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The queer tradition of mutual aid lasts all year, but today is the annual Giving Tuesday, which is meant to "encourage people to do good," per the observance's official website. Giving Tuesday, which falls on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving each year, was established in 2012 by New York's 92nd Street Y in partnership with the United Nations Foundation, and focuses mainly on charitable giving.

It's important to remember, however, that mutual aid is different from charity and is grounded in radical traditions. Trans activist Dean Spade, for instance, defines mutual aid as "a form of political participation in which people take responsibility for caring for one another and changing political conditions, not just through symbolic acts or putting pressure on their representatives in government but by actually building new social relations that are more survivable."

In other words, you know that joke about passing around the same $20 to people who need it? That's (a very simplified form of) mutual aid.

If you're feeling particularly giving today, here are some opportunities for you to get in the spirit by donating to worthy queer causes - or to accept help if you need it. This is by no means an exhaustive list and there are doubtlessly countless opportunities for mutual aid in your local community, but below are some organizations doing amazing work to get you started.

This project began as a GoFundMe campaign, created by Atlanta-based photographer Jesse Pratt López in December 2019. The campaign has raised over $2 million for permanent housing and other resources for Atlanta-based trans people since, especially Black trans women, and partnered with other local organizations to officially become the Trans Housing Coalition in August.

López's work, as with most mutual aid projects, is grounded in lived experience. "As a Trans woman myself who has experienced temporary homelessness, I realized that I had never met another Trans woman who hasn't dealt with housing insecurity and who didn't have to do sex work to survive at some point," López writes on the Trans Housing Coalition site.

New York-based Third Wave Fund is a gender justice organization that directly supports the work of grassroots organizers and up-and-coming nonprofits. The organization is also unique in that it is led by and for women of color, LGBTQ+ people, intersex people, and sex workers who are under 35 years old. According to its Twitter, Third Wave Fund has provided $720,000 in rapid response funds to BIPOC-led organizations in just eight months, including the Central Arkansas Harm Reduction Project, Black Trans Femmes in the Arts Collective, and the Minnesota Healing Justice Network.

Funds can be directed toward the Sex Workers Giving Circle, which is housed under Third Wave Fund and was one of the first sources of funding for the Black trans led-G.L.I.T.S Inc.

Remember when parties were a thing? For the Gworls, a New York-based collective run by Black trans artists Asanni Armon and Maahd, used to throw parties that raised funds for the needs of Black trans people, specifically rent, gender-affirming surgery, and other medical-related needs. While parties are obviously on pause for now, For the Gworls has been collecting and disbursing funds throughout the pandemic.

Its latest Instagram post notes that new applicants who need rent relief face a waitlist of "about 4 months" before they're able to access funds, while its surgery waitlist is "about 12 months."

Out in the Open is a Vermont-based organization that works throughout northern New England to serve the rural queer population. Rural areas, as its website notes, have been hit especially hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, which was exacerbated by the fact that 2019 was a record year for rural hospital closures, meaning that already strained medical facilities have been stretched to (and beyond) their limits. Additionally, rural areas suffer from a lack of public transportation, as well as rising housing costs as people flee from larger cities due to fears about viral transmission in urban areas.

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5 LGBTQ+ Mutual Aid Funds to Donate to This Giving Tuesday

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The queer tradition of mutual aid lasts all year, but today is the annual Giving Tuesday, which is meant to "encourage people to do good," per the observance's official website. Giving Tuesday, which falls on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving each year, was established in 2012 by New York's 92nd Street Y in partnership with the United Nations Foundation, and focuses mainly on charitable giving.

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Validating and vilifying, triumphant and traumatic. Groundbreaking artists reflect on trans representation in film and TV. Watch trailers & learn more.

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"Probably the best coffee-table book ever created." -Los Angeles Review of Books

"An impassioned photographic tour of an ever-changing, increasingly vocal and insistently resilient LGBTQ community and culture, from nineteenth century ideology to contemporary conversations around intersectionality." -The New York Times

"Meticulous research accompanies indelible images depicting ferocious outrage, glorious celebration, and profound mourning, making this an essential reference for generations to come." -Gay & Lesbian Review

"Carefully curated to present a fresh view of queer history."

