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The Center advocates for comprehensive healthcare and ending homelessness while fighting against anti-LGBTQ policies across the country. We do this by organizing grassroots community leaders (like yourself) to phone bank, canvass, and rally for affirming LGBTQ policies.
Demand an End to ICE Violence in Our Communities
The recent shooting deaths of Americans by ICE agents have sparked national outrage and widespread fear. The victims include Keith Porter Jr., a Black father of two in Los Angeles, as well as Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse, and Renee Good, a queer woman and mother, in Minneapolis. These three are among the latest known victims of ICE violence, with many more remaining unidentified.
ICE has used violence to rule with impunity in its deportation agenda, leaving many — including U.S. citizens — without due process. Basic constitutional rights are not guaranteed anymore. This isn’t just about LGBTQ+ immigrants and immigration, this is about a human rights crisis that threatens the safety of us all.
We will not allow the terror to continue. Send a strong message to elected officials who represent L.A. County and Gov. Gavin Newsom: demand due process from the federal government, stand up for human rights, and take action to stop ICE from terrorizing our communities.
Your voice is urgently needed. Take action today.
Fund HHAP and Youth Emergency Pilot Programs!
California is making enormous progress on homelessness compared to other states – in 2024, homelessness increased by just 3% across the state, while rising 24% in the rest of the country. Unsheltered homelessness has decreased, and youth homelessness is down 24%, compared to double digit increases nationally. The Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention (HHAP) program has been a key driver of this progress.
For seven years, HHAP has funded shelters, rental assistance, homeless outreach, and prevention at the local level. From 2023 to mid-2025, HHAP grantees helped more than 90,000 people move from homelessness to permanent housing, including many youth, thanks to HHAP’s funding set aside for transition-age youth. HHAP is crucial to addressing the crisis of homelessness of LGBTQ youth, who make up 40% of all unhoused youth due to factors like family rejection.
Unfortunately, funding is not guaranteed this year and our elected officials need to feel the pressure. We are asking our elected officials to commit $1 billion to HHAP this year, as well as $75 million for youth-specific programs. Send a message to CA legislators today!
Protect LGBTQ Community Centers
LGBTQ community centers are lifelines. They provide affirming health care, mental health support, housing assistance, HIV services, legal aid, and safe spaces for LGBTQ youth, seniors, transgender people, and LGBTQ people of color across California. Right now, those lifelines are at risk.
Across the country, LGBTQ rights are under coordinated attack. Federal funding threats and policy rollbacks are already destabilizing the very programs our communities rely on to survive and thrive. Without decisive action, essential services could disappear when they are needed most.
California has a chance to lead.
The proposed LGBTQ Community Center Fund would invest $35 million in the 2026-2027 CA State budget to strengthen and protect LGBTQ community centers statewide. This funding would stabilize critical services, improve safety and security, expand culturally competent care, and ensure LGBTQ Californians are not left behind.
Lawmakers need to hear from you. By sending a message to your elected officials today, you can help secure this investment and protect care, dignity, and safety for LGBTQ communities across the state.
Five minutes. One email. Real impact.
Take action now. Send your message and stand up for our communities.
Hospital Conditions of Participation Proposed Rule
This proposed rule seeks to require hospitals to cease providing transition-related care to individuals younger than 18 in order to maintain their federal Medicaid funding.
These rules are an aggressive use of executive power to curtail access to health care that the Trump administration dislikes. Finalizing these rules as they currently stand will lead to a chilling effect for providers of transgender health care and a further reduction in access to this care across the country. The proposed rules could lead to hospitals and providers stopping care of trans youth to maintain their federal funding and forcing families to pay for this care out of pocket. The proposed rules will also decrease health care access for trans people, a population that already faces barriers in affordability and insurance coverage.
We need your help to assist submitting comments directly to the Federal Register to oppose these rules by February 17.
Instructions:
– Click on “Submit Public Comment” to be redirected to the Federal Register webpage.
– Click on the green “Submit a Public Comment” button beneath the rule title.
– Type your comment.
– Enter your email address, if you choose to provide it (you can opt out of giving your email).
– Select whether you are an individual, organization (comment will be public) or anonymous (comment will not be public).
– Submit your comment.
Protect Trans and Intersex Youth
Two dangerous and discriminatory bills—H.R. 3492 and H.R. 498—have been introduced that would criminalize doctors and block access to medically necessary health care for transgender and intersex youth.
These bills put politicians between families and doctors, threaten lifesaving care, and disproportionately harm low income families by cutting off Medicaid coverage. We cannot allow this to happen.
Tell your Representative to vote NO on H.R. 3492 and H.R. 498 and to stand for health, dignity, and autonomy for all young people.
Stop LA County’s $216 Million Cut to Homeless Services!
Last year, Los Angeles County voters took a historic step by approving a permanent sales tax to finally confront the homelessness crisis. Yet today—despite that mandate—the County is proposing more than $200 million in cuts to homeless services next fiscal year.
We cannot allow these services to be dismantled. Send a strong message to LA County right now: honor the will of the voters, stand up for homeless Angelenos, and reverse these cuts immediately.
