The SF Bay Area LGBTQ organizations below received grants through Horizons' flagship Community Issues Funding Program.
Grantee | Mission | Amount |
|---|---|---|
A.B.O. Comix is a collective of creators and activists who work to amplify the voices of LGBTQ+ people experiencing incarceration through art to support them in the fight toward liberation alongside prison abolitionist and queer advocacy organizations. | $15,000 | |
‘Pueblo Revolt’ explores the Pueblo Uprising through the eyes of a young, gay Pueblo man and his older brother. Equally hilarious and harrowing, the play weaves together history and Indigifuturism to examine queerness, family, religion, and survival. | $15,000 | |
Our mission is to join with schools and communities in an innovative, intersectional approach to cultivate more gender and LGBTQIA+ affirming environments for our youth. We believe our work will be the early intervention that can serve as a catalyst to change systematic invisibility for LGBTQIA+ youth. | $15,000 | |
Home of the first and largest annual Two-Spirit Powwow, Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS) exists to restore and recover the role of Two- Spirit people within the American Indian/First Nations community by creating a forum for the spiritual, cultural and artistic expression of Two-Spirit people. | $15,000 | |
The mission of the Billys is to foster community, intimacy, and personal exploration among gay, bi, trans and queer men through shared values and brotherhood. We are a heart-centered community woven together by shared values and by our shared experience as gay, bi, and queer men. | $15,000 | |
The Mission of the Center for Sex & Culture is to provide judgment-free education, cultural events, a library/media archive, and other resources to audiences across the sexual and gender spectrum; and to research and disseminate factual information about gender, sexuality, and LGBTQIA+ communities, framing and informing issues of public policy and public health. | $7,000 | |
To provide a space for the freedom of expression, individual growth, and community development for LGBTQ Latinx individuals. Teatro Alebrijes develops works rooted in the experience of queer Latinx individuals whose primarily language is Spanish. Teatro Alebrijes exists at the intersection of Creative, Queer, Latine/x, Immigrant, Spanish speaking individuals. | $15,000 | |
CUAV works to build the power of LGBTQ communities to transform violence and oppression. We support the healing and leadership of those impacted by abuse and mobilize our communities to replace cycles of trauma with cycles of safety and liberation. | $15,000 | |
Child Advocates’ mission is to be there for every foster youth in Santa Clara County who has experienced abuse, neglect and/or abandonment. We serve children and youth of various gender identities and sexual orientations, aged birth to 21 years’ old who are placed in the Santa Clara County Dependency System, otherwise known as foster care. | $8,000 | |
Dem Bois Inc provides financial assistance for female to male, FTM, trans-masculine identified people of color so they can obtain chest reconstruction surgery, and/or genital reassignment surgery (gender-affirming surgery) to help them on their journey to living authentic lives. | $15,000 | |
Detour Dance centers the prismatic experiences of queers and people of color. Detour is a devised dance-theater ensemble that creates bold performances rooted in community-based creative processes. | $15,000 | |
Diamond Wave is a queer arts organization that produces diverse, queer-centered artistic and cultural events that bring together disparate segments of LGBTQIA2S+ community in the Bay Area. | $15,000 | |
Diamond Wave is a queer arts organization that produces diverse, queer-centered artistic and cultural events that bring together disparate segments of LGBTQIA2S+ community in the Bay Area. | $15,000 | |
Since 2004, the EBSC-OLAS LGBT Asylum Program has provided integrated legal and social services, psychological support, and community-building to Latinx LGBT asylum seekers in the SF Bay Area. OLAS means “wave” in Spanish and is an acronym for LGBT Organization for Support and Solidarity. | $15,000 | |
The Health Justice Commons (HJC) works at the intersections of gender, racial, disability, environmental & economic justice to center and uplift the communities most harmed and marginalized by the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC) – especially BIPOC and LBGT/ Queer and Non-Binary People – to lead in re-imagining and redesigning healthcare. | $10,000 | |
India Sky’s interdisciplinary art practice investigates the forces of power, ancestry and spirit that shape her experience, and engages radical imagination as a source for transformation, communion, liberation, and survival. | $15,000 | |
Lavender Phoenix (formerly known as APIENC) builds transgender, non-binary, and queer Asian and Pacific Islander power to heal and transform our communities. Through organizing in the SF Bay Area, we inspire and train grassroots leaders, transform our community’s values from scarcity to abundance, and sustain a vibrant, intersectional movement ecosystem. | $15,000 | |
Lavender Seniors of the East Bay's Mission is to improve the quality of life of older lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ)residents of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties through direct services, outreach, advocacy and education. Ensure that LGBTQ elders are well-prepared emotionally, physically, legally, and socially in their later years. | $15,000 | |
LGBTQ Connection's goals are to promote LGBTQ youth leadership, strengthen underserved populations within the LGBTQ community, and build safe and welcoming outposts for community members to seek and receive education and support throughout Napa and Sonoma Counties, including transgender youth; Latinx youth and non-English speaking families; youth of color; youth living in rural / semi-rural communities. | $10,000 | |
Curry Senior Center's LGBTQ+ Programs serve LGBTQ+ older adults (55+) and adults with disabilities and prioritizes community building and isolation reduction for all LGBTQ+ older adults. | $10,000 | |
Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive (LLTA) is a community-based archive dedicated to preserving the artifacts of transgender history, items such as magazines, newsletters, photographs, posters, pornography, flyers, and ephemera. We seek to empower trans people through knowledge of their own history and to increase the understanding of transgender lives by society. | $15,000 | |
Ministerio Latino uplifts, embraces and empowers LGBTQI Latinx immigrants through programs that includes emotional support, gender affirming rituals, life coaching, and donations for basic needs of survival. | $10,000 | |
