We are here to provide support to our communities through educational, social and health programming. These services include The West Side Food Pantry, free queer support groups, and an emergency fund for those in immediate need, with plans to expand our services.

Local LGBTQIA+ Organizations

Regional LGBTQIA+ Organizations
  • Palouse Queers: LGBTQ+ community-building in the Moscow-Pullman area. Instagram & Discord only.
  • Moscow PFLAG: Local chapter for PFLAG, the nation's largest organization dedicated to supporting, educating, and advocating for LGBTQ+ people and those who love them.
  • Washington State University LGBTQ+ Student Center: Serve and support LGBTQ+ students, faculty, staff, and alumnx throughout the Washington State University system by providing resources, fostering community building, and relevant initiatives.
  • University of Idaho SOGIA: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Alliance
  • Gay Baseball:  Palouse Gay Baseball™ is an organization founded in 2021 on a rural baseball field somewhere on the Great Palouse Prairie. What started as a couple of gay friends with a baseball itch has blossomed into a network of sundry & intergenerational ball players.
  • Brokeback Palouse: Queer mutual aid & dance parties

Local, Regional, and National Queer & Queer Friendly Support

Health Care
  • CHAS Health: From their website: CHAS Health is a non-profit community health center that provides high quality healthcare services to families and individuals of all ages, regardless of insurance status. Their facility includes a convenient, in-clinic pharmacy to allow for easy prescription pick-up and expert pharmacy staff to answer any of your questions.  Our experienced and professional dentists and hygienists offer exams, cleanings, extractions, restorative care, wisdom teeth consulting, and more.  They also provide gender affirming care, counseling, nutrition evaluations, and reproductive care.
  • Planned Parenthood: This location provides a variety of reproductive services, including abortion, emergency contraceptive, birth control, and gender affirming care. 
  • Pullman Regional Hospital: PRH and the Pullman Family Medicine clinic provide a variety of care, including gender affirming care.
  • Hometown Health: You can find Jesse Cramer next to the fountain at Friendship Square -  he offers personalized massage therapy designed to help you relax, heal, and feel your best. Whether you're managing stress, recovering from an injury, or just need a moment of peace, your well-being comes first.
  • Inland Rainforest Massage Therapy: Angus brings detailed knowledge of muscular anatomy, excellent listening skills, and a caring heart to his work. 
  • North Idaho Alliance of Care: Providing stigma free services, advancing health care for rural North Idaho, and providing no-cost testing (STD, HIV, HCV) HIV medical case management, and now quitting smoking and peer support groups. 
  • Gay and Lesbian Medical Association: This directory of providers lets you search by state for health care specialists who will provide gender-affirming care.
  • QueerMed:  This team of medical professionals is dedicated to providing personalized, evidence-based care, working closely with patients to develop a tailored treatment plan. Tele-med appointments available.
  • Plume:  A virtual healthcare provider for transgender, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming people offering a range of healthcare and mental health services, including prescriptions for estrogen or testosterone. Available in most states and expanding.
  • Elevated Access: Volunteer pilots transport passengers at no cost to access the healthcare they need, including gender affirming care and reproductive care.
Mental Health
  • Somawise Wellness: Located in Moscow, Dr. Allie Dluzniewski is a queer practitioner trained in trauma recovery.  She has a PhD in Exercise Psychology and is a Somatic Experiencing Coach. Her goal is to help folx with nervous system regulation to help with the mind-body connection.
  • Dragonfly Counseling: Their mission statement: We strive to be community-minded by offering mental health services, meeting individuals where they are at, and helping them to live wholeheartedly. We do this by becoming a pillar in the community, advocating for and creating awareness around mental health while practicing our values of Community Service, Inclusivity, Establishing Meaningful Relationships, Communication, Honesty, Integrity, and Equality.
  • Adventures in Therapy: Marsha Ecker (she/her) is a queer therapist offering telehealth therapy in Washington State for individuals, couples, and groups, with a focus on serving the 2SLGBTQIA+, ethical non-monogamy, and kink communities. Her approach integrates psychodynamic and narrative therapy with mindfulness-based methods, and she offers sliding scale fees to help make care more accessible.
  • The Okra Project: The Okra’s mutual aid collective is focused on supporting Black Trans people and alleviating the barriers that the trans community faces. They partner with Better Help to offer free or low-cost mental health support, and they offer assistance with food, housing, and transportation.
  • NW Intrinsic Psychotherapy: Licensed clinical psychologists who provide individual and couple therapy services to adults in Oregon, Washington and Idaho.  The providers at NW Intrinsic Psychotherapy work with individuals from all backgrounds, including those from diverse populations (e.g., BIPOC, neurodivergent, and LGBTQA2s+). They take a collaborative approach to treatment to focus on what is most important to their clients and have experience providing therapy services to adults experiencing a variety of concerns.
