A Campaign for Native GLBT Funding Justice
Target:
Organized GLBT Philanthropy
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Two recent national philanthropy reports have released information indicating that Gay Funders contributed $37 million in one year to GLBT organizations across the United States. Native American Two Spirit People, the poorest of all the GLBT communities, received only 4 small grants of about $2,500. The average grant to gay organizations nationally is $16,000 a year. Gay funders have a mission to serve all equally, but it's time for a summit with the Two Spirit People here in our ancestral domains to help the funders achieve their mission. Two Spirit People have significant spiritual and ceremonial roles in our Native cultures, and Gay Philanthropy has a significant role to play in realizing a vision of funding-justice and social justice with our people.
Two recent national philanthropy reports have released information indicating that Gay Funders contributed $37 million in one year to GLBT organizations across the United States. Native American Two Spirit People, the poorest of all the GLBT communities, received only 4 small grants of about $2,500. The average grant to gay organizations nationally is $16,000 a year. Gay funders have a mission to serve all equally, but it's time for a summit with the Two Spirit People here in our ancestral domains to help the funders achieve their mission. Two Spirit People have significant spiritual and ceremonial roles in our Native cultures, and Gay Philanthropy has a significant role to play in realizing a vision of funding-justice and social justice with our people.
WE THE UNDERSIGNED
represent or support the appeal of the First People GLBT spiritual communities throughout Turtle Island. Gay Philanthropy has a mission of social and economic justice, and Two Spirit Native People have ancient spiritual and social roles in our Native cultures as healers and dreamers. We have goals in common and we admonish the funders in the spirit of healing to hear the voices of our people and join hands with us as humanity faces a future in great need of healing.
We know that organized philanthropy is capable of treating everyone equally and we thank you for bringing a speedy end to any apparent inequality in GLBT Funding!
represent or support the appeal of the First People GLBT spiritual communities throughout Turtle Island. Gay Philanthropy has a mission of social and economic justice, and Two Spirit Native People have ancient spiritual and social roles in our Native cultures as healers and dreamers. We have goals in common and we admonish the funders in the spirit of healing to hear the voices of our people and join hands with us as humanity faces a future in great need of healing.
We know that organized philanthropy is capable of treating everyone equally and we thank you for bringing a speedy end to any apparent inequality in GLBT Funding!
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# 523:
12:04 pm PDT, Sep 4,
MALCOLM L. BISSON, Minnesota
AS I'VE ALWAYS SAID, INTOLERANCE IS JUST STOOPIDITY, PERSONIFIED. HOWEVER, TERMINOLOGY WITHIN THE 1ST NATIONS SHOULD ALSO BE DEVELOPED BETTER. I.E. TWO SPIRITED PEOPLE MEANS SOMETHING TOTALLY DIFFERENT, TO ME, AS A DAKOTA, THAN THE MANNER IT IS USED WITHIN THIS GROUP.
AS I'VE ALWAYS SAID, INTOLERANCE IS JUST STOOPIDITY, PERSONIFIED. HOWEVER, TERMINOLOGY WITHIN THE 1ST NATIONS SHOULD ALSO BE DEVELOPED BETTER. I.E. TWO SPIRITED PEOPLE MEANS SOMETHING TOTALLY DIFFERENT, TO ME, AS A DAKOTA, THAN THE MANNER IT IS USED WITHIN THIS GROUP.
# 522:
8:15 am PDT, Sep 4,
J. Rasmussen, Minnesota
More funding is always a good thing. Many people don't realize our community exists, and that's sad. A Gathering like the one just held in Sandstone, is a good place to do outreach and network. So many in our community are disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS. Ample (and fair) funding would go a long way in prevention education and other endeavors. Also, people in the Two Spirit community are subject to violence from both people our home communities who don't understand us, and people outside our communities who don't understand us. And like GLBT youth of other nations, our two-spirit youth are killing themselves in higher numbers than heterosexual/cisgender youth This is a sad thing, and could be helped by getting more youth to their ceremonies and cultures in an environment where they are accepted and respected for who they are. Miigwech Bizindaawieg, (Thanks for listening)
More funding is always a good thing. Many people don't realize our community exists, and that's sad. A Gathering like the one just held in Sandstone, is a good place to do outreach and network. So many in our community are disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS. Ample (and fair) funding would go a long way in prevention education and other endeavors. Also, people in the Two Spirit community are subject to violence from both people our home communities who don't understand us, and people outside our communities who don't understand us. And like GLBT youth of other nations, our two-spirit youth are killing themselves in higher numbers than heterosexual/cisgender youth This is a sad thing, and could be helped by getting more youth to their ceremonies and cultures in an environment where they are accepted and respected for who they are. Miigwech Bizindaawieg, (Thanks for listening)
# 521:
12:28 am PDT, Sep 3,
Richard Tawhanga Kereopa, New Zealand
Stop colonising our identities!!!
