Basic Rights Education Fund

Racial justice work: since 2007, basic rights oregon has worked to counteract strategies pitting communities of color against lgbtq communities. Basic rights is committed to creating lgbtq leadership that truly reflects our community. This means prioritizing groups that have been historically underrepresented, such as queer and transgender people of color. We do this by working in coalition with important organizational stakeholders across the state, including the fair shot coalition.

Civic & statewide engagement: basic rights oregon seeks to serve oregon's lgbtq population in every community, every county and every corner of the state. A key component of this approach is locating and supporting the vibrant, grassroots activism that's already creating change around us. To help facilitate this effort, we organized a statewide leadership summit in eugene, which continued in 2022. The summit was attended by over 100 community advocates and leaders from throughout oregon. The event helped to foster a shared understanding of our movement's values and strategies and had especially strong participation from youth and transgender communities. (continued on schedule o)in fy22 the organization carried out a statewide tour, visting 8 cities across the state to perform trans 101 and other trainings and coordinate with local advocates.

Advocacy