Employment
  • Guide to handling LGBTQ Discrimination in the Workplace
  • TransCanWork: On a mission is to create a culture nation-wide where Gender Diverse people can thrive in the workplace. They offer resources, webinars, and career development tips.
  • TransTech: They are an incubator for LGBTQ talent, focusing on economically empowering transgender people. They are a co-working, co-learning community dedicated to empowering with practical, career-ready skills at no cost to the trans community.
  • WWOOF:  The Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF) links people with organic farmers, promotes an educational and cultural exchange, and builds a global community conscious of ecological farming practices. They provide room and board in exchange for farm labor and some farmers are BIPOC and trans-friendly.
Emergency Funding
  • Trans Youth Emergency Project (STYEP):  The Trans Youth Emergency Project offer logistical and financial support for transgender youth and their families that must travel extreme distances and take on significant expenses to receive the care they need. .
  • Point of Pride:  Point of Pride provides financial aid and direct support to trans folks in need of health and wellness care. An annual Transgender Surgery Fund, a scholarship-like program that provides direct financial assistance to trans folks who cannot afford their gender-affirming surgery, is also available.
  • Trans LifeLine: Trans Lifeline is a grassroots hotline and microgrants 501(c)(3) non-profit organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community.
  • Genderbands: Provides small grants for any transition-related procedures including social, surgical, and medical transition, and travel related to transition procedures. Transition grant applications open every year from Oct. 1 to Nov. 30.
  • For The Gworls:  Black, trans-led collective that curates parties to fundraise money to help Black transgender people pay for their rent, gender-affirming surgeries, smaller co-pays for medicines/doctor’s visits, and travel.
  • National Black Trans Advocacy Coalition: The BTAC Human Services provides assistance with emergency food, health care, housing support, applying for public benefits, and legal identity documents.
Relocation
  • HRC’s Guidebook to Living as an LGBTQ+ Person: For many LGBTQ+ individuals and families, living in some states has become unsafe. This guide is designed to support all individuals and families regardless of their choices or options.
  • Rainbow Relocation: Rainbow Relocation helps LGBTQ+ youth, their families and allies to move, live and thrive abroad.
  • The Trans Continental Pipeline: The Trans Continental Pipeline (TCP) is a grassroots mutual aid network turned nonprofit based in Denver CO providing resources to help LGBTQ+ individuals move from unsafe situations and political climates to Colorado.
  • Trans Rescue: Helps trans people decide if they are ready to relocate, then assists with moving from countries, regions, or situations where they’re in danger to a safer place.
Safety
  • Right To Be: Free training to the public and customized training experiences for businesses, organizations, schools, and colleges. Trainings are oriented to empower people to make a change and channel attention into simple, creative, and effective action. Trainings provide tools to learn how to respond, intervene, and heal from harassment.
  • We Keep Us Safe: GLAAD’s basic guide to helping LGBTQ+ people stay safe online.
Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Stalking
  • ATVP: Alternatives to Violence on the Palouse provides support and safety for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault and non-offending family members and friends.  ATVP services are provided to program participants free of charge and without discrimination on the basis of physical or mental disability, race, ethnicity, color, religion, political beliefs, gender, age, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital or familial status, pregnancy, income, veteran status, because the individual is a recipient of federal, state, or local assistance, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law.
    Services include 24-hour telephone or in-person crisis intervention; emergency, confidential shelter; legal and medical advocacy; individual and group support; information and referral; and community education.
  • Helping Survivors: They assist anyone who has been victimized by sexual assault or abuse. Their website is a compilation of information around different instances of sexual violence and they offer resources to assist survivors and their families, and will continuously be adding more.
Name Change Assistance
Legal
  • Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund: Committed to ending discrimination based upon gender identity and expression and to achieving equality for transgender people through public education, test-case litigation, direct legal services, and public policy efforts.
  • ACLU: Working to defend and expand civil rights and liberties – for everyone.
  • Trans Legal Survival Guide: Advocates 4 Trans Equality published this guide in November 2024 to assist the trans community with preparing for increased political and legal attacks. In the Trans Legal Survival Guide, they outline steps that can help trans people protect themselves.
Miscellaneous