Resources Directory

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 In June 2020, the United States Supreme Court decided that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects gay, lesbian, and transgender employees from discrimination. This blog topic covers current legal issues, like the June 2020 decision, that impact LGBTQ+ workplace rights. 

This guide is for LGBTQ+ people who are transitioning to the workplace. It helps job seekers understand the considerations around disclosing gender identity and/or sexual orientation during the job search process and after starting a new job. It also offers detailed information and links to help job seekers understand employment laws, employer non-discrimination policies, and how to evaluate employer benefits. 

These brief details the history, demographics, and experiences of LGBT people in the workplace. In addition to outlining the barriers facing LGBT workers because of prejudice, the brief also examines the added challenges facing workers and how these challenges also impact LGBT employees. 

 NGLCC advocates for social change through economic equality is the exclusive certifying body of LGBT-owned businesses. NGLCC recognizes that a growth business needs not only a strong local network where business owners live and work, but also business certification and access to all the strategic growth opportunities. 

 By fostering a culture of diversity—or a capacity to appreciate and value individual differences—employers benefit from varied perspectives on how to confront business challenges and achieve success. The term “culture of diversity” refers to the infinite range of individuals’ unique attributes and experiences such as ethnicity, gender, age, and disability. Since disability is a natural part of diversity, businesses can benefit by taking steps to ensure people with disabilities are represented in their workforce. Career coaches will find an array of resources that provide more information about disability and diversity and inclusion at the ODEP website.  

 The mission of this program is to grow a diverse workforce and cultivate an inclusive work environment, where employees are fully engaged and empowered to deliver the outstanding services to our Nation’s veterans, their families and beneficiaries. It is our vision that VA is the leader in public service in creating a high-performing workforce by capitalizing on its diversity, purposefully embracing inclusion, and empowering all employees to perform to their highest potential. 

Growing older presents challenges for millions of Americans, but members of the LGBTQ+ community are particularly hard-hit. According to the UCLA Williams Institute, LGBTQ+ older adults face many additional barriers to receiving health care. We created this guide to connect the elders of the LGBTQ+ community to the resources and information necessary to help them find the care that they need.

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning Plus (LGBTQ+*) community represents a diverse range of identities and expressions of gender and sexual orientation. In addition to these identities, members of the community are diverse in terms of race, religion, ethnicity, nationality and socioeconomic class. This intersectionality — the combined and overlapping aspects of a persons’s identity — brings diversity of thought, perspective, understanding and experience. This complexity is important to understand as a unique and valuable aspect of the LGBTQ+ community that can result in a strong sense of pride and resiliency.

OBHAW is the nonprofit community mental health facility for five surrounding counties. You may receive services in one of our five locations that are located in Hot Springs, Malvern, Arkadelphia, Glenwood, and Mt Ida. We see over 5,551 clients per year, half of whom have a serious mental illness. Current estimates indicate that 83% of those we serve are low to moderate-income, with 61% being on Medicaid.

Our standards include working in conjunction with LGBTQ+ providers throughout the state, using correct pronouns, asking for preferred names, offering free injection supplies, providing insight into the resources available to you, and most importantly showing you only the utmost respect. 

 SAGE is the country’s largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of LGBTQ+ older people. Founded in 1978 and headquartered in New York City, SAGE is a national organization that offers supportive services and consumer resources to LGBTQ+ older people and their caregivers.

In Spring 2012, UAMS students initiated the formation of the LGBT Health Alliance. The goals of the group are: To provide a safe and secure environment for LGBT students, faculty and staff, and their allies; to help educate students, faculty and staff on issues facing the LGBT population to ensure culturally competent health care professionals, and; to engage with the LGBT community at large to develop collaborative partnerships to foster health.

Despite best efforts, Arkansans still face an uphill battle against HIV-related stigma, misinformation, and structural barriers to access to care. Arkansas RAPPS pledges to bridge those gaps left by our current healthcare infrastructure and provide services to those demographics that have been historically excluded, yet bear the burden of heightened rates of  HIV transmission. 

We are a local nonprofit organization for people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS in Northwest Arkansas. We work to enrich each other’s lives while providing a much needed support resource for everyone living with and affected by HIV/AIDS in our community. We are a non-clinical network of peer administrated functions, topical discussions and special events which provide an opportunity to ask questions, voice your concerns, and learn no-nonsense ways to “living life on the positive side”. Anyone who is living with or affected by HIV is welcome to join our mission. 

