US and International Organizations That Support LGBTQ+ Rights
LGBTQ+ communities around the world always need your support to ensure that we’re moving in a progressive direction to reach full equality for the larger global community. So, we pulled together a few international and country-specific organizations fighting for LGBTQ+ rights and queer visibility.
Audre Lorde Project works for community wellness and progressive social and economic justice on behalf of lesbian, gay, bisexual, two-spirit, trans, and gender non-conforming people of color in the New York City area through community organizing, education, and capacity-building. The Audre Lorde Project seeks to responsibly reflect, represent, and serve its various communities.
COLAGE provides support and advocacy organization for children with LGBT parents.
Family Equality Council ensures equality for LGBT families by building community, changing hearts and minds, and advancing social justice for all families.
Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund and Leadership Institute work to change the face and voice of America’s politics and achieve equality for LGBT Americans by increasing the number of openly LGBT officials at all levels of government and to achieve full equality for LGBT people by building, supporting and advancing a diverse network of LGBT public leaders.
Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equality. HRC seeks to improve the lives of LGBT Americans by advocating for equal rights and benefits in the workplace, ensuring families are treated equally under the law, and increasing public support among all Americans through advocacy, education, and outreach programs.
Keshet is a national grassroots organization that works for the full inclusion of LGBT Jews in Jewish life.
Movement Advancement Project is an independent think tank that provides rigorous research, insight, and analysis that help speed up equality for LGBT people.
National Black Justice Coalition is a civil rights organization dedicated to empowering Black LGBT people.
National Center for Transgender Equality works to end discrimination and violence against transgender people through education and advocacy on national issues of importance to transgender people.
National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance is a federation of LGBTQ Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander Organizations.
National Stonewall Democrats are America’s only grassroots Democratic LGBT organization.
PFLAG promotes the health and well-being of LGBT persons, their families, and friends through support, to cope with an adverse society, education, to enlighten an ill-informed public, and advocacy, to end discrimination and to secure equal civil rights.
Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) leads in addressing issues related to LGBT aging.
The Task Force builds political power in the LGBT community from the ground up by training activists, organizing broad-based campaigns to defeat anti-LGBT referenda and advance pro-LGBT legislation, and building the movement’s organizational capacity.
Unid@s, The National Latin@ LGBT Human Rights Organization, creates a multi-issue approach for advocacy, education, and convening of and for LGBT Latino communities.
International Organizations
ARC International (Dartmouth, Canada) develops and assists in the implementation of an international strategic vision regarding LGBTQ+ human rights in an effort to advance equality and justice for LGBTQ+ persons and their families at the international level.
Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition (Jamaica) is a coalition of community leaders and non-governmental agencies working to improve GLBTI human rights and health, improve opportunities to celebrate GLBTI Caribbean culture, and develop opportunities to celebrate GLBTI Caribbean spirituality.
Gender Dynamix (Cape Town, South Africa) is the first registered Africa-based organization that focuses solely on trans and gender-diverse communities.
The Inner Circle (Wynberg, South Africa) educates and creates awareness around gender and sexual diversity within faith-based communities, specifically the Muslim community. It serves to motivate and inspire through independent reasoning; create safe spaces by providing psychological, spiritual, and social support to queer individuals and their families; working towards integration and empowerment by collaborating with other structures.
Outright International (New York, New York) is dedicated to working with partners around the globe to strengthen the capacity of the LGBTIQ human rights movement, document and amplify human rights violations against LGBTIQ people, and advocate for inclusion and equality.
ILGA-Europe (Brussels, Belgium) works for a world in which every LGBTI person is free, equal, and safe, providing resources and connecting communities, driving political change, and amplifying voices. The organization touts that it also provides a solid foundation for activists and organizations, in particular at times of great adversity.
United and Strong (St. Lucia) is a human rights non-governmental organization formed to provide a supportive environment for the advancement of human rights for the LGBTI community in Saint Lucia.
Beyond Giving Tuesday in November, queer travel-related organizations also need your help. Check out our shortlist here.
Source: Movement Advancement Project
