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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.
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.
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.
Protect Gender-Affirming Care in California
Gender-affirming care is legal and protected in California. Access to this care is still collapsing because of escalating federal threats and growing uncertainty for providers. Clinics are closing. Patients are being turned away. Transgender youth are losing access to medically necessary care right now. California has the power to stop this, but state leaders must act immediately.
We are calling for a $26 million one-time Gender-Affirming Fund investment to protect access to gender-affirming care. This funding would allow the California Department of Health Care Services to create a state-based, Medi-Cal pathway for gender affirming care and stabilize providers before more clinics are forced to close.
Don't Stop CA's Progress on Homelessness!
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.
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 and dedicate 25% of that to youth homelessness.