Stop colonising our identities!!!
# 520:
12:43 pm PDT, Aug 28,
Deanna Reder, Canada
# 518:
12:08 pm PDT, Aug 12,
Mel Buckner, Oregon
# 517:
10:51 am PDT, Aug 11,
Jessica Lee, Oregon
# 516:
7:03 am PDT, Aug 9,
Giovanni Pellegrini, Italy
# 515:
10:10 am PDT, Aug 7,
Veronica Moonstream WolfEagle, Maine
Please respect diversity within our community. Work for decolonization to end racism amongst ourselves and the greater global consciousness. Honor who we are as the Original peoples of this land. Be allies to stop the silence of the true history of Turtle Island; learn that our Two Spirit members had and continue to have our roles in society as mediators, peacekeepers, Medicine People, artists, warriors, caregivers and multitude of ways we contribute to the good of the People; and end the continuing oppression, systemic discrimination and cultural genocide happening today (not just 500 years ago). Let's spread the word and support each other in the continuum of Sexual Orientation and relationships. Show your support financially so we may provide the space so we can safely meet, share, pray & celebrate the gift that we all are for ourselves and the generations to come. All My Relations.
Please respect diversity within our community. Work for decolonization to end racism amongst ourselves and the greater global consciousness. Honor who we are as the Original peoples of this land. Be allies to stop the silence of the true history of Turtle Island; learn that our Two Spirit members had and continue to have our roles in society as mediators, peacekeepers, Medicine People, artists, warriors, caregivers and multitude of ways we contribute to the good of the People; and end the continuing oppression, systemic discrimination and cultural genocide happening today (not just 500 years ago). Let's spread the word and support each other in the continuum of Sexual Orientation and relationships. Show your support financially so we may provide the space so we can safely meet, share, pray & celebrate the gift that we all are for ourselves and the generations to come. All My Relations.
# 514:
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9:06 am PDT, Aug 7,
Ali Nadeem, Qatar
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# 513:
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10:14 am PDT, Aug 5,
Kat Yazzie, Kansas
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# 512:
12:00 am PDT, Aug 2,
Name not displayed, Massachusetts
By all means- let's help raise the consciousness of Gay Funders to the needs of the Two Spirit Community!
By all means- let's help raise the consciousness of Gay Funders to the needs of the Two Spirit Community!
# 511:
6:44 am PDT, Jul 31,
Name not displayed, California
# 510:
10:23 am PDT, Jul 30,
Kelly Long Crow, Colorado
# 509:
9:18 am PDT, Jul 29,
Rebeka Darylin, Canada
# 508:
11:57 pm PDT, Jul 28,
Name not displayed, Paraguay
# 507:
7:48 pm PDT, Jul 28,
Matthew Bond, Michigan
# 506:
6:35 pm PDT, Jul 28,
Andrea Julca, New York
This disparity is appalling and a stark reflection of the racism within the white queer "community." I hope that queer philanthropic organizations will reconsider where they allocate their resources; marriage is neither everything nor the most important thing in the lives of most queer people.
This disparity is appalling and a stark reflection of the racism within the white queer "community." I hope that queer philanthropic organizations will reconsider where they allocate their resources; marriage is neither everything nor the most important thing in the lives of most queer people.
