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With a world that may feel against LGBTQ+ at times, finding your way can be difficult. However, as visibility for the queer community gets brighter each day, more resources are available to help. While Corpus Christi has a limited number of LGBTQ+ resources, our community remains dedicated to ensuring that queer people aren’t alone.
Here are some helpful tools and places for support.
Local & Area Resources
Women’s and Men’s Health Services
WAMHS provides affordable healthcare, including primary care, reproductive health, cancer screenings, and wellness programs in a safe and inclusive environment for LGBTQIA+ individuals.
Woodworks Therapy
Woodworks Therapy offers affirming mental health services, including individual, couples, and family therapy, with a focus on LGBTQIA+ clients.
Strengthening Wellness, PLLC
Strengthening Wellness provides therapy for LGBTQIA+ individuals, caregivers, and students, helping clients navigate anxiety, depression, trauma, and work-life balance.
San Antonio LGBT Chamber of Commerce
The chamber supports LGBTQIA+ businesses through networking, advocacy, and economic development in the greater San Antonio area.
The Montrose Center
Based in Houston, The Montrose Center provides LGBTQIA+ support through mental health counseling, advocacy, substance abuse treatment, and community programs.
Coastal Bend Wellness Foundation
CBWF offers primary healthcare, substance abuse treatment, and free HIV/STD testing.
Coastal Bend Pride Center
The first LGBTQIA+ center south of San Antonio.
Legal Resources
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid
TRLA 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
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
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
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
We are brave, curious, and compassionate thinkers and doers. We are diverse in faith, ethnicity, history, and spirituality, but aligned in our desire to make a difference for the good. We have a track record of standing on the side of love, justice, and peace.
All Saints Episcopal
We are 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
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.