New Mental Health Support Groups!
Strengthening Wellness now offers FREE mental health support groups in collaboration with The Mosaic Project of South Texas, designed to assist LGBTQIA+ individuals in overcoming the pressures of discrimination in South Texas.
Healthcare Resources
Caring for your health is paramount. In the Coastal Bend area, you’ll find a range of inclusive providers dedicated to serving the LGBTQIA+ community. From mental health counseling to primary care, STI testing, and more, these organizations strive to offer safe, supportive, and culturally competent services. Whether you need routine checkups or specialized treatments, each resource is committed to helping you thrive and ensuring that you receive the respect and understanding you deserve.
Strengthening Wellness, PLLC
Strengthening Wellness offers culturally accepting and person-focused therapy services for LGBTQIA+ individuals, caregivers, and students. They provide a safe, inclusive environment to help clients navigate anxiety, depression, trauma, and life’s many transitions. Through collaborative, compassionate care, Strengthening Wellness is committed to fostering resilience, empowerment, and holistic healing for every person they serve.
Women’s and Men’s Health Services
Women’s & Men’s Health Services (WAMHS) provides comprehensive, affordable healthcare in a welcoming environment for people of all genders and sexual orientations. Their offerings include primary care, STI testing and treatment, reproductive health (such as Pap smears and family planning), annual exams, and wellness programs. Dedicated to culturally competent care, WAMHS ensures that LGBTQIA+ individuals can access the support they need—whether for preventive screenings, prenatal/postpartum services, or general wellness—knowing they are treated with respect and understanding.
Woodworks Therapy
Woodworks Therapy provides a safe, affirming environment where clients can navigate identity, intimacy, sexual health, and life’s many challenges—especially within the LGBTQIA+ community. Using evidence-based practices, humor, radical acceptance, and creative tools, Woodworks Therapy helps individuals, couples, and non-traditional partnerships unpack trauma, deepen connections, and grow authentically. By honoring each person’s unique needs and pace, they foster a judgment-free space for healing, resilience, and meaningful change.
Coastal Bend Wellness Foundation
The Coastal Bend Wellness Foundation (CBWF) is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) providing primary healthcare, substance abuse treatment, and free HIV/STD testing. As of 2024, they also offered hormone replacement therapy (HRT), mental health support groups, and hosted a Pride Center program that included a clothes closet and monthly community mixers. However, due to their status as a federally funded entity, the current availability of their LGBTQIA+ programming is uncertain.
Legal Resources
Legal Resources
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid provides free legal services to low-income people facing most forms of civil legal problems, including bankruptcies and foreclosures, divorces and custody arrangements, consumer fraud, wills and estates, accessing public benefits, and litigating for civil and environmental rights. They are also a terrific resource for birth marker changes on driver’s licenses, name changes and more.
Political Advocacy
Political Advocacy
Transgender Education Network of Texas
The Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT) is dedicated to furthering gender diverse equality in Texas. They work to educate the public, provide social support, and engage in advocacy to improve the lives of transgender and gender non-conforming people.
Human Rights Campaign (HRC)
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is the largest civil rights organization working to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Americans. HRC envisions a world where LGBTQIA+ people are ensured of their basic equal rights and can be open, honest, and safe at home, at work, and in the community.
ACLU of Texas
The ACLU of Texas is dedicated to protecting and defending the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to all people by the constitutions and laws of the United States and Texas. They work on a wide range of civil rights issues, including LGBTQIA+ rights.
Equality Texas
Equality Texas works to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Texans through political action, education, community organizing, and collaboration.
Student Resources
Student ResourcesIn schools across the Coastal Bend, Gender & Sexuality Alliances (GSAs) play a crucial role in fostering inclusive environments for LGBTQIA+ students and allies. However, because GSAs can change or disband from one school year to the next—especially given recent challenges posed by anti-LGBTQ legislation in Texas—the information provided here may not always be accurate or up to date. If you’re seeking a safe space, supportive community, or advocacy on your campus, reach out to faculty members or local student organizations to find the most current GSA or related group.
Islander Spectrum of Sexuality and Gender
Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi students and allies alike will find the campus ISSG organization to be an environment for inclusivity, acceptance, and community.
Del Mar College Safe Space Club
An inclusive club for all LGBTQIA+ students and their allies on the Del Mar College campus. The organization aims to offer a judgement free zone for everyone.
Calallen GSA
Formed in 2021, Calallen GSA is one of the newest organizations available to highschool students. Anyone interested in joining or supporting the organization should reach out via Instagram or email at calallengsa@gmail.com.
W. B. Ray GSA
Ray GSA is a safe place for all sexualities and genders at the W. B. Ray High School. The organization exists to support and spread awareness of the LGBT+ community.
