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Jaymes Black
NationalityAmerican
OccupationNonprofit executive
CompanyThe Trevor Project
TitleChief Executive Officer, The Trevor Project
SpouseCheralyn Stevenson (m. 2007)
Children2

Jaymes Black (formerly known as Stacey Stevenson) is an American nonprofit executive and former corporate manager who has been chief executive officer of The Trevor Project, the United States suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ+ young people, since July 15, 2024. Black is the first Black person and the first nonbinary person to lead the organization.[1][2]

Black grew up in South Texas, left high school at 17 after being outed by classmates, and later earned a GED. After moving to Dallas at 21, they began work in 1997 at an information technology call center run by Stream International and spent more than 20 years in corporate operations, supply chain, technology and talent roles at companies including Charles Schwab, Sabre Corporation and Northrop Grumman. Black completed a bachelor's degree at 36 and a master's degree in their 40s while working full time.[2][3][4]

In March 2021 Black left Charles Schwab, where they had been senior managing director for talent, to become chief executive of Family Equality, a national advocacy organization for LGBTQ+ families. They were the first Black chief executive of that organization and led it until moving to The Trevor Project in 2024.[3][5][6]

Black's time at The Trevor Project has been shaped by the organization's finances and by federal policy. In January 2025 they announced a restructuring that reduced staff. In July 2025 the federal government ended the LGBTQ+ youth "Press 3" option on the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, which removed about $25 million a year in funding and led to more than 200 layoffs. Black then ran an emergency fundraising campaign, and in January 2026 the organization received a $45 million gift from MacKenzie Scott.[7][8] In 2026 Time named Black to its TIME100 Philanthropy list and to its first Time Visionaries list.[8][4]

Early life and education

Black grew up in a small town in South Texas in a Southern Baptist Black family. For much of their childhood they lived with their mother in their grandmother's home, a household Black later described as one where "we never showed affection or talked about our emotions". Black has written that classmates called them gay "before I even knew what gay meant" and that their parents were "embarrassed and disgusted" by the idea.[9]

Black has written that they began self-harming at 15, after their first girlfriend broke up with them, and that the self-harm continued "up until my 30s" because they did not have the support they needed.[9] At 17, while at high school in Corpus Christi, Texas, Black accidentally dropped a note meant for their girlfriend. A classmate found it and Black was outed. "This was in 1990s south Texas, so it was, frankly, brutal the way that the kids treated us after they found out," Black told NBC News in 2024. "The teachers would not talk with me about it. What that led to is me dropping out of high school."[2] A 2021 profile said Black was bullied and physically abused until they left school.[3]

After dropping out, Black slept on friends' couches and floors, faced eviction, lived for a time in a trailer without running water, and worked three jobs. Black later earned a GED. At 21, after applying without success for jobs at Little Caesars and The Home Depot, Black moved to Dallas with about $70.[9][2] In Dallas they found an LGBTQ+ community around Sue Ellen's, a lesbian bar that NBC News described as the oldest in Texas. "I found community, and that was a breath of fresh air," Black said.[2]

Black studied while working, finishing a bachelor's degree at 36 while employed as an IT manager.[9] Six years later Black and their wife completed master's degrees together while raising their two-year-old twins. Black has described this degree as an MBA.[9] The Trevor Project's announcement of Black's appointment describes it as an MS in management.[1] Time reported in 2026 that Black "earned a bachelor's degree at 36 and a master's degree in their 40s".[4]

Career

Corporate career (1997 to 2021)

In 1997 Black took a job as an analyst at an information technology call center operated by Stream International. Black later called it their "first real job" and worked their way into management.[2][9] Over the next two decades they held leadership roles at companies including Charles Schwab, Sabre Corporation and Northrop Grumman.[2][1] A 2021 profile said Black had been "an executive at technology and defense corporations in a variety of operations and supply chain roles". Black summed it up: "I've kind of done it all."[3] The Trevor Project later cited Black's background in "call center operations and user experience" and "large budget oversight" as qualifications.[1]

