LGBTQ+ Support
We are proud to stand together with the LGBTQ+ community.
Everyone regardless of gender and sexual orientation deserves to be treated with respect and have access to the same civil rights, healthcare, education, celebration of union, jobs, and security. We seek and admire diversity and have zero tolerance for any form of discrimination based on gender affiliation or sexual orientation. We will always support our LQBTQ+ community in their fight for equal rights and acceptance and constantly educate ourselves.
Amplify, Support & Learn
This is how we educate ourselves on how we can best amplify and support the LGBTQ+ communities and people. Educating ourselves and reading deeper into their history and their struggles to be accepted.
Understanding the barriers they have and are still facing in society will allow us to better advocate for them in our industry and daily lives. It will also allow us to celebrate their success, existence, and contribution to our society and industry.
Read About It
Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride
The Queer Bible by Jack Guinness
The Engagement: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage by Sasha Issenberg
We Are Everywhere by Matthew Riemer & Leighton Brown
Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love by Jonathan Van Ness
Stonewall by Martin Duberman
Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag by Rob Sanders & Steven Salerno
Use Online Resources
Watch It
Paris is Burning (1990)
Saving Face (2004)
Call Me by Your Name (2017)
The Birdcage (1996)
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017)
Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community (1984)
Kiki (2016)
Where to Donate
How to Support
Support of LGBTQ+ and their communities can be done by more than donations.
It can be done by –
- Listening to the stories told by the LGBTQ+ communities.
- Educating yourself on their history, struggles, their battle for basic civil rights, and facing housing, employment, healthcare discrimination.
- Supporting LGBTQ+ creators, artists, organizations, and business owners.
- Being more self-aware and thinking about your own conversations with LGBTQ+ people.
- Thinking about how you have responded to the issues they face in the past and how you can better improve.