Recipients
G.L.I.T.S.
Gays and Lesbians In a Transgender Society (GLITS) is the project of Ceyenne Doroshow supporting Black trans women who have been released from the Rikers Island jail with housing and numerous other life-saving services. In 2020, this project was able to contribute to their success in purchasing a twelve-unit apartment building in Queens and broaden the services they provide. Find out more about their organization below.
For The Gworls
For the Gworls’ Rent and Gender-Affirming Surgery Fund accepts applications from Black transgender people nationwide. With this fund, they actively fight to reduce homelessness rates in the Black transgender community, as well as lower the risk for affirmative surgeries being done in ways that put them at greater health risks. Now more than ever, this work is especially important considering that many Black transgender people are being laid off in absurdly high numbers, which is only exacerbating the terrible conditions that Black transgender people disproportionately live in.
House of Tulip
House of Tulip is raising funds to buy and restore a 6-unit property on N. Claiborne Ave, currently unoccupied and blighted. This will be our pilot campus, and it will house up to 9 TGNC people.
House of Tulip isn’t an emergency shelter or a transitional living house. It’s a long-term investment in housing solutions. By operating as a land trust, the entire city of New Orleans (as well as anywhere we expand beyond our pilot campus) will benefit from the increase in affordable housing supply and safeguards against exclusionary development and gentrification.
House of Tulip will provide zero-barrier housing to trans and gender nonconforming people in need of a safe place to stay while growing the supply of affordable housing in New Orleans.