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Pride Isn’t Just a Month—It’s a Movement. Support LGBTQ+ Businesses Year-Round.

Pride Month may be over, but the need to uplift and support LGBTQ+ communities continues every single day. At the Austin LGBT Chamber of Commerce, our function advocating for inclusive economic growth, visibility, and equity doesn’t pause after June—and neither should your endorse . Our members...

July 15, 2025

Texas Flood Relief: How to help

💔 Our hearts are with everyone impacted by the devastating floods across Texas.   We’re deeply grateful for the first responders, ngo partners, and community members, and member businesses (H-E-B, UFCU, A+FCU, Best Brief Wine & Books and so many more) stepping up in this...

July 9, 2025

Chamber leads on Critical Conversations with LGBTQ Business Owners & Elected Officials

In March 2025, during Austin’s busy spring festival season (March 15), the City’s Public Assembly Code Enforcement (PACE) team conducted an inspection at Rain, a cornerstone Gay nightclub on West 4th Street. Rain was temporarily shut down for exceeding its permitte

Posted inAustin

byChad Swiatecki

Ahead of an in-progress comprehensive plan slated for completion later this year, Austin’s Diversity and Ethnic Chamber Alliance (DECA) has secured a pledge from two local banks to loan $1 million to member small businesses. The loans, which will be issued by Business & Community Lenders and Wells Fargo, are tied in part to the […]

Posted inAustin

byChad Swiatecki

The four minority chambers of commerce that own for years worked loosely together are moving forward with creating a five-year plan for how to ensure maturation in Austin doesn’t bypass minority-owned little businesses. The Austin LGBT Chamber, Greater Austin Asian Chamber, Greater Austin Jet Chamber, and Greater Austin Hispanic Chamber of Commerce – which previously worked […]

Posted inCity Hall

byChad Swiatecki

The city appears to have struck a bargain with four niche chambers of commerce to more equitably distribute each of their annual funding allocations from the city budget. Discussions have been ongoing for years about how to “normalize” the city’s funding for the Austin LGBT Chamber, Greater Austin Asian Chamber, Greater Austin Black Cham

Austin LGBT Chamber of Commerce

Advocating. Educating. Empowering.

The Austin LGBT Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1997 with a mission of promoting economic growth in the Austin LGBTQ community through advocacy, connections, and education. The vision of its founders was to facilitate Austin become a fully supportive, diverse, and prosperous community through a variety of initiatives that would advocate on behalf of businesses whose members represent segments of the community with distinct concerns or a unifying social mission.

Those programs and initiatives are varied:

  • The Chamber’s Employee Resource Community (ERG) Roundtable acts as a convener of existing and unused ERG groups to provide a forum for education and insight supporting the professional growth of LGBT individuals by fostering a safe environment within their companies/businesses for individuals to be real in the workplace.
  • The Advocacy Committee researches ordinances, regulations, and propositions at the local, state, and national levels that will impact the business community.
  • The Health & Wellness Committee maps out strategies to convene healthcare providers to impact the health and wellness of L

    LGBT Chamber of Commerce

    We Joined Austin’s LGBT Chamber of Commerce!!

    As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion in all aspects of our business, RAINING KATE’S is now a member of Austin’s LGBT Chamber of Commerce. We are fully on board with the LGBT Chamber of Commerce’s mission statement:

    The Austin LGBT Chamber of Commerce cultivates, promotes, and empowers the economic well-being of the LGBT business community and their allies through collaboration, education, and community development.

    History of the Austin LGBT Chamber of Commerce

    Now forming part of the Texas LGBTQ Chambers of Commerce coalition, the Austin LGBT Chamber of Commerce was established in 1997 as the Stonewall Chamber of Commerce. In 2004, the Austin Gay and Woman loving woman Chamber of Commerce was renamed to more accurately show the LGBT business community and its allies. Read more about the history by clicking here.

    • If you need rain damage restoration services in Austin, RAINING KATE’S is here 24/7 to support you. We are proud to assist the diverse collective of Austin whenever a member of that community is in need because of a liquid crisis in their home or business. Give us a c