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LGBTQIA+ Friendly Business Directory

Pride Town Connect is the Leader in LGBTQIA+ Friendly Businesses in 222+ cities and a city near you!

Pride Town Connect, founded in October 2023, is a powerful leader in creating safe spaces for the LGBTQ+ community by listing LGBTQ+ friendly businesses, sharing valuable resources, and highlighting impactful community events. With over 796,545 visitors in just 148 days, we’ve connected individuals to businesses that embrace inclusion, empowering the community to live authentically and proudly. 

Through our growing platform, we strive to amplify visibility, foster belonging, and inspire positive change, creating a world where safety, equality, and authenticity thrive.

City of Philadelphia with happy LGBTQ+ people walking around the city. The LGBTQ+ members are happy because they feel included because of the business members on pride town connect.

Pride Town Connect has facilitated over 796,545 visitors and 7.6 million page views in the past 148 days, connecting the LGBTQ+ community with LGBTQ+ inclusive businesses. Our growing directory empowers individuals to live authentically by promoting safe, affirming spaces and inspiring businesses to lead in diversity and equality.

 


Through constant investing in our technology and brand, we are a valuable digital media platform that serves as an LGBTQ+ friendly business membership directory for allies to list their businesses to our community. We also donate listings to non-profit and LGBTQ+ community centers on our site as a directory listing throughout the USA. These listings aim to provide additional support to our LGBTQ+ community centers and resources to our LGBTQ+ community.

 

 

Our founder, Dr. John Errigo has a Ph.D. in business management and completed his doctoral dissertation in 2016 on the topic of LGBTQ+ inclusion & fairness in the workplace. Dr. Errigo’s dissertation highlights the trends of business and communication within LGBTQ+ inclusion in the workplace.  Dr. Errigo created this media platform as a bridge to creating and recognizing inclusive LGBTQ+ friendly “safe” spaces & businesses in our society.

 

Enjoy finding, in our digital LGBTQ+ friendly directory, amazing businesses and helpful LGBTQ+ resources. We are listing banner cities in tiles below that serve from 2024-2026 as our foundational cities and metro markets for exclusive outreach for LGBTQ+ friendly businesses. We will expand to select European cities in Q4 of 2026 to Q4 of 2027. During our European expansion in 2026-2027, we will continue to expand into new cities not currently listed below in the USA from 2026 and beyond.

All directory members are LGBTQ+ friendly businesses and are considered safe places.

All of our LGBTQ+ allies and our LGBTQ+ owners in our LGBTQ+ business friendly directory are looking forward to connecting with you!Pride Town Connect has facilitated over 796,545 visitors and 7.6 million page views in the past 148 days, connecting the LGBTQ+ community with inclusive businesses. Our growing directory empowers individuals to live authentically by promoting safe, affirming spaces and inspiring businesses to lead in diversity and equality.

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City Tiles

Atlanta

Austin

Bordentown-NJ

Boston-MA

Chicago

Denver

Fieldsboro-NJ

Fort Lauderdale

Laramie, WY

New Hope

New Mexico

New York City

North Jersey Cities

Philadelphia

Portland, OR

Princeton

San Francisco

Savannah

Scranton

Seattle

South Jersey Cities

Trenton NJ

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The LGBTQ+ community thrives when individuals feel seen, supported, and connected to resources that are affirming and inclusive. This specific resource directory lists all LGBTQ+ community centers across all 50 states.  This will bring together information and connections across all 50 states, providing a space where everyone in the LGBTQ+ community can find resources, and safe spaces that create support networks. The LGBTQ+ experience is diverse, and each state represents a vital piece of that tapestry. By providing resources for every state, we ensure that:

•No One Feels Alone: Whether in rural Arkansas or urban New York, members of the LGBTQ+ community know they are understood and supported.

•Visibility Matters: Highlighting LGBTQ+ friendly resources across all 50 states fosters visibility, promotes inclusivity, and creates a nationwide network of support.

•Empowerment Through Access: Access to affirming services, businesses, and groups empowers individuals to live authentically and safely.

This is a new section added on 12/18/24 and is under-development until all 50 states have added resources. 

 

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Alabama

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Alaska

Picture of state outline with an abstract representation of Arizona that has pride colors and abstract symbols next to the state outline.

Arizona

picture of Arkansas with the state lines, with pride colors and an abstract version of the state symbol

Arkansas

California state image that is surrounded by palm trees, the ocean, the golden gate bridge and mountains of CA.

California

State art work of Colorado with the state boundaries that are filled in with pride colors and designs.

Colorado

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Connecticut

State of Delaware focus on the boardwalk with an image of the ocean and the shops on the board walk. State of delaware has pride colors in the state and pride flags on the boardwalk.

Delaware

Florida

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Georgia

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Hawaii

state image of Idaho with mountains and trees and muted pride colors of state boundaries of the state of Idaho in the center of the picture

Idaho

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Illinois

Image of indiana in pride colors and powerful symbols of pride and happiness and happy people walking around the main city of downtown Indianapolis and a tribue to Michael Jackson in the right corner of MJ in a purple glob and crown for KOP.

Indiana

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New Jersey

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Pennsylvania

Popular Listings for January 2025

The listings below from (8/24 to 12/28) were seen by over 796,545 visitors to our site and over 7,639,191 site wide total page event views in the past 148 days. Our average visitor engagement time on the site in the past 148 days averages 6.1 minutes. Please see our website stats page for specific statistical data on our LGBTQ+ friendly cities and user site traffic. This listings below comprise the LGBTQ+ friendly business in our LGBTQ+ friendly business directory. 

All businesses are exclusively vetted as LGBTQIA+ Friendly by Pride Town Connect
 

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Why Pride Town Connect?

Why Pride Town Connect? Creating a useful LGBTQ+ inclusive business directory for the LGBTQ+ community. We are currently building the Central and South Jersey Markets and Philadelphia Markets. We have 222+ cities listed and a focus on 70 metro markets represented in this directory from Scranton PA to New York City to Philadelphia to Portland OR to Laramie WY to San Francisco CA to Savannah GA. Pride Town Connect will have specific websites for each city as our goal for 2025-2026. We will expand to (select Canadian Cities Q2. 2025) & European Cities in late 2026-2027. Our Mission is Bold: To eradicate discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community. Dr. John talks about why this is important.

LGBTQ+ News & Blogs

Thank you for considering Pride Town Connect as your leader in Marketing your LGBTQ+ friendly business to the LGBTQ+ community!  And Thank you to those LGBTQ+ members for engaging in our product and visiting our site as an LGBTQ+ member of our community.  If you need any support around directory member listings, or referrals as an LGBTQ+ community member, or on how to partner with our company, please call us during our open business office hours from 3 pm to 5 pm (EST) Monday-Friday, 609-351-2337 or leave us a voicemail from 9 am to 3 pm (EST).

Thank you for visiting Pride Town Connect, please check back often as we are adding daily new LGBTQ+ Friendly Businesses, LGBTQ+ Blogs, LGBTQ+ Events and LGBTQ+ Community Resources!