This infographic, produced in partnership with the Schott Foundation for Public Education, highlights the challenges facing LGBTQ students and analyzes trends, gaps, and opportunities in funding for LGBTQ education issues. The infographic finds: More than 6 in 10 LGBTQ students experience discriminatory policies or practices at school. While LGBTQ youth make up 7-9 percent of youth nationwide, they account for 20 percent of all youth in juvenile justice facilities (and 85 percent of them are youth of color). Funding for LGBTQ education and safe schools has fluctuated over the past five years, but has never exceeded $9 million […]
The Out in the South Fund continues its work of supporting and building sustainable LGBTQ funds led by and for LGBTQ Southerners and shaped by a commitment to racial and gender justice. This strategy is a response to the decades of underfunding of Southern LGBTQ communities and is designed to build long-term resources for a healthy movement ecosystem of LGBTQ organizations rooted in the South. The Fund recently held its third grantee convening and is currently in the process of awarding its fourth round of grants. Earlier this summer, Out in the South Fund grantees gathered in Durham for our […]