June 24, 2025 • 8 mins
In honor of Pride month, we highlight more LGBTQ+ organizations doing important work.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is any and Samantha, I'm welcome to stuff
I never told you, a production of by her radio.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And as we wind down in this Pride month of
twenty twenty five, we decided that we wanted to add
more organizations that are fighting for queer rights around the
world for our activists around the world. And actually it
was from real Simple dot com. They had a whole
list and I was actually like, you know what with
that kind of big publication and it was a twenty
twenty five article. I was very surprised that they would
(00:41):
do that because Real Simple, you know, it's not your
typical we don't talk about it when it comes to activism, right,
but shout out to realsimple dot com. All right, we
did something and they'll be able. They put some good
organizations out there. So these are the ones that we're sharing.
So we're gonna start with SAGE, which is a nonprofit
that works through the lives of the older LGBTQIA people
(01:03):
and community. And this is from their site. It says
for forty plus years, SAGE has worked tirelessly on behalf
of LGBTQ plus older people, building off the momentum of
the Stone Wall Uprising and the emerging LGBTQ plus civil
rights movements. A group of activists came together to ensure
that LGBTQ plus older people could age with respect and dignity.
(01:24):
SAGE formed a network of support for LGBTQ plus elders
that still going and growing today. SAGE is more than
just an organization, is a movement of loving, caring activists
dedicated to providing advocacy, services, and support to the older
members of the LGBTQ plus community. LGBTQ plus elders fought
and still fight for our rights, and we will never
(01:47):
stop fighting for theirs. So it's a really cool organization
because I don't think we talk about them enough. We've
talked about the fact that they've been here, you know,
all queer people have been here and will always be here,
but for the services and true activism and helping them
as they become older and older, as we become older
and older, because we're gonna need this to one day.
And some of the services they offer include housing, mental health,
(02:10):
HIV and aging policy action. They do long term care
and overall advocacy for the aging queer community. Again, this
is from their page SAGEUSA dot org. This is their
mission statement and core values. SAGE leads and addressing issues
related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning and
other self identifying members of the LGBTQ plus aging community.
(02:34):
In partnership with its constituents and allies, SAGE works to
achieve a high quality of life for LGBTQ plus older people,
supports and advocates for their rights, fosters a greater understanding
of aging in all communities, and promotes positive images of
the LGBTQ plus life in later years. And then some
of the core values they list off are LGBTQ plus
(02:56):
older voices come first, diversity, equity, collaborative teamwork in partnership,
respect and compassion, innovation, and top performances in diverse marketplaces.
And if you go to their site, they have a
list of allies that they work with and other nonprofits
that they work with hand in hand in order to
get these types of services for the aging community.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I don't think we talk about them enough. So there's that.
And then for another one, we have the Alifornycenter dot org.
And the Ali Forny Center was founded in honor of
Ali Forni, a gender non conforming youth who was unhoused
at the age of thirteen. So here's a bit of
their backstory from Alifornycenter dot org. They write, Ali Forni
(03:38):
was a homeless gender non conforming youth who was forced
to live on the streets at the age of thirteen.
Ali resorted to street work and drug used to survive.
They kept a close group of friends and educated anyone
they encountered about HIV prevention and safe sex. Ali took
pride in helping others like them. Ali was well known
by the police because they aggressively advocated that the NYPD
investigate a series of murders of other homeless quaer youth
(04:01):
they had befriended. Carl Ciciliano, AFC's founder met Ali while
working as the director of a homeless youth drop in
center where Ali was seventeen. In December of nineteen ninety seven,
Ali was murdered on the streets. They were twenty two
years old. The tragic death called attention to the atrocious
conditions for homeless LGBTQ plus youth in New York. In
two thousand and two, committed to making the difference in
(04:23):
honoring Ali, Carl founded the Ali Forny Center and in
that they go on to explain exactly what they do.
So they say, quote, the Ali Forny Center houses and
protects homeless, at risk and LGBTQ plus youth living on
the streets of New York. Like Ali, our street Outreach
team educates teens about safe sex and HIV prevention. In
(04:43):
our time, we have grown to provide medical and mental
health services. We also provide volunteer mentors, educational and career programs,
life skills training, and much more. Our goal is to
not only provide food, water, and shelter. Our goal is
to transform the lives of these young people so that
they may reclaim their lives and never live on the
streets again. Ali's murder has never been brought to justice. However,
(05:05):
the spirit of Ali continues to live in our work
in each of the lives we change. So yeah, they
work to protect the LGBTQ plus youth and empower them
with resources and tools to be able to live out independently.
Some of the resources and services include emergency housing programs,
job education and readiness programs, health services, and so much more.
(05:25):
And they're accessible twenty four to seven, so they do
a lot of their work and you can go to
their site to see how you can help support this organization. Again,
we know we've talked about it often how the house
of the situation for especially LGBTQ plus youth has gotten really
bad and now with the administration the way it is,
no one's willing to help them except for those who
(05:45):
are doing the programs like this, so definitely wanted to
look out for and then, lastly but not least, because
we know there's tons of them out there. That's why
we keep having more and more episodes because there's so many.
