health. Their staff already understands the issues you face as an LGBTQ person without explanation, and will help you gain the tools needed for addiction and mental health recovery.
Services: PHP, IOP and Residential
Meridian Behavioral Health: Latitudes
Latitudes is a LGBTQ facility designed to meet the specific substance abuse and mental health needs of the LGBTQ community. Located in St. Paul, Minnesota, Latitudes is more than a treatment center, it’s a place for men and women, 18 years of age and older, to transform into the people they’ve always strived to become. A place where fear is replaced with hope and recovery becomes a reality. By incorporating a full spectrum of evidence-based treatment models and partnering with LGBTQ-specific community partners, Latitudes is able to provide the right kind of opportunities to make lasting change possible. Each person who enters into Latitudes will work closely with an individual counselor as well as in groups to build healthy new ways of leading a healthy lifestyle.
Need a doctor you know you can trust? Worried a therapist won’t use your correct pronouns? Looking for specific services? MNLGBTQ HealthHub can help you get started. The Minnesota LGBTQ+ Directory is a vetted listing of providers who specifically support the LGBTQ+ community and/or are trained to affirm queer people as they seek services. The directory includes professionals offering social services and alternative or integrative care as well as traditional medicine. It covers providers in Minnesota only, but can be used by people throughout our region.
Rainbow Health MN (Formerly JustUs Health)
The mission of Rainbow Health is to work for equitable health care access and outcomes for people who experience injustice at the intersection of health status and identity.
Rainbow Health centers individuals and communities at risk of and living with HIV or facing barriers to equitable health care access and outcomes because of their identity as gender, sexual, and/or racial minorities.
The Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition
The Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition is committed to improving health care access and the quality of health care received by trans and gender non-conforming people through education, resources, and advocacy.
BOP (Bisexual Organizing Project) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit registered in Minnesota that serves the Upper Midwest. They are committed to building the bisexual, pansexual, fluid, queer, and unlabeled (bi+) community through regular events and the yearly national BECAUSE conference. BOP is welcoming and inclusive of everyone, including but not limited to people of all gender identities, sexual orientations, sexes, relationship orientations, ethnicities, abilities, religions, and political affiliations.
BOP also works in partnership with other groups and individuals in the Upper Midwest who are organizing events serving bisexual and other non-monosexual communities.
NAMI MN offers support groups for LGBTQ+ community, fact sheets/information, and local and national resources/organizations.
Quatrefoil Library began in a closet, and much like many of its patrons, it burst out in a blaze of rainbows and glitter. It’s now a public space, open to all, and tons of queer literature has been saved from erasure, preserved by the volunteers who keep the library going. For decades, the library has stood as a gathering point for those in the queer community. It increasingly has become seen as a community event space for the LGBTQIA+ community in Minneapolis/St. Paul and beyond.
The library hosts meetings, book author readings, and countless clubs — including a Queer Dungeons and Dragons meet up! The community room is frequented by countless organizations, and Quatrefoil Library is always finding new ways to broaden this engagement.
They’re not just a library. Quatrefoil Library is a space where it’s safe to be unapologetically trans, bi, lesbian, gay, or any other identity on the spectrum.
TC Pride’s mission is to empower every LGBTQ+ person to live as their true self. They envision a future where all LGBTQ+ people are valued and celebrated for who they are.
Twin Cities Pride Magazine (TCPM) is a quarterly publication dedicated to telling the stories of Minnesota’s LGBTQ+ community. Its June issue also serves as the official Pride Guide for the festivities surrounding Twin Cities Pride Weekend.
Minnesota’s LGBTQ+ Mental Health Providers’ Professional Network
The MN LGBTQ+ Therapists’ Network (The Network) was established in 1988 as a grass-roots group of LGBTQIAPGE2S mental health professionals who wanted a way to safely network, support and educate each other and the community about issues related to LGBTQIAPGE2S mental health and wellness.
U of M The Gender and Sexuality Center for Queer and Trans Life
The Gender and Sexuality Center for Queer and Trans Life provides education, advocacy, outreach, and support to students, staff, faculty, alum and community members. They strive to create a campus climate where more inclusive understandings of gender and sexuality foster a sense of belonging for all.
NATIONAL RESOURCES
The Trevor Project is the world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning) young people.
The Association for LGBTQ+ Psychiatrists
The Association of LGBTQ Psychiatrists, originally the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists (AGLP), is an organization that educates and advocates on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) mental health issues.
The National LGBTQ Task Force advances full freedom, justice and equality for LGBTQ people. They are building a future where everyone can be free to be their entire selves in every aspect of their lives. Today, despite all the progress we’ve made to end discrimination, millions of LGBTQ people face barriers in every aspect of their lives: in housing, employment, healthcare, retirement, and basic human rights. These barriers must go. That’s why the Task Force is training and mobilizing millions of activists across our nation to deliver a world where you can be you. Join us!
The Human Rights Campaign envisions a world where every member of the LGBTQ+ family has the freedom to live their truth without fear, and with equality under the law. They empower their 3 million members and supporters to mobilize against attacks on the most marginalized people in our community.
The It Gets Better Project is a global non profit that reaches millions of young people each year through inspiring media programming, educational resources, international affiliates in 20 countries plus the United States, and access to an arsenal of community based service providers.
The National Resource Center on LGBT Aging
The National Resource Center on LGBT Aging is the country’s first and only technical assistance resource center aimed at improving the quality of services and supports offered to lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender older adults.
BOOKS
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A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer and Trans Identities By Mady G & J.R. Zuckerberg
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A Queer History of the United States By MIchael Bronski
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The Pink Line By Mark Gevisser
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Stonewall By David Carter
PODCASTS
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Making Gay History
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One From the Vaults
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LGBTQ&A
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Nancy
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Getting Curious
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Food 4 Thot
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Hoodrat to Headwrap
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To L and Back: An L Word Podcast
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Queerology
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Queersplaining
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Still Processing
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Las Culturistas
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Strange Fruit
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The Deviant’s World
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History is Gay
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Lovett or Leave It
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Queery
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For the Girls
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Wanna Be on Top?
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Your Queer Story
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Dead for Filth
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Bad with Money
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The Read
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Keep It
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Disability After Dark
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Fanti
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Gender Reveal
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Queering Desi
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Gleewind
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Buffering the Vampire Slayer
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Marti Talks