Inland Empire (Coachella Valley, Palm Springs, Riverside County, San Bernardino County)

Desert AIDS Project
The Desert AIDS project offers services in high quality primary care, HIV-specialty care with access to their HIV Health Center, a dental clinic and a sexual health and wellness center. They accept Medicare and Medi-Cal and have contracts with many insurance companies and offer a Sliding Fee Scale Discount for uninsured low-income clients. They specialize in services for those living with, affected by, or at-risk for HV or AIDS in the Coachella Valley.

LGBT Community Center of the Desert
The LGBT Community Center of the Desert offers free and low cost counseling for the LGBT community through their Scott Hines Health Clinic. They also offer wellness classes such as yoga and tai chi along with rapid HIV testing and PrEP education. Along with those services, every Thursday evening the center hosts a pop-up grocery store that provides free groceries for local families and residents without fear of discrimination of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age or religion.

San Bernardino LGBTQ Center
The San Bernardino LGBTQ Center provides addiction treatment and recovery, HIV related care and prevention and community development through educational, career and leadership development. They also offer cultural competency training to local providers and businesses.

TruEvolution
TruEvolution works with high-risk and underserved LGBTQ populations to defend the lives of LGBTQ people by centering healthy equity and racial justice to advance health outcomes in underserved communities. They offer direct health services such as HIV/Hep-C testing, condom access, case management, emergency supportive housing, pharmacy access and health coverage enrollment. They also offer behavioral health services and youth advocacy programs.

TruEvolution es una organización dedicada a luchar por la justicia LGBT y la prevención y eliminación del VIH/SIDA en América. Servicios directos de salud incluyen: pruebas de VIH/Hep-C, accceso a condones, terapia cara-a-cara, grupos de apoyo, servicios de accesso a farmacia y búsqueda del seguro medico.

Los Angeles

APAIT
APAIT is committed to positively impact the quality of life for medically underserved communities living with or at risk for HIV/AIDS and other health disparities through culturally competent and linguistically appropriate programs in Southern California. They offer HIV Care Programs, Behavioral Health Services, Substance Abuse programs and HIV testing and counseling programs.

AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA Health)
The AIDS Project Los Angeles provides free and low-cost medical care to the LGBTQ community along with access to PrEP and PEP and housing support services for people living with HIV. They have various locations throughout LA and offer insurance enrollment, counseling and dental care as well.

Bienestar
Bienestar is a community-based social services organization based in the greater Los Angeles area. Their focus is on identifying and addressing emerging health issues faced by the Latino and LGBTQ populations. Bienestar’s education and support programs address areas such as: HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention, STIs, mental health services and substance use and harm reduction with all services free of charge to the community. Community centers are located in East Los Angeles, El Monte, Hollywood, Long Beach, Pomona, San Fernando Valley and South LA.

Bienestar es una organización de servicios sociales basada en la comunidad con sede en el área metropolitana de Los Ángeles. Bienestar identifica y aborda los problemas de salud emergentes que enfrentan las comunidades Latinas y LGBTQ. Bienestar llega a estas comunidades únicas a través de modelos innovadores y compasivos de igual a igual que son 100% culturalmente relevantes para las comunidades a las que servimos. Los programas de educación y apoyo de Bienestar abarcan áreas tales como: tratamiento y prevención del VIH / SIDA, ITS, servicios de salud mental, uso de sustancias y reducción de daños. Todos los servicios se ofrecen a la comunidad de forma gratuita.

Black AIDS Institute
The Black AIDS Institute has a mission to stop the AIDS pandemic in Black communities by engaging and mobilizing Black institutions and individuals in efforts to confront HIV. They offer Black Healthcare Access services along with PrEP education and access, specifically for the growing number of black women interested in HIV prevention.

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles provides culturally-competent, inclusive care to the LGBTQ youth of Los Angeles. In addition to their full range of primary care and specialty services, CHLA houses the Transyouth Health and Development program which seeks to support the trans and gender-variant youth community via education, medical services, and HIV prevention.

In the Meantime Men
In the Meantime Men’s Group is purposed to enrich, empower and extend the lives of intergenerational black men, respectful of sexual orientation, through social, educational, health and wellness programs and services. Services offered include yoga and meditation, condom distribution, HIV testing and STD screening linkage, case management and health education outreach.