Arkansas' chapter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the Abbey of Hillbilly Harlots, is a group of queer nuns with a mission to spread love, light, and joy through education, awareness, and support for the LGBTQ community. 

Since its inception in 2017, the Arkansas Black Gay Men’s Forum (ARBGM Forum) has deeply impacted the underprivileged and underserved in Central Arkansas. Its Black leadership has demonstrated how an equitable approach to providing and distributing resources can improve quality of life for Black and brown members of the gay community

Central Arkansas Pride is a 501(c)(3) organization focusing on building a strong LGBTQ+ community in Central Arkansas and helping all feel welcomed and feel empowered. Our team creates events and programs that unite, inspire, and educate.

The Equality Crew believes it is critically important to understand and give voice to the current and desired state of young LGBTQ+ Arkansans’ quality of life and the specific barriers to achieving a true sense of belonging. In this regard, The Equality Crew is conducting a year-long needs assessment to provide a holistic process to guide the decision making in the development and capacity building of a sustainable PreK-12 pipeline of support for LGBTQ+ youth in our region.  

Equality Texarkana aims to serve and empower the local LGBTQ+ community as well as other under-served and discriminated communities in the Texarkana area. 

Gay For Good Arkansas mobilizes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ+) and ally volunteers to promote diversity, foster inclusion and strengthen ties to the broader Arkansas community. We facilitate welcoming, inclusive service projects in support of a wide range of causes throughout Little Rock and the surrounding areas, and we look forward to meeting you. 

Trans migrant led group supporting trans people facing violence. Organizes and advocates for the abolishment of ICE and all cages. Building brave spaces to celebrate trans resilience in Arkansas.

 Northwest Arkansas Equality is a nonprofit organization providing programming, education, and advocacy to serve, connect, and empower the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community. We provide free HIV/STI testing services, various support groups, resources, and social and community outreach events. Each summer, we produce Northwest Arkansas Pride, the state's largest LGBTQ celebration! 

We are a community-based organization focused on helping make the world around us a better, happier place. With the help of our tireless staff, we organize fundraisers, and exciting community-building events, offer community training, and provide community resources to those in need.  We are dedicated to the LGBTQIA+ community, building relationships within our community, and closing the door to hate. 

The River Valley Equality Center is a community organization committed to non-violent advocacy for the rights of all humans, with an emphasis on the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities and other minority sexualities. RVEC is using a combination of visible action, education, and social support to change misinformed hatred and prejudice to acceptance and goodwill.

The Bisexual Resource Center works to connect the bi+ community and help its members thrive through resources, support, and celebration. We envision an empowered, visible, and inclusive global community for bi+ people.

To support and empower our mission on a collaborative level between the Foundation and allies, including the LGBTQ community and artists, organizations, educational institutions, non-profits, museums, archives and the press. To promote this mission to the wider world beyond the LGBTQ community. 

Welcome to the world's first tech platform matching TLGBQ+ (transgender, lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and more identities) people facing persecution or discrimination with safe, verified resources.

Children often don't have the words to disclose that they have been sexually abused, or choose to remain silent because they fear they won't be believed. This series, a collaboration between RAINN and No Limit Generation, is designed to inform, guide, and educate caregivers to safeguard children from online and in-person grooming, help create a safe space to support and validate a child’s disclosure of sexual abuse, and be a healing presence for them in the event sexual abuse has occurred.

Lucie's Place supports LGBT youth experiencing homelessness. The nonprofit organization offers services at its downtown community center, where they also host events, workshops, and activities for the local LGBT community. If you are LGBT & under 26, contact them for resources & assistance!.

Ouachita Children, Youth, and Family Services serves our most vulnerable population throughout Arkansas providing advocacy, safety, and skill building activities that empower them to achieve lifelong success.

 The Fair Housing Act protects people from discrimination when they are renting or buying a home, getting a mortgage, seeking housing assistance, or engaging in other housing-related activities. Additional protections apply to federally-assisted housing. Learn about the History of the Fair Housing Act, and read Examples of the many forms of housing discrimination. 

