Local LGBTQ+ Organizations

🏳️‍🌈 Pajaro Valley Pride
🏳️‍🌈 Santa Cruz Pride
🏳️‍🌈 Conexiones of Santa Cruz County (program of the Diversity Center)
🏳️‍🌈 Diversity Center - We are helping people to connect with one another in the LGBTQ+ community, and to get help with emotional support, mental health issues, groceries, food delivery, exercise, and fun discussion groups.
🏳️‍🌈 Lionel Cantú Queer Center of the University of Santa Cruz
🏳️‍🌈 Our Gente is a multi-faceted project that includes community and agency trainings, monthly support groups for youth ages 16-24, and community events all steered by the Queer & Trans Youth Collective. Our Gente offers a safer space for lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer & questioning, intersex and asexual youth living in Monterey County.
🏳️‍🌈 Queer Youth Leadership Awards
🏳️‍🌈 Queer Youth Task Force of Santa Cruz County - A vibrant community where every youth thrives in their expression of actual or perceived sexual orientation and gender identity.
🏳️‍🌈 Queer Youth Updates Newsletter a great way to stay in touch with the community virtually 
🏳️‍⚧️ Trans* support groups listed by the Diversity Center
🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Teen Project Supporting transgender youth through personal self-expression, social networking, and community-wide education
🏳️‍🌈 University of California LGBTQI Association