Latino Equality Alliance/Alianza Latina Por La Igualidud
The Latino Equality Alliance promotes equality, and justice for the Latino/a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer + community. They are located at Mi Centro LGBTQ Community Center in Boyle Heights. This non-profit organization focuses on family acceptance, LGBTQ equality and immigration reform. They offer a variety of programs to help build healthy and safe environments for the LGBTQ community including a College Access and Success Support and an LGBTQA youth council that offers college application support and tips on how to create more inclusive spaces at home.

LGBTQ Center Long Beach
The LGBTQ Center Long Beach serves the LGBTQ community and allies in the Long Beach area. Services include HIV testing and STI screening services. They also offer resources in accessing PrEP in Long Beach along with mental health counseling services.

Los Angeles LGBT Center
The Los Angeles LGBT Center provides full primary care for both women and men and is a licensed medical services provider through the Los Angeles Department of Health. Specialized services including HIV/STD testing and treatment, PrEP/PEP, and other culturally-competent health services are provided through clinics at multiple center locations. Their transgender health program offers hormone therapy, pre- and post-surgical care, and trans-appropriate sexual health and cancer screenings.

OUTReach Center
The OUTreach Center serves the LGBTQ community and allies living in the Antelope Valley. They offer health, social, educational and cultural services that benefit the entire lifespan of LGBTQ people. Their services include support groups for members of the community to come together and empower one another.

San Fernando Valley LGBT Community Center
The San Fernando Valley LGBT Community Center is a coalition made up of organizations serving the LGBT population in San Fernando Valley, especially among the Latino population. Programs include youth and adult workshops for STD/Disease prevention, counseling services, an HIV Examination Referral Program and community events.

San Gabriel Valley Gay and Lesbian Center
The San Gabriel Valley Gay and Lesbian Center fosters a safer and more inclusive San Gabriel Valley for people of all sexual orientations and gender identities. They offer community education programs such as PRIDETalk where the community gathers to learn about issues that effect the SGV LGBTQ Community. They also offer the following peer support programs: Senior 50+, Youth 12-18, Transgender, Queer in the ‘burbs, Addiction Recovery and Grief and Loss.

Satrang
Satrang serves the South Asian LGBTQ community by promoting awareness, acceptance and empowerment through social, education and advocacy-related events. The offer events such as A Night of Mujra to celebrate the queering of gender identity with a South Asian flare. They also offer support groups for South Asians who identify as transgender or gender non-conforming to meet and share stories and experiences.

St. John’s Well Child & Family Center
St. John’s Well Child & Family Center is an independent health organization that serves patients of all ages through various clinics spread throughout Central and South Los Angeles and Compton. They provide HIV/STD testing and treatment, primary care, and transgender health services and counseling.

UCLA Health
UCLA Health is committed to inclusive, culturally-competent care to the LGBTQ community of Los Angeles and the state of California. They offer specialized programs including their Gender Health Program which provides comprehensive medical care and support to the trans and gender variant community. They also house the CARE Center which conducts research and provides quality care to those living with HIV/AIDS.

Unity Fellowship of Christ Church Los Angeles
The Unity Fellowship of Christ Church of Los Angeles (UFCCLA) was founded in 1982 for primarily openly gay and lesbian African Americans. Since its founding, the UFCCLA has created HIV/AIDS outreach ministries with specific focus on the disenfranchised. They offer a support group for those infected or affected by HIV/AIDS to create a safe space for dialogue, they also offer mental health support for individual and families impacted by HIV/AIDS.

Van Ness Recovery House
The Van Ness Recovery House offers residential drug/alcohol treatment regardless of the ability to pay. Their mission is to meet the needs of the LBGTQ community for alcohol and drug addiction recovery. They offer a 4-6-month program for residents to provide structure and support to deal with issues that may have lead to drug/alcohol use/abuse. They also offer a psychologist and therapist to help with internalized homophobia, childhood sexual abuse, acceptance of HIV and both undiagnosed and diagnosed mental health.

Youth Center on Highland
Youth Center on Highland is a youth drop-in center that serves homeless and at-risk youth in Los Angeles. It offers housing, meals, showers, drop-in services, and HIV testing and counseling on site.

Sacramento

Gender Health Center
Gender Health Center seeks to provide comprehensive counseling and therapy services to the Sacramento area. They accept all patients but specialize in meeting the counseling needs of anyone identifying as gender-variant.