Part of HUD’s mission is to give every person and family access to a safe, secure, and affordable home including ensuring fair and equal access to housing for all Americans, regardless of their sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status. HUD is working to promote, strengthen, and create opportunities for LGBTQ+ inclusion in its federal programs and regulations. This website provides information related to equal housing access, knowing your veteran client’s rights under the Fair Housing Act, the Gender Identity Rule, and how to file a Housing Discrimination Complaint. 

The LGBT Project fights discrimination and moves public opinion through the courts, legislatures and public education across five issue areas: Relationships, Youth & Schools, Parenting, Gender Identity and Expression and Discrimination in Employment, Housing and other areas. 

 To make a correction to your US birth certificate, it is necessary that you contact or go to the correction/amendments department at the vital records office that issued the original birth certificate. This department will be able to help you make a change to your birth certificate. 

Detailed information about the process and issues around amending the name and gender associated with both federal and state identity documents. 

Lambda Legal works at every level of government to stand up for the LGBTQ+ community and everyone living with HIV. 

Our team of experts use their deep knowledge of the law and government to protect and advance our community’s rights through federal, state, and local policymaking. As laws and other legal measures are proposed that would affect the lives of our community—whether that’s at work, in school, or in healthcare, for example—Lambda Legal’s policy experts carefully monitor what’s happening on the ground and take action when necessary. We advocate for new policies that enshrine greater protections for our communities, such as the Equality Act, and we fight for reforms to existing laws in order to protect more people. Lambda Legal’s policy team also advocates for changes to the law that strengthen our institutions of democracy and build governments that better reflect the people they serve, such as voter protections and judicial reform. 

Welcome to the world's first tech platform matching TLGBQ+ (transgender, lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and more identities) people facing persecution or discrimination with safe, verified resources.

Founded in 1985, GLAAD is a non-profit organization focused on LGBTQ advocacy and cultural change. GLAAD works to ensure fair, accurate, and inclusive representation and creates national and local programs that advance LGBTQ acceptance. 

HRC Arkansas is the local presence of the Human Rights Campaign in the Natural Stat, working for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality. 

Our mission is to elect progressive women to state and local office. The women we support are committed to reproductive, economic, social, and environmental justice for all.

 Out (ISSN 1062-7928) is an LGBT fashion, entertainment, and lifestyle magazine, with the highest circulation of any LGBT monthly publication in the United States. It presents itself in an editorial manner similar to Details, Esquire, and GQ. Out was owned by Robert Hardman of Boston, its original investor, until 2000, when he sold it to LPI Media, which was later acquired by PlanetOut Inc. In 2008, PlanetOut Inc. sold LPI Media to Regent Entertainment Media, Inc., a division of Here Media, which also owns Here TV. 

 The Advocate is an American LGBT-interest magazine, printed bi-monthly and available by subscription. The Advocate brand also includes a website. Both magazine and website have an editorial focus on news, politics, opinion, and arts and entertainment of interest to lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender (LGBT) people. The magazine, established in 1967, is the oldest and largest LGBT publication in the United States and the only surviving one of its kind that was founded before the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City, an incident that is generally credited as the beginning of the LGBT rights movement. 

 We are a community. We strive not only to inform but to listen, to collaborate, to work together. We believe that the life of our work does not exist in words and images, but in the people they embody and the conversations they spark. We want our work to live beyond the page and inside the hearts of those who come to us. We are a movement. We are part of the legacy of those who lived, loved, and fought before us. We believe that every LGBTQ+ person deserves to live life peacefully, happily, and on their own terms. We are committed to representing the breadth of our community and not only those in positions of privilege and advantage. 

 LGBTQ Nation is an online news magazine, reporting on issues relevant to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer community. We welcome your comments, suggestions, news tips and letters to the editor. 

Though Gaye's primary content involves the African-American community, each publication showcases diversity to bridge the gap between all walks of life. In 2018, journalist and business investor K. Keith joined Gaye Magazine as co-founder and Editor in Chief, re-branding Gaye as an online LGBT "blogazine", a fusion of a blog and a magazine. The current success of the magazine stems from its unique community based focus and blog style social media presence, enabling us to interact and foster a public forum for our supporters, aka the #Gayes. 

 The world's leading magazine for LGBTQIA women and non-binary people.

 Queerty is an online magazine and newspaper covering gay-oriented lifestyle and news, founded in 2005 by David Hauslaib. As of June 2015, the site had more than five million monthly unique visitors. 

