Community Issues Grantee Partners
The SF Bay Area LGBTQ organizations and programs below received grants through Horizons' flagship Community Issues Funding Program.
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Community Issues 2025
Horizons Foundation awarded a total of $1,461,731 to 66 Grantee Partners
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A.B.O. Comix is a collective of system-impacted LGBTQ+ artists and writers. Through powerful storytelling, visual art, and mutual aid, we build solidarity across prison walls and fight the isolation & violence of the carceral system. Every piece of artwork shared is a refusal to be erased, forgotten, or silenced. Our project supports hundreds of queer & trans imprisoned people through publishing, community-building, letter writing & direct material support. |
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Our mission is to advance and protect the rights, dignity, and health of people living with HIV/AIDS in the Bay Area. |
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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. |
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Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits exists to restore and recover the roles of Two-Spirit people within American Indian/First Nations communities by creating a forum for issue advocacy, wellness and the spiritual, cultural and artistic expression of Two-Spirits and Indigiqueers. |
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The Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Center is building community and promoting the healing effects of social connection by hosting discussion and leadership groups as well as diverse activities and events for LGBTQ+s and Allies. |
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The Brown Boi Project empowers BIPOC TGNC community builders who are working to disrupt manifestations of patriarchal violence in our relationships and communities. Through leadership development focused on interrogating the influences of patriarchy in our own lives, we build initiatives and develop intersectional tools that center the experiences of masculine-identified LGBTQ people of color in order to shift dominant narratives about gender and masculinity. |
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Bruthas Rising is dedicated to uplifting and empowering transgender men of color through health and wellness initiatives, peer support, and mental health -with a particular focus on those most underserved in every effort to engage, empower and influence others and ameliorate conditions-so that we can evolve as members of society and in community. |
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Camp It Up! exists to create space for LGBTQ+ families to gather and grow together, nurturing intergenerational relationships within and among families. Through our annual family camp, we foster a culture of homegrown community care where every family is seen and affirmed. Our mission is to cultivate intentional experiences rooted in authentic connection, joy, and belonging, nourishing a vibrant community of families who support one another year after year. |
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The Castro Country Club is a safe and sober community center for all people and a refuge for the LGBTQ recovery community. We provide programs and services that help people change their lives by supporting personal growth and connecting them with the larger recovery community. Our vision is to see the reduction of suffering from addiction and transmitted diseases by connecting people to community, opportunity, and support. |
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Center for Sex and Culture is an online community center and IRL archive and reading room providing judgement-free education and exploring and preserving knowledge and materials about sex and gender via arts programs and other media. |
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Creating a Coastside that supports and celebrates people of all sexual orientations and gender identities. |
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To create a space for the freedom of expression, individual growth, and community building for LGBTQ Latiné individuals who speak Spanish in the Santa Clara Valley. |
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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 broader communities to replace cycles of trauma with cycles of safety and liberation. As part of the larger social justice movement, CUAV works to create truly safe communities where everyone can thrive. |
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Detour Productions creates bold, inclusive, and immersive performance experiences that celebrate queer artistry and community. Through performance, mentorship, and access-centered events, we uplift creative risk-taking, cultural joy, and connection while envisioning a world where queer, trans, disabled, and BIPOC artists have the visibility, support, and platforms they need to thrive. |
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Diamond Wave produces joyful, interactive events and community-based learning experiences that foster nonbinary empowerment and belonging, and invites all people to explore their unique gender expression. |
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El/La Para TransLatinas works towards a world where TransLatinas are protected, celebrated, and loved, where trans/intersex/gender diverse Latinx people are welcome, safe, represented and valued in all spheres of life. |
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Frameline's mission is to change the world through the power of queer cinema. As a media arts nonprofit, Frameline's programs connect filmmakers and audiences in the Bay Area and around the world. Frameline is the nation's only year-round nonprofit organization dedicated solely to the distribution, promotion, funding, exhibition and preservation of LGBTQ+ media arts. |
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Fresh Meat Productions invests in the creative expression and cultural leadership of transgender, gender-nonconforming and queer communities. We create and commission new work, present performing arts programs, offer community arts education, and work for intersectional trans/racial/disability justice in the Arts. |
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GAPA Fund’s mission is to empower and advance queer and transgender Asian American and Pacific Islander voices by uplifting them through arts and cultural programs to foster understanding, visibility, and change. We envision a world where queer and transgender Asian and Pacific Islander communities are seen, heard, and celebrated. |
