Out & Allies is a student organization at the University of Cincinnati located in Cincinnati, OH
Cincinnati, OH
LGBTQ Businesses & Organizations in Ohio
Explore LGBTQ businesses and organizations in Ohio 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.
UC Law Out & Allies
CWRU Lambda Law Students Association
Lambda Law Students Association is a student organization at the Case Western Reserve University located in Cleveland, OH
Cleveland, OH
LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance
The LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance was launched in June 2020 by leading members of the real estate industry. Influential real estate professionals and allies joined with other members of the LGBTQ+ community to create a new voice in real estate.
The Alliance began accepting members from a wide range of professionals in the real estate and housing industries starting October 2020. There are currently more than 3,100 active people on the organization’s Facebook page.
Founded as a Minnesota non-profit corporation, The Alliance received its 501(c)6 IRS approval on June 23, 2020. The Alliance is dedicated to enhancing the professional lives of our members while providing consumers with the proper resources to assist in buying, selling, and enjoying their home.
Cleveland, OH
TransOhio
TransOhio is Ohio’s first and largest trans equality organization. Founded in 2005, TransOhio is dedicated to providing education, advocacy, support, and community to the Ohio greater transgender and ally communities.
TransOhio serves the Ohio transgender and ally communities by providing services, education, support, and advocacy, which promotes and improves the health, safety and life experience of the Ohio transgender individual and community.
Our Vision
- to serve as a bridge to other LGBTQ+ and ally communities
- to provide a focus for matters of concern to the Ohio transgender community and their allies by providing open, affirming, visible and tangible support
- to promote opportunities and networking that increase awareness of the Transgender and gender-nonconforming community needs and concerns such, as discrimination and violence
- to increase lesbian, gay, bisexual, heterosexual, and ally understanding and cultural awareness of the Ohio Transgender community to help ensure that Ohio educational programs and services are inclusive and supportive of Ohio Transgender issues, perspectives, and concerns
- to provide social activities that are inclusive of all LGBTQ+ and ally communities, access to safe-spaces, people, forums for confidential discussion, support, and local and national resource information
- to foster Ohio Transgender community pride
Cleveland, OH
Full Spectrum Community Outreach Center
BCC Full Spectrum Community Outreach Center was created in 2016 when Tim Bortner and Marnie Cram noticed a missing piece in the support of the LGBT community locally. Full Spectrum Community Outreach Center was created with the focus of providing mental health services, support groups, community involvement, and eventually housing for the LGBTQIA+ community to ensure their health and standing in the surrounding area. It was formed and molded in coffee shops, in living rooms, and by speaking with those who wanted involved. As the demand for this kind of organization grew, a space was rented soon after launching within St. John's Episcopal Church on Wick Ave in Downtown Youngstown to house support groups, meetings, and events. Our relationships with area businesses and organizations became a priority and we began attending more and more outside events in the community to raise awareness of the LGBTQIA+ population. Because of this, we quickly outgrew our rental space and secured a center/office within a commercial plaza, where we are currently located, in May 2018. We have since launched Warren, Ohio's first Pride festival, Pride in the Valley in 2019 which continued today. We are currently working on opening the area's first LGBTQIA+ shelter. In 2019 we launched a Housing Project that would allow for the first LGBTQIA+ shelter of its kind within the area. The goal is to have this shelter opened in Spring of 2023.
Youngstown, OH
LGBTQ+Allies Lake County
LGBTQ+ Allies Lake County is a grassroots response, to an overwhelming need for resources in every facet of the LGBTQ+ community. Our passion and drive to close this gap is immeasurable. We see the people in our community falling behind because of drugs, violence, and suicide. LGBTQ+ Allies Lake County answers the need for access to support, services, ally education, and resources. Clear visibility and access to those services will make all the difference for people who have been living their lives in secrecy.
LGBTQ+ Allies Lake County is comprised of members of the LGTQ community and allies who live and work in Lake County. Many of our staff and volunteers risk a lot when they speak up and live “out” loud. They have children who may be ridiculed, family members who take umbrage with their choice to speak up. Nevertheless, they continue to make changes in Lake County.
LGBTQ+ Allies Lake County continues to reach out to those who are still in hiding because they are afraid. They are afraid of losing their housing, their children, and their jobs. Currently, there are no nondiscrimination ordinances in Lake County to protect the LGBTQ+ community from being denied services or housing in Lake County, there are misconceptions that there are. The laws that do exist are patchwork and under frequent legal challenge. Worse still, that battle often goes unnoticed. Education and vocal advocacy are the most effective drivers of change. Simple ignorance of the facts cannot be allowed to bloom into discrimination or bigotry. By placing education and support ahead of the debate, we plan to show that a community is healthiest when ALL its members are cared for.
Painesville, OH
Love on a Mission
Love on a Mission is a non-profit organization that is creating a safe place for LGBTQ+ youth in our community to feel unconditionally loved and accepted for being their authentic selves. We are currently meeting weekly to offer support, advocacy and education. Our goal is to have our own facility and also have available an emergency bed shelter for those that find themselves homeless after coming out to their families.
Mansfield, OH
COLORS+ Youth Center
It is our mission to strengthen LGBTQ+ youth and allies by promoting individual and community wellness. We use a holistic mind and body approach and have a safe space to empower LGBTQ+ youth and allies to grow as individuals and within their community. Our intention is to strengthen the LGBTQ+ youth community and allies through advocacy, support, education, and celebration.
Colors+ is run by two licensed professional mental health counselors who founded the youth center because they saw a large gap in services for LGBTQ+ youth in our community.
Colors+ believes that everyone deserves a place to feel safe and be themselves. This is exactly what we are providing for LGBTQ+ youth and allies. We welcome youth from anywhere in the state to come to our center, or participate in programming virtually.
Fairview Park, OH
Have A Gay Day Inc.
Our Mission is to create a safe environment for the purpose of Equality, Education, and Support of the LGBT community and their Allies.
Our Vision is “A supportive and thriving community for all.”
Dayton, OH
Greater Dayton LGBT Center
Founded in 1976 the Greater Dayton LGBT Center's goal is to offer comprehensive, community-based services to the gender and sexual minorities of the Dayton and Miami Valley area. We provide the community with a safe space to hold meetings and events and provide resources that encourage advocacy, education and entertainment.
The mission of the Greater LGBT Center is to offer a comprehensive, community-based service organization to the gender and sexual minorities of the Dayton and Miami Valley area by providing event spaces, activities, and resources that encourage advocacy, education, and entertainment.
Dayton, OH