GIVING BACK
Since 1989, we have raised over $3.6 million that has been donated to various LGBTQ community and advocacy organizations—by being bad and doing good. Through these partnerships, we aim to deliver measurable impact to better our community and support our Circle of Friends. The following are our current non-profit community partners. For details on previous beneficiary organizations and our selection process, refer to details on the Grass Roots Gay Rights Foundation website.
Bay Area Girls Rock Camp is a nonprofit organization that empowers young people through music, promoting an environment that fosters self-confidence, creativity and teamwork. The camp centers the experiences of girls, trans and/or non-binary youth in their explicit commitment to gender justice and creating an inclusive environment that supports a wide range of marginalized gender identities and expressions.
Give Us The Floor (GUTF) is a San Francisco-based non-profit organization. GUTF provides LGBTQ+ teens in distress with the peer-positive human connection that they are too often missing. GUTF helps LGBTQ+ teens deal with distress through inclusive, innovative and unique online peer Supportive Group Chats that provide constant contact and anonymity in a safe teen-only community, breaking the isolation and shame cycles they are experiencing.
Larkin Street serves the more than 1,100 youth (ages 12-24) who sleep on San Francisco’s streets on any given night.
Larkin Street’s integrated model of care includes housing, healthcare, education, and employment services to help youth achieve stability, self-sufficiency, and improved lifelong health outcomes.
ONYX is an organization formed and operated by Men of Color who enjoy the leather lifestyle. ONYX sets as its goal to provide an informational and social organization to address issues specific to people of color who chose to project the positive aspects of the leather lifestyle and support our community and economic initiatives.
Queer LifeSpace (QLS) is a nonprofit counseling agency that provides affordable, evidence-based mental health and substance abuse services to the LGBTQIA+ community in the Bay Area. They also run an internationally-recognized clinical training program for the next generation of queer-affirming therapists.
Transgender Law Center (TLC) is the largest national trans-led organization advocating for a world in which all people are free to define themselves and their futures. Grounded in legal expertise and committed to racial justice, TLC employs a variety of community-driven strategies to keep transgender and gender nonconforming people alive, thriving, and fighting for liberation.