Queer Love Public Awareness Campaign Launched
Today, the Wanda Alston Foundation and local partners launched the Queer Love Shouldn’t Hurt campaign, a public awareness initiative leading up to LGBTQ+ Domestic Violence Awareness Day, May 28.
LGBT+ Counseling Collaborative Host Fundraiser
The Wanda Alston Foundation joined the LGBT+ Counseling Collaborative & Her Diner on DC News Now to highlight the LGBT+ Counseling Collaborative’s Two-Year Anniversary fundraiser.
DC LGBTQ youth groups face funding ‘crisis’ from Trump anti-trans policies
The D.C. based LGBTQ youth advocacy and support groups SMYAL and the Wanda Alston Foundation, which among other things provide housing for homeless LGBTQ youth, have stated in recent messages to supporters that they face a potential funding “crisis” from Trump administration policies.
In fundraising messages sent to supporters by email, the two groups say Trump’s executive orders threatening to cut off all federal funding for organizations that provide services to transgender people, especially trans youth, could prevent them from providing what they call life-saving services to trans youth as well as all LGBTQ youth in D.C