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LGBTQ Businesses & Organizations in North Carolina

Explore LGBTQ businesses and organizations in North Carolina serving your community. Find law firms, medical practices, restaurants, retail stores, nonprofits, cultural organizations, and community services owned by or dedicated to serving the LGBTQ community. Connect with establishments that understand your cultural values and provide services in your language.
Pauli Murray LGBTQ+ Bar Association
Pauli Murray LGBTQ+ Bar Association
The Pauli Murray LGBTQ+ Bar Association is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to serving the LGBTQ+ legal community in North Carolina with a network of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, sexual/gender diverse, and allied legal professionals who support LGBTQ+ equality and the other goals of the organization. They encourage fellowship and support the professional advancement of members of our communities. The Pauli Murray LGBTQ+ Bar Association provides research and discussion on legal issues that affect the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, sexual/gender diverse communities.

Mount Holly, NC

Equality North Carolina
Equality North Carolina
Equality North Carolina is the oldest statewide organization in the country dedicated to securing rights and protections for the LGBTQ community. We're invested in ensuring that every North Carolinian can see themselves in this movement and helping create a safer, more equitable world for all marginalized folks. Together we can build a better North Carolina. We envision a thriving, liberated North Carolina with a powerful LGBTQ+ community united in service of racial and social justice. Equality North Carolina builds LGBTQ+ power through advocacy, education, and uplifting the stories of queer and trans North Carolinians in pursuit of racial and social justice. The long-term goal of Equality NC is to enact statewide nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity & expression in housing, employment, public accommodations, credit, insurance, and education without exemptions that treat LGBTQ people differently from other protected groups. We provide training and education to individuals, institutions, businesses and the government on how to provide diverse, inclusive, and equitable environments. Additionally, we work to mobilize our communities and partners to advocate and take action against discriminatory practices. ENC achieves these goals through the core strategies of Advocacy, Training and Education, Leadership Development, and Base-building.

Durham, NC

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North Star LGBT Community Center
North Star LGBT Community Center
North Star is Winston-Salem’s LGBTQ Community Center. North Star seeks to empower and enrich the lives of LGBTQ people in the Triad area. We offer various social, support, and educational opportunities for adults & youth. North Star’s mission is “To foster community across intersecting identities through advocacy, compassion, education, and service.”

Winston-Salem, NC

LGBTQ Center of the Cape Fear Coast
LGBTQ Center of the Cape Fear Coast
The LGBTQ Center of the Cape Fear Coast, formerly the Frank Harr Foundation, is a 501(c)(3) organization. We offer programming, advocacy, and outreach for the LGBTQ+ community and our allies in southeastern North Carolina. On May 8, 2008, the world lost a lifelong advocate for cultural diversity and social justice, Frank Harr. In honor of his legacy, Frank's partner of 32 years, Ken Cox, founded The Frank Harr Foundation - a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The organization has provided a home for outreach, community, education, and advocacy in southeastern North Carolina. From peer support groups to elder outreach, the staff and volunteers of the Frank Harr Foundation worked tirelessly to ensure that equality, inclusion, and community were available to everyone in our region. In mid 2021, the Frank Harr Foundation changed our name to The LGBTQ Center of the Cape Fear Coast.

Wilmington, NC

LGBT Center of Raleigh
LGBT Center of Raleigh
Our mission is to serve, empower, and advocate for the well-being of our diverse LGBTQ+ communities. We envision an inclusive world where LGBTQ+ people are thriving, equal, and valued members of society.

