February 2012
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Dean Spade on Prison Abolition and... →
If you haven’t checked out Out-FM’s segment featuring our friend Dean Spade and FIERCE’s People’s Mic at Creating Change, you should, and then pass it along. “We insist and demand that foreign policy, war, militarization, imperialism, surveillance, policing, any type of militarization is very directly linked with our local LGBTQ U.S. issues in terms of police...
Feb 9th
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January 2012
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CREATING CHANGE CONFERENCE ERASES LGBTQ YOUTH OF...
On Friday, January 27, 2012 at the Creating Change Conference Baltimore, FIERCE delivers a message to the LGBT Liaison to the White House, the Department of Defense, the Department of Labor, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development at “The Obama Administration and LGBT Community” session.  “Mic check” a single voice, a little shaky, interrupted from the back row.  “Mic...
Jan 29th
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November 2011
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Fierce’s National Program and Some History
Fierce’s National Program was launched in 2007 after The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force released a report which stated that 20 – 40% of the 1.6 million homeless youth nationally are LGBTQ identified. From this staggering statistics FIERCE as an organization birthed the National Program as a response to the dire need to support LGBTQ youth organizing and LGBTQ youth leadership in broader...
Nov 29th
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August 2011
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Aug 11th
July 2011
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Jul 22nd
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Jul 13th
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Jul 1st
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June 2011
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Free Summer Programming for LGBTQ+ Youth in NYC
Jun 13th
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Hello!
Welcome!!!! FIERCE is excited to join the fabulous world of Tumblr! For those who don’t know who FIERCE is, we are a membership-based organization for LGBTQ+ Youth of Color between the ages of 13-24 in New York City. Through youth-led campaigns, leadership development programs, and cultural expression through arts and media, we organize our community to end all forms of oppression and...
Jun 9th