… a Movie Event brought to you by HTUC!

 

With the cancellation of the Unity Banquet, HTUC is presenting a series of events to raise funds for scholarships and other HTUC functions. We also hope that via Zoom we can provide some of the socializing benefits that we experience at the Unity Banquet.

The “Queen of Cups” is a new independent feature film by Sharon Ferranti.

Join us for a screening of this unique new film, The Queen of Cups, by Sharon Ferranti. This film is not available in any public venue or streaming service. Proceeds from this event will benefit HTUC and TFA. It’s a zoom meeting, so participants will be able to mingle and say hello to each other and participate in a Q&A after the screening with the director!

Two showings:

Friday September 18 @ 7:30 PM Tickets: $10.00

Sunday September 20 @ 11:30 AM Tickets: “PAY WHAT YOU WISH” with a suggested price of $10.00.

Check out the Trailer:  Queen of Cups Trailer

If you would like to make a donation to HTUC to support our Scholarship Fund or other activities just click Donate!

Out of an abundance of caution, we are canceling the 2020 Houston Transgender Unity Banquet. This was a very difficult decision but we felt that the safety of our community needed to be our top priority.

In making this decision, we held discussions with local health officials, our host hotel, and political leaders. As you know, the Unity Banquet is a large social gathering where we celebrate the transgender community.

No member of TFA or the HTUC leadership feels that the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 will be contained enough by September 2020 to conclude that it will be safe for people to gather.

We will be able to offer some scholarships and small grants in 2020 and 2021 even without holding the Unity Banquet and will do some additional fundraising for scholarships and small grants late this year.

That said, we have already begun our planning for the 2021 Unity Banquet and expect it to be our biggest and most successful banquet yet.

Alexis Melvin
President, TFA

If you would like to contribute to this year’s scholarship fund, please go to our Scholarship Donation Page.

For Immediate Release

January 11, 2019

Transgender Disaster Relief Fund to Assist Furloughed Federal Workers

Affected LGBTQI and allies are encouraged to apply

Houston— January 11, 2019 — Today the Transgender Foundation of America (TFA) announced that the Transgender Disaster Relief Fund (TDRFund.us) would accept applications for assistance from LGBTQI and allied federal workers whose lives were thrown into chaos due to President Trump’s 2018-2019 partial shutdown of the government. Alexis Melvin, President of TFA said, “Many LGBTQI individuals and our allies are effected by the partial government shutdown. The sudden loss of income through no fault of their own can create very difficult situations and TDRFund.us will provide whatever support we can to these individuals.”

About the Transgender Disaster Relief Fund

The Trans Disaster Relief is a project TFA, a 501c3 public charity, and was initially set up as a response to Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Since Hurricane Harvey numerous other disasters, ranging from other hurricanes to earthquakes and wildfires, have been added to the TDRFund.us support list.

Cristan Williams, a co-founder of the Transgender Disaster Relief Fund said, “We’ve made the application extremely simple and straightforward. We want the affected community to know that we stand with them in their time of need.” To apply for assistance or make a donation, individuals should go to the TDRFund.us website.

 About TFA

Organized in 1998, the Transgender Foundation of America (TFA) is a Houston-based grassroots 501c3 public charity and exists to improve the lives of transgender people. TFA facilitates numerous trans support groups and community events such as the Unity Banquet, now in its 26th year. Additionally, it maintains the Transgender Archive and provides annual scholarships to trans-supportive academics, represents transgender and intersex health concerns with health departments across the nation, trains organizations, companies, and schools throughout the nation and pioneered trans and intersex homeless, social, and medical services.

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For more information about the TDR Fund:

tdrfund.us