Specialized voice therapy clinic specializing in voice feminization and masculinization for transgender individuals. All of our therapy sessions are offered online so we’re able to reach anyone, anywhere, in the state. 

 From gender-affirming hormone therapy and transition support to medications for anxiety and depression, it can be hard to find one clinic or doctor who understands how to care for you. That’s why we founded Plume, a virtual home for transgender, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming people. 

Trans Families inspires hope, increases understanding, and creates a visible pathway to support trans and gender diverse children and all those who touch their lives. 

Our standards include working in conjunction with LGBTQ+ providers throughout the state, using correct pronouns, asking for preferred names, offering free injection supplies, providing insight into the resources available to you, and most importantly showing you only the utmost respect. 

 AARP connects national and local programs for our aging population, and our older veterans can benefit from identifying these resources, events and quality information related to the LGBTQ+ community.

 Blue Alliance is an American non-profit organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Alumni of the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Its mission is to promote respect through education and advocacy for LGBTQ+ individual at the Air Force Academy, within the Academy’s alumni community, and throughout the entire USAF. 

 CalVet is committed to ensuring all Veterans have access to and receive the benefits they have earned without regard to sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability. The Minority Veterans Division promotes the use of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) benefits, programs, and services by Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Veterans. We advocate on behalf of LGBT Veterans by identifying gaps in services and by making recommendations to improve service. We support and initiate activities that educate and sensitize the public to the unique needs of our LGBT Veterans. 

 Whether it was before, during, or after Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, being in the military and identifying as LGBTQ+ has historically meant service members did not feel safe or accepted. Unique experiences of injustice, discrimination, and abuse, both physical and emotional, are the emphasis in this special-focus Healing Warrior Hearts retreat. This confidential environment offers a safe place to talk about the struggles of sexual orientation within the military. Staff of these weekends are veterans and civilians who share similar experiences or who have been identified as LGBTQ targets and their allies. The staff offers empathy and compassion for the pain these veterans carry, connecting from the heart, recognizing that our hearts have no gender or sexual preference and that all healing begins within. 

 Knights Out is an organization of West Point alumni, staff and faculty who support the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people to serve openly in the US military and who wish to educate young officers about the issues and contributions of LGBTQ+ troops. 

 This is an archived site that can provide information on DADT repeal. For career coaches, you will find Quick Reference Guides and other data that can aid in your support of a veteran client’s military discharge upgrade case and access to benefits. 

 SPART*A is a group of LGBTQ+ people who currently serve or have served in the military, their families, and veteran and uniformed allies. They are a membership organization, built by, for, and with members from all parts of the LGBTQ+ military community.  

  TAVA is an advocacy group for transgender veterans from the US military.  

 There is an LGBTQ+ Veteran Care Coordinator (LGBTQ+ VCC) at every facility to help you get the care you need. VHA policies require that your health care is delivered in an affirming and inclusive environment and that VHA employees respect your identity. LGBTQ+ VCC can answer your questions, advocate for your right to quality care, handle complaints or concerns you have about your care, and help you get started with any of our services for LGBTQ+ Veterans. This page includes a directory of LGBTQ+ VCC by state and U.S. territory. 

Our chapter supports students and educators locally, organizes around LGBTQ-affirming public policy, plans teacher trainings, and hosts events for students, educators, parents, and allies. Chapters like ours play an important role in bringing GLSEN’s programs and visions to right where we live, work, and learn. While some chapters have full-time or part-time staff, most are entirely volunteer-based. We're always looking for new volunteers to help us ensure safe schools for all students. 

Founded in San Francisco in 1998, GSA Network emerged as a youth-driven organization that connects LGBTQ+ youth and school-based GSA clubs through peer support, leadership development, and community organizing and advocacy.

Empowering LGBTQ youth to define their own journey.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, asexual, pansexual, aromantic, genderqueer, nonbinary, and intersex students may have varied experiences in college depending on the community they encounter. Statistics published by the Human Rights Campaign revealed that only 26% of LGBTQ+ teens feel safe in their schools.

Trans Families inspires hope, increases understanding, and creates a visible pathway to support trans and gender diverse children and all those who touch their lives. 

You deserve a welcoming and loving world,  and so do the people you care about. Here you can reach out to a counselor if you’re struggling, find answers and information, and get the tools you need to help someone else.