Pride Links
The IATSE Pride Committee aims to provide useful inks to various LGBTQ+ resources. If there are any important ones we’re missing, please send them our way to be posted. If you know of any issues with any that we have posted, please let us know that as well so that we can look into it.
If you are trying to find LGBTQ+ resources in your area that are not currently on the site, please reach out to us. The Committee is spread around both Canada and the U.S., and will use our various networks to try and get an answer to your question.
General Resources
CenterLink: The Community of LGBT Centers
Serving over 250 LGBT community centers across the U.S. in 45 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, as well as centers in Canada, China, and Australia, CenterLink assists newly forming community centers and helps strengthen existing LGBT centers, through networking opportunities for center leaders, peer-based technical assistance and training, and a variety of capacity building services.
They have a directory which lists the nearest centers to you and links to their website.
LGBT National Help Center
The LGBT National Help Center states that they are the only LGBT organization that offers national support, resources, and information directly.
All calls and online services are provided by highly trained LGBTQ volunteers. Calls are never out sourced or answered by other affiliated organizations and the services provided are always free and confidential.
Although marketed as U.S., the numbers also seem to work in Canada.
The Native Youth Sexual Health Network (NYSHN)
The Native Youth Sexual Health Network (NYSHN) is an organization by and for Indigenous youth that works across issues of sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice throughout the United States and Canada.
NYSHN is lead by and for Indigenous youth 30 years of age and under.
Trans Lifeline
Trans Lifeline is a trans-led organization that connects trans people to the community, support, and resources they need to survive and thrive. Their website is available in English and Spanish.
USA: 1-877-565-8860 Canada: 1-877-330-6366
Entertainment Industry Resources
IATSE Safety Hotline
Entertainment Workers can ANONYMOUSLY call the IATSE Safety hotline at 1-844-422-9273 with a tip if you feel unsafe at work for ANY REASON.
OR download the safety app here:
MyConnext Reporting Tool
If you experience or witness misconduct, have questions, or want to learn how you can help create a safer workplace, The MyConnext Reporting Tool is here to help.
Members of participating organizations can access the secure online platform anywhere, any time, on any device.
Entertainment Community Fund
ECF provides human services nationally for people who work in film, theater, television, music, opera, radio and dance. They’re there for everyone on stage, camera and behind the scenes to support a life in the arts.
Since their founding in 1882, they’ve helped address the specific needs of entertainment professionals—with a unique understanding of the challenges involved with a life in the arts, and with the knowledge of what it takes to thrive in an often unpredictable industry.
You’re invited to explore theirr health and wellness, career and life, and housing services—all designed to ensure stability, encourage resiliency and be a safety net.
Canadian Resources
Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchanges (CATIE)
CATIE strengthens Canada’s response to HIV and hepatitis C by bridging research and practice. They connect healthcare and community-based service providers with the latest science, and promote good practices for prevention and treatment programs.
LGBT Youthline
Youth Line offers confidential and non-judgemental peer support through theirr telephone, text and chat services. Get in touch with a peer support volunteer from Sunday to Friday, 4:00PM to 9:30PM Eastern.
LGBTQ+ Charities
Canadahelps.org has a list of LGBTQ charities. The list may include a charity that you can make use of locally.
The 519
The 519 is committed to the health, happiness and full participation of the LGBTQ2S communities. A City of Toronto agency with an innovative model of Service, Space and Leadership, they strive to make a real difference in people’s lives, while working to promote inclusion, understanding and respect.
U.S. Resources
Healthcare Equity Index (HEI)
The Healthcare Equality Index is the national LGBTQ benchmarking tool that evaluates healthcare facilities’ policies and practices related to the equity and inclusion of their LGBTQ patients, visitors and employees. The HEI 2019 evaluates more than 1,600 healthcare facilities nationwide.
The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project‘s trained counselors are there to support you 24/7. If you are a young person in crisis, feeling suicidal, or in need of a safe and judgment-free place to talk they offer phone calls, texts and chat.
1-866-488-7386
Lambda Legal
The Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. (“Lambda Legal”) is a national organization working to achieve full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and everyone living with HIV, through impact litigation, education and public policy work.
The NYC LGBTQ Community Center
For more than 40 years The Center has been at the core of New York’s LGBTQ+ community. As a direct service provider, a leading LGBTQ+ advocate, and an affirming safe space, The Center stands as a vital pillar of support, activism, and community building for LGBTQ+ New Yorkers.
Los Angeles LGBT Center
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.
They 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.
San Francisco LGBT Center
For more than 25 years, the Center has been a place to celebrate our victories, mourn our losses, and plan for the future. In April 2017, they inaugurated a state-of-the-art building—a $10.3 million remodel primarily funded by New Market Tax Credits. This landmark event breathed new life into the physical space and created financial sustainability for their next chapter. Today, they are the only non-profit in San Francisco serving all members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.
Center on Halsted (Chicago)
Center on Halsted is the Midwest’s most comprehensive community center dedicated to advancing community and securing the health and well-being of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) people of Chicagoland. More than 1,000 community members visit the Center every day, located in the heart of Chicago’s Lakeview Neighborhood.
Advocates for Trans Equality
Established in 2024, Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) was conceived in February 2022, when Texas state officials directed state child protection workers to investigate parents who were suspected of having provided their children with medically necessary transition-related healthcare. It was the first time that state officials had ordered this kind of investigation, and it represented a new, extremely frightening level of danger to our community.
Along with the record-setting attacks on the trans community in state legislatures across the country, a stronger, bolder response was needed to the unprecedented vitriol and legislative attacks on trans people nationwide. Two leading national trans civil rights organizations, National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) and Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF) merged together to lead the next chapter of the transgender rights movement.
Sobriety Resources
Online Intergroup of Alcoholics Anonymous
The OIAA Directory features 1,000+ online AA meetings worldwide; featuring various formats such as video, telephone conferences, email or chat and in many languages. Browse their directory for the next available meeting or search to find a meeting that speaks to you.
Government of Canada - Get Help With Substance Use
This page has resources and information for people who need help with substance use, including overdose prevention resources and quit smoking services. It does not include direct links to private clinics or for-profit organizations. It includes both Canada-wide and Provincial/Territorial health and support services.
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