Your Health & Safety
These organizations are here for our community! They are also worthy of your financial support and volunteer time! I provide these here as a courtesy and convenience. I welcome your feedback and suggestions about this page.
No means no.
Stop means stop.
Hot sex is consensual sex.
Mental health matters.
Find STD testing locations by ZIP Code
Gay & Sober Los Angeles Meetings
Dozens of LA/WeHo meeting addresses and locations for LGBT people in recovery and/or struggling with addiction.
www.gayandsober.org/losangeles
The Los Angeles LGBT Center
A great resource for helping you stay healthy and safe. They offer many services.
lalgbtcenter.org/health-services
- HIV testing & care
- PrEP and HIV-prevention info
- Post-HIV exposure treatment
- Testing/treatment of STDs
- Vaccinations
- Transgender health issues
- Counseling for individuals, couples, families
- Domestic and intimate partner violence support
- Pharmacy services
- Services for youth, seniors, transgendered people
- Cultural, recreational, and educational events
24-hour National Domestic Violence Hotline
888-799-7233
Domestic violence, also known as intimate partner violence, is a pattern of behavior in which a partner or former partner tries to control thoughts, beliefs or actions, and may include physical, sexual, psychological, and/or economic abuse.
What are PrEP and PEP?
PrEP and PEP are the HIV-prevention medicines that everyone is talking about. Many health insurance plans cover it. Find out the facts here.
lalgbtcenter.org/pre-exposure-prophylaxis
Bienestar
6 locations in the LA area.
1-minute HIV testing, condoms/lube, support groups, PrEP/PEP navigation services, substance abuse therapy, and linkage to medical care.
Website in English or Spanish: porvida.bienestar.org
The Trevor Project
Crisis counseling and suicide prevention for LGBTQ youth.
TheTrevorProject.org or call 1-866-488-7386 24 hours a day
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
1-800-273-8255 24 hours a day
Project Angel Food
Meals for folks who are living with AIDS, cancer, and other life-threatening illnesses.
AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA)
Provides these and other services
- Primary Care
- Dental Care
- Counseling
- PrEP & PEP
- HIV Testing
- STD Screening & Treatment
- Insurance Enrollment
- HIV Medical Care
- Vaccinations
City of West Hollywood Social Services
weho.org/services/social-services
- HIV/AIDS support
- LGBT immigrant and asylum seekers' support
- Covered California (Obamacare) enrollment info
- Health services
- Homeless services
Being Alive
Being Alive is a nonprofit client-driven organization focusing on the mental health and wellness of people living with HIV and AIDS. Our services to our client-members include a variety of no-cost programs, such as comprehensive emotional support, treatment education, prevention, advocacy, wellness and social services. Our mental health program, Antioch Alive, is the only one of its kind anywhere in the world, offering extensively trained psychotherapy counselors in HIV.
Crystal Meth Anonymous
Crystal Meth Anonymous is a non-profit, 12-step fellowship, for those in recovery from addiction to crystal meth. There are no dues or fees for membership. Membership in CMA is open to anyone with a desire to stop using drugs.