Richard King GSA
Richard King GSA is a student-led organization, an activist & safe place for LGBTQ youth, run by GSA Media Management (Operational until 2026).
Religious Resources
Religious ResourcesFor many in the LGBTQIA+ community, faith and spirituality are an important source of comfort and belonging. These congregations in the Coastal Bend area provide inclusive, welcoming environments where all are valued and respected. Whether you’re seeking fellowship, worship, or a safe space to explore your spirituality, each of these faith communities is committed to acceptance, love, and celebrating the diversity of every individual.
St. Paul United Church of Christ
St. Paul UCC here in Corpus Christi is an Open and Affirming church. They are known as the ‘Everybody Church’. This means all persons and families are sacred. They invite all to join for worship on Sunday mornings at 10:30 AM, Wednesday night dinner beginning at 6 PM and all the events they have throughout the year. “Come be a part of our loving and accepting family. You are beautiful in God’s eyes!”
Unitarian Universalist Church
The Unitarian Universalist Church is a congregation of brave, curious, and compassionate thinkers and doers. They are diverse in faith, ethnicity, history, and spirituality, but aligned in our desire to make a difference for the good. They have a track record of standing on the side of love, justice, and peace.
All Saints Episcopal
All Saints Episcopal is a church deeply-rooted in the beauty of Episcopalian tradition, embracing the Divine in all. We seek innovative ways of experiencing God’s presence in our lives and sharing the wisdom of Jesus Christ in the world. We are a house of prayer for all of God’s people, a community of love in action.
Grace Presbyterian
At Grace Church, we extend a special welcome to those who are single, married, divorced, gay, filthy rich, dirt poor, yo no habla Ingles. We extend a special welcome to those who are crying new-borns, skinny as a rail or could afford to lose a few pounds.
National Resources
National Resources
The Trevor Project
Created in response to the alarming rates of suicide and mental illness in the LGBTQ+ community, The Trevor Project is one of the most valuable resources for queer youth. With 24/7 free access, anybody can call and simply talk to someone who will do everything they can to help. This life-saving group has additional resources for people to tackle their mental illness.
GLAAD
GLAAD works through entertainment, news, and digital media to share stories from the LGBTQIA+ community that accelerate acceptance. As a dynamic media force, GLAAD tackles tough issues to shape the narrative and provoke dialogue that leads to cultural change, ensuring fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of LGBTQIA+ people.
American Civil Liberties Union
The ACLU tackles discrimination of all types and is dedicated to protecting and defending the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to all people by the constitution and laws of the United States.
Lambda Legal
Lambda Legal focuses solely on queer issues, dedicated to achieving 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.
NGLCC | National LGBT Chamber of Commerce
The NGLCC is the business voice of the LGBT community, the largest advocacy organization dedicated to expanding economic opportunities and advancements for LGBT people, and the exclusive certifying body for LGBT-owned businesses.
PFLAG National
People who are LGBTQ and their families deserve to be safe and secure, no matter where they live, work, study, pray or play. Through our mission of support, education, and advocacy, PFLAG works to make sure that all communities provide this type of security, and have the resources needed to help those communities thrive.
Entertainment Resources
Entertainment ResourcesWhether you’re looking for a lively night out, engaging community events, or top-tier entertainment for your own gathering, these LGBTQIA+ friendly spots and organizations have you covered. From a local FM station showcasing diverse music and stories, to drag productions that bring sparkle and excitement to any occasion, each resource offers a unique way to celebrate and connect with Corpus Christi’s vibrant queer community.
Unity 89.1 FM
Unity 89.1 FM is a progressive LPFM station in Corpus Christi, Texas operated by The Mosaic Project of South Texas. Broadcast is currently paused as a transmitting location is identified.
The Hidden Door
The Hidden Door is Corpus Christi’s oldest and only LGBTQIA+ bar in Corpus Christi, in existence for over 48 years. Never a cover, always a good time. The Loft karaoke bar is open Friday and Saturday nights upstairs.
Brittany Andrews Entertainment
Brittany Andrews Entertainment hosts drag and diva events, brunches and provide entertainers for events.
Texas Riviera Empire
Texas Riviera Empire (RSICTRE/Texas Riviera Empire) based in Corpus Christi, Texas is a 501(c)3 service organization dedicated to raising funds to assist local organizations through events focused on medical research, HIV/AIDS education and support, and other community initiatives, with proceeds benefiting recognized non-profit organizations and individuals in need. All directors, officers, and members serve on a volunteer basis.
AZUL Entertainment
AZUL Entertainment is a premier drag production company owned and operated by Izzy G and Isis Paris York. Specializing in unforgettable event entertainment, they offer a full range of services for weddings, birthday parties, quinceañeras, and other events. Their professional entertainers are dedicated to ensuring every event is an experience everyone will talk about for a long time.