Organization: Asian Pacific Islander Equality - Los Angeles
Grant Amount: $25,000
Liberty Hill Impact: API Equality LA assembled a coalition of 60 Asian Pacific Islander organizations to file an Amicus Curiae brief to the California Supreme Court askingthe Court to hold that the State’s law denying lesbian and gay people the right to marry violates the Constitution’s guarantee of equality. 

Organization: FTM Alliance of Los Angeles
Grant Amount: $30,000
Liberty Hill Impact: FTM alliance partnered with the Transgender Resource Center to create the Community Clinics Campaign, a project to obtain transgender specific healthcare services for transgender and genderqueer individuals.  The project has already secured transgender healthcare services at one clinic and is targeting elected officials to secure additional services at multiple clinics. 

Organization: Gay-Straight Alliance Network (GSAN)
Grant Amount: $30,000
Liberty Hill Impact: GSAN trained 15 Los Angeles County youth as Queer Youth Advocacy Day Leaders in a statewide effort to support AB 394 (The Safe Place to Learn Act). The youth mobilized 100 more youth to conduct lobbying visits with California Assembly Members and State Senators. As a result of their effective efforts, chronicled in an Associated Press article, AB 394 was signed into law in October 2007, along with SB 777 (the Student Civil Rights Act), which creates uniform nondiscrimination standards within the state’s education code.

Organization: Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles School
Grant Amount: $30,000
Liberty Hill Impact: The Institute of Judaism and Sexual Orientation (ISJO) developed and edited a book on inclusion, Kulanu, which featured 37 voices from rabbis, educators, congregants, parents, and LGBT people and allies.  The book also features original curricula on same-gender marriage, transgender issues, prejudices, and stereotypes.  Published in August 2007, the book has sold 700 copies and will continue to be marketed to 900 Reform congregations, and the students and alumni of the ISJO.

Organization: Outfest
Grant Amount: $30,000
Liberty Hill Impact: Fusion 2007: The 5th Los Angeles LGBT People of Color Film Festival took place November 30 to December 2, 2007 at the historic Egyptian Theatre, engaging 47 collaborating grassroots organizations, 24 attending festival filmmakers from around the country, and an audience of 1,800. The festival featured 35 short and feature length films and “Ignite the Fuse” which brought people of color to engage with one another asfilmmakers, activists, producers, distributors, web-media pioneers and critics. Sabor Con Fusion offered a spoken word and music marathon featuring over 20 dance, poetry, music and comedy events.

Organization: South Asian Network
Grant Amount: $25,000
Liberty Hill Impact: SAN launched the first ever South Asian LGBTIQ Needs AssessmentReport at a press conference, commemorating National Coming Out Day on October 11, 2007. The report, titled “No More Denial,” was a collaborative project by SAN and Satrang, who shared the findings and recommendations of the report. SAN has since shared the report with South Asian groups at USC and Pomona College, South Asian Americans Leading Together, as well as Desis Rising Up and Moving. The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights interviewed SAN and distributed the session nationally to its member organizations.

Organization: Stop Prisoner Rape
Grant Amount: $30,000
Liberty Hill Impact: SPR mobilized and trained 70 local rape crisis counselors, all of whom have agreed to assist LGBTQ prisoner rape survivors in Southern California. These service providers are listed in SPR’s one-of-a-kind “Resource Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse Behind Bars,” of which geographically relevant portions is sent to every survivor who contacts SPR. SPR also reached out to rape crisis centers located near each of the 33 prisons run by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, helping them join the Sexual Assault Response Team at the nearby facility.

Organization: Whittier Rio Hondo AIDS Project, Inc.
Grant Amount: $13,000
Liberty Hill Impact: Whittier Rio Hondo AIDS Project’s NowUKnow project has provided education to 150 parents and 25 school educators on AB 537, which outlaws discrimination in schools based on actual or perceived sexual orientation, to help increase understanding of the law and how to better advocate for LGBT youth.

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