Golden Rule Services
Golden Rule Services is a culturally-competent organization that seeks to address health disparities among people of color in the Sacramento area, particularly in HIV prevention in the MSM community. They offer HIV/STD testing and assistance in accessing resources such as PrEP.

Weave, Inc.
Weave seeks to address issues of domestic and sexual violence. They provide LGBTQ-specific programs including individual and family counseling.

San Diego

The Center
The Center of San Diego is a safe space, community center, and resource center for the San Diego LGBTQ community. They provide weekly HIV and Hepatitis C testing as well as educational and treatment referral resources. They also house the Hillcrest Youth Center which provides community resources and educational programs to LGBTQ youth.

Family Health Centers of San Diego
Family Health Centers of San Diego provide comprehensive, inclusive primary care to the LGBTQ community. They offer full primary care, HIV screening and treatment, PrEP/PEP, cancer screenings, and transgender health services including medical case management and hormone therapy.

Gender Management Clinic – Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego
The Gender Management Clinic at Rady Children’s Hospital seeks to provide comprehensive, up-to-date, compassionate care to transgender and gender diverse youth in San Diego. Their clinic provides consultation, pubertal suppression, hormone therapy, and surgical referrals in addition to counseling, mental health support, and case management.

North County LGBTQ Resource Center
The North County LGBTQ Resource Center is a community space and resource provider in Oceanside. They provide HIV/STD testing and counseling at various health fairs and sponsored events in addition to plentiful community programming and support groups.

San Francisco & Bay Area

Alliance Health Project – UCSF
Alliance Health Project is a program through UCSF that provides comprehensive mental health care to the LGBTQ population of San Francisco. They provide counseling, psychotherapy, substance abuse treatment, and other LGBTQ-affirmative services.

API Wellness
API Wellness is an LGBTQ and people of color healthcare organization that provides comprehensive, culturally-competent care to the Bay Area. They provide primary care, HIV/STD testing and treatment, PrEP/PEP, and a full range of transgender health services including hormone therapy through various providers.

Berkeley Free Clinic
Berkeley Free Clinic is a non-profit health clinic that provides acute primary medical care and testing services on a free or low-cost basis. They provide HIV/STD testing and treatment, OBGYN screening and care, and trans/queer sexual health care in an inclusive, culturally-competent environment.

Center of Excellence for Transgender Health – UCSF
The Center of Excellence for Transgender Health partners with UCSF Medical Center and various provider organization to increase access to appropriate care and health resources for the transgender community. Through UCSF they provide comprehensive trans primary care, hormone therapy, and gender-affirming surgical procedures. They also formulate national treatment guidelines for transgender patients and supervise provider training in trans health.

Chrysalis Community Counseling Services
Chrysalis Community Counseling Services provides inclusive, affordable, feminist counseling services to families in Sonoma County. They’re feminist model informs their inclusive treatment that serves diverse family types and individual orientations.

Dimensions Queer Youth Clinic
Dimensions Queer Youth Clinic provides low-cost health services to queer, transgender, and questioning youth ages 12-25. They provide HIV/STD screening and treatment, preventative care, immunizations, PAP smears, pelvic exams, and mental health care in addition to low-cost transgender health care.

Gender Pathways Clinic – Kaiser Permanente
The Gender Pathways Clinic at Kaiser Permanente’s San Francisco Medical Center provides appropriate transgender care to the transgender and gender-expansive community of San Francisco. They offer hormone therapy, mental health care, sexual and reproductive care and screenings, and surgical evaluation and procedures.

Lyon-Martin Health Services
Lyon-Martin Health Services is a community health organization dedicated to comprehensive, inclusive healthcare for heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian, and transgender women. They provide primary care, gynecologic care, HIV screening and specialist care, and transgender health services including hormone therapy and surgical referral.

San Francisco City Clinic
The San Francisco City Clinic provides free or low-cost sexual health care to the Bay Area. They provide services regardless of immigration and insurance status. Services offered include HIV/STD testing and treatment, and women’s gynecologic screenings.

Tom Waddell Urban Health Transgender Clinic
The Tom Waddell Urban Health Transgender Clinic is a multidisciplinary primary care clinic overseen by The San Francisco Department of Public Health that provides full trans primary care in San Francisco. They provide full primary care including hormone therapy, mental health care, sexual health screening and care, and surgical referral.