Support Near You
This referral database is for in-person and/or location-based services, organizations, and collectives, for 2SLGBTQ+ youth in Ontario.
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Groupe LGBTQ + Alliés de Prescott Russell LGBTQ + Allies Group
We host bilingual discussion/support groups and social events in Eastern Ontario. Meetings are open to all, regardless of age, sexual orientation or gender identity. Parents, friends and spouses of LGBTQ persons are also welcome.
Facebook page: Groupe LGBTQ & alliés de Prescott-Russell LGBTQ & Allies Group
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Prescott and Russell, ON
Guelph Pride
Guelph Pride organizes a Pride festival twice a year for the Guelph community. Our aim is to bring together LGBTQIA+ and 2S communities in Guelph and the surround cities. We also work to address issues surrounding the queer community in a safe, educational manner. We’re a program of the OOTS (Out On The Shelf) Library
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Guelph, ON
Guelph Resource Centre for Gender Empowerment and Diversity
GRCGED is an intersectional feminist group and community space dedicated to fighting oppression and promoting diversity through education, advocacy, activism, resource provision, skill-building, outreach and community-building on campus and in the region. Thank you for supporting our vision for a more just and equitable world.
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407-125 Raymond St., Guelph, ON
Hamilton Trans Health Coalition
A coalition working to increase the capacity of Hamilton’s primary healthcare systems to deliver high-quality gender-affirming health care to trans, gender-diverse, and non-binary people who live, learn, work, and play in Hamilton. Offers workshops, networking, and resources for providers and service navigation to assist trans folk in connecting with gender-affirming care and transition-related resources.
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Hamilton, ON
HamOnt Aces
HamOnt Aces is a growing community for ace (asexual- demisexual- grey asexual-etc)) and/or aro (aromantic- demiromantic-grey romantic- etc) folks in Hamilton, Ontario and nearby communities to get together and build local community. Discord is the best way to chat with the group: https://discord.gg/3NAEWPQ
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Hamilton, ON
Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival
Inside Out is a not-for-profit registered charity that exists to challenge attitudes and change lives through the promotion, production and exhibition of film made by and about 2SLGBTQ+ people of all ages, races and abilities.
For more than three decades, Inside Out has brought Toronto’s 2SLGBTQ+ community together in celebration of the best queer film from Canada and around the world. Through our annual Festivals in Toronto and Ottawa, our filmmaker initiatives, our youth engagement and our year-round events and screenings, Inside Out is engaged every day in challenging attitudes and changing lives.
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401 Richmond St. W. Suite 219, Toronto, ON
Investigaytors Toronto
THIS IS A GENDERED SPACE
Investigaytors is a community-based free volunteer training program for young 18- to 29-year-old gay, bi, trans, queer men or Two-Spirit or non-binary (GBT2Q) people in Ontario that will allow you to discover the queer world of gay men’s health research in a cohort of like-minded people. You will develop skills and research experience by doing and thinking about everyday queer health, and it will change the way you view our communities’ health and wellbeing!
Program participants are trained in quantitative and qualitative research skills, social determinants of health, HIV prevention and sexual health, and how research can be used to address health inequities and knowledge gaps.
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Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, Room 350 & 352, 246 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON
Maggie’s Toronto Sex Workers Action Project
We offer non-judgmental peer support services and programming. All of our programs are for people working in the sex industry.
We provide monthly workshops on sexual health + education, distribute harm reduction materials and work with community organizations + service providers to better meet the needs of sex workers.
For informal counselling, referrals, and harm reduction supplies office hours Monday – Friday 10am-5pm
Weekly drop-in: Wednesday 2pm-5pm
Indigenous drop-in: 1-3rd Fridays 3pm-5pm (Indigenous only participants)
Trans/Non-binary group: 2nd Tuesday of the month 3pm-4pm
Men’s sex worker drop-in: 2nd Tuesday of the month 6pm-8pm
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526 Richmond Street East, Toronto, ON
Niagara Falls Community Health Centre
Provides primary healthcare to the residents of Niagara Falls along with health promotion programs and community development services including LGBTQ2+ Support. Patients have access to family physicians, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, a dietitian and social workers. There is also a Health Promotion team that provides community programs and outreach support. Open to the community.
Services include:
* Primary Health Care Services
*LGBTQ2+ Support – one-on-one, group programming, education
* Counselling
* Health Promotion Programs
* Outreach support
* Caring For My COPD program
* Birth Certificate Clinic
* Smoking cessation support – individual and group support
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4790 Victoria Avenue, Niagara Falls, ON
Niizhaayek Alliance
Niizhaayek Alliance aims to reduce the stigmas and risks associated with being part of the 2SLGBTQQIA+ community through engaging youth workshops, amplifying youth voices, and in the development of an annual Ontario-wide 2SLGBTQQIA+ youth gathering.
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Thunder Bay, ON