East Nashville Queer Parents

Resources

If you are a queer parent in the red state of Tennessee, Nashville might be a refuge, but you’re still fighting an uphill battle (a worthy one, though!). Here are some resources for advocacy, mutual aid, shared experiences and more.

(This list is not exhaustive, and if there’s something that’s missing, please let us know!)

Nashville

  • Just Us at Oasis Center: Helping lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth achieve their full potential with programs and assistance for queer youth and their families
  • Gender Spacious Playgroup: Informal events where families come together to celebrate children’s diversity in an inclusive setting, free of gender stereotypes and assumptions for all ages (babies, too!)
  • TransParent Nashville: Providing compassionate support to parents and caretakers of gender-expansive individuals in Nashville and the surrounding communities
  • HRC Nashville: The Nashville chapter of the national Human Rights Campaign organization
  • PFLAG Nashville: Provides free support for parents, family, and friends of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people as they work to understand what it means to be LGBT
  • Transaid Nashville: Providing aid, community, and building power for all transgender people in the Greater Nashville area
  • Mashup Nashville: MashUp works to increase the visibility of health inequities & social injustices that impact the well-being of LGBTQ people of color
  • Nashville Cares: Provides targeted education, free and confidential HIV testing and a broad range of comprehensive services to individuals who are at-risk for or living with HIV
  • My House Clinic: A diverse drop-in center delivering essential health and support for today’s ever-changing needs of Same Gender Loving (SGL) males
  • Vanderbilt LGBTQ Health: Promotes national leadership in providing excellent patient care, education, research, and advocacy for the LGBTQ community
  • Connectus Health: A non-profit community healthcare organization founded on the values of Compassion, Wellness, Community, and Culturally Sensitive Care
  • Music City PrEP: PrEP, HIV care and STD testing
  • Mashup Nashville: Connects local health care providers and administrators with training on how to practice beyond personal bias
  • Streetworks: Provides education, prevention, and care to those affected by HIV/AIDS on the inner-city streets of Nashville
  • Nashville Launchpad: Creates a network of temporary, safer, street-free sleeping shelters for unhoused young adults which are open and affirming to LGBTQ+ individuals and their allies
  • Nashville Queer History: A community organization and digital portal whose mission is to research and share the LGBTQ+ history of Nashville and Middle Tennessee in hopes of inspiring local activism, education, and inclusion
  • QueerFest Music: creates spaces for the queer community and provides opportunities for LGBTQ+ identifying artists and bands
  • Nashville Pride: Hosts Nashville’s annual pride festival and parade as well as other events throughout the year
  • Nashville Black Pride: Brings together African American and other Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT)/Same Gender Loving (SGL) People of Color in a social, non-threatening empowering setting to uplift, educate and present positive images that help to maintain a healthy, productive and visionary community
  • Q+ House: Q+ House is a five resident home that doubles as a queer, creative community hub with a vision is to create a radical safe space and become a catalyst for belonging
  • EastNashtivists: Progressive grassroots group in East Nashville with a mission is to organize, educate and activate voters in Nashville and beyond
  • Nashville GSA: Nashville Gender & Sexuality Alliance hosts substance free and free of charge events for all identities and intersections (18+)
  • QDP: Monthly $1 queer dance party that raises money for area organizations and mutual aid efforts
  • The Table: An affirming faith space inclusive of everyone’s full authentic self
  • Color Queery: Nashville’s LGBTQ+ Art Party – make friends and make art! (21+)
  • Queer Book Club: A community for queer book lovers
  • Outdoorsy Queers: A group for LGBTQ+ folks to do outdoorsy things – meetups for hiking, climbing, roller skating, and more!
  • Nashville Hotmess Sports: LGBTQ+ sports leagues

Regional

  • Campaign for Southern Equality: Provides funding and training to Southern LGBTQ folks doing heroic organizing in their hometowns
  • Mutual Aid Babes (currently in the funding process)
  • Planned Parenthood of TN and North MS: If you live in Tennessee or Mississippi and need an abortion, the Patient Navigation team can give you information and financial resources to access nearby abortion care
  • Wilco Iris: A safe space for LGBTQ+ teens and their allies, grades 9-12, in Williamson County let by high school student leaders
  • Franklin Pride: Educates, informs and fosters community that brings together LGBTQIA+ people and their allies in a social, non-threatening and empowering setting
  • Williamson County Area Trans Aid: Providing gender affirming clothing for transgender youth in Williamson County and the surrounding areas

Statewide

  • The Tennessee Equality Project: Advocates for the equal rights of LGBTQ people in Tennessee through legislative advocacy
  • Inclusion TN: Connect people, opportunities, and resources to enrich and enhance the lives of the multi-faceted lgbtqia+ community
  • GLSEN Tennessee: A grassroots initiative, working locally in our community to ensure safe schools for all students, regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity
  • Tennessee Pride Chamber: A business organization that aims to support, promote, and advocate for the interests of LGBTQ+ businesses and professionals
  • TN Stonewall Bar Association: Provides support to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) lawyers working in Tennessee
  • ACLU Tennessee: Freedom’s watchdog, challenging government abuse of rights and fighting for fairness in our laws and their enforcement
  • Protect Trans Health TN: Independent trans-led reporting.
    Take action against the latest legislation targeting trans people in Tennessee
  • Healthy and Free TN: A network of agencies, organizations, and individuals working together to promote sexual health and reproductive freedom in the state of Tennessee
  • Abortion Care for TN (ACT): Builds power for Tennesseans by working to remove barriers and increase access to reproductive and sexual health care including safe abortion care for all people

Nationwide