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The GLBT Historical Society collects, preserves, exhibits, and makes accessible to the public materials and knowledge to support and promote understanding of LGBTQ+ history, culture, and arts in all their diversity. Through our museum, archives, and research center, we have become a global leader in LGBTQ+ arts, history, and culture. |
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In Lak’ech Dance Academy’s mission is to cultivate healing, pride, and liberation for queer and trans BIPOC communities through Afro-Latin dance. Founded in 2017 by queer women of color Angélica Medina and Jahaira Fajardo, we use culturally rooted dance education and performance to build community, foster wellness, and uplift queer visibility in the arts. |
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Lavender Phoenix builds transgender, non-binary, and queer Asian and Pacific Islander power to heal and transform our communities. Through organizing in the Bay Area, we inspire and train grassroots leaders, transform our community’s values from scarcity to abundance, and sustain a vibrant, intersectional movement ecosystem. LavNix’s work is organized under the three pillars of our theory of change: healing justice, community safety, and leadership development. |
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LYRIC’s vision is a diverse society where LGBTQQ+ youth are embraced and encouraged to be who they want to be, despite being at a higher risk for mental health challenges, housing, medical treatment, and food insecurity than their hetero counterparts. LYRIC cultivates community and sustains belonging by meeting young people where they are and helping them find housing, navigate jobs, access mental health care, and build community, enabling them to thrive and become leaders in their community. |
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To preserve, advance, and promote San Francisco’s culturally enriched LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District. To strengthen San Francisco’s LGBTQ communities by bringing together our diverse histories and cultures. To foster safety, creativity, vitality, and prosperity for Leather & LGBTQ neighborhood participants, organizations, institutions, and businesses. To ensure lively and vibrant Leather & LGBTQ: commerce, community development, cultural resources, and physical spaces. |
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LGBTQ Connection, an initiative fueled by youth and other emerging leaders in the rural and suburban areas north of San Francisco, fosters a healthier, more vibrantly diverse and inclusive community. Each year, LGBTQ Connection engages 3,500 LGBTQ people, their families and community, and trains 500 providers from local organizations across Northern California to increase the safety, visibility and well-being of LGBTQ residents. |
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Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive empowers trans people through knowledge of their own history and works to increase society’s understanding of transgender lives by making available the artifacts of transgender history. We are a primary resource for scholars, students, authors, artists, and the community at large. |
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Lyon-Martin Community Health Services mission is to provide full-scope, trauma-informed primary care, gynecological and sexual health services, and mental health services to Transgender, Non-Binary, Gender Non-Conforming, and Intersex communities and cis-gender women with specific sensitivity to LBQA+ sexual orientations, disability, size, race, ethnicity, and language, regardless of immigration status or ability to pay. |
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The Marin LGBTQ+ Center is dedicated to creating a world where all LGBTQ+ people are valued, respected and empowered to live their lives with authenticity and pride, providing a safe haven and hub for connection, support and community building in Marin County. |
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Ministerio Latino is an open and affirming faith community for LGBTQ folks. We are a spiritual home that nurtures queer Latine people to be fully seen, loved, and affirmed in their language and culture. We understand that “La Cultura Cura” (Culture Heals). Thus, we carry out our work meeting people where they are, realizing that many have been hurt by conservative religion and also many of us crave a spiritual home because it is deeply tied to our identities and cultural backgrounds. |
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Miss Major Alexander L. Lee TGIJP Black Trans Cultural Center |
TGIJP is a group of transgender, gender-variant, and intersex people, inside and outside of prisons, jails, and detention centers, creating a united family in the struggle for survival and freedom. We work collaboratively to forge a culture of resistance and resilience to strengthen us in the fight against human rights abuses, imprisonment, police violence, racism, poverty, and societal pressures. We seek to create a world rooted in self-determination, freedom of expression, and gender justice. |
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The mission of New Conservatory Theatre Center is to champion innovative, high-quality productions and educational theatre experiences for youth, artists, and the queer and allied communities to effect personal and societal growth, enlightenment and change. |
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The Oakland Gay Men’s Chorus gives voice through song to a community where everyone matters. |
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The Oakland LGBTQ Community Center is dedicated to enhancing and sustaining the well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals, our families and allies, by providing educational, social, and health related activities, programs and services. |
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Oasis Legal Services empowers low-income LGBTQ+ immigrants who have survived violence and persecution due to their sexuality, gender identity, and/or HIV status by increasing access to quality, culturally responsive legal representation and social services. |
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Openhouse empowers San Francisco Bay Area LGBTQ+ seniors to overcome the unique challenges they face as they age by providing housing, direct services and community programs. |
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Our Family Coalition advances equity for the full and expanding spectrum of LGBTQ families and children through support, education, and advocacy. |
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Our Space mission is to walk with young people impacted by adversity toward a future with connection and meaning. |
