Celebrating Pride: Anti-Racist Organizations to Support Right Now in North America
This June, as Crescendo stands in solidarity with the movement for Black lives, we are intensifying the voices and histories of the queer people of colour and keeping our efforts to support the anti-racist LGBTQ+ community in any way that we can. Any meaningful celebration of queer life must be actively anti-racist and actively intersectional, and right now, that reminder is critical.
As people demand change, it is crucial to propel forward the work of queer organizers of color, as well as the anti-racist work that is taking center stage in North American activism. If you, like many of us, are moved to take action right now, here is a list of organizations that support the most historically silenced groups within the LGBTQ+ community.
Black Lives Matter, today and everyday. Please share this list and let us know how we can better offer opportunities for your learning and action during this difficult time - we’re listening.
Note: This list will be continuously updated.
The Okra Project
The Okra Project is a collective that addresses food insecurity, a global crisis, by providing home cooked, healthy, and culturally specific meals and resources to Black Trans People who are experiencing homelessness or whose homes cannot support their chef’s cooking.
Donate: https://www.theokraproject.com/
Homeless Black Trans Woman Fund
The Homeless Black Trans Woman Fund offers support for Black trans women in Atlanta who are sex workers and/or homeless. The fund invests in their safety by providing cell phones, temporary housing, food, and other necessities.
Donate: https://www.gofundme.com/f/homeless-black-trans-women-fund
The Black Trans Travel Fund
The Black Trans Travel Fund is a mutual-aid fund that provides Black transgender women in New York state and New Jersey state with financial support for self-determined safest alternatives to travel.
Donate: https://www.blacktranstravelfund.com/donate
Trans Women of Color Survival Fund
Trans Women of Color Survival Fund (TWOCC) develops and amplifies the leadership of trans women of colour to be the writers of their own narratives, encouraging those who are most impacted by structural oppression to be at the forefront of change for social justice movements.
Donate: https://www.twocc.us/donate/
Rainbow Railroad
Since 2006, Rainbow Railroad has helped 800+ persecuted LGBTQI individuals from 38 countries find a path to safety and start a new life, free from persecution. Each case is analyzed and verified, then connected to local contacts that offer and provide pre-travel, logistical, and post-travel support.
Donate: https://www.rainbowrailroad.org/takeaction
Emergency Release Fund
The Emergency Release Fund’s mission is to ensure that no trans person at risk in New York City jails remains in detention before trial. The fund raises money to post bail for trans persons at risk of injury and death.
Donate: https://emergencyreleasefund.com/contribute/
For The Gworls
For The Gworls is a platform that raises money to offer financial support for rent and gender affirming surgeries for Black transgender people across the United States of America.
Donate: https://linktr.ee/FORTHEGWORLSPARTY
Canadian Council of Chambers and Business Organizations
The Canadian Council of Chambers and Business Organizations Council (CCCBO) is a trusted partner linking LGBT+ businesses in Canada to the larger business community. The organization is made up of Canadian provincial and regional LGBT+ chambers of commerce, and business associations that affiliate with the CGLCC, giving these organizations a voice at the leadership table.
Donate: https://www.cglcc.ca/donate/
Pride Foundation
The Pride Foundation works toward creating a transformative community change - a world where every person is able to live safely, openly, and genuinely in all places. The organization has currently invested $70 million in pursuit of their vision for a meaningful and lasting change for the LGBTQ community, which includes building organizations, offering educational financial and technical support, partnering with local visionaries and enhancing lives and legal equality.
Donate: https://pridefoundation.org/
Human Rights Campaign
The Human Rights Campaign is the largest national lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, consisting of more than 3 million members and supporters, that operates to work toward a world where LGBTQ people are ensured of their basic equal rights and is able to feel honest, safe and open, at home, at work and within the community.
Donate: https://www.hrc.org/
The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project is a leading national organization that provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to individuals under 25 years old within the lesbian, gay, bixsexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQ) community. The organization is committed to producing innovative research on the field of suicidology and offers life-saving and life-affirming programs and services to the LGBTQ youth.
Donate: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/
Glaad
Glaad is a dynamic media force whose goal is to create a world where everybody can live a life that they love by rewriting the script for LGBTQ acceptance. The group of journalists and writers aim for cultural change through tackling tough issues to provoke dialogue.
Donate: https://www.glaad.org/
Black Women in Motion
Black Women in Motion, a Toronto-based youth-led organization, empowers and supports the advancement of black women and survivors of sexual violence. The organization works within an anti-racist, intersectional feminist, trauma-informed and survivor-centred framework to create culturally-relevant content, education tools, resources, healing spaces and economic opportunities for black women.
Donate: https://blackwomeninmotion.org/
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