Lgbt online support chat
LGBT National Youth Talkline
Hours
Mon - Fri:
11 AM - 8 PM/pacific time
2 PM - 11 PM/eastern time
Sat:
9 AM - 2 PM/pacific time
Noon - 5 PM/eastern time
We provide a confidential safe space where callers of any age can speak about sexual orientation or gender identity/expression issues. This includes coming out issues, relationship concerns, family, bullying, academy issues, HIV/AIDS anxiety, safer sex information, suicide, and much more.
Sometimes you just need to be heard. We're here. You deserve respect, support, affirmation, and acceptance.
We don't give advice, and we never inform you what you should do. Ultimately, those choices are yours to build, but we are here to aid you on your journey.
Our highly trained & dedicated LGBTQIA+ volunteers are here to provide free & confidential services.
We offer support, information, and local resources throughout the United States and beyond.
We don't report calls to outside organizations.
We answer all of our own calls, we don't outsource.
Additional programs for youth people looki
We're more than
just hotlines. Find
verb online too:
CLICK HERE FOR INFO ON EXECUTIVE ORDERS
June - We are saddened by the cruel decision to end the operation of the LGBTQ+ youth specific services on Please know that our services and aid are not affected.
For nearly 30 years we have served the LGBTQ+ community and we're not going anywhere. We are committed in growing and expanding services in the face of the current climate.
Interested in supporting our mission? Click here
SINCE
Care Before Crisis
All of our support volunteers identify as part of the LGBTQIA+ family, and are here to attend the entire community, by providing free & confidential peer-support, information, and local resources through national hotlines and online programs.
Hotline Hours:
Mon-Fri:
11 AM - 8 PM/pacific time
2 PM - 11 PM/eastern time
Sat:
9 AM - 2 PM/pacific time
Noon - 5 PM/eastern time
LGBT Online Peer Back Chat
Connect one-to-one through instant message (IM) with a peer support volunteer
Join Peer Chat
Weekly Youth Chatrooms
Moderate
Mental Health
It’s great that you’re thinking about your future, but produce sure you’re looking after yourself in the present, too!
We know that lots of us in the LGBTQ+ community face mental health challenges. Things can be tough if you don’t undergo supported, accepted, and embraced as your authentic self.
Here are some great resources you can verb to support your mental health.
Please be aware that links are provided for signposting purposes. Stonewall is not affiliated with listed organisations or responsible for the content of external websites.
The Mix
The Mix’s mental health resources come from both experts and other young people and have information on a variety of mental illnesses, treatments, and seeking support. They also have a helpline, online community, counselling service and crisis messenger should you require urgent support.
YoungMinds
Whether you want to understand more about how you're feeling, get information about a mental health condition or uncover out what back is available to you, YoungMinds is there to aid with practical tips and advice for young p
Mental health sustain if you're lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans (LGBTQ+)
Mental health problems such as depression or self-harm can alter any of us, but they're more common among people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBTQ+).
This may be linked to LGBTQ+ people's experience of discrimination, homophobia or transphobia, bullying, social isolation, or rejection because of their sexuality.
Other things, such as their age, religion, where they live, and their ethnicity can combine extra complications to an already complicated situation.
How talking therapy can help
It might not be easy, but getting help with issues you're struggling to deal with on your control is one of the most crucial things you can do.
Talking with a therapist who's trained to work with LGBTQ+ people may help with issues such as:
- difficulty accepting your sexual orientation
- coping with other people's reactions to your sexuality
- feeling your body does not mirror your true gender (gender dysphoria)
- transitioning
- low self-esteem
- self-harm
- suicidal thoughts
- depression
- coping with bullying
We're more than
just hotlines. Find
verb online too:
CLICK HERE FOR INFO ON EXECUTIVE ORDERS
June - We are saddened by the cruel decision to end the operation of the LGBTQ+ youth specific services on Please know that our services and aid are not affected.
For nearly 30 years we have served the LGBTQ+ community and we're not going anywhere. We are committed in growing and expanding services in the face of the current climate.
Interested in supporting our mission? Click here
SINCE
Care Before Crisis
All of our support volunteers identify as part of the LGBTQIA+ family, and are here to attend the entire community, by providing free & confidential peer-support, information, and local resources through national hotlines and online programs.
Hotline Hours:
Mon-Fri:
11 AM - 8 PM/pacific time
2 PM - 11 PM/eastern time
Sat:
9 AM - 2 PM/pacific time
Noon - 5 PM/eastern time
LGBT Online Peer Back Chat
Connect one-to-one through instant message (IM) with a peer support volunteer
Join Peer Chat
Weekly Youth Chatrooms
Moderate
Mental Health
It’s great that you’re thinking about your future, but produce sure you’re looking after yourself in the present, too!
We know that lots of us in the LGBTQ+ community face mental health challenges. Things can be tough if you don’t undergo supported, accepted, and embraced as your authentic self.
Here are some great resources you can verb to support your mental health.
Please be aware that links are provided for signposting purposes. Stonewall is not affiliated with listed organisations or responsible for the content of external websites.
The Mix
The Mix’s mental health resources come from both experts and other young people and have information on a variety of mental illnesses, treatments, and seeking support. They also have a helpline, online community, counselling service and crisis messenger should you require urgent support.
YoungMinds
Whether you want to understand more about how you're feeling, get information about a mental health condition or uncover out what back is available to you, YoungMinds is there to aid with practical tips and advice for young p
Mental health sustain if you're lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans (LGBTQ+)
Mental health problems such as depression or self-harm can alter any of us, but they're more common among people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBTQ+).
This may be linked to LGBTQ+ people's experience of discrimination, homophobia or transphobia, bullying, social isolation, or rejection because of their sexuality.
Other things, such as their age, religion, where they live, and their ethnicity can combine extra complications to an already complicated situation.
How talking therapy can help
It might not be easy, but getting help with issues you're struggling to deal with on your control is one of the most crucial things you can do.
Talking with a therapist who's trained to work with LGBTQ+ people may help with issues such as:
- difficulty accepting your sexual orientation
- coping with other people's reactions to your sexuality
- feeling your body does not mirror your true gender (gender dysphoria)
- transitioning
- low self-esteem
- self-harm
- suicidal thoughts
- depression
- coping with bullying