# 505:
4:06 pm PDT, Jul 28,
Susan Hunsicker, California
# 504:
2:40 pm PDT, Jul 28,
Pepper Mint, California
I'm a queer organizer, and I think it's fairly pathetic that Two Spirit organizations are receiving very little from queer philanthropic efforts. Please redirect your money to Native queer organizations.
I'm a queer organizer, and I think it's fairly pathetic that Two Spirit organizations are receiving very little from queer philanthropic efforts. Please redirect your money to Native queer organizations.
# 503:
2:21 pm PDT, Jul 28,
Peter Key, California
as a queer person of color, i find that most of the queer organizations in the usa need to greatly improve their understanding of intersecting nature of institutional homophobia and institutional racism. the various oppression are interlinked, and unless queers reach out to other oppressed groups, we stand to lose to the strategy of divide and conquer.
as a queer person of color, i find that most of the queer organizations in the usa need to greatly improve their understanding of intersecting nature of institutional homophobia and institutional racism. the various oppression are interlinked, and unless queers reach out to other oppressed groups, we stand to lose to the strategy of divide and conquer.
# 502:
2:20 pm PDT, Jul 28,
Maryn Stabler, Oregon
# 501:
12:59 pm PDT, Jul 28,
Bruce Knotts, New York
We need to do more to support each other, especially people of color, including native Americans. As a LGBT minority, we are not as effective as we could be in united together in a true rainbow coalition that includes all our elements of color, orientation, identity, economic and educational status, etc. Certainly funding should also focus on Native Americans and other people of color.
We need to do more to support each other, especially people of color, including native Americans. As a LGBT minority, we are not as effective as we could be in united together in a true rainbow coalition that includes all our elements of color, orientation, identity, economic and educational status, etc. Certainly funding should also focus on Native Americans and other people of color.
# 500:
12:16 pm PDT, Jul 28,
Name not displayed, Illinois
# 499:
11:08 am PDT, Jul 28,
Kyndall Mason, Oregon
# 498:
6:54 am PDT, Jul 28,
Dennis Bergren, Wisconsin
# 497:
6:09 pm PDT, Jul 17,
Michael Redmond, Minnesota
# 496:
7:06 am PDT, Jul 13,
Janet Novotny, Massachusetts
# 495:
11:45 am PDT, Jul 11,
Susan Rasmussen, Mississippi
# 494:
12:04 am PDT, Jul 8,
Celeste Chan, California
# 493:
1:54 pm PDT, Jul 7,
Elizabeth Teczar, Massachusetts
# 492:
1:34 pm PDT, Jul 7,
Robin Nussbaum, New York
# 491:
11:56 am PDT, Jul 7,
Kelly Murphy, New York
# 490:
9:38 am PDT, Jul 7,
Kat Arrants, Massachusetts
I care about this topic.
I care about this topic.
# 489:
9:36 pm PDT, Jul 6,
Hubert Delgrange, France
# 488:
6:29 am PDT, Jul 6,
Sarah Newberry, Massachusetts
# 487:
12:26 pm PDT, Jul 5,
Lisa Kynvi, Massachusetts
This is soooo important!
This is soooo important!
# 486:
12:38 pm PDT, Jul 4,
Heidi Moss, Massachusetts
Best Wishes to all!
Best Wishes to all!
# 484:
7:50 pm PDT, Jul 3,
Jaime Crispin, Massachusetts
# 485:
7:49 pm PDT, Jul 3,
Serene Thin Elk, Massachusetts
Together lets raise awareness on an issue that effects us all. When one is oppressed, we are all oppressed. There is so much beauty to be shared from our Indigenous cultures-- funding, awareness and reconciliation can make sharing in respectful and honorable ways a reality. Mitakuye Oyasin
Together lets raise awareness on an issue that effects us all. When one is oppressed, we are all oppressed. There is so much beauty to be shared from our Indigenous cultures-- funding, awareness and reconciliation can make sharing in respectful and honorable ways a reality. Mitakuye Oyasin
# 483:
5:02 pm PDT, Jul 3,
Jodie Dow-Novaes, Massachusetts
# 482:
4:32 pm PDT, Jul 3,
Danna Steinberg, Massachusetts
# 481:
4:05 pm PDT, Jul 3,
Nicole Langbaum, Massachusetts
# 480:
3:57 pm PDT, Jul 3,
Rebecca Conley, Massachusetts
# 479:
2:46 pm PDT, Jul 3,
Mark Lipman, Massachusetts
Our country exists amongst a deep, expansive history of pain, oppression, and lifetimes of unimaginable injustices of which the Native Americans are a prime example. They have held this history at its heart, and it is time for us as a world to hear it, own it, and help this suffering world heal. It is time. Two Spirit People have an additional unique and invaluable perspective with intimate knowledge of the power of love and what it takes to preserve the self in the face of adversity. Please support Two Spirit People by aiding them with funds and helping their voices to be amplified for the rest of us to hear. It is time.
