As we look back on New York State’s 2022 legislative session, one thing is clear: LGBTQ+ New Yorkers won some major victories, and we couldn’t have done it without you. Your advocacy and support helped to:

•  Secure funding for the LGBT Health & Human Services Network, ensuring that 70 organizations can continue to provide free and low-cost, affirming health care services to LGBTQ+ people statewide. 
•  Create the Lorena Borjas Transgender & Nonbinary Wellness and Equity Fund, to support organizations led by trans, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary (TGNCNB) individuals and to help foster new leadership through capacity building. This makes New York only the second state in all of the U.S. to have a fund of this kind. 

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You also helped us make significant progress, even with bills that didn’t pass. Your in-person and virtual outreach to lawmakers drew attention to the protection that TGNCNB people need while they are incarcerated.

Your efforts laid the groundwork for enshrining these protections in law with the Gender Identity Respect, Dignity, and Safety Act (GIRDS). Raising awareness of the need for GIRDS and how it would help to improve our community’s quality of life makes it much more likely for the bill to pass next year.

We’re proud of these wins, but we’re not done yet. In an election year, with a hostile Supreme Court, and a wave of state bills attacking trans existence and voting rights, we need everyone’s help to ensure New York State can remain a progressive leader and become an even more affirming home to LGBTQ+ people. Join the fight. 
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Thanks for all you do,

​​Trevon Mayers
Senior Director of Advocacy & Community Engagement

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Relive the energy of The Center’s Juneteenth celebration with these vibrant photos. We had a wonderful time supporting Black LGBTQ+ artists, storytellers, businesses, and vendors alongside all of you.

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The Center strives to motivate thousands of New Yorkers to get to the polls and—through the power of their vote—protect our community. With so much at stake, our ongoing efforts to help LGBTQ+ people lead healthy and successful lives requires everyone to show up any way they can. A donation to The Center helps sustain our advocacy work today, tomorrow, and for election cycles to come.