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To enhance the mental health and overall well-being of the LGBTQIA+ and QTBIPOC communities by providing culturally responsive therapy, peer to peer support groups, community outreach services, and facilitated workshops. |
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ParivarBayArea is the nation’s only Trans-led organization centering South Asian and Global South Trans and Gender Diverse immigrants and asylees including Hijrah, Kinnar and other AAPI Trans communities. Through advocacy, direct services, arts, culture, and leadership development, we confront systemic injustice, build economic and social equity, and create bold, affirming spaces where our communities thrive locally and globally, reclaiming dignity, resilience, and power for future generations. |
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Positive Images, an LGBTQIA2S+ Community Center rooted in mental health and peer support, is committed to creating the conditions for collective liberation for and with all the intersections of the LGBTQIA2S+ community by cultivating spaces for community care, connection, and belonging, partnering strategically to better serve our trans, non-binary, Latine, neurodivergent, and disabled community members, and educating and organizing ourselves and our allies. |
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Queer Cultural Center promotes social justice and the artistic and financial development of queer art and culture. QCC employs the arts to build a diverse community that actively promotes social justice and challenges homophobia, transphobia, racism, and misogyny. We steward artists whose programs nourish, connect, and mobilize trans & queer communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. |
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Queer LifeSpace is a nonprofit counseling agency that provides affordable, high-quality mental health services to the LGBTQIA+ community. We also run an internationally-recognized clinical training program for the next generation of queer-affirming therapists. We are a frontline provider of accessible therapy to underserved, economically vulnerable LGBTQIA+ populations. |
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Queer Surf supports the mental, physical and social health of non binary, transgender and queer people through ocean recreation, marine stewardship, coastal ecology and community arts. Through programs that center accessibility, mentorship, education and gear share we build queer coastal resilience and community. |
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Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project builds narrative power by transforming the world's most expensive art form into a tool for liberation. We fund, create, exhibit, and distribute high-impact films to shatter stereotypes and bias, reveal the lived truth of inequality, and illuminate the incisive leadership and creative brilliance of LBTQIA+ people of color to create narrative change. |
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Quest House Community Healing is a post-op recovery home and peer support resource for trans men and transmasculine folks pursuing gender-affirming bottom surgeries in the San Francisco Bay Area. Quest House offers supportive and affordable post-op lodging for trans surgical guests in a communal home where they can access wraparound social and emotional peer support and heal alongside other folks who are on similar journeys. |
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Rainbow builds community, equity, and well-being among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, asexual or agender, and two-spirit (LGBTQIA2S+) people & our allies. |
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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. |
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The mission of the San Francisco Dyke March is to bring the dyke communities together to celebrate our unity, raise our consciousness and be visible. Strengthening an international perspective in our communities, the rally and march advocates justice for all dykes around the world. We advocate on issues against oppression, racism, sexism, homophobia, and poverty. |
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The mission of the SF LGBT Center is to connect our diverse community to opportunities, resources and each other to achieve our vision of a stronger, healthier, and more equitable world for LGBT people and our allies. Our four priorities are to foster greater opportunities for people to thrive; organize for our future; celebrate our history and culture; and build resources to create a legacy for future generations. |
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The San Francisco Pride Band provides for the education and musical development of its members, promotes visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities, and with its allies, fosters understanding among diverse communities through public performance. |
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The mission of the San Francisco Trans March is to inspire all Trans and Gender Non-Conforming 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. |
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The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival is North America’s first and longest-running transgender film festival. SFTFF organizes an annual film festival in San Francisco; awards commissioning grants to Black, Indigenous, and people of color TGNC filmmakers; advocates for movement-building with other film festivals and organizations; and co-sponsors other grassroots TGNC arts events throughout the year. |
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Our mission is to create a welcoming, safe, inclusive, and affirming community climate that fosters personal growth, health, and opportunities to thrive for individuals of all ages, sexual orientations, and gender identities through education, counseling, advocacy, and support. |
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At the Sebastopol Area Senior Center we believe that no senior should have to face the challenges of aging alone, particularly those who identify as LGBTQ. Our mission is to create and maintain an environment that encourages independence for older adults by providing learning, social, and recreational opportunities in the continued pursuit of a fulfilling and healthy life. |
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Sha’ar Zahav is a progressive synagogue that affirms b’tzelem elohim, the sacred in everyone. We are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, non-binary, queer, and heterosexual Jews, of many races and abilities, together with partners, family, and friends, both Jewish and from other traditions/beliefs and worship with an egalitarian, feminist, queer-positive Jewish liturgy. |
