The LGBTQ TA Center provides no-cost technical assistance and training to seven grantees funded through the California Reducing Disparities Project (CRDP) to implement and evaluate community-based programs that support mental health among California’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer/Questioning populations. Over the course of six years (2016-2022), TA Center staff and consultants will work intensively with the grantees to promote strategic planning, effective implementation, rigorous evaluation, successful scaling-up, and ongoing sustainability.
LGBTQ people continue to turn to the courts to protect them against mistreatment or to overturn laws that target them. This article highlights a history of LGBTQ laws ranging from anti-gay discrimination, protection of gay magazines, anti-transgender employment discrimination, to marriage equality.
California Governor Gavin Newsom officially proclaimed June 2019 as “LGBTQ Pride Month.” It’s a unique time, as this year marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots protest in New York City that inspired Pride celebrations across the world and sparked the LGBTQ rights movement in America. In California, Pride is celebrated to support the LGBTQ community’s right to live their lives out loud – during Pride month and every month.
On June 17, California Gov. Gavin Newsom had the rainbow pride flag raised at the state Capitol for the second time in state history, sending a message of resistance against the Trump administration’s policy forbidding the LGBTQ banner at other government buildings.