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This June marks 50 years since the Stonewall Riots in New York City thrust the LGBTQ people into the national spotlight and ignited our modern LGBTQ rights movement. The Stonewall Riots, led by trans women of color, helped bring attention to both the marginalization of LGBTQ people and the informal organizing LGBTQ people had long been doing across the country. In the intervening years since the riots, LGBTQ people experienced some of the deepest lows imaginable during the HIV/AIDS crisis and also achieved some incredible wins, from unprecedented media visibility to the freedom to marry. However, as so many in […]

For more than a decade, we have tracked and analyzed funding for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) issues. Our annual tracking report raises the visibility of LGBTQ issues in philanthropy by highlighting funding trends over time and helping grantmakers identify opportunities, gaps, and partners to strengthen their work in strategic ways. Each summer, we launch an appeal for LGBTQ grantmaking data, asking foundationsto help us produce the most accurate research possible. If your foundation has made any grants supporting organizations or programs that specifically focus on an LGBTQ issue in the calendar-year 2018, we would love to hear from […]