LGBTQ+ Community Resources in Jacksonville, Florida

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LGBTQ+ Resource List

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.JaxRCPride accumulated the list below.

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LGBT National Help Center

LGBT National Help Center offers national support, resources, and information directly. All calls and online services are provided by highly trained LGBTQ volunteers. Calls are never outsourced or answered by other affiliated organizations.

LGBT National Hotline: 888-843-4564 | LGBT National Youth Talkline: 800-46-7743 | LGBT National Senior Hotline: 888-234-7243

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TRANS Lifeline

Trans Lifeline is a grassroots hotline and microgrants 501(c)(3) non-profit organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis - for the trans community, by the trans community.

Trans Lifeline Hotline: 877-565-8860

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National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

The LGBTQ+ community is diverse and strong, but may be disproportionately at-risk for suicidal feelings and other mental health struggles because of the discrimination and prejudice they too often are up against. If you are struggling and need to talk to someone, we’re available 24/7 and confidential.

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK (8255)

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National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network

National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network (NQTTCN) is a healing justice organization committed to transforming mental health for queer and trans people of color (QTPoC). We work at the intersection of movements for social justice and the field of mental health to integrate healing justice into both of these spaces. Our overall goal is to increase access to healing justice resources for QTPoC.

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National Center for Lesbian Rights

The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) is the first national LGBTQ legal organization founded by women and brings a fierce, longstanding commitment to racial and economic justice and our community’s most vulnerable.

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Marsha P. Johnson Institute

The Marsha P. Johnson Institute (MPJI) protects and defends the human rights of BLACK transgender people. We do this by organizing, advocating, creating an intentional community to heal, developing transformative leadership, and promoting our collective power.

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AHF - AIDS HeathCare Foundation

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) the largest provider of HIV/AIDS care in the U.S. About HIV. HIV Symptoms. HIV Treatment. HIV Prevention. Everything You Need to Know. Over 1 Million Patients. Serving Over 40 Countries. Patient First. Global HIV Non-Profit.

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BAI - Black AIDS Institute

Black AIDS Institute mission is to stop the AIDS epidemic in Black communities by engaging and mobilizing Black institutions and individuals in efforts to confront HIV.

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CAN Community Health

CAN Community Health is to inspire and contribute to the health and well-being of those affected by HIV, Hepatitis C and other sexually transmitted diseases by providing the best care through outreach, integrated clinical practice, advocacy, education, and research.

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NFAN - Northeast Florida AIDS Network

Northeast Florida AIDS Network (NFAN) is a regional community-based organization responsible for the planning and coordination of HIV/AIDS services in northeast Florida. NFAN goals include: preventing the spread of HIV, the virus which causes AIDS; caring for individuals living with HIV/AIDS and their families; advocating on behalf of consumers of HIV/AIDS services.

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Jacksonville Florida Black Pride

The Jacksonville Florida Black Pride is a social network created to build the unity and fellowship of the African American LGBTQ community in Jacksonville, Fl. We accomplish this mission through community empowerment activities and initiatives focusing on education, health, leadership, and philosophy of fellowship and inclusiveness of all races, ethnicity, and sexual orientations.

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JASMYN

JASMYN supports and empowers LGBTQ young people by creating safe space, providing health and wholeness services and offering youth development opportunities, while bringing people and resources together to promote equality and human rights.

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PFLAG of Jacksonville

PFLAG supports families, allies and people who are LGBT+, Education for ourselves and others about the unique issues and challenges facing people who are LGBT+, Advocacy in our communities to change attitudes and create policies and laws that achieve full equality for people who are LGBT+

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PFLAG of Jacksonville Youth Advisory Council

The PFLAG of Jacksonville Youth Advisory Council (YAC) is here for LGBTQI+ youth and their supportive families. We create events around the metropolitan Jacksonville area that are supportive, fun, and educational.

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Trans Youth Equality Foundation

The Trans Youth Equality Foundation provides education, advocacy and support for transgender and gender non-conforming children and youth and their families. Our mission is to share information about the unique needs of this community, partnering with families, educators and service providers to help foster a healthy, caring, and safe environment for all transgender children.

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UNF LGBT Resource Center

The UNF LGBT Resource Center is committed to advocacy, equality, community, and support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning and allied students, faculty, and staff.

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The TREVOR Project

The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people under 25.

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Center for Black Equity

Center for Black Equity is an Global leader of the Black LGBTQ+ Pride movement, breaking barriers to accessing employment and opportunity through equipping community leaders with the tools, experiences, and knowledge that enable them to unlock the leadership and problem-solving potential of themselves and others.

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Lutheran Social Services

Lutheran Social Services of Northeast Florida (LSS) is dedicated to supporting the community through five programs: hunger relief; refugee resettlement; representative payee services; free financial/career coaching services; and comprehensive HIV services. In addition, LSS offers Beacons of Hope, a support group for those living with HIV, as well as other HIV services such as transitional housing, mental health counseling, and medical case management.

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The AIDS Memorial Quilt - The Names Project Foundation

The North Florida Quilt Chapter mission is to preserve, care for and use, The AIDS Memorial Quilt to foster healing, advance social justice and inspire action.

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AIDS Memorial Project of Northeast Florida

AMP is dedicated to build & maintain a “living memorial” to citizens of Northeast Florida and loved ones who have died from complications of AIDS & infected/affected by AIDS.

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First Coast Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

First Coast Sisters works to educate our community and to offer our community a safe zone to speak and share their stories freely without fear of rejection or judgement.

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Equality Florida

Equality Florida consists of two organizations - Equality Florida Institute, Inc., our 501(c)(3) educational charity and Equality Florida Action, Inc., our 501(c)(4) advocacy organization. Together, these organizations form the largest civil rights organization dedicated to securing full equality for Florida’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community. Through education, grassroots organizing, coalition building, and lobbying, we are changing Florida so that no one suffers harassment or discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

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Black Trans Advocacy Coalition

Black Trans Advocacy Coalition mission to improve the black trans human experience by overcoming violence and injustice in the world through the power, value and love of all people.

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National Center for Transgender Equality

The National Center for Transgender Equality advocates to change policies and society to increase understanding and acceptance of transgender people. In the nation’s capital and throughout the country, NCTE works to replace disrespect, discrimination, and violence with empathy, opportunity, and justice.

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TransLatin@ Coalition

The mission of TransLatin@ Coalition (TLC) is to advocate for the specific needs of the Trans Latin@ community that resides in the U.S.A. and to plan strategies that improve our quality of life.

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Transgender American Veterans Association

Transgender American Veterans Association is a grassroots organization that advocates for the equality of transgender veterans and active duty service members to receive fair and equal treatment in areas such as healthcare, benefits, and open transgender military service.

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HRSA - Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program

The Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program provides a comprehensive system of HIV primary medical care, essential support services, and medications for low-income people living with HIV who are uninsured and undeserved. The Program funds grants to states, cities/counties, and local community-based organizations to provide care and treatment services to people living with HIV to improve health outcomes and reduce HIV transmission among hard-to-reach populations.

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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.

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Bicycle Health

Bicycle Health launched its virtual care platform in 2020, which provides empathetic, affordable, person-to-person care at scale, including medication management, behavioral health treatment, support groups, and care coordination, supporting patients wherever they’re at in their recovery journey.


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