Seattle’s LGBTQ+ Center is stepping up to confront environmental issues with a new project funded by the city’s Environmental Justice Fund. The fund, established in 2017, bolsters community-led efforts tackling the fallout from environmental and climate inequality — fallout disproportionately borne by marginalized communities of color, immigrants, refugees, and the economically disadvantaged, as reported by the Seattle Office of Sustainability & Environment.
Adding a critical, often overlooked voice to the conversation, the LGBTQ+ Center will initiate a program spotlighting the link between queer identity and climate justice. According to a Seattle environmental blog, Jing Jing, Co-Manager at the Center, emphasized that though environmental justice might not seem like a queer issue, it "does affect us a lot."
"The idea is to support youth in creating art that paints a positive, sustainable vision of what climate resilience or environmental justice looks," remarked Andrew McGinnis, Communications Co-Manager for the LGBTQ+ Center, as per the Seattle Office of Sustainability & Environment.