Raleigh, NC

OUTright Youth of Catawba Valley Inc.
OUTright Youth of Catawba Valley Inc.
OUTright Youth is the ONLY PLACE in the Catawba Valley that provides a unique, youth-centered, safe environment for LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender and Questioning) youth ages 12-21, and their allies, to come together, receive unconditional support, and make friends who understand who they are as they struggle with sexual orientation, gender identity and other issues. OUTright Youth strongly believes that it is essential to create a safe space for young people who are, who believe that they might be, or who have friends or family members who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. We offer educational programs, social activities, peer support groups and community outreach and fun! OUTright Youth’s goal is to reduce the isolation felt by LGBTQ youth by providing a sense of community and developing programs and services to counteract the prejudice and oppression that LGBTQ youth often face. OUTright Youth of Catawba Valley was founded in 2010 to provide LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning) youth , young adults and their allies, ages 12-21, with services and programs to help them become happy, healthy and successful adults.

Hickory, NC

Guilford-Green Foundation & LGBTQ Center
Guilford-Green Foundation & LGBTQ Center
Guilford Green Foundation & LGBTQ Center seeks to courageously unite our community through meaningful participation and by fostering organizations that advance LGBTQ persons and issues. We strive for a day when everyone is accepted and valued for who they are. Although we concentrate our efforts on the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community, we believe in the intrinsic dignity and rights of every individual. We believe in people’s rights to feel safe, healthy, respected and included, from teens who are kicked out of their homes for questioning their gender to the elderly who struggle to find services that include their partners. And we work towards securing those rights every day. Guilford Green Foundation & LGBTQ Center unites and strengthens the greater Greensboro community by supporting the needs of our LGBTQ neighbors and promoting understanding by all residents. We do this by providing financial support for nonprofits and hosting programs and initiatives that advance this mission. We also serve as a resource for our community through the LGBTQ Center, as well as our online guide that seeks to connect LGBTQ residents with services and community groups that will meet their needs. Guilford Green Foundation & LGBTQ Center (GGF) creates unity through programming and philanthropy that advances equality and inclusion for LGBTQ communities. We envision a Greater Greensboro with a thriving LGBTQ community that elevates all.

Greensboro, NC

Time Out Youth
Time Out Youth
Time Out Youth Center is a place where you can experience a sense of belonging and community. Whether you are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, a straight ally – or just don’t want to be labeled, you will be welcomed here. Some of our youth are out, some are partially out, and some are not out at all. Time Out Youth Center offers a safe space for all and fully respects the journey of each individual. While at Time Out Youth, you are not expected to be anyone or anything except who you are. Time Out Youth Center offers support, advocacy, and opportunities for personal development and social interaction to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQ) youth ages 13-24. Our vision is to inspire inclusive communities where all youth are equally empowered to reach their true potential. Our mission is to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning youth by offering vital programs, fostering unconditional acceptance, and creating safe spaces for self-expression through leadership, community support and advocacy.

Charlotte, NC

Blue Ridge Pride Center
Blue Ridge Pride Center
Our mission is to promote equality, safety, and quality of life for western North Carolina’s LGBTQ and allied communities, working as a united community through advocacy, celebration, education and service. We envision an inclusive community, where people are embraced for who they are and feel welcomed to engage and contribute. Blue Ridge Pride seeks to support our rural LGBTQ+ community in partnership with the many wonderful people and organizations who are only too eager to help. Our goal is to serve as a valued partner, collaborating with WNC’s many community service organizations and companies that welcome and serve our community. We seek to build the connective tissue that will enable this diverse and far-flung community to build a better future together. We partner with corporations, churches, hospitals, non-profits, entrepreneurs, and government officials — anyone who openly declares that they seek to build a community that welcomes all who come in good will. Blue Ridge Pride Center, Inc. was formed in 2009 by a group who saw the need for a community-driven organization that would appeal to the diverse LGBTQ communities of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.

Asheville, NC

Campaign for Southern Equality
Campaign for Southern Equality
The Campaign for Southern Equality is working to build a South where LGBTQ people are equal in every part of life. A South where your zip code doesn’t determine your rights. Where all of us are free to be who we truly are and love who we truly love. At this unprecedented time of anti-LGBTQ attacks – and as public support for LGBTQ equality across the South continues to grow – we invite you to join us in Meeting the Moment in the LGBTQ South.

Asheville, NC

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