Interview with Gabriel Foster

An interview with Gabriel Foster, a Black queer and trans activist, youth worker, and community organizer. At the time of this interview, he was the co-founder and executive director of the Trans Justice Funding Project, an organization that distributes grants and other funding to grassroots organizations led by and serving trans communities in the United States. Prior to his work with TJFP, Foster served as Director of Outreach at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project and as a Program Assistant for the American Friends Service Committee's GLBT Youth Program in the Seattle area. In this oral history interview, Foster discusses his upbringing in 1990s Seattle and discovery of Lambert House, an LGBT youth center in the city's Capitol Hill neighborhood, his ensuing work with the American Friends Service Committee and Northwest Network, the beginnings of his work in community organizing and trans activism in New York, his co-founding of TJFP with Karen Pittelman and their motivations for doing so, the work of TJFP in supporting grassroots trans justice movements and organizations across the United States, and the importance of connection and transformative justice for trans movements. Date Created:

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Identifier: 2j62s519s
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Foster, Gabriel
Contributor(s): Beam, Myrl
Billund-Phibbs, Myra
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Nov. 19, 2019
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): American Friends Service Committee
Lambert House
Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Trans Justice Funding Project
Places: New York
Washington > King County > City of Seattle > Seattle
Topic(s): Black queer people
Black transgender people
LGBTQ+ youth
LGBTQ+ youth centers
Transgender activism
Transgender youth
Transmasculine people
Resource Type: Moving image
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Language: English
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