Community Organizations

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We have compiled a list of sites that offer LGBTQ+ resources, particularly those in the State of Arkansas and Hot Springs National Park as well as the greater Hot Springs area. As you know, LGBTQ+  Arkansans are under siege from political and religious rhetoric in the state and it's at times like these where resources such as what we have listed here becomes invaluable. If you are a local organization representing LGBTQ+ people in Arkansas or you have a website you feel can enrich and empower the community then contact us to let us know. We place emphasis on LGBTQ+ resources, LGBTQ+ support and LGBTQ+ youth.

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

 BeYOUUU is deeply rooted in the belief that every transgender and non-binary individual deserves to live an authentic and confident life. That's why we're committed to empowering people through mentorship and educational programing. 

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.

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.

 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. 

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

 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.

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. 

 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. 

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.

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.