Black's last corporate role was senior managing director for talent at Charles Schwab.[3] At Schwab they served as local and national co-chair of the company's Pride Employee Resource Group, where they advocated for safe and inclusive workplaces and built partnerships with several LGBTQ+ nonprofits.[3][5] In 2019 Black told their family's story for Family Equality's "Out in Texas" video series, which is how they first came to know the organization.[3][10]

Black has said the COVID-19 pandemic prompted them to leave the corporate world. "You are a high school dropout. Yes, you finished your bachelor's degree. Yes, you have a master's degree, but you're here in corporate America. You were never supposed to be here. How could you possibly be thinking about leaving corporate America?" Black recalled thinking. "But during the pandemic, I had a bit of clarity, and I wanted to do something different that was more aligned with my values."[2] In a 2024 essay Black called this period "COVID clarity" and wrote that the pandemic made them realize "I had been running from parts of my story".[9]

Family Equality (2021 to 2024)

Black became executive director and chief executive of Family Equality in March 2021, using the name Stacey Stevenson.[5][3] Founded as the Gay Fathers Coalition during the 1979 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, the organization runs legal and policy advocacy and offers resources and community programs for LGBTQ+ parents and prospective parents.[10][5] Black said that one reason they wanted the job was the discrimination they and their wife had faced when trying to form a family in Texas.[2] "This isn't about a job for me; this is about survival," Black told the Philadelphia Gay News shortly after starting. "Through all of the adversity I have faced over the years, I feel I have been preparing for this role my entire life."[3]

Black began with a listening tour of employees, the board, volunteers, partners and donors. They said they wanted to reach more of the 3.8 million LGBTQ+ millennials that a 2019 Family Equality study found were considering starting or expanding families, and to work more deliberately with Black and Brown families "who would normally not know that Family Equality existed".[3] At the time, Black also spoke about Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, then before the Supreme Court, and said the organization hoped the court would not "carve out an exception to generally applicable law for these taxpayer-funded agencies".[3] In 2021 the family moved from Texas to the Washington, D.C. area. Black said the move was both for the job and to escape a wave of Texas legislation targeting LGBTQ+ people.[2]

According to Out, Black widened Family Equality's focus from protecting LGBTQ+ youth and their families in schools to lowering barriers to parenthood.[5] In a 2024 interview Black described the organization's work in three areas: family creation, legal parentage, and community building. Black said Family Equality supported the John Lewis Every Child Deserves a Family Act and backed the Biden administration's 2022 executive order on LGBTQ+ protections in foster care. Black noted that 13 states still allowed child welfare agencies to turn away LGBTQ+ prospective foster or adoptive parents on religious grounds.[10] In response to state "Don't Say Gay" bills, Black said the organization hired its first director of policy and education. They also launched the Family Equity Justice Project, which interviewed BIPOC, low-income and rural LGBTQ+ families who reported feeling left out of the national movement.[10]

Black described hosting Family Week in Provincetown, Massachusetts, which Family Equality co-organises with COLAGE, as their proudest accomplishment of 2022. "Nearly 600 families from nine countries and 35 states joined us this year," Black told Out.[5] Black told The Boston Globe that the week was a "safe space" where children would not be "made fun of for having two mothers". They described their family's first visit in 2021 as "life-changing".[11]

In June 2023, after transgender activist Rose Montoya posted a video of herself topless at a White House Pride event, Black, then using the name Stevenson, told Newsweek that the clip was "incredibly inappropriate". They added: "The White House Pride celebration was focused on families and children ... this clip is a distraction from the lifesaving work the LGBTQ+ community needs to secure and the very real issues our community is experiencing right now."[6]

In December 2023 Family Equality announced that its chief executive would now be known as Jaymes Black, using any pronouns. Black credited the organization with helping set them on "this path to live a more authentic life".[10] In a March 2024 interview, during the presidential election year, Black said: "What I worry about is that if we do not win this election, what happens next? Do we go from having a year ending with over 500 bills to a year ending with something much greater than that?"[10] Black was succeeded at Family Equality by Darra Gordon, who was the organization's chief executive by May 2025.[12]

