LGBTQ National Help Centers USA
LGBTQ National Help Centers
LGBT National Hotline
1-888-843-4564 – Serves callers of all ages offering peer-counseling, information and local resources.
Hours: Monday through Friday, 4pm – 12am ET. Saturday and Sunday, 12pm – 5pm ET.
Email: help@lgbthotline.org
LGBT National Youth Hotline
1-800-246-7743 – Serves callers up to the age of 25 offering information, support, and local resources.
Hours: Monday through Friday, 4pm – 12am ET. Saturday and Sunday, 12pm – 5pm ET.
Email: help@lgbthotline.org
Trans Teen Online Talk Group
A weekly moderated group for transgender, pan-gender, gender-fluid, non-binary, agender teens to talk in a safe space and to be able to fully express themselves without fear of being made to feel uncomfortable or unwelcome. To discuss concerns, issues and to talk about personal victories. Ages 12-19.
Hours: Thursdays; 7pm-9pm ET
Email: help@lgbthotline.org
Trans Youth Online Chat Group
A weekly moderated group for trans and gender-expansive young people to talk in a safe space and to be able to fully express themselves without fear of being made to feel uncomfortable or unwelcome. To discuss concerns, issues and to talk about personal victories. Ages 13 and younger.
Hours: Thursdays; 7pm-9pm ET
Email: help@lgbthotline.org
LGBTQ Teens Online Talk Group
A weekly moderated group for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning to talk in a safe space and to be able to fully express themselves without fear of being made to feel uncomfortable or unwelcome. To discuss concerns, issues and to talk about personal victories. Ages 12-19.
Hours: Tuesdays; 1pm-9pm ET
Email: help@lgbthotline.org
LGBT National Online Peer-Support Chat
Volunteers offer free, confidential, one-on-one peer support for LGBTQ people.
Hours: Monday through Friday, 4pm – 12am ET. Saturday and Sunday, 12pm – 5pm ET.
LGBT National Senior Hotline
1-888-234-7243 – Operated by the LGBT National Help Center, this hotline offers peer-support to callers who are often very isolated sometimes still closeted,
and in need of a caring, non-judgmental person to talk with. This hotline is broadly defined as inclusive of people ages 50 and over.
Hours: Monday through Friday, 4pm – 12am ET. Saturday and Sunday, 12pm – 5pm ET.
Email: help@lgbthotline.org
The Trevor Project
1-866-488-7386 – Trevor Lifeline – The only national 24/7 crisis intervention and suicide prevention lifeline for LGBTQ young people (ages 13-24)
TrevorChat – A free, confidential, secure instant messaging service for LGBTQ youth that provides live help from trained volunteer counselors, open daily from 3:00pm – 10:00pm ET
TrevorText – A free, confidential, secure service in which LGBTQ young people can text a trained Trevor counselor for support and crisis intervention, available Monday through Fridays between 3:00pm – 10:00pm ET
Trevor Support Center – Where LGBTQ youth and allies can find answers to FAQs and explore resources related to sexual orientation, gender identity and more.
Trans Lifeline
1-877-565-8860 – Trans Lifeline – A grassroots hotline and microgrants organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community.
Trans Lifeline was founded in 2014 as a peer-support crisis hotline. The Hotline was, and still is, the only service in the country in which all operators are transgender. Because of the particularly vulnerable relationship transgender people have with police, it is also the only service in the country with a policy against non-consensual active rescue.
The hotline is open 24/7! We have operators guaranteed to be on call during the following hours:
Operators are also frequently available during off-hours, so please call whenever you need to!
