LGBTQ Resources & Support

COMMUNITY RESOURCES

Our Center - Our mission is to maintain a safe, empowering, and supportive center for the LGBTQ+ community and allies that addresses advocacy, education, and services. We seek to build, connect, and strengthen the LGBTQ+ community through community building, arts and culture programming, and inclusive activities.

Northern Nevada HOPES - At HOPES, we welcome all members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer community. We support the LGBTQ+ community by providing judgement-free healthcare, social services, and community outreach and education. Together, we can create a strong, cohesive LGBTQ+ network that connects people, solves problems, and builds a healthier Reno community.

Thrive Wellness - Thrive Wellness is dedicated to making a meaningful impact on the quality of life for those we serve by creating greater access to care customized to meet the needs of our communities.

LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapists in Reno, NV - Resource List

Spectrum Northern Nevada - Our Mission is to create safe and accepting social networks and events for members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning (LGBTQ) community and their advocates in Northern Nevada.

High Sierra Prime Timers Reno - Reno is a social organization whose objective is to promote educational, cultural and social activities for mature gay and bisexual men and their admirers in a supportive atmosphere.

 

ONLINE READING

Pride Month Special: Alcoholism in the LGBTQ+ Community - LGBTQ people are at increased risk for various behavioral health issues, including substance use disorder (SUD).

An hour from Tahoe, Reno is an LGBTQ safe haven, article by: Annie Crawford

Queerest Little City In The World, article by: John Jeffrey Auer IV

Behavioral Health Solutions - During pride month, let’s make mental health a priority - article

 
 

WEBSITES

AllConnect - LGBTQ youth resources: Bridging the digital divide

ACLU Nevada

LGBTQ mental health and suicide prevention - American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

LGBTQ+ Behavioral Health Equity Center of Excellence - Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration

GLAD - GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders

Mama Bears - Supporting, Educating, Empowering Parents of LGBTQ Kids & the LGBTQ Community

Queer In The World - Moving To LGBT Reno? How To Find Your Perfect Gay Neighborhood!

Love Wins - LQBTQ+ Travel Guide Reno Tahoe

The Trevor Project - 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.

CDC LGBTQ Youth Services - Resources for LGBT Youth and Friends/Supporters

Safe Zone Project - Safe Zone trainings are one of the best places to start learning about all things LGBTQ+, but they are just that: the start. Resource list.

 
 
 

PODCASTS

    1. Making Gay History - Bringing the voices of LGBTQ history to life through intimate conversations with champions, heroes, and witnesses to history.

    2. Queery with Cameron Esposito - Sit in on an hour long-conversation between host and standup comic, Cameron Esposito, and some of the brightest luminaries in the LGBTQ+ family. QUEERY explores individual stories of identity, personality and the shifting cultural matrix around gender, sexuality and civil rights.

    3. LGBTQ&A - Weekly interviews with the most interesting LGBTQ+ people in the world. Recent guests include Laverne Cox, Janelle Monáe, Pete Buttigieg, Brandi Carlile, Alok Vaid-Menon, and Angela Davis. LGBTQ&A is hosted by Jeffrey Masters and produced by The Advocate magazine, in partnership with GLAAD.

    4. By The Bi - Welcome to By the Bi, a podcast for anyone interested in learning a bit more about bisexuality, the swinger community, open relationships, BDSM, and everything else your vanilla friends refuse to talk with you about. Join your hosts, a bisexual ex-pat couple in Sydney Australia, as in each episode we chat about ourselves, our experiences, and our relationships.

    5. One From The Vaults - One From the Vaults, a trans history podcast by Morgan M Page. We bring you all the dirt, gossip, and glamour from trans history!

    6. Out With It - Time Out Youth Center presents Out With It, a genre-fluid podcast for LGBTQ youth, the LGBTQ community, and their allies. Every episode, Center staff will sit down with LGBTQ youth and hear their stories, their wisdom, and their perspective on the topics relevant to them.

    7. PFLAG Connects Podcasts - List of LGBTQ+ podcasts

    8. Queer America - Without LGBTQ history, there is no American history. From Learning for Justice and hosts Leila Rupp and John D'Emilio, Queer America takes listeners on a journey that spans from Harlem to the Frontier West, revealing stories of LGBTQ life we should have learned in school.

    9. Queer Money - Queer Money: personal finance with a rainbow twist. Queer Money is dedicated to the intersection of personal finance and being LGBTQ. Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender or Queer, we all have money needs. Let's build a financially strong LGBTQ community.

    10. Being LGBTQ - Being LGBTQ features interviews with people from across the community. Striving to give a platform to those who feel underrepresented within it we discuss the latest issues impacting the community, amplify the voices of LGBTQ people, signpost you to the latest LGBTQ music artists, and much more. Hosted by LGBTQ advocate Sam Wise, Being LGBTQ is informative, friendly, and accessible to all.

 

CRISIS OPTIONS

Are you experiencing a Substance Abuse or Mental Health Crisis? Help is available.

Are you experiencing a different type of crisis? Help is available.

Quest Counseling provides 24/7/365 crisis management for anybody experiencing mental health crises and/or substance abuse.