We love parties + parades, but Pride can be about so much more. Celebrate love in all its forms by supporting Chattanooga’s LGBTQ+ community. Here’s how you can give back to seven local organizations and nonprofits.
❤️ Nooga Diversity Center | Nonprofit
- Offers an affirming environment with access to local resources such as in-house physical + mental health support groups located at 1100 Market St.
- Provides community outreach programs to bring about broader acceptance + understanding of diversity.
- Donate to the organization.
🧡 Tennessee Valley Pride | 501(c)3 nonprofit
- Manages the Chattanooga Pride festival.
- Brings the LGBTQ+ community and allies together to celebrate diversity, build networks of support, and educate and strengthen the local community.
- Advocates to improve the quality of life and defend the rights of all LGBTQ+ individuals.
- Donate or volunteer at upcoming events .
💛 Soft Animal | Queer-owned local business
- Works to bring marginalized humans to the center through accessible, safe, and inclusive events, classes, and community work.
- Offers an array of events and classes for the local community.
- Work with or support Soft Animal by filling out this form .
💚 Parents, Family, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) Chattanooga | LGBTQ+ support group
- Serves as the Chattanooga branch of the first and largest organization for LGBTQ+ people, their parents, families, and allies.
- Meets monthly on the third Sunday of each month at Pilgrim Congregational Church (400 Glenwood Dr.) at 1 p.m.
- Support or donate .
💙 Chattanooga Trans Liberation Collective | Community organization
- Aims to make Chattanooga and Tennessee safe spaces in which trans people can be themselves without fear or limitation.
- Check out the organization’s Facebook + Instagram pages for upcoming events and ways to get involved.
- Donate to the organization.
💜 Spectrum | UTC’s Queer collective
- Engages in activism, education, and building community.
- Meets during the school year to provide an inclusive space for students and community members + combat discrimination.
🤍 Chattanooga Queer Community Forum | Nonprofit
- Aims to empower the Chattanooga LGBTQ+ community through conversation and consensus-driven activism.
- Connect through the group’s Facebook pag e with ways to get involved locally.
🤎 Seed Theatre – B4ck | Community organization
- Offers a safe space + venue to express art for all people in all walks of life.
- B4ck — Binders for Confident Kids — provides free chest binders to any trans person who needs one and cannot safely afford or obtain one.
- Support or donate to the organization.
🖤 Cempa Community Care | Community health center
- Provides affordable, compassionate, and high-quality care through advancing comprehensive support services + person-centered best practices.
- Offers treatment, prevention, and support services to those impacted with health disparities with a focus in primary and infectious disease care.
- Donate to the organization.
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