Our country exists amongst a deep, expansive history of pain, oppression, and lifetimes of unimaginable injustices of which the Native Americans are a prime example. They have held this history at its heart, and it is time for us as a world to hear it, own it, and help this suffering world heal. It is time. Two Spirit People have an additional unique and invaluable perspective with intimate knowledge of the power of love and what it takes to preserve the self in the face of adversity. Please support Two Spirit People by aiding them with funds and helping their voices to be amplified for the rest of us to hear. It is time.
# 478:
5:23 pm PDT, Jul 2,
John Clochesy, Ohio
# 477:
9:48 am PDT, Jul 2,
Peter Grahame, New Mexico
# 476:
8:33 pm PDT, Jul 1,
James Lawer, California
Two Spirit People have a too-long repressed authenticity in the health of Native cultures. They are now more fully emerging into more visible roles, returning to their historic rights as life sustainers among the tribes. But, we have a long, long, long way to go, uphill carrying the gravity of attrition and the heavy hand of Manifest Destiny. Financial support is important to facilitate the wisdom they carry and to fuel the impact of that wisdom across the land.
Two Spirit People have a too-long repressed authenticity in the health of Native cultures. They are now more fully emerging into more visible roles, returning to their historic rights as life sustainers among the tribes. But, we have a long, long, long way to go, uphill carrying the gravity of attrition and the heavy hand of Manifest Destiny. Financial support is important to facilitate the wisdom they carry and to fuel the impact of that wisdom across the land.
# 475:
8:17 pm PDT, Jul 1,
Gregg Moore, New Jersey
# 474:
11:56 am PDT, Jul 1,
Pablo Espinoza, California
Please, let's not forget the original American lgbt communities, the Native American populations' two-spirit/lgbt populations!!! Let's not continue the "separate but equal" mythology. These allies in the struggle for queer rights and visibility are just as important to maintain vibrant and energized, in our communal fight for justice and self-subsistence... but we can't do it alone, we need each other!! Please fund the necessary Native American Two-spirit/lgbt organizations, associations, and service-provider-communities.
Please, let's not forget the original American lgbt communities, the Native American populations' two-spirit/lgbt populations!!! Let's not continue the "separate but equal" mythology. These allies in the struggle for queer rights and visibility are just as important to maintain vibrant and energized, in our communal fight for justice and self-subsistence... but we can't do it alone, we need each other!! Please fund the necessary Native American Two-spirit/lgbt organizations, associations, and service-provider-communities.
# 473:
5:46 pm PDT, Jun 30,
Linda O'Keefe, California
# 472:
11:22 pm PDT, Jun 27,
Diane Murdock, Washington
# 471:
6:05 am PDT, Jun 27,
Amanda Makepeace, Georgia
# 470:
10:20 pm PDT, Jun 26,
Yasmin Golan, California
# 469:
3:22 pm PDT, Jun 26,
Name not displayed, California
The recognition of the rights of American Indian peoples to their full human rights, including the right to identify and live their lives outside of heterosexual relationships is empty without financial and insitutional support for such efforts. I encourage people to remember that, while once broadly recognized and accepted in American Indian communities, Two Spirit people today face much stigma from their own communities due to the ongoing effects of violent assimiliation attempts (American Indian boarding schools and more subtle forms) and the traumatic effects of massive land seizure and displacement.