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Our mission is to inspire and unite our diverse community through musical excellence and collective pride. |
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Solano Pride Center builds community and provides services for Solano County’s LGBTQIA2S+ people and our allies. Solano Pride Center envisions a community where all LGBTQIA2S+ people live freely and authentically. |
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Somos Familia builds leadership in our Latine families and communities to create a culture where people of diverse genders and sexual orientations can thrive. |
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Still Here San Francisco is an intergenerational cultural preservation project amplifying the voices of Queer and Trans Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (QTBIPOC) raised and rooted in San Francisco. SHSF was founded on the principle that storytellers, poets, and artists can contribute a profound re-understanding of time and place and that QTBIPOC San Franciscans should be at the forefront of documenting SF stories. |
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The mission of the Billys is to foster community, intimacy, and personal exploration among gay, bi, trans, and queer men through shared values and heart-centered brotherhood. We are a heart-centered community woven together by shared values and by our shared experience as gay, bi, trans, and queer men. We strive to be present and mindful with ourselves and each other. |
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The Curve Foundation champions lesbian, queer women, transgender and nonbinary people's stories and culture through intergenerational programming and community building. |
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The LGBT Asylum Project by the Center for Immigrant Protection is the only San Francisco nonprofit organization exclusively dedicated to providing accessible legal representation for LGBT asylum seekers who are fleeing persecution due to their sexual orientation, gender identity and/or HIV status. |
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The mission of The Transgender District is to create an urban environment that fosters the rich history, culture, legacy, and empowerment of transgender people and its deep roots in the southeastern Tenderloin neighborhood. |
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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. As the world's longest-running LGBTQ+ theatre, we preserve stories of our collective past, encourage critical dialogue about our present, and provide a point of connection and healing for our queer, trans, and allied community to strengthen our collective future. |
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Powering Intersectional Movements for Mutual Aid and Liberation |
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Una Productions is a San Francisco–based dance and performance company centering Queer, trans, and gender-expansive voices, through original works, education, and collaboration. Una creates daring, multidisciplinary performances and accessible programs that celebrate Queer stories, cultivate belonging, and build joyful, liberatory spaces for community through dance, drag and live music. |
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Community Issues 2024
Horizons Foundation awarded a total of $753,372 to 44 Grantee Partners
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Amor Para Todos' 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. |
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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. |
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Bay Area Girls Rock Camp empowers young people through music, promoting an environment that fosters self-confidence, creativity and teamwork. Our camp centers the experiences of girls, trans and/or non-binary youth in our explicit commitment to gender justice and creating an inclusive environment that supports a wide range of marginalized gender identities and expressions. |
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The Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center provides a safe space, leadership, advocacy, services, and support for the LGBTQ+ community and allies. |
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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. |
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We are a community of masculine of center womyn, men, two-spirit people, trans folks, LGBTQ+ individuals and allies committed to changing the way communities of color talk about gender and leadership. We work across race and gender to eradicate sexism, homophobia and transphobia to create affirming and liberatory frameworks for gender, masculinity and change. |
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Bruthas Rising works to enhance the spiritual, mental, and economic health and well-being of transmen — with a particular focus on those most underserved in every effort to engage, empower, influence, and ameliorate adverse conditions — so that they can evolve as members of a diverse community. We envision a world in which practical methodologies have been implemented to build the fundamental structures to positively impact longevity and sustainable life goals for all transmen. |
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Camp It Up! offers arts and nature based LGBTQAI+ family camps that nurture youth leadership development, community building, fun and a deep commitment to diversity, racial justice, equity, and radical inclusivity. |
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Creating a Coastside in San Mateo County that supports and celebrates people of all sexual orientations and gender identities. |
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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. |
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The Deaf Queer Resource Center is an anti-racist organization committed to equity and social justice that works to support, inform, educate, empower, and bring more visibility to and awareness about marginalized Deaf Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer communities. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Drag Story Hour celebrates reading through the glamorous art of drag. Our chapter network creates diverse, accessible, and culturally-inclusive family programming where kids can express their authentic selves and become bright lights of change in their communities. |
