ACT NOW: Fund LGBTQ Centers
Take Action – Join us in urging the funding for the LGBTQ Community Center Fund and gender-affirming care—calling on other elected officials to lead during this difficult time for the LGBTQ+ community.
Protecting LGBTQ+ Care Through California’s State Budget
Last month, representatives from over 40 LGBTQ+ organizations throughout our state directly met with and lobbied state legislators on the importance of the LGBTQ Community Center Fund and other key budget asks supporting the LGBTQ+ community. This included the $26 million Gender-Affirming Care Fund, which would create a mechanism in California to establish a state-funded billing system that both protects clinics and providers of gender-affirming care from potential federal funding bans and ensures they can continue to bill for services, with an accompanying financial appropriation to sustain access.
The California LGBTQ Caucus has added both the LGBTQ Community Center Fund and the Gender-Affirming Care Fund to their budget priorities for the year, and we look forward to continuing to work with them and our coalition partners to see these asks reflected in the governor’s final budget that will be released next month.
LGBTQ+ community centers are lifelines across California, providing safety, care, and belonging for people too often pushed to the margins. We are where our community turns in moments of crisis and where lives are stabilized, protected, and saved.
Get Involved
At a moment when LGBTQ+ Californians face escalating federal attacks, funding cuts, and growing threats to their health and safety, your voice has never mattered more. We’re asking you to take one simple action: use this form to email your state representatives and urge them to fully fund the LGBTQ+ Community Center Fund.
What’s at stake:
The proposed LGBTQ+ Community Center Fund is a dedicated $35 million investment that would sustain community centers across California. These centers provide lifesaving services including mental health care, housing support, HIV services, youth and senior programs, legal aid, workforce development, violence prevention, and safe spaces for LGBTQ+ Californians.
Without this investment, centers serving transgender people, LGBTQ+ youth, rural communities, and other underserved Californians will face severe financial strain at the exact moment demand for their services is rising.
The deadline is June 15th
California’s final budget decisions will be made by June 15, and lawmakers need to hear from constituents right now.
Send a message to Governor Gavin Newsom urging him to:
- Fully fund the $35 million LGBTQ+ Community Center Fund through the General Fund
- Fully appropriate the End the Epidemics proposal from the ADAP special fund as originally intended
