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Quick Numbers
Trevor Project LifeLine 1-866-488-7386
Trevor Project TextLine text START to 678-678
Trans LifeLine 1-877-565-8860
GLBT National Hotline Youth Talkline 888-843-4564
The GLBT National Hotline 800-246-7743
Indiana 2-1-1
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-8255, text HOME to 741-741
Below we have listed several resources sectioned out by:
If you have additional resources, please reach out!
Local Resources
PFLAG Indy & Fishers
GenderNexxus
100% free services such as medical coordination, support groups and education.
Indiana Legal Services - LGBT Project
The LGBT Project provides free legal advice, information and representation to LGBT individuals throughout Indiana. Common issues ILS helps with:
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Name and Gender Marker Changes
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Insurance coverage of gender-affirming treatment and services
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Divorce and family recognition
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Bullying, education, and youth issues
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Discrimination
Indiana Youth Group
https://www.indianayouthgroup.org/
Programming at IYG revolves around building community, developing leadership qualities, and increasing self-esteem and self-efficacy. Through this programming, our staff hopes to lessen the impact of stressors most commonly faced by LGBTQ+ youth.
Trinity Haven
Trinity Haven provides safe, affirming housing for LGBTQ youth experiencing housing instability.
Lambda Legal
For five decades and counting, Lambda Legal has proudly served as attorneys for the LGBTQ+ community and people living with HIV.
PFLAG Indy & Fishers
GenderNexxus
100% free services such as medical coordination, support groups and education.
Indiana Legal Services - LGBT Project
The LGBT Project provides free legal advice, information and representation to LGBT individuals throughout Indiana. Common issues ILS helps with:
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Name and Gender Marker Changes
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Insurance coverage of gender-affirming treatment and services
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Divorce and family recognition
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Bullying, education, and youth issues
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Discrimination
Damien Center Social Groups
https://damien.org/services/social-groups
Damien Center social groups are designed to meet your needs. All are welcome! You do not have to be a client at the Damien Center to join us. Please contact us by clicking this link to enroll in any of these groups, or email Resource Coordinator Robin Thompson at rthompson@damien.org.
Indiana Youth Group
https://www.indianayouthgroup.org/
Programming at IYG revolves around building community, developing leadership qualities, and increasing self-esteem and self-efficacy. Through this programming, our staff hopes to lessen the impact of stressors most commonly faced by LGBTQ+ youth.
Trinity Haven
Trinity Haven provides safe, affirming housing for LGBTQ youth experiencing housing instability.
Lambda Legal
For five decades and counting, Lambda Legal has proudly served as attorneys for the LGBTQ+ community and people living with HIV.
Healthcare
OutCare Health
https://www.outcarehealth.org/
Find an LGBTQ+ affirming and safe healthcare provider by searching the OutList directory.
GALAP (Gender Affirmative Letter Access Project)
https://www.thegalap.org/need-a-letter/directory
A group of transgender, nonbinary, and allied mental health and medical providers based in the U.S. who have come together to:
a) State their position on the requirement that transgender and nonbinary people and/or people seeking gender-affirming medical interventions acquire a letter of support from a mental health provider;
b) Make public their commitment to making letters, when required by medical systems who adhere to the WPATH SOC, accessible and free.
Riley Children’s Health Gender Health Program
https://www.rileychildrens.org/departments/gender-health-program
The Gender Health Program offers comprehensive support to children, teens, and young adults under age 21. The only youth gender health program in Indiana. Our team sees teens who have experienced gender dysphoria for longer than six months and who may or may not desire to become a different gender. Family and parent involvement is critical to ensure patients feel safe and supported.
Damien Center
Get connected to Medical Care including
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HIV Care
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Primary Care
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Gender Affirming Care
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Pharmacy
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Behavioral Health
Eskenazi Gender Health Program
https://www.eskenazihealth.edu/health-services/gender-health
The Eskenazi Health Gender Health Program provides gender-affirming care including hormone therapy and specialty services for older adolescent and adult transgender patients of all gender identities. The first of its kind in Indiana, the program combines hormone management and other comprehensive services with surgical options.
Strands For Trans
Strands For Trans is a global network of hair, beauty, and wellness industries and organizations that seek to create and inspire safe and positive experiences for all guests, especially guests from the trans community
Online
Community Building
Queering Indy Facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/queeringindy/
Grassroots org committed to holding space for resources + community building for LGBTQIA+ Hoosiers.
Q Chat Space
Online Community for LGBTQ+ Teens
The Bisexual Resource Center
The Bisexual Resource Center works to connect the bi+ community and help its members thrive through resources, support, and celebration. Through this work, we envision an empowered, visible, and inclusive global community for bi+ people.
GEKCO Gender Expansive Kids and Company facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/ingekco
Indianapolis-based confidential, peer-led support group for families of gender expansive children.
Everywhere Is Queer Map
https://www.everywhereisqueer.com/map
Everywhere Is Queer is a public resource (and ever-growing searchable map!) created for the LGBTQIA2S+ and ally community to find welcoming, queer-owned spaces to shop, connect, eat, learn, and grow all over the world
Military/Veterans
American Veterans for Equal Rights - Indy Chapter
https://www.facebook.com/AVERIndy
With chapters across America, AVER provides a unique and safe space where LGBT veterans can honor pride both in our service and our identity as LGBT people. AVER is dedicated to equality for LGBT service members and veterans in all aspects of our armed forces, including recruitment, training, promotions, honors, and benefits.
TAVA
Founded in 2003, the Transgender American Veterans Association (TAVA) engages with our members, governmental agencies, other advocacy groups, media and the public in order to ensure our members receive full services and dignified treatment by promoting the values of equality, fairness and respect on behalf of our members and provide a supportive community for Veterans who identify under the “Transgender Umbrella”. See More
Education/Policy Change/Crowdfunding
Point Foundation
The largest LGBTQ scholarship-granting nonprofit, is supporting a record-breaking class of scholars.
LGBTQ+ Victory Fund
National organization devoted to electing pro-equality, pro-choice LGBTQ+ leaders to public office at every level. These officials fight for equality in the halls of power, ensuring our community's voice is heard. We still need to elect over 35,000 more LGBTQ+ leaders in order to ensure fair representation! There’s no such thing as an “off-year”. We need YOU in this fight: your donation will help ensure our candidates have the resources they need to win.
GLSEN
The Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network works to ensure that LGBTQ students are able to learn and grow in a school environment free from bullying and harassment. Together we can transform our nation's schools into the safe and affirming environment all youth deserve.
GEKCO Gender Expansive Kids and Company facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/ingekco
Indianapolis-based confidential, peer-led support group for families of gender expansive children.
Human Rights Campaign
Enemies of equality have been trying to roll back the hard-earned progress of the LGBTQ+ community. They cannot continue to lie about our community, spread fear and destroy our progress to score points with the most extreme elements of their fanatical base.
StopBullying LGBTQI+ Youth
It is important to build a safe environment for all LGBTQI+ youth. Parents, schools, and communities can all play a role in preventing bullying and helping LGBTQI+ youth feel physically and emotionally safe.
On January 20, 2021, the President signed an Executive Order on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation which sets out the Administration's policy that "[a]ll persons should receive equal treatment under the law, no matter their gender identity or sexual orientation."
The Trevor Project
https://www.thetrevorproject.org/
The Trevor Project’s mission is to end suicide among LGBTQ young people.