Resources for LGBTQ+ Survivors

A safety plan is a personalized, practical plan to improve your safety while experiencing abuse, preparing to leave an abusive situation, or after you leave. This interactive toolkit helps you come up with a safety plan unique to you.

Learn how you can support your LGBTQ+ community, friends, and chosen family who are experiencing abuse.

When seeking support there are many avenues towards healing that can be beneficial. Learn more about what options and resources are available to LGBTQ+ survivors.

Learn more about sexual health coercion and reproductive coercion, and learn about strategies to take charge of your sexual health.

Learn more about how to take charge of your legal rights and options as an LGBTQ+ survivor.

Learn more about an abuse tactic where a partner use a survivor’s gender identity, sexual orientation, or health status, to demean, manipulate, or control them.

Learn more about the implications of coming out and forced outing on survivors, and how to safety plan around your coming out process.

This workbook, created by the Allstate Foundation in partnership with the National LGBTQ Institute on IPV, covers a variety of important financial topics for survivors including budgeting, managing debt, and improving credit.

Explore comprehensive information for transgender survivors including supportive resources, common barriers, and current research.

Explore comprehensive information for bisexual survivors including supportive resources, common barriers, and current research.

Explore comprehensive information for lesbian survivors including supportive resources, common barriers, and current research.

Explore comprehensive information for asexual survivors including supportive resources, common barriers, and current research.

Explore comprehensive information for Polyamorous survivors including supportive resources, common barriers, and current research.

Explore comprehensive information for Black LGBTQ+ survivors including supportive resources, common barriers, and current research.

Explore comprehensive information for Native & Indigenous LGBTQ+ survivors including supportive resources, common barriers, and current research.

Explore comprehensive information for Latine LGBTQ+ survivors including supportive resources, common barriers, and current research.

Explore comprehensive information for Asian, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Island and Middle Eastern and North African LGBTQ+ survivors including supportive resources, common barriers, and current research.

Explore comprehensive information for immigrant LGBTQ+ survivors including supportive resources, common barriers, and current research.

This zine serves as a survivor-defined, trauma-informed, intersectional guide for the community by the community. Readers will gain an understanding of domestic violence, learn how the LGBTQ+ community is uniquely impacted, and get resources for safety plan and get support.

What does safer housing for transgender survivors look like during a time of heightened violenceand state sanctioned discrimination in all aspects of our lives? How can we access emergencyshelter and housing programs and know that we will be treated with safety and respect wheninstitutions are being told we do not exist? We need—and deserve—affirming and inclusive spacesto heal and grow post abuse.

A workbook for LGBTQ+ youth to prevent and respond to dating violence and sexual assault in the LGBTQ+ community.

This PDF provides twelve useful safety tips for folks to stay mindful and aware as they operate in their day to day lives.

This guide from FORGE provides thorough education for transgender survivors of sexual assault. From finding the right support model to self-help techniques this guide can be a powerful resource.

This sheet provided by FORGE specifically helps the transgender community understand the laws from where to get help to how to file a complaint.

This online resource provides a directory to connect survivors to caregivers for pets when they have been displaced due to Intimate Partner Violence and/or unable to take their pets to an emergency shelter.

A tipsheet on trans-specific tactics used against transgender and nonbinary people. Topic explored include safety, undermining identity, and more.

This wellness guide from NAPIESV provides practices that can help with maintaining/balancing your individual wellness. From food to affirmations, this guide emphasizes self-care as a crucial part in building collective wellness.