LGBTQ-Owned Businesses and Services in Austin for 2026

Satin Wedding Co. plans and designs weddings in Austin for couples who want a day that sounds like them rather than like a template. Doug Jacobs & Jeff Mikeska are a husband-and-husband broker team who own their brokerage. Out Youth has been running counselling and crisis support for LGBTQ+ young people in the city for decades.

This is a short list and it says so at the top. It covers the businesses and organizations in the Austin record whose ownership, leadership or practice is explicitly LGBTQ+, each linking to the source behind that claim.

Quick answer

1. Plan the wedding with Satin Wedding Co..
2. Buy or sell a home with Doug Jacobs & Jeff Mikeska or Gabrielle Moore.
3. Handle a name change or gender marker correction with CHA Law Group.
4. Find support for a young person at Out Youth.
5. Connect with queer people of color through allgo.
6. Follow policy and advocacy through Equality Texas.
7. The Austin hub carries the rest of the metro directory.

Getting married

Satin Wedding Co. is a queer-owned planning and design studio in Austin. Wedding planning is one of the places where the difference between an affirming vendor and a merely polite one shows up early, in the language on the intake form and in who is assumed to be walking down the aisle.

If you are building the rest of the day around them, the metro directory has caterers, florists, photographers and venues in Events & Weddings and Restaurants & Food, and each listing shows what has been verified about it.

Buying and selling a home

Two REALTOR® listings here, and both are worth a conversation before you sign with anyone.

Doug Jacobs & Jeff Mikeska are a husband-and-husband team and the owners of Jacobs & Mikeska REALTORS®, working across Greater Austin. Gabrielle Moore is a Central Texas REALTOR® with Grounded Property, bringing fifteen years in real estate and civic leadership in the San Marcos area.

Jorgenson Real Estate in Round Rock is a veteran-owned, family-run brokerage that carries the Open to All commitment, which is a stated policy of serving everyone rather than a claim about who owns it.

If you want to know what to ask an agent before you hire them, our guide on questions to ask a real estate agent covers the ones that matter here.

Legal help

CHA Law Group is an Austin family and reproductive law practice handling LGBTQ+ matters including name changes and gender marker corrections. It carries the Welcoming business tag, which describes the practice rather than the ownership, and the listing says which.

The organizations behind the community

Organization	What it does
Out Youth	Programs, counselling and crisis support for LGBTQ+ young people, plus family and caregiver support
allgo	A statewide queer people of color organization working across cultural arts, wellness and social justice
Equality Texas	The largest statewide nonprofit working for LGBTQIA+ equality in Texas, with advocacy and direct support

All three are nonprofits, so they carry an LGBTQ-led tag rather than an owned one. A nonprofit has no owner, and the distinction is kept deliberately.

What the record does not cover yet

Austin has one of the older and larger LGBTQ+ business communities in Texas and this record holds six businesses and three organizations. There is no LGBTQ-owned restaurant, bar, shop, salon or contractor listed in the metro today. That is a gap in what has been sourced and not a description of the city.

The reason is specific and worth stating: a chamber roster proves membership, not ownership, and the Austin LGBT Chamber's directory is full of banks, hospitals and utilities that joined as allies. So a tag is only written from a business's own words about itself, or from a directory a business submitted itself to. That standard keeps the tags trustworthy and it keeps this list short.

Texas does not run an LGBT business certification. Cleveland's city register does, and it is the only one found so far in this programme. Until one exists here, an LGBTQ-owned tag in Austin rests on the business saying so itself.

If you run an LGBTQ-owned business in the Austin metro, a free listing is the fastest way to be counted, and your own website is the source we will cite.

Common mistakes

• Reading a chamber membership as ownership. It is not, and this directory does not treat it as such.
• Confusing Welcoming business with LGBTQ-owned. The first describes how a business serves people, the second describes who owns it. Listings carry whichever is sourced.
• Assuming a nonprofit is owned by anyone. The three organizations here are LGBTQ-led, which is the accurate word.
• Expecting the list to be complete. It is not, and the section above says why.

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