"This rich compendium of images, stories, and reflections carries readers into the future of queer liberation." -Publishers Weekly

"A beautiful, crucial, and engaging celebration of the queer community and our history." -Blair Imani, author of Modern HERstory

"More than a history book and more than a collection of photographs, We Are Everywhere is a chance to experience the queer past in all its complicated shades... Riemer and Brown show us the radicals, the bisexuals, the gender warriors, the women, the people of color, and the militants who have always led the fight for liberation... We Are Everywhere is both an amazing look at where we've been and an important reminder of where we need to go." -Travon Free, writer and comedian

"[This] important book chronicles the amazing history of queer resistance so that every queer person, young and old, can see their history and know we are everywhere." -Tyler Oakley, activist and author of Binge

"If Riemer and Brown's book proves anything throughout its deeply poignant pages, it's that we all truly need each other." -Daniel Nicoletta, author of LGBT San Francisco

"This book is an essential rewriting of queer history according to our own terms." -Garrard Conley, author of Boy Erased

"We Are Everywhere [is] a topical, timely, and timeless resource. In the book's intersectional showcasing of the under-recognized and the unforgettable, the roots of our activism, anger, and community are more important and profound than ever...queer history comes alive in the pages of this tremendous collection." -Rhys Ernst, filmmaker

"We Are Everywhere is an invaluable brick in the foundation of our collective LGBTQ+ history, and a vivid reminder that queer people have a joyful, complicated, and inspiring history. I am so grateful this book exists." -Dustin Lance Black, activist and filmmaker

"Open this book to any page and there will be something you've never seen, something you've never heard of, or something to fill you with ideas." -Avram Finkelstein, artist, writer, and activist

"These stunning photographs-many never before published-convey the fierce diversity, defiance, sorrow, and joy of queer life across the twentieth century. Along with the lively tour of the last century of LGBTQ politics in the accompanying text, they will change the way you see the queer past." -George Chauncey, author of Gay New York

"We Are Everywhere is a handbook for action, cherishing those who risked so much, and is a living bridge between our communities of the past and present...This is history that reaches into the now with a visual richness that makes memory a living body." -Joan Nestle, co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives

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Good for data on queer youth

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The GLSEN National School Climate Survey* is our flagship report on the school experiences of LGBTQ youth in schools, including the extent of the challenges that they face at school and the school-based resources that support LGBTQ students' well-being. The survey has consistently indicated that specific school-based supports are related to a safer and more inclusive school climate, including: supportive educators, LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum, inclusive and supportive policies, and supportive student clubs, such as Gay-Straight Alliances or Gender and Sexuality Alliances (GSAs).

The full GLSEN 2019 National School Climate Survey report includes information on LGBTQ middle and high school students' experiences, including:

Hearing biased language, from both students and educators

Experiences of harassment and assault

Anti-LGBTQ discrimination

Effects of a hostile school climate on educational outcomes and psychological well-being

The availability and utility of supportive school resources

This report also examines demographic and school differences in students' experiences, and explores LGBTQ students' experiences with GSAs. In addition, this installment of GLSEN's National School Climate Survey also includes an extensive exploration of how school climate has changed since we began conducting this survey, including insights into how racist remarks and harassment, feelings of safety regarding citizenship, gender-based discrimination, and LGBTQ student identities have all changed over time.

* Last updated on November 20th, 2020

View the Webinar!

Stream and share the recording of the 2019 National School Climate Survey webinar! In this webinar, we present new findings from the 2019 NSCS about the school experiences of LGBTQ youth, discuss how school climate has changed over the past twenty years for LGBTQ students since we first began conducting the NSCS, and respond to questions from webinar viewers. Originally broadcast on October 14, 2020.

We have identified several critical topics from the new National School Climate Survey that we are highlighting in a series of infographics and posters. Share these images online or print them, and use them in your classroom or office, when tabling at events, or when meeting with policymakers or school officials.

Past National School Climate Survey Reports

Asian and Pacific Islander LGBTQ Students

Indigenous LGBTQ Students

Gender Non Conforming ​​​​​​​(GNC) Student

LGBTQ Students with ​​​​​​​Disabilities

Twenty years of data about LGBTQ student experiences show that continued investment in supports and resources can make schools safer and more affirming for LGBTQ youth.

New data from the largest-ever survey of LGBTQ students shows homophobic remarks and verbal harassment in school leveling off for the first time in a decade, and victimization based on gender expression increasing.

LGBTQ Students Experience Pervasive Harassment and Discrimination, But School-Based Supports Can Make a Difference

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The full GLSEN 2019 National School Climate Survey report includes information on LGBTQ middle and high school students' experiences, including: Hearing biased language, from both students and educators Experiences of harassment and assault Anti-LGBTQ discrimination Effects of a hostile school climate on educational outcomes and psychological well-being The availability and utility of supportive school resources This report also examines demographic and school differences in students' experiences, and explores LGBTQ students' experiences with GSAs.

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Great resource for learning about queer history in the U.S.

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Bringing our history to life through the voices of the people who lived it.