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San Francisco Transgender Film Festival

We are thrilled to help sponsor this year’s San Francisco Transgender Film Festival! SFTFF screens films that promote the visibility of transgender and gender variant people and challenge the mainstream media’s negative stereotypes of our communities. They provide opportunities for transgender and gender variant media artists, build community through our film and performance events, and engage our audiences in cross-community dialogue. For more information on the programs and tickets,...

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Horizons Foundation: State of the LGBTQ Movement Panel

Just one week after the election, as the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, and as calls for racial justice ring louder than ever, where are we headed in the LGBTQ movement? Join movement leaders in this important virtual discussion, hosted annually by Horizons Foundation. (Note: this virtual panel will be recorded) Panelists Imani Rupert-Gordon, National Center for Lesbian Rights, Executive DirectorKris Hayashi, Transgender Law Center, Executive DirectorKierra Johnson, The National LGBTQ Task Force,...

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San Francisco Transgender Film Festival

We are thrilled to help sponsor this year’s San Francisco Transgender Film Festival! SFTFF screens films that promote the visibility of transgender and gender variant people and challenge the mainstream media’s negative stereotypes of our communities. They provide opportunities for transgender and gender variant media artists, build community through our film and performance events, and engage our audiences in cross-community dialogue. For more information on the programs and tickets,...

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Palm Springs Pride w/ LesboExpo

We are partnering with Palm Springs LesboExpo for this year’s Palm Springs Pride! Join us and celebrate at the Palm Springs Cultural Center Drive-In for AHEAD OF THE CURVE, EXIST, PERSIST, RESIST, AND THRIVE! For more information, click “More Info” below! More Info

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Thinking Cap Theatre Presents: LACED

Sponsored by the National Center for Lesbian Rights and possibly TCT’s most political play to date, LACED is set on the eve of the 2016 election at a woman-owned, queer bar in Tampa, FL, where a hate crime has just occurred. The play centers on three characters, Minnow (Angelina Lopez de Catledge), Cat (Jordan Patriarca), and Audra (Stephon Duncan), whom audiences first meet amidst the debris of a terrifying incident. Over the course of the play, which alternates between the moments just...

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30 Years After the ADA: An Intersectional Look at What We’ve Done, and Where We Still Need to Go

Moderated by Krystle Shakespeare, Founder of Black Nerds Disabled and Assistant Director at the Jackie Robinson Foundation, in conversation with Vilissa Thompson, Founder of Ramp Your Voice, Keah Brown, Author of “The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me” and “Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance”, and Jaden Fields, Co-Director of Mirror Memoirs and Healthcare worker. Krystle, Vilissa, Keah, and Jaden will be discussing the...

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Openhouse: LGBTQ+ Black Lives Matter Unity Town Hall

Come together to address and heal from anti-Black and systemized oppression. Join Openhouse and an incredible panel that includes NCLR’s Executive Director, Imani Rupert-Gordon, as we center and empower the stories of Black people. Straight allies and White allies are encouraged to attend. Organized by Openhouse’s Leadership Council on Queerness, Race, and Privilege, a member-initiated working group. Reserve Tickets

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Openhouse LGBTQ+ Black Lives Matter Unity Town Hall

Come together to address and heal from anti-Black and systemized oppression. Join Openhouse and an incredible panel that includes NCLR’s Executive Director, Imani Rupert-Gordon, as we center and empower the stories of Black people. Straight allies and White allies are encouraged to attend. Organized by Openhouse’s Leadership Council on Queerness, Race, and Privilege, a member-initiated working group. Reserve Tickets

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Protecting Trans Adults & Children from Legal & Financial Challenges

The Arizona Community Foundation invites you to join us for the upcoming virtual session Protecting Trans Adults & Children from Legal & Financial Challenges, presented by the Kellenberger + Tollefson Center for LGBTQ Philanthropy and the National Center for Lesbian Rights. The session will feature nationally recognized legal expert Asaf Orr, Senior Staff Attorney and the Transgender Youth Project Director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights. Estate...

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Frameline44: Cured

Cured is a riveting documentary that reveals the inspiring efforts of a courageous band of gay and lesbian activists in the 1960s-70s, who challenged the American psychiatric establishment to remove the stigma of mental illness from the medical books, and by extension, to free LGBTQ+ people everywhere. Join us in the Frameline digital screening room, Sun 9/27 at 1pm for the suggested digital viewing! Buy Tickets

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