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East Bay Getting to Zero is a collaborative community-driven initiative which improves access and eliminates barriers to HIV prevention and care in the East Bay region of Northern California and serves the unique role of bringing together all leaders, organizations and stakeholders to strategically implement innovative and evidence based practices across the region. |
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EBSC-OLAS LGBT Asylum Program |
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. |
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Rooted in the San Francisco Bay Area, Foglifter Press is a platform for LGBTQIA2S+ writers that supports and uplifts powerful, intersectional, and transgressive queer and trans writing through publication and public readings to build and enrich our communities as well as the greater literary arts. |
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Homobiles |
Homobiles is a ride share with the sole purpose of providing safe, reliable transportation to the greater LGBTQ+ community in the Bay Area. Homobiles continues to prioritize a supportive and safe environment for queer people, especially transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals. We are especially focused on providing safe and caring transportation for members of the trans community's medical appointments pertaining to surgery. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Parivar Bay Area builds 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. |
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PFLAG's mission is to create a caring, just and affirming world for LGBTQ+ people and those who love them. |
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Queer LifeSpace provides 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. |
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Queer Rebels Productions (QRP) is an arts organization with presenting, commissioning, and residency programs that provide visibility and financial sustainability to Queer and Trans Black, Indigenous, and people of color (QTBIPOC) artists. |
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QWOCMAP uses film to shatter bias, reveal the lived truths of injustice, and illuminate the brilliance of our communities through art and activism. QWOCMAP creates, exhibits, and distributes films that authentically reflect the lives of, and address the vital, intersecting social justice issues that concern LBTQIA+ BIPOC. We change who is behind the lens by actively investing in, developing, and nurturing the creativity and leadership of LBTQIA+ BIPOC to create transformative change. |
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Quest House is a post-op community healing home for trans men and transmasculine individuals pursuing gender-affirming bottom surgeries in the San Francisco Bay Area. |
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The Sebastopol Area Senior Center improves the lives of older adults in West Sonoma County through programs, classes, services. Specifically, the LGBT+ Rainbow Connection aims to foster safe and welcoming activities that encourage connectedness, belonging, and inclusion for all LGBTQ adults. We co-create this through active volunteerism at our wide variety of in-person and online activities. |
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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. |
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The Center’s Bi The Way is a series of workshops and discussions for bisexual (Bi+) community members, led by Bi+ community members. Bi The Way centers Bi+ communities through connection and wellbeing. |
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The mission of the San Francisco Trans March is to inspire all Trans and Gender Non-Conforming 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. |
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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. |
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Side by Side's Our Space's 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. |
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The mission of the Silicon Valley Gay Men's Chorus is to inspire and unite our diverse community through musical excellence and pride. |
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Solano Serenity Center's 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. |
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Still Here San Francisco / Queer Ancestors Project Kaleidoscope |
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 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. |
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The Castro Country Club (CCC) is a safe and sober community center for all people and a refuge for the LGBTQ recovery community by providing programs and services that help people change their lives by supporting personal growth and connecting them with the larger recovery community. |
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The LGBT Asylum Project is the only San Francisco nonprofit organization exclusively dedicated to providing accessible legal representation for LGBT asylum seekers who are fleeing persecution due to their sexual orientation, gender identity and/or HIV status. |
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Trans Advocacy and Care Team is a trans-led initiative based in the East Bay that provide free, ongoing, virtual non-crisis peer support that is both accessible from anywhere, and led and facilitated by trans people themselves. |
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Trans bloom is an intergenerational trans and BIPOC-centered cultural hub dedicated to healing through creativity and connection that creates programming to strengthen community resilience, foster meaningful relationships with nature, and promote joy. |
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TransCamp facilitates safe outdoor experiences for trans adults so that they can connect to each other & themselves in nature. |
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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. |
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Community Forward helps the most vulnerable individuals get off the streets, find comprehensive services, and achieve stability so they may thrive. The Gender Inclusive Re-Entry Program at the Women’s Resource Center, which serves low-income transgender adult females who are or have been incarcerated. We provide a connection to stabilization so clients can begin their journey to self-sufficiency. |
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花和霧 flowers and fog: Mongolian Days |
花和霧 flowers and fog is an intergenerational, queer, diasporic project with their mother Joy bridging their stories with local AAPI drag artists and Chinatown via immersive picnic shows. |
