LGBTQIA+ Resources and Research Guide

From the SB LGBTQ Cenetr's website: "South Bay LGBTQ Center's mission is to create spaces where all LGBTQ+/Queer people can thrive though cultural awareness, community building, community service, and learning opportunities. We hope to foster greater inclusion as well as understanding of our LGBTQ+/Queer and other intersecting communities in the South Los Angeles and South Bay area.
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From Out and Equal Workplace Advocates website: Out & Equal is the premier organization working exclusively on LGBTQ+ workplace equality. Through our worldwide programs, Fortune 500 partnerships and our annual Workplace Summit conference, we help LGBTQ+ people thrive and support organizations creating a culture of belonging for all.

"Based in Los Angeles, the Black AIDS Institute’s “A Clinic For Us” offers respectful and culturally appropriate health services to LA’s Black, Latinx, and other under-served communities.
Location: 4249/4251 Crenshaw Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Phone: (213) 224-7488"

From the LGBTQ Center Long Beach website: We envision fully affirming communities where all LGBTQ people live in health, wellness, safety, and prosperity.

From Manhattan Beach/South Bay PFLAG's website: The Manhattan Beach/South Bay chapter of PFLAG was formed on the belief that every member of the LGBTQ+ community and their families should have easy access to support and services and that our culture in the South Bay should be one that celebrates the unique identity of every individual.

From the BCA's website: "We are an LGBTQ+ association Located in San Pedro, CA. Our objective is to provide a safe environment and enable support to members of the local LGBTQ+ community."

From the TLC website: "The TransLatin@ Coalition (TLC) was founded in 2009 by a group of Transgender and Gender nonconforming and Intersex (TGI) immigrant women in Los Angeles, California, as a grassroots response to address the specific needs of TGI Latin@ immigrants who live in the United States."

From the BPLA website: "EACH YEAR WE REFLECT ON THE YEAR'S PAST AND THE PEOPLE AND PIONEERS THAT HAVE PAVED THE WAY. IN 2023, WE ARE CELEBRATING US, DAILY - SIMPLY WAKING UP AND BEING PRIDEFUL, EVERYDAY. WE ARE CELEBRATING THOSE WHO ARE SHAPING THE FUTURE OF OUR COMMUNITY, BIG AND SMALL. OUR BLACK IS GOLD, IS MORE THAN A MISSION ITS A MANTRA, IT’S AN AFFIRMATION THAT WE ARE WORTHY OF EQUITY, MENTAL HEALTH AND THE PURE JOY OF SIMPLY BEING AND LOVING WHO WE ARE."

From the Center;'s website: "Since 1969 the Los Angeles LGBT Center has cared for, championed, and celebrated LGBT individuals and families in Los Angeles and beyond.
Today the Center's nearly 800 employees provide services for more LGBT people than any other organization in the world, offering programs, services, and global advocacy that span four broad categories: Health, Social Services and Housing, Culture and Education, Leadership and Advocacy.
Despite our size, scope, and determination to meet the growing demand for our services, we remain a lean, fiscally disciplined organization, earning a four-star Charity Navigator rating for eleven consecutive years.
We are an unstoppable force in the fight against bigotry and the struggle to build a better world, a world in which LGBT people can be healthy, equal, and complete members of society."

From the Latino Equality Alliance website: ""MI CENTRO" LGBTQ (BOYLE HEIGHTS) COMMUNITY CENTER IS A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER AND LATINO EQUALITY ALLIANCE.
MI CENTRO IS LOCATED AT 553 S. CLARENCE STREET IN BOYLE HEIGHTS:"

"Every Individual desires freedom, prosperity, purpose, and connection. Mass Liberation aims to build a community that can take a cycle of pain and punishment and turn it into a cycle of peace and purpose. Mass Liberation is an effort to bring freedom and autonomy to a population of citizens often entrapped by their past, by the coping strategies that their past required them to adopt, or by an unjust system. It is also a response to our country’s culture of detention and justice. In response to mass incarceration: Mass Liberation."

"Great Autos is the largest LGBTQ+ car club on the West Coast with almost 1,000 members, owning over 2,600 cars. This diverse organization was formed in 1983 by veteran car collectors Ted Davidson and Herb Rothman who, though active in other clubs, felt the LGBTQ+ community should have a club all its own—a club that could serve as both a social gathering place and means of bringing together LGBTQ+ individuals who share a unique enthusiasm for the automobile and its preservation. "