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Feminists Around the World: Even More LGBTQ+ Organizations · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is any and Samantha, I'm welcome to stuff
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  Speaker 1: I never told you, a production of by her radio.
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  Speaker 2: And as we wind down in this Pride month of
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, we decided that we wanted to add
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  Speaker 2: more organizations that are fighting for queer rights around the
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  Speaker 2: world for our activists around the world. And actually it
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  Speaker 2: was from real Simple dot com. They had a whole
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  Speaker 2: list and I was actually like, you know what with
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  Speaker 2: that kind of big publication and it was a twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five article. I was very surprised that they would
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  Speaker 2: do that because Real Simple, you know, it's not your
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  Speaker 2: typical we don't talk about it when it comes to activism, right,
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  Speaker 2: but shout out to realsimple dot com. All right, we
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  Speaker 2: did something and they'll be able. They put some good
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  Speaker 2: organizations out there. So these are the ones that we're sharing.
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  Speaker 2: So we're gonna start with SAGE, which is a nonprofit
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  Speaker 2: that works through the lives of the older LGBTQIA people
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  Speaker 2: and community. And this is from their site. It says
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  Speaker 2: for forty plus years, SAGE has worked tirelessly on behalf
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  Speaker 2: of LGBTQ plus older people, building off the momentum of
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  Speaker 2: the Stone Wall Uprising and the emerging LGBTQ plus civil
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  Speaker 2: rights movements. A group of activists came together to ensure
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  Speaker 2: that LGBTQ plus older people could age with respect and dignity.
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  Speaker 2: SAGE formed a network of support for LGBTQ plus elders
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  Speaker 2: that still going and growing today. SAGE is more than
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  Speaker 2: just an organization, is a movement of loving, caring activists
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  Speaker 2: dedicated to providing advocacy, services, and support to the older
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  Speaker 2: members of the LGBTQ plus community. LGBTQ plus elders fought
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  Speaker 2: and still fight for our rights, and we will never
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  Speaker 2: stop fighting for theirs. So it's a really cool organization
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  Speaker 2: because I don't think we talk about them enough. We've
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  Speaker 2: talked about the fact that they've been here, you know,
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  Speaker 2: all queer people have been here and will always be here,
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  Speaker 2: but for the services and true activism and helping them
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  Speaker 2: as they become older and older, as we become older
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  Speaker 2: and older, because we're gonna need this to one day.
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  Speaker 2: And some of the services they offer include housing, mental health,
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  Speaker 2: HIV and aging policy action. They do long term care
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  Speaker 2: and overall advocacy for the aging queer community. Again, this
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  Speaker 2: is from their page SAGEUSA dot org. This is their
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  Speaker 2: mission statement and core values. SAGE leads and addressing issues
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  Speaker 2: related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning and
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  Speaker 2: other self identifying members of the LGBTQ plus aging community.
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  Speaker 2: In partnership with its constituents and allies, SAGE works to
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  Speaker 2: achieve a high quality of life for LGBTQ plus older people,
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  Speaker 2: supports and advocates for their rights, fosters a greater understanding
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  Speaker 2: of aging in all communities, and promotes positive images of
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  Speaker 2: the LGBTQ plus life in later years. And then some
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  Speaker 2: of the core values they list off are LGBTQ plus
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  Speaker 2: older voices come first, diversity, equity, collaborative teamwork in partnership,
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  Speaker 2: respect and compassion, innovation, and top performances in diverse marketplaces.
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  Speaker 2: And if you go to their site, they have a
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  Speaker 2: list of allies that they work with and other nonprofits
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  Speaker 2: that they work with hand in hand in order to
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  Speaker 2: get these types of services for the aging community.
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  Speaker 1: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we talk about them enough. So there's that.
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  Speaker 2: And then for another one, we have the Alifornycenter dot org.
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  Speaker 2: And the Ali Forny Center was founded in honor of
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  Speaker 2: Ali Forni, a gender non conforming youth who was unhoused
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  Speaker 2: at the age of thirteen. So here's a bit of
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  Speaker 2: their backstory from Alifornycenter dot org. They write, Ali Forni
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  Speaker 2: was a homeless gender non conforming youth who was forced
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  Speaker 2: to live on the streets at the age of thirteen.
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  Speaker 2: Ali resorted to street work and drug used to survive.
