It is with a heavy heart that Pride for Youth announces the 'sunset' on an amazing foundation that has supported us for many years.
For more than 25 years, the Paul Rapoport Foundation has played a unique role in New York City’s LGBT movement. Solely dedicated to the rights, health and
well-being of the city’s LGBT communities, the Foundation has both witnessed and
helped catalyze the enormous changes and momentous gains that LGBT New
Yorkers have experienced since the Foundation’s formal establishment in 1987.
well-being of the city’s LGBT communities, the Foundation has both witnessed and
helped catalyze the enormous changes and momentous gains that LGBT New
Yorkers have experienced since the Foundation’s formal establishment in 1987.
Paul Rapoport Foundation has been funding many of the programs at Pride for Youth, including our work in low-income communities on Long Island and our programming for transgender/trans* youth. Many people don't know that Pride for Youth has offered Gay Straight Alliance support to several marginalized school districts on Long Island, as well as placing a Pride for Youth counselor weekly in the same schools, to directly support LGBTQ youth in these areas. (If you'd like to donate to Pride for Youth given this loss of funding, you can do so here.)
Our Executive Director Linda Leonard, Pride for Youth Director Pete Carney and PFY Prevention Specialist Devon Zapposodi all attended the closing celebration to acknowledge the amazing work the foundations support has allowed Pride for Youth to engage in.
Paul Rapoport, an attorney, was
a founder of both the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center and
the Gay Men's Health Crisis in New York.
He was deeply committed to supporting the lesbian, gay, transgender
and bisexual (LGTB) communities, with a particular focus on efforts
to eliminate homophobia and discrimination against gay men,
lesbians, bisexuals and transgender persons.
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