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“We came to the realization that we’re not fully trained to provide services. . . I will say, there’s a lot of remaining taboos when it comes to talking about sexual orientation within the community we serve. We saw a big, big necessity to address these issues.”– Participating agency, the LGBTQ Access Project –

“I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act. It is an act that can be met with hostility, exclusion, and violence. It can also lead to love, understanding, transcendence, and community.”
– Janet Mock-

“There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”
-Audre Lorde-

“Do work that matters. Vale la pena.”
– Gloria E. Anzaldúa –

“There is a value shift. . .What we’ve learned from this experience is that there are some unique barriers and issues that we need to tackle, understand, and be able to provide advocacy around. We need some extra tools to provide access for the LGBTQ community.”– Participating agency, the LGBTQ Access Project –

“Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.”
– Paulo Freire –

The Northwest Network of Bi, Trans, Lesbian and Gay Survivors of Abuse

Coalition Ending Gender-Based Violence

formerly the King County Coalition Against Domestic Violence