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  Speaker 2: They kept a close group of friends and educated anyone
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  Speaker 2: they encountered about HIV prevention and safe sex. Ali took
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  Speaker 2: pride in helping others like them. Ali was well known
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  Speaker 2: by the police because they aggressively advocated that the NYPD
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  Speaker 2: investigate a series of murders of other homeless quaer youth
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  Speaker 2: they had befriended. Carl Ciciliano, AFC's founder met Ali while
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  Speaker 2: working as the director of a homeless youth drop in
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  Speaker 2: center where Ali was seventeen. In December of nineteen ninety seven,
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  Speaker 2: Ali was murdered on the streets. They were twenty two
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  Speaker 2: years old. The tragic death called attention to the atrocious
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  Speaker 2: conditions for homeless LGBTQ plus youth in New York. In
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  Speaker 2: two thousand and two, committed to making the difference in
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  Speaker 2: honoring Ali, Carl founded the Ali Forny Center and in
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  Speaker 2: that they go on to explain exactly what they do.
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  Speaker 2: So they say, quote, the Ali Forny Center houses and
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  Speaker 2: protects homeless, at risk and LGBTQ plus youth living on
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  Speaker 2: the streets of New York. Like Ali, our street Outreach
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  Speaker 2: team educates teens about safe sex and HIV prevention. In
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  Speaker 2: our time, we have grown to provide medical and mental
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  Speaker 2: health services. We also provide volunteer mentors, educational and career programs,
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  Speaker 2: life skills training, and much more. Our goal is to
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  Speaker 2: not only provide food, water, and shelter. Our goal is
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  Speaker 2: to transform the lives of these young people so that
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  Speaker 2: they may reclaim their lives and never live on the
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  Speaker 2: streets again. Ali's murder has never been brought to justice. However,
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  Speaker 2: the spirit of Ali continues to live in our work
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  Speaker 2: in each of the lives we change. So yeah, they
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  Speaker 2: work to protect the LGBTQ plus youth and empower them
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  Speaker 2: with resources and tools to be able to live out independently.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the resources and services include emergency housing programs,
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  Speaker 2: job education and readiness programs, health services, and so much more.
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  Speaker 2: And they're accessible twenty four to seven, so they do
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  Speaker 2: a lot of their work and you can go to
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  Speaker 2: their site to see how you can help support this organization. Again,
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  Speaker 2: we know we've talked about it often how the house
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  Speaker 2: of the situation for especially LGBTQ plus youth has gotten really
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  Speaker 2: bad and now with the administration the way it is,
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  Speaker 2: no one's willing to help them except for those who
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  Speaker 2: are doing the programs like this, so definitely wanted to
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  Speaker 2: look out for and then, lastly but not least, because
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  Speaker 2: we know there's tons of them out there. That's why
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  Speaker 2: we keep having more and more episodes because there's so many.
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  Speaker 2: We have the lgbtqfund dot org or the LGBTQ Freedom
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  Speaker 2: Fund and this is from their site. LGBTQ Freedom Fund
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  Speaker 2: pays bill to secure the safety and liberty of individuals
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  Speaker 2: in jailed and immigration detention. We also work to address
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  Speaker 2: the disproportionately high rate and harm of geling on LGBTQ
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  Speaker 2: plus individuals. A tangle of discrimination and poverty feels this
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  Speaker 2: program and on their site they give a lot of
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  Speaker 2: information in regards to the mass incarceration of the LGBTQIA
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  Speaker 2: population and they work hard to assist the community throughout
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  Speaker 2: the US, understanding the greater risks again of those incarcerated
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  Speaker 2: being from the queer community. And listen to both of
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  Speaker 2: our episodes with Raquel Willis where we talk about how
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  Speaker 2: bad this really is. And here's some more information from
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  Speaker 2: their site. LGBTQ Freedom Fund fights the criminalization of LGBTQ folks,
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  Speaker 2: who are much more likely in the US to be
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  Speaker 2: incarcerated than other individuals. We work as an advocacy, education
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  Speaker 2: and grant make an outfit to mobilize the public and
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  Speaker 2: policymakers to address the disproportionate impact of incarceration on LGBTQ individuals.
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  Speaker 2: This disparity is precipitated by poverty and discrimination in school, employment, policing, family,
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  Speaker 2: and society at large. The sweep of criminalization is extraordinary
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  Speaker 2: at some point in their lives. Seventy percent of low
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  Speaker 2: income LGBTQ people are homeless by some estimates, and half
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  Speaker 2: of homeless people will be incarcerated. So their website is
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  Speaker 2: very succainting, like there's not a lot, it's minimal, but
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  Speaker 2: it's very impactful. You should go and check them out there.
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  Speaker 2: You can find out how to support or even volunteer
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  Speaker 2: with them again. This is lgbtqfund dot org and definitely
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  Speaker 2: someone to look out for and to support. They do
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  Speaker 2: work with immigration as well in migrants and their basis
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  Speaker 2: is to provide bail, which is a huge help because
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  Speaker 2: we know a lot of people are incarcerated and in
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  Speaker 2: jail for life a periods of time with no due
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  Speaker 2: process because they can't make bell. So just the thing
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  Speaker 2: to look into.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, and listeners. As always, please let us know
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  Speaker 1: if you work with any of these organizations, or you
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