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Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance #TDOR, a day to honor the hundreds of transgender people whose lives were lost to anti-transgender violence, learn about the violence affecting the transgender community, and take action in defense of trans life.  Our recent research examining philanthropic support for LGBTQ Black communities highlighted the incredible violence trans people, and Black trans women in particular, continue to face. Yet Black trans and gender-nonconforming people collectively received <1% of all funding for LGBTQ issues in 2018. During our Supporting LGBTQ Black Communities: Philanthropy’s Role in Intersectional Movements webinar earlier this week, Bré Rivera, Program Fellow […]

Funders for LGBTQ Issues joins the nation in mourning the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a luminary defender of women’s rights, reproductive freedom, and LGBTQ equality.  Ginsburg was a leading architect of the modern legal battle for women’s rights. Since her appointment and confirmation to the United States Supreme Court in 1993, Justice Ginsburg was a moral compass on the Court and provided a critical voice for fairness and justice. Notably, she joined the majority on every decision in support of LGBTQ rights from the court and played a central role advancing the rights of LGBTQ people […]