Outlet Program will be facilitating a middle and high school group as well as providing 1 on 1 counseling services to LGBTQIA+ youth at Coast Pride in Half Moon Bay. | $10,000 | |
Build a community of light, love, and acceptance that enhances our reputation as a primary organization for Transgender economic justice, social inclusion, and health care equity, and an engaging leader for Queer Trans Immigration equity, led by South Asian Transgender Leaders with diverse programs and portfolio that reflects our intersectional communities and leverage our engagements to achieve the greatest equity centering Transgender identities. | $15,000 | |
Peacock Rebellion is an Oakland-based, queer/trans/genderqueer/gender non-conforming Black, Indigenous, and people of color-centered (BIPOC) crew of artists, cultural workers, and community organizers with disabilities and chronic illnesses who use the arts to build cultures of safety and healing with trans and queer Black, Indigenous, and people of color (TQBIPOC) communities. | $15,000 | |
PFLAG's mission is to create a caring, just and affirming world for LGBTQ+ people and those who love them. | $2,834 | |
We provide affordable, evidence-based mental health services, substance abuse services, and clinical training to the LGBTQIA+ community. Developed by queer people for queer people. We're passionate about serving the underserved and providing therapy services to those in need regardless of their ability to pay. | $15,000 | |
Increase equitable access to nature. Support LGBTQ mental and physical health through relationship to the ocean. Diversify surf culture. Queer Surf serves people of all races, ages, abilities and income levels. Queer Surf centers , trans and queer women as well as non-binary individuals. | $15,000 | |
Rainbow Women’s Chorus works together to develop musical excellence in an atmosphere of mutual support and respect. We perform publicly for the entertainment, education and cultural enrichment of our audiences and community. We sing to enhance the esteem of all women, to celebrate diversity, to promote peace and freedom and to touch people’s hearts and lives. | $6,400 | |
RYSE creates safe spaces grounded in healing and social justice for young people ages 13-21 in Richmond/West Contra Costa (WCC) to love, learn, educate, heal, and transform lives and communities. We center Black, Indigenous, Youth of Color (BIYOC), we lead with love and rage to cultivate healing and belonging. RYSE's healing-centered model invites young people into a space designed by and for queer BIPOC youth. | $15,000 | |
The mission of the San Francisco Trans March is to inspire all Trans and Gender Non-Conforming (TGNC) people to realize a world where we are safe, loved, and empowered. The San Francisco Trans March envisions a world based in safety and justice for all, regardless of gender identity and expression. We strive to create a space for our diverse communities to unite and achieve the social justice and equality that each of us deserves. | $15,000 | |
The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival builds strong and resilient transgender community through media arts programs that strengthen awareness of intersectional trans history, identity, rights movements, and culture; uplifts community dialogue about local and global transgender issues; invests in TGNC filmmakers; and engages in movements for trans and racial justice. We are the world’s first and longest-running transgender film festival. | $15,000 | |
To create and maintain an environment that encourages independence for older adults by providing learning, social, and recreational opportunities in the continuing pursuit of a fulfilling and healthy life. Welcoming people of every family composition, sexual orientation, physical and mental ability, religious background, ethnicity, race and gender, the LGBTQ+ programming is virtually the only programming focused on the LGBTQ+ community members aged 55+ who live in Sonoma County. | $10,000 | |
Our mission is to walk with young people impacted by adversity toward a future with connection and meaning. Side by Side’s Our Space is the only program or organization providing advocacy, support services, and a community center for LGBTQIA+ youth in Southern Alameda County, including Hayward, California. | $15,000 | |
Solano Pride Center builds community and promotes wellness among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) people and our allies. | $15,000 | |
Solano Serenity Center's (SCC) mission is to provide resources to the LGBTQ+ community, thereby creating a safe haven for all LGBTQ+ individuals to live their lives free from discrimination and unfair treatment from others. | $10,000 | |
Somos Familia builds leadership in our Latinx families and communities to create a culture where people of diverse genders and sexual orientations can thrive. We deliver a culturally-competent and family-centered services to transform the culture of bias in families and communities that strongly affects the health and well-being of LGBTQ+ Latinx youth and young adults. | $15,000 | |
Still Here San Francisco is an Intergenerational cultural preservation project amplifying the voices and creativity of Queer and Trans Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (QTBIPOC) raised in San Francisco. SHSF brings together Queer and Trans/ nonbinary artists of different ages and racial backgrounds to create works that explore how historical and contemporary issues such as gentrification, displacement, AIDS, and incarceration have impacted the residents of San Francisco. | $10,000 | |
The Bob Mizer Foundation is dedicated to the promotion and preservation of progressive and controversial photography of the mid 20th century and believes that the most disputed works of art are the most important to the progress of society. A key focus of the Foundation is the commemoration of the physique photography of this time ensuring the controversial artistic artifacts and stories of now older members of the LGBTQ+ community in California (and beyond) are represented and shared. | $15,000 | |
Positive Images (PI) is an LGBTQIA+ Community Center that provides support to Sonoma County’s LGBTQIA+ population, with an emphasis on identities and individuals at the margins. | $15,000 | |
The mission of Theatre Rhinoceros is to develop and produce works of theatre that enlighten, enrich, and explore both the ordinary and extraordinary aspects of our queer community. | $15,000 | |
TurnOut’s mission is to mobilize communities to power queer and trans movements by implementing a full suite of support programming to supercharge the impact of every part of LGBTQ+ grassroots organizations' infrastructure. | $10,000 |