The Trevor Project (2024 to present)

Appointment

The Trevor Project announced Black's appointment on July 10, 2024, effective July 15. Black succeeded Peggy Rajski, a founder of the organization, who had been interim chief executive since 2022, when the board removed Amit Paley. Rajski became special advisor to the CEO during the handover and then returned to the board.[1][13] The Advocate noted that the change followed "recent turmoil" at the organization, which had laid off workers and contractors in 2023 and had been accused of union-busting.[13] Board chair Julian Moore said the search had been "rigorous" and that Black had "established themself as a sort of 'unicorn' candidate", citing Black's experience in finance, technology and business and in running an LGBTQ+ nonprofit.[1]

On taking the job, Black said: "I am elated and deeply honored to step into the role of CEO at The Trevor Project for so many reasons, especially since this is an organization I desperately needed myself as a queer young person growing up in South Texas."[1] Black told NBC News: "As bad as my story sounds, I can't imagine what our youth are going through today. I didn't have the internet. I didn't have text messaging."[2] Human Rights Campaign president Kelley Robinson and Equality Florida chief executive Nadine Smith both issued statements welcoming the appointment.[13]

First months and the 2024 election

In an October 2024 post marking 100 days in the job, Black listed the five most common reasons young people contacted the organization: mental health, relationships, family, gender identity, and coming out. They also wrote that they were working with "the most diverse executive team I've ever encountered".[14] In September 2024 the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust gave the organization a $5 million grant for an LGBTQ+ youth mental health awareness campaign in nine mainly rural states, along with 50 training sessions for youth-serving organizations. The campaign launched in March 2025.[15][16]

Ahead of the November 2024 election, the organization reported a rise of nearly 200 percent in election-related conversations on its crisis services. Black linked the increase to "the wave of anti-LGBTQ+ politics of the past few years".[17] On November 6, 2024, the day after the election, crisis volume rose nearly 700 percent compared with the previous weeks. Black later wrote that the surge "reinforced an urgent need to improve our operating model. Our lines and counselors were stressed, and so were the LGBTQ+ young people desperately trying to access support."[18] In January 2025 the organization reported a 33 percent rise in crisis line volume on Inauguration Day. Black said: "Suicide prevention transcends politics."[19]

2025 restructuring

On January 17, 2025, Black announced what they called a "transformation" of the organization. It focused on the United States crisis services and on putting more staff into direct contact with young people, while reviewing "staffing, structures, processes and operations" across the organization. Black wrote that some roles would be eliminated and new ones created, and that the union had been notified.[18] NBC News reported that the organization then had about 600 employees and would end up with a smaller total staff. Black described the situation as a "perfect storm" of rising crisis contacts, a hostile political climate and falling individual donations.[7]

Asked by NBC News about a 57 percent year-over-year rise in expenses that outpaced revenue growth, Black pointed to investment in research, advocacy, public education and the TrevorSpace online community, to higher pay for crisis staff, and to the launch of crisis services in Mexico. Black denied that funds had been mismanaged. "In order to fund these investments, we relied heavily on fewer large gifts, which is not sustainable in the current fundraising environment," they said.[7] The Communications Workers of America, which represents the staff union, said it had been caught off guard by the announcement. Black responded: "We informed the union when we had the appropriate level of detail to share with them."[7] On June 4, 2025, the organization and the union reached their first collective bargaining agreement. Black said the deal "reflects the complex landscape that nonprofits are facing, including financial challenges amid rising costs".[20]

Loss of the 988 "Press 3" service

The Trevor Project had been the sole provider in the pilot of the 988 Lifeline's "Press 3" option for LGBTQ+ youth, which launched in July 2022. By 2025 it was one of seven centers in the LGBTQ+ youth subnetwork and handled nearly half of its contacts. In 