The Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Leadership LAB (Learn Act Build) organizes and empowers communities to defeat anti-LGBT prejudice locally, supported by a volunteer corps of hundreds; nationally by providing assistance to LGBT-related campaigns throughout the country; and globally, by mentoring activists for LGBT equality from around the world. Learn more at the Leadership LAB website.
Our Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) is working to counter the influence of anti-LGBT activists primarily in the world’s most populous country, China, and to advance freedoms for LGBT people there by identifying the country’s best and brightest activists and hosting them for five-week long internships at the Center. In addition, the ELP has also worked with activists from other parts of the world, such as from Armenia, El Salvador, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, and Poland.