TheDCCenter for the LGBT Community
202-682-2245
This center covers Maryland and Virginia. It offers programs for women, bisexuals, African Americans and Latinos, seniors, polyamorous, men, transgender individuals, Asian Pacific Americans, deaf and hard of hearing, youth, and genderqueer. It has a lending library, meeting spaces, and a cyber center.
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Gay Community Center of Richmond
804-622-4646
GCCR offers classes and discussion groups, services and advocacy for gay elders (SAGE), a diversity art gallery, and a grant program. It participate in the Central Virginia Rainbow Partnership.
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Fairness West Virginia
304-806-2220
Fairness engages in political action to end discrimination, advance transgender rights, increase visibility, and protect families.
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Roanoke Diversity Center
www.roanokediversitycenter.com
540-491-4165 or 540-537-2568
This center serves the LGBTQ community in Roanoke by offering social events, educational opportunities, advocacy, health education and informal chat groups, formal counselor-led support groups, and on-line co-branded support groups in partnership with the National LGBT Cancer Network. They also hold an annual Diversity Summer Camp.
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West Virginia Systems of Care
356-4558
This organization offers an LGBTQ resource page with recommended learning tools, state and national hotlines and resources, disparity data and definitions of terms used to define the population, and a clickable map to link visitors to resources in their counties.
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Gay CVille
This website serves as a resource for events and information for the Charlottesville Gay and Lesbian Community. There is a list of a wide variety of services and organizations, and an events calendar.
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Rainbow Community Center
304-622-9RCC (622-9722)
The center provides public education, visibility, and services "for, by, and about the rainbow community in North Central West Virginia." Their webpage has a list of services, a calendar, a newsletter, and other links. The center has a resource library and offers networking and socialization opportunities, coalition building, a visiblity proect, and consultant and advisory services, and advocacy services.
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