It’s messy out there.
Good thing our community is safe and warm.

Queerly Connected uplifts the practitioners, organizations, and space makers who nurture our community’s joy, healing, and connection. By featuring them, we celebrate the work they do and expand access to the holistic care, creativity, and collaboration our queer community deserves.

photo credit: Tuffy Photo

Community Organizations

LA Queer Coalition: LGBTQ+ Community Building and Activism

Know Other Festival: A sanctuary for queer healing connection, and self-expression

Okaeri: We create visibility, compassionate spaces, and transformation for LGBTQ+ Nikkei and their families

Secret Spot DTLA: Community for Creative Professionals

Gay for Good: LGBTQ+ Volunteer Network

BabyGay Project: Celebrating & Supporting the Coming Out Process

DTLA Proud: Celebrate Everyone's Story, Spread Optimism, Grow our Community, Expand the Definition of Diversity.

Project Q: safe space for LGBTQIA+ youth by using hair and self-empowerment as a form of social justice.

AT Center: Recovery and wellness community center

LGBT Center: LGBTQ+ legal, mental health, medical and community center

Eastern & Western Healing Arts

Craniosacral Healing Arts: Manual therapy, integrative energy bodywork, and family constellations.

Care Coop LA: Queer Health and Wellness Worker Coop

The Chiro Collective: creating a space that is safe for all individuals to access chiropractic care

Naima Merella: Massage therapy, Rieki, and herbal remedies

You-Joy-Life: Ayurvedic practitioner

DG Sound Healing: Vibration sound healing

With Love Projects: Free LGBTQ+ Community Yoga

Artists & Media

Common Ground Tattoo: small tattoo studio dedicated to community and art-making

My Therapist is Out! Podcast: deep dive into mental health and community building through unapologetic queer conversations

DJ Prep: bring back the dance floor

Sammi Inkss PMU & Fine line tattoos: Fine line Illustrative/Realism & Cosmetic tattoos

Katherine Kottaras, Author: Most recent book: How to Come Out to the Jasmine First

DJ Yung Bubbe: your favorite yapper now has the aux

Empowerment in Heels: LGBTQ+ friendly and body-positive dance classes that celebrates every shape and identity

Tuffy Photography: event photography

Meredith Gunning: videography and production

Mental Health Services

tSage Center for Change: multiple service corporation focused on life enrichment through building an alliance that foster self-awareness, acceptance, growth, and empowerment

Inclusive Therapists: a safer, simpler way to find inclusive mental health care

Highland Park Holistic Therapy: effective, soul-centered, integrative & in-depth psychotherapy

Open Space Therapy Collective: LGBTQ+ & QTPOC psychotherapy and creative arts therapy

Regeneration Psychiatry: providing high-quality, individualized, accessible, and inclusive psychiatric care

InService Foundation: Individualized Substance-Use Recovery Care

Coaching & Counseling

Bodyphoria: Holistic personal training for strength, mobility and wellness.

Mija Fitness: Boxing to empower womxn of color through community fitness and wellness.

TrueVoice: TrueVoice is a vocal development program for the trans and non-binary community

Crystal Lily Creative: Inclusive Leadership, Brand Development, and Custom Brand Photography

The Gender Doula: full-spectrum support of gender questioning, exploration, and transition

Studio DDLA: End of life navigation and support

Lifestyle & Services

Guardian Tax Solutions: LGBTQ+ owned and operated tax services
Folklore Salon: hair salon for Dames, Gents, + Folks In-Between

Little Brother Nails: gender inclusive nail art

Urbody: Gender-affirming underwear and activewear

LA Cyclery: LGBTQ+ owned and operated bicycle shop

Tax Agency: LGBTQ+ owned and operated tax services

Spirituality

Soft Soul Healing: Reiki, sound healing, oracle readings, and evidential mediumship.

Aurora Cosmic Oracle: Intuitive Oracle Reader. Artist.

(a)Wake: Ritual, Grief & Art for the death curious

Food & Beverages

Pals Bar & Bottle Shop: More than a wine bar, more than a bottle shop, we're innovators, craft-makers, and friends.

Saffron Cowboy: Where coffee, tea, and community ride together

Soft Shock Ice Cream: Small-batch ice cream & dessert-themed events

Couplet: wholesale coffee + matcha

Cake Monkey: Specializing in mini cakes & your fave childhood

Jurassic Magic Coffee: This isn’t just coffee; it’s an entry point to a culture club

Bottega Louie: Restaurant, Gourmet Market, Patisserie and Café.

Pasta Sisters: Fast casual Italian restaurant & fresh pasta shop

Heimat: Restaurant, gym, spa, and social club

Come build your network of service providers and space makers to share with your community. Build YOUR queer professional network.

Video credit: Meredith Gunning

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It’s messy out there.Good thing our community is safe and warm.