Anti Racism Resources
The Center on Halsted
The 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.
Affinity 95
Affinity Community Services is a Black led, queer led organization on Chicago’s Southside dedicated to social justice in Black LGBTQ+ communities. For 25 years, they have centered Black queer women through community organizing, intergenerational programming, education, and healing justice.
PrideArts
PrideArts curates LGBTQ stories and art forms that celebrate the queer experience and address issues affecting queer communities and allies. We also provide artists a safe environment to allow them to enhance and explore their artistic endeavors. Programming includes live performances in our theater space in Uptown and a year-round season of short film fests, feature films, and documentaries on LGBT life, culture, and history.
Project Fierce
Project Fierce Chicago seeks to create affirming transitional housing for LGTBQIA+ youth in Chicago that is responsive to the needs of young people. By mobilizing our communities, we provide pathways to independence.
Brave Space Alliance
Brave Space Alliance was created to fill a gap in the organizing of and services to trans and gender-nonconforming people. Currently, very few LGBTQ social services or advocacy networks exist on the South and West Sides of Chicago. Furthermore, the few trans-specific resources in the city are located in majority-white neighborhoods on the North Side, which are inaccessible geographically, and also regularly result in the hyper-policing of trans people of color who attempt to access them.
Equality Illinois
Equality Illinois is the state's oldest, largest and most effective advocacy organization dedicated to defending rights for LGBTQ+ Illinoisans
Trikone Chicago
Trikone Chicago is a not-for-profit organization for queer South Asians and their family, friends, allies, and community working to bring people of South Asian heritage together and to promote awareness, visibility and cultural and legal acceptance of people with alternative sexual orientations and gender identities.
Lighthouse Foundation of Chicagoland
Lighthouse Foundation of Chicagoland is a Black Queer-led, multiracial social justice organization that advances justice for Black LGBTQ+ people across Chicagoland through empowerment, education, and entertainment. We envision a Chicagoland in which Black LGBTQ+ people are safe, resourced, empowered, liberated, and flourishing.
Howard Brown Health Center
Rooted in LGBTQ+ liberation, Howard Brown Health provides affirming healthcare and mobilizes for social justice. We are agents of change for individual wellbeing and community empowerment
Broadway Youth Center
Broadway Youth Center is here to improve the health and well-being of LGBTQ+ youth experiencing homelessness and other underserved youth by providing youth-centered, integrated healthcare and social services. BYC sees anyone, regardless of ability to pay.
Chicago House
Chicago House has been supporting individuals and families impacted by HIV since 1985 with housing, health, and employment services.