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,...
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,...
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,...
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
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...
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...
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
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
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...
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
Equality Florida is the largest civil rights organization dedicated to securing full equality for Florida’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community. We’re changing Florida through lobbying, grassroots organizing, education, and coalition building — so that no one suffers harassment or discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.
Come Out With Pride
The mission of Come Out With Pride Orlando is to cultivate visibility, authenticity, and acceptance by curating inclusive experiences that celebrate and embody the spirit of queer resilience.
Orlando Youth Alliance
Since 1990, the Orlando Youth Alliance (OYA) has been providing safe spaces for LGBTQ youth in Central Florida. Their coverage area includes metro Orlando, but also spans out to include the rural counties surrounding Orlando. In 2008, they created a chapter in Lakeland, Florida (Polk County). OYA oversees the highly successful Polk Pride Festival which attracts over 6,000 people annually.
Southern Legal Counsel
Southern Legal Counsel, Inc. (SLC) is a Florida statewide not-for-profit public interest law firm that is committed to the ideal of equal justice for all and the attainment of basic human and civil rights. SLC developed its Transgender Rights Initiative to fill a gap in access to justice for Florida’s transgender community, including in areas such as access to legal authenticity, access to safe and affirming school and work environments, access to medically necessary healthcare, and more. SLC’s Trans Rights Initiative protects the rights of Florida’s LGBTQ+ community utilizing federal impact litigation, policy advocacy, and individual representation. SLC has litigated many of the recent federal cases against the state of Florida, and has successfully overturned the Medicaid Ban on gender-affirming care (Dekker v. Weida); permanently enjoined the medical care bans for minors and restrictions for adults created by SB 254 and the Boards of Medicine rules (Doe v. Ladapo); preliminarily enjoined the pronoun ban for transgender teachers in Florida’s public schools; and more.
Joy Metropolitan Community Church
Joy MCC is the spiritual home to a multi-cultural, inclusive, and diverse community of faith. We are rooted in the life, ministry, and teachings of Jesus. We experience a vibrant spirituality that is positive, practical, and progressive. We’ve always been a totally open and affirming church. We welcome the full participation of people of allraces, cultures, ages, abilities, spiritual backgrounds, sexual orientations, and gender identities. We share a deep sense of community where our diversity is celebrated, not merely tolerated.
ACLU of Florida
The mission of the ACLU of Florida is to protect, defend, strengthen, and promote the constitutional rights and liberties of all people in Florida. We envision a fair and just Florida, where all people are free, equal under the law, and live with dignity.
QLatinx
QLatinx is a grassroots community-led racial, social, and gender justice organization dedicated to the advancement and empowerment of Orlando’s LGBTQ+ Latinx community. QLatinx is committed to building a supportive infrastructure, addressing inequity, promoting inclusionary QLatinx aims to deepen the political consciousness of LGBTQ+ and Latinx individuals about intersections and complexities of institutional, interpersonal, and internalized forms of oppression. This work includes empowering local LGBTQ+ leadership to become cognizant of gender and racial inequities with the LGBTQ+ community and in relation to cisgender populations.
Community Spring
Community Spring is a grassroots organization dedicated to economic justice. The two pillars of our work are income and power: income to meet people’s needs and power to reshape the systems that keep them down.
Pride Community Center of North Central Florida
The Pride Community Center of North Central Florida offers safe spaces, resources, services and events to foster and enhance the well-being and visibility of LGBTQ+ people in North Central Florida. Visibility changes minds. Here in North Central Florida, LGBTQ+ people deserve access to safe spaces where they can not only express themselves, but where they can also be a part of a community. Come join us.