The recognition of the rights of American Indian peoples to their full human rights, including the right to identify and live their lives outside of heterosexual relationships is empty without financial and insitutional support for such efforts. I encourage people to remember that, while once broadly recognized and accepted in American Indian communities, Two Spirit people today face much stigma from their own communities due to the ongoing effects of violent assimiliation attempts (American Indian boarding schools and more subtle forms) and the traumatic effects of massive land seizure and displacement.
# 468:
12:44 pm PDT, Jun 26,
Jude A, California
It is important to recognize the underserved individuals/groups who have very little be supported and not be forgotten.
It is important to recognize the underserved individuals/groups who have very little be supported and not be forgotten.
# 467:
10:09 am PDT, Jun 26,
Name not displayed, California
# 466:
12:29 am PDT, Jun 26,
Kalani Makanani, California
Please sigh this petition in support of the campaign for Two-Spirit peoples and also rally others to do so. Thank you.
Please sigh this petition in support of the campaign for Two-Spirit peoples and also rally others to do so. Thank you.
# 465:
3:32 pm PDT, Jun 25,
Leigh McLellan, California
I support my Two Spirit sisters and brothers
I support my Two Spirit sisters and brothers
# 464:
1:19 pm PDT, Jun 25,
Name not displayed, Arizona
It is about time, this dominate society country of ours RECOGNIZED the FIRST PEOPLE!
It is about time, this dominate society country of ours RECOGNIZED the FIRST PEOPLE!
# 463:
12:51 pm PDT, Jun 25,
Nazbah Tom, California
# 462:
12:09 pm PDT, Jun 25,
Teia Rogers, Washington
Please increase the funding to this essential campaign.
Please increase the funding to this essential campaign.
# 461:
11:35 am PDT, Jun 25,
Nica Ross, California
# 460:
11:31 am PDT, Jun 25,
CJ Betz, California
# 459:
11:15 am PDT, Jun 25,
Name not displayed, California
# 458:
11:06 am PDT, Jun 25,
Connie Champagne, California
# 457:
11:05 am PDT, Jun 25,
Vanissar Tarakali, California
The land that allows us to exist here is the land of First Nations peoples, so balancing out the funding is the least non-First Nations LGBTQ folks can do to promote full justice.
The land that allows us to exist here is the land of First Nations peoples, so balancing out the funding is the least non-First Nations LGBTQ folks can do to promote full justice.
# 456:
11:04 am PDT, Jun 25,
Name not displayed, California
# 455:
12:40 pm PDT, Jun 23,
Angela Bennett, United Kingdom
# 454:
5:06 pm PDT, Jun 20,
Rafiki Franklin, California
Let Justice begin Now and not after we are gone!
Let Justice begin Now and not after we are gone!
# 453:
11:53 am PDT, Jun 20,
Ashley Olson, Wisconsin
The scope of the work that organizations could do with more funding, may allow them to show more productive change. If we should move forward in our movement we need to move forward as a whole group, not just a segment of our population.
The scope of the work that organizations could do with more funding, may allow them to show more productive change. If we should move forward in our movement we need to move forward as a whole group, not just a segment of our population.
# 452:
11:20 am PDT, Jun 19,
RAUL CINTRON, Florida
PLEASE HELP OUR BROTHER AND SISTER TO OBTAIN FUNDING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
PLEASE HELP OUR BROTHER AND SISTER TO OBTAIN FUNDING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
# 451:
11:11 pm PDT, Jun 18,
Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Michigan
Supporting Two-Spirit/queer Native organizations helps undue the continuing effects of genocide and colonization. Queer Indigenous people are not part of the past, but part of our future. Commitment to Native survival, continuance, and resistance is vital in the face of ongoing genocide and ecocide. If you want to honor the land you occupy and prevent environmental destruction, it is important you support the people who carry the traditions, the teachings. That is the way of planetary survival, of healing, justice, and true reconciliation.
Supporting Two-Spirit/queer Native organizations helps undue the continuing effects of genocide and colonization. Queer Indigenous people are not part of the past, but part of our future. Commitment to Native survival, continuance, and resistance is vital in the face of ongoing genocide and ecocide. If you want to honor the land you occupy and prevent environmental destruction, it is important you support the people who carry the traditions, the teachings. That is the way of planetary survival, of healing, justice, and true reconciliation.
