The National Coalition for LGBTQ Health announces that the theme for this year’s National LGBTQ Health Awareness Week, being held March 16 – 20, 2026, is “Organize to OUTlast.” The theme calls on the LGBTQ community and those who provide healthcare for LGBTQ communities to organize for LGBTQ health against regressive forces in policy and culture. The Coalition created the National LGBTQ Health Awareness Week 24 years ago to raise awareness about timely and relevant issues impacting LGBTQ healthcare.
We urge healthcare professionals, advocates, and community leaders to collaborate on building strategies, skills, resources, and support structures that continue to foster health equity amid divestment and fragmentation of the broader healthcare system. By organizing within and across communities to protect advances in LGBTQ health, we will outlast the attempts to erase our progress. Organize to OUTlast assures us that together, the LGBTQ community and LGBTQ health services will survive, thrive, and persevere through these challenging times and beyond.
The Coalition celebrates and draws inspiration from the ongoing resilience of LGBTQ communities in our work to meet the current need for all of us to unite, organize, and mobilize to address LGBTQ healthcare and health equity. To OUTlast means remaining rooted when pressure keeps returning.
Think of a tree that’s been cut down to the stump. For years it looks gone, until one spring when new shoots push up from the roots, because the roots were deeper than the damage. LGBTQ health has always been about determination and endurance. Policies shift. Funding ebbs and flows. Language and data are stripped away. Care systems fracture, strain and reform. What matters is staying present long enough to be seen, to witness again, to rebuild what was interrupted, to organize and to outlast.
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Mobilize your community for health equity with these LGBTQ Health Awareness Week items.
A great way to show your support for health equity during LGBTQ Health Awareness Week, and throughout the year, is by visiting the online shop where “Organize to Outlast” merch is available, and selecting the item or items that best fit your style and activities. Pick something for you, pick up something for a friend!
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Proud Partner Organizations
Sign up as a Proud Partner Organization of National LGBTQ Health Awareness Week. Proud Partner Organizations amplify the Week’s theme, activities, and resources through their networks, while aligning and promoting their organization’s activities with the Week’s. There are no fees or requirements to become a partner organization.
Join UsAging and HIV Institute
Aging Rainbow Coalition of East Tennessee
AIDS Funding Collaborative
AIDS Healthcare Foundation
AIN
Alaskan AIDS Assistance Association
All Under One Roof LGBT Advocates of Southeast Idaho
Alliance Care 360
Alliance for Aging Research
Alliance for Positive Health
ARE’s LGBTQ+ Center
ATSU KCOM
B’MORE Mental Health and Wellness, LLC
Being Alive – LA
Bill Wilson Center
Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center
Bondage Expo Dallas and Polyamorous Freedom to Love
Bridging Hope dba Organization of Hope
California Southern University
CALPEP
CAMBA Brooklyn Outreach and Prevention (BOP)
CAMC Ryan White Program
CAMP Rehoboth
Campbell Health Solutions
Cares of Southwest Michigan
Cares Sexual Wellness Services
Careteam Plus
Cedarburg Community for Acceptance
Center for Black Equity
CenterLink: The Community of LGBTQ Centers
Charlotte Trans Health
CIDNI
City of El Paso – Department of Public Health – HIV Prevention / MFactor
City of Seattle Human Services Department
CMDHD
Coastal Bend Pride Center
Coastal Bend Wellness Foundation
Colors+ Counseling
Columbus Public Health
Community First Support Services
Community Rehabilitation Center
Compass LGBTQ+ Community Center
Compassion & Choices
Contra Costa Health Services
Cornerstone Family Healthcare
Courage Medicine
Crescent Counseling LLC
D & A Consulting Services
Detroit Health Department
Elliott Counseling Group
Equitas Health
Feminist Health Center
Focus LGBT Magazine
Forge Health
Friends For All
Galion City Health Department
Galveston County Health District
Gamut Health
Gay and Bisexual Network of Tanzania (GABINET-RIO)
GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality
Golden Rule Services, Inc.
Grand Rapids LGBTQ+ Healthcare Consortium
Guidance Psychological Services
Hawai’i Health and Harm Reduction Center
HBI (Health Betterment Initiate)
Hispanic Federation
HIV+ Aging Research Project
HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute
Home Instead
Housing Works
Identiti Financial
Institute for Family Health
Iris House
IU Health LifeCare
Jefferson Health
Keck Medicine of USC
Kumukahi Health + Wellness
Latino Commission on AIDS
Let’s Talk Solutions
LGBT Center of Raleigh
LGBT Detroit
Louisiana State University School of Public Health
MBI Health Services
Mecklenburg County
Medstar Medical Group
Midway Specialty Care Center
Mindbodysoul Mental Health & Family Practice
MoNetwork
Multicultural AIDS Coalition
NAESM, Inc
NALGAP, Inc
NBJC
New Orleans Advocates for LGBTQ+ Elders (NOAGE)
News is Out
Niagara Pride, Inc
Northern Kentucky Health Department
One Virginia Foundation, Inc
Oregon Health Authority
Owensboro Human Relations Commission
Pathways DC
Peace-Work
Peer Kent
PFY
Pomona Valley Pride
Positive Connections, Inc.
Pottawattamie County Public Health
Pride Center of Vermont
PSI Services III
Public Law Center
Puerto Rico Department of Health
Reverence Equality Healthcare
Rutgers LGBTQIA+ Violence Prevention
SAGE
San Francisco Community Health Center
Sexo-logico Puerto Rico
SLK Health Services
SMOC Family Planning
Southern California Medical Center
St. Mary’s Medical Center- CARE Center
State of Hawai’i Department of Health
SUNY New Paltz Psychological Counseling Center
Sussex Pride
Texas Health Action
The Black Queer Collective
The H Line/NYS HIV,STIs, and Hep C Hotline
The h3 Project
The HealthCare Connection
The Knights and Orchids Society
The LGBTQ Center
The LOFT LGBTQ+ Community Center
The New York Equality Pronoun Center
The NYC Equality Pronoun Center
The Q Center
The Society for Children Orphaned By AIDS Inc. (SOCOBA)
The STI Project
The Wright Center Specialty Clinic
Thriving Successfully Consulting and Services
TL Family Nurse Practice
Trans Pride Washington DC
UCLA Center for LGBTQ+ Advocacy, Research, and Health
UIC College of Medicine
University of Chicago Medicine
Us Giving Richmond Connections, Inc
Vivent Health
Vocal Congruence Project
Washington State LGBTQ Commission
Waves Ahead Puerto Rico
Will County Health Department
Women’s Health Center of West Virginia
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