Online private chat options:
If you have someone you'd like to chat with privately, we'd recommend using some of the following (free!) tools to talk online. To use a lot of these options, you must have other people's email addresses or usernames to chat. Because of this, we hope you'll only use these resources to talk to people you already know. However, TinyChat is a good option if you want to talk to someone but don't want to exchange this type of personal information!
- Google Hangouts (must have other person's email address to chat)
- TinyChat (just share your individual link to chat)
- Skype (requires a quick download + you must have others' usernames to chat)
- WhatsApp (requires a phone number and smartphone to join, but you can invite other people to be in your contacts via email, text, Twitter, or Facebook)
- GroupMe (basically the same as WhatsApp, with a few different features)
Online public communities for LGBTQ+ young people:
Prefer to meet new people through chatting, but don't want to give out your personal info using the options above? Try some of these LGBTQ youth-friendly chat rooms:
- TrevorSpace (a social media site specifically for LGBTQ+ teens and young people)
- Susan's Place: Youth Talk (forum)
- TransYada
- TransSpace (trans-centered Reddit thread)
- Genderqueer Subreddit
- Genderfluid Subreddit
- Non-binary Support Forum
- Bisexual Talks (tumblr for posting personal stories about being bisexual)
- Asexual Visibility and Education Network Forums
- LGBT Chat: Pansexual section
- Susan's Place: Intersex section (forum)
- Empty Closets (an online forum for LGBTQ people)
- LGBTChat.net
- 321Chat (this site has many chat rooms, but this one is for gay teens)
- TeenChat
- Chatzy