LGBTQ Charities to Support for ‘Giving Tuesday’ and Beyond
If you’re feeling generous and want to give back to the community, we have a few travel-related organizations that always need your support, not just for Giving Tuesday or during the holiday season. Consider supporting one or more of these organizations because your donations will help continue their good work in the LGBTQIA+ community.
Rainbow Railroad
This global not-for-profit organization helps LGBTQI+ people who face persecution based on their sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics. In a time when there are more displaced people than ever before, LGBTQI+ people are uniquely vulnerable due to systemic, state-enable homophobia and transphobia. These factors either displace them in their own country or prevent them from escaping harm. Each year, the organization receives more than 3,000 requests for help from people whose lives are in danger.
Since 2006 when it was founded, Rainbow Railroad has helped more than 1,600 LGBTQI+ individuals find safety through emergency relocation and other forms of assistance. The volunteer-run organization consists of a diverse group of LGBTQI+ activists and human rights defenders who want to do more than just address the levels of violence that our community faces worldwide. The organization’s name harkens back to the Underground Railroad – a network of activists in the 19th century, who assisted Black Americans escape enslavement in the South.
Click here to donate to Rainbow Railroad.
GiveOut
Based in the UK, this award-winning international LGBTQI+ community foundation enables the community and our allies to give in one place to support LGBTQI+ activism worldwide. Around the globe, courageous activists are doing vital work to protect our communities and improve the lives of LGBTQI people, but they lack the resources and funding is fragile, especially in the Global South and East. LGBTQI+ groups receive a tiny fraction of international development aid – just 4 pounds ($5.32) in every £100 ($133) awarded by governments.
So, the purpose of GiveOut is to help address this urgent need by providing a platform for our supporters to give in one place to fund LGBTQI+ human rights activism around the world. The organization identifies pioneering groups to support through a rigorous process of consultation, due diligence, and vetting, guided by its Grant-making Advisory Panel and governed by its Board of Trustees.
The donations received are pooled to provide grants to LGBTQI+ organizations, ensuring they have more of the resources they need to defend our communities, tackle inequality, and campaign for lasting change.
Click here to donate to GiveOut.
The Black Trans Travel Fund
This grassroots, Black trans-led Collective, provides Black transgender women with financial and material resources needed to remove barriers and to access safe travel options. Launched in New York City in 2019, the Black Trans Travel Fund (BTTF) was created out of direct response to the relentless and unacceptable transphobic violence Black transgendered women across the country have been experiencing.
Since it first developed, the BTTF has been working to provide Black transgendered women with the resources needed to be able to self-determine and access safer alternatives to travel, where they feel less likely to experience verbal harassment or physical harm. BTTF has expanded to support women in New Jersey as well as other Black trans-led programs, collectives, and organizations each month. They have already redistributed over $150,000 to Black trans women in need, and the organization is working to expand its programs to other states and counties soon!
Click here to donate to the Black Trans Travel Fund.
If you’re looking for other LGBTQ+ organizations to support on #GivingTuesday and throughout the year, check out our sister website, Queer Forty, for non-travel organizations that need your support, too.
