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We cannot talk about the domestic backlash against transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) communities, and the LGBTQ community more broadly, without looking deeply into the far right’s state and local strategy. In the past several months, close to five hundred anti-LGBTQ bills have been filed in state legislatures nationwide, the vast majority of which are anti-TGNC.  Many of these bills, targeting the South and Midwest, have been successfully challenged thanks to incredible organizing and resistance work by frontline LGBTQ movement groups. However, several significant bills have passed into law, devastating the rights of TGNC communities. This funder briefing will offer participants an opportunity to hear about the historical context of the far right’s strategy to weaponize TGNC communities in their work to attack bodily autonomy, hear about current work and wins across the field, and identify strategies for philanthropy to deepen their partnership with LGBTQ movements.

This funder briefing is co-sponsored by Grantmakers for Southern Progress (GSP). 

Featured Speakers:

• Serena Sebring, Blueprint North Carolina
• Rumba Yambu, Intransitive 
• Scot Nakagawa, 22nd Century Initiative 
• Aaron Zimmerman, PFund Foundation

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Funders for LGBTQ Issues invites our valued members to join us on Thursday, June 22nd, 4:00 – 5:30 pm EDT, for a virtual community space with colleagues committed to LGBTQ philanthropy. While we have limited opportunities to gather collectively in person, we strive to create space to gather virtually in the wake of ongoing attacks on transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) communities nationwide.

We hope this virtual community space will offer an opportunity to debrief and share ideas and resources for sustaining long-term movement organizing. We aim to highlight ways Funders for LGBTQ Issues and our member community can support each other’s work and well-being.

If you need clarification on you or your institution’s membership status, please email our Membership Engagement Officer, Amara Reese-Hansell.

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Join Funders for LGBTQ Issues to celebrate the release of our 2021 Tracking Report, and be in powerful conversation with LGBTQ philanthropic leaders. In a moment where transgender and gender non-conforming communities continue to be utilized as a divisive wedge issue to attack bodily autonomy, philanthropy has a critical role in resourcing intersectional movement building.

Only a few weeks ago, we witnessed Montana House Republicans bar and censure State Representative Zooey Zephyr, the state’s first openly trans lawmaker, for simply speaking out against anti-TGNC legislation. Texas Speaker Dade Phelan has openly refused to speak with TGNC youth and their parents about the impact anti-trans bills have on their lives. These actions underscore the growing fragility of US democratic systems. As anti-TGNC and anti-drag legislation continue to proliferate – with close to 500 bills filed in state legislatures to date, our tracking report finds that philanthropic investment in LGBTQ communities continues to be deeply outpaced by need. Movement organizers on the frontlines are holding beautiful resistance work, LGBTQ communities are in dire crisis. We are calling on philanthropy to radically increase its investment in intersectional movements. This conversation invites the sector to consider how philanthropy can best partner with LGBTQ movements to resource frontline organizing and change work.

Lunch will be provided for those attending in person. Streaming will be available for those attending virtually.

Speakers:

Gabriel Foster, Trans Justice Funding Project

Joy Chia, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice

Nicky McIntyre, Foundation for a Just Society

Saida Agostini-Bostic, Funders for LGBTQ Issues

If you have any questions about this event, please email April Bethea, Director of External Affairs: at [email protected].

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