We have the lgbtqfund dot org or the LGBTQ Freedom
Fund and this is from their site. LGBTQ Freedom Fund
(06:06):
pays bill to secure the safety and liberty of individuals
in jailed and immigration detention. We also work to address
the disproportionately high rate and harm of geling on LGBTQ
plus individuals. A tangle of discrimination and poverty feels this
program and on their site they give a lot of
information in regards to the mass incarceration of the LGBTQIA
(06:28):
population and they work hard to assist the community throughout
the US, understanding the greater risks again of those incarcerated
being from the queer community. And listen to both of
our episodes with Raquel Willis where we talk about how
bad this really is. And here's some more information from
(06:49):
their site. LGBTQ Freedom Fund fights the criminalization of LGBTQ folks,
who are much more likely in the US to be
incarcerated than other individuals. We work as an advocacy, education
and grant make an outfit to mobilize the public and
policymakers to address the disproportionate impact of incarceration on LGBTQ individuals.
(07:11):
This disparity is precipitated by poverty and discrimination in school, employment, policing, family,
and society at large. The sweep of criminalization is extraordinary
at some point in their lives. Seventy percent of low
income LGBTQ people are homeless by some estimates, and half
of homeless people will be incarcerated. So their website is
(07:31):
very succainting, like there's not a lot, it's minimal, but
it's very impactful. You should go and check them out there.
You can find out how to support or even volunteer
with them again. This is lgbtqfund dot org and definitely
someone to look out for and to support. They do
work with immigration as well in migrants and their basis
(07:52):
is to provide bail, which is a huge help because
we know a lot of people are incarcerated and in
jail for life a periods of time with no due
process because they can't make bell. So just the thing
to look into.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yes, yes, and listeners. As always, please let us know
if you work with any of these organizations, or you
have any other organizations you would like us to shout out.
You can email us at Hello at stuff Whenever Told
You dot com. You can find us on Blue Sky
at mom Stuff podcast, or on Instagram and TikTok at
stuff One Never Told You for us on YouTube, and
we have a book you can get where you get
(08:27):
your books. Thanks as always to our super produced Christine
or executive Cruser and your contributor Joey. Thank you and
thanks to you for listening Stuff One Ever Told Yous
direction by Heart Radio. For more podcast from my Heart Radio,
you can check out the heart Radio app, Apple podcast
wherever you listen to your favorite shows
Hey, this is any and Samantha, I'm welcome to stuff
I never told you, a production of by her radio.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And as we wind down in this Pride month of
twenty twenty five, we decided that we wanted to add
more organizations that are fighting for queer rights around the
world for our activists around the world. And actually it
was from real Simple dot com. They had a whole
list and I was actually like, you know what with
that kind of big publication and it was a twenty
twenty five article. I was very surprised that they would
(00:41):
do that because Real Simple, you know, it's not your
typical we don't talk about it when it comes to activism, right,
but shout out to realsimple dot com. All right, we
did something and they'll be able. They put some good
organizations out there. So these are the ones that we're sharing.
So we're gonna start with SAGE, which is a nonprofit
that works through the lives of the older LGBTQIA people
(01:03):
and community. And this is from their site. It says
for forty plus years, SAGE has worked tirelessly on behalf
of LGBTQ plus older people, building off the momentum of
the Stone Wall Uprising and the emerging LGBTQ plus civil
rights movements. A group of activists came together to ensure
that LGBTQ plus older people could age with respect and dignity.
(01:24):
SAGE formed a network of support for LGBTQ plus elders
that still going and growing today. SAGE is more than
just an organization, is a movement of loving, caring activists
dedicated to providing advocacy, services, and support to the older
members of the LGBTQ plus community. LGBTQ plus elders fought
and still fight for our rights, and we will never
(01:47):
stop fighting for theirs. So it's a really cool organization
because I don't think we talk about them enough. We've
talked about the fact that they've been here, you know,
all queer people have been here and will always be here,
but for the services and true activism and helping them
as they become older and older, as we become older
and older, because we're gonna need this to one day.
And some of the services they offer include housing, mental health,
(02:10):
HIV and aging policy action. They do long term care
and overall advocacy for the aging queer community. Again, this
is from their page SAGEUSA dot org. This is their
mission statement and core values. SAGE leads and addressing issues
related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning and
other self identifying members of the LGBTQ plus aging community.
(02:34):
In partnership with its constituents and allies, SAGE works to
achieve a high quality of life for LGBTQ plus older people,
supports and advocates for their rights, fosters a greater understanding
of aging in all communities, and promotes positive images of
the LGBTQ plus life in later years. And then some
of the core values they list off are LGBTQ plus
(02:56):
older voices come first, diversity, equity, collaborative teamwork in partnership,
respect and compassion, innovation, and top performances in diverse marketplaces.
And if you go to their site, they have a
list of allies that they work with and other nonprofits
that they work with hand in hand in order to
get these types of services for the aging community.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I don't think we talk about them enough. So there's that.
And then for another one, we have the Alifornycenter dot org.
And the Ali Forny Center was founded in honor of
Ali Forni, a gender non conforming youth who was unhoused
at the age of thirteen. So here's a bit of
their backstory from Alifornycenter dot org. They write, Ali Forni
(03:38):
was a homeless gender non conforming youth who was forced
to live on the streets at the age of thirteen.
Ali resorted to street work and drug used to survive.
They kept a close group of friends and educated anyone
they encountered about HIV prevention and safe sex. Ali took
pride in helping others like them. Ali was well known
by the police because they aggressively advocated that the NYPD
investigate a series of murders of other homeless quaer youth
(04:01):
they had befriended. Carl Ciciliano, AFC's founder met Ali while
working as the director of a homeless youth drop in
center where Ali was seventeen. In December of nineteen ninety seven,
Ali was murdered on the streets. They were twenty two
years old. The tragic death called attention to the atrocious
conditions for homeless LGBTQ plus youth in New York. In
two thousand and two, committed to making the difference in
(04:23):
honoring Ali, Carl founded the Ali Forny Center and in
that they go on to explain exactly what they do.
So they say, quote, the Ali Forny Center houses and
protects homeless, at risk and LGBTQ plus youth living on
the streets of New York. Like Ali, our street Outreach
team educates teens about safe sex and HIV prevention. In
(04:43):
our time, we have grown to provide medical and mental
health services. We also provide volunteer mentors, educational and career programs,
life skills training, and much more. Our goal is to
not only provide food, water, and shelter. Our goal is
to transform the lives of these young people so that
they may reclaim their lives and never live on the
streets again. Ali's murder has never been brought to justice. However,
(05:05):
the spirit of Ali continues to live in our work
in each of the lives we change. So yeah, they
work to protect the LGBTQ plus youth and empower them
with resources and tools to be able to live out independently.
Some of the resources and services include emergency housing programs,
job education and readiness programs, health services, and so much more.
(05:25):
And they're accessible twenty four to seven, so they do
a lot of their work and you can go to
their site to see how you can help support this organization. Again,
we know we've talked about it often how the house
of the situation for especially LGBTQ plus youth has gotten really
bad and now with the administration the way it is,
no one's willing to help them except for those who
(05:45):
are doing the programs like this, so definitely wanted to
look out for and then, lastly but not least, because
we know there's tons of them out there. That's why
we keep having more and more episodes because there's so many.
We have the lgbtqfund dot org or the LGBTQ Freedom
Fund and this is from their site. LGBTQ Freedom Fund
(06:06):
pays bill to secure the safety and liberty of individuals
in jailed and immigration detention. We also work to address
the disproportionately high rate and harm of geling on LGBTQ
plus individuals. A tangle of discrimination and poverty feels this
program and on their site they give a lot of
information in regards to the mass incarceration of the LGBTQIA
(06:28):
population and they work hard to assist the community throughout
the US, understanding the greater risks again of those incarcerated
being from the queer community. And listen to both of
our episodes with Raquel Willis where we talk about how
bad this really is. And here's some more information from
(06:49):
their site. LGBTQ Freedom Fund fights the criminalization of LGBTQ folks,
who are much more likely in the US to be
incarcerated than other individuals. We work as an advocacy, education
and grant make an outfit to mobilize the public and
policymakers to address the disproportionate impact of incarceration on LGBTQ individuals.
(07:11):
This disparity is precipitated by poverty and discrimination in school, employment, policing, family,
and society at large. The sweep of criminalization is extraordinary
at some point in their lives. Seventy percent of low
income LGBTQ people are homeless by some estimates, and half
of homeless people will be incarcerated. So their website is
(07:31):
very succainting, like there's not a lot, it's minimal, but
it's very impactful. You should go and check them out there.
You can find out how to support or even volunteer
with them again. This is lgbtqfund dot org and definitely
someone to look out for and to support. They do
work with immigration as well in migrants and their basis
(07:52):
is to provide bail, which is a huge help because
we know a lot of people are incarcerated and in
jail for life a periods of time with no due
process because they can't make bell. So just the thing
to look into.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yes, yes, and listeners. As always, please let us know
if you work with any of these organizations, or you
have any other organizations you would like us to shout out.
You can email us at Hello at stuff Whenever Told
You dot com. You can find us on Blue Sky
at mom Stuff podcast, or on Instagram and TikTok at
stuff One Never Told You for us on YouTube, and
we have a book you can get where you get
(08:27):
your books. Thanks as always to our super produced Christine
or executive Cruser and your contributor Joey. Thank you and
thanks to you for listening Stuff One Ever Told Yous
direction by Heart Radio. For more podcast from my Heart Radio,
you can check out the heart Radio app, Apple podcast
wherever you listen to your favorite shows
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