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Policy & Advocacy

Domestic Violence Awareness Month: Supporting LGBTQ+ Survivors Through Education and Resources

October marks Domestic Violence Awareness Month, a critical time to spotlight an urgent and often overlooked crisis within the LGBTQ+ community: intimate partner violence (IPV). At the Los Angeles LGBT Center, we are deeply committed to addressing and ending intimate partner violence through two vital programs: Survivor Services and the National LGBTQ Institute on Intimate […]
  ·  Amanda Gould
Policy & Advocacy, Transgender Stories

Hundreds Gather Outside of CHLA to Protest Closure of Trans Youth Gender Clinic

Since June, the Center alongside partners—Lambda Legal, Gender Justice LA (GJLA), FLUX, TransLatin@ Coalition, and REACH LA—gathered community members, advocates, and allies in a series of weekly rallies to demand that Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) reverse its decision to shut down its Center for Transyouth Health and Development and Gender-Affirming Care surgical program.  The […]
  ·  Reid Nakamura
Health & Wellness, Policy & Advocacy

The Center Launches Weekly Rallies to Demand CHLA Restore Gender-Affirming Care

The Los Angeles LGBT Center, in partnership with Lambda Legal, Gender Justice LA, FLUX, the TransLatin@ Coalition, REACH LA, and others, is leading weekly rallies outside Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) to demand the hospital reverse its decision to permanently close its gender clinic on July 22.  Join us every Thursday evening through July 17 […]
  ·  Kyle Pavia
Policy & Advocacy

The Center Joins LGBTQ+ Groups Demanding Return of Wrongfully Deported Venezuelan Man

On Wednesday, the Los Angeles LGBT Center joined a coalition of California-based LGBTQ+ advocacy groups and community members at a press conference demanding the safe return of Andry José Hernández Romero—a 31-year-old Venezuelan asylum-seeker who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration earlier this year. “Andry came to this country believing in […]
  ·  Reid Nakamura
Policy & Advocacy

Los Angeles LGBT Center Mobilizes Statewide Advocacy Day to Defend LGBTQ+ Rights and Healthcare Access

Amid the smoldering aftermath of the Los Angeles Fires and growing fears over future funding losses, the Center’s Advocacy Day is shining a spotlight on the very real consequences of political inaction—from shuttered clinics to the silencing of queer and trans voices across the country. Through legislative meetings, public rallies, and visible grassroots engagement, the […]
  ·  Reid Nakamura
Sacramento California outside the capital building
Policy & Advocacy

“Trans Youth Deserve Care”: Hundreds Rally Against CHLA Decision to Halt Gender-Affirming Care

Not even rain could stop hundreds from gathering outside Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) on Thursday evening in a powerful demonstration against the hospital’s decision to halt gender-affirming care for new patients under 19. LA city councilmembers, advocates, medical professionals, parents, and community leaders stood together to send a clear message: Transgender youth deserve access […]
  ·  Reid Nakamura
U.S. Representative Sydney Kamlager-Dove and Los Angeles LGBT Center CEO Joe Hollendoner.
Policy & Advocacy

The Center Teams with Southwestern Law School to Launch Legal Clinic Assisting LGBTQ+ Asylum-Seekers

The Los Angeles LGBT Center has teamed with Southwestern Law School to launch the Asylum Law Clinic, a new initiative to train the next generation of lawyers to dismantle barriers to asylum. The program will enlist four Southwestern Law School students to assist with asylum applications and other legal matters, including employment authorization documents, travel […]
  ·  Reid Nakamura
Asylum Law Clinic
May Day
LA County on Human Relations and The TransLatin@ Coalition Press Conference Condemning Bomb Threats and Hate Mail received.
Sacramento California outside the capital building
U.S. Senate candidates at the Los Angeles LGBT Center for a forum on LGBTQ+ issues
Glendale Teachers Association press conference
State AG Visit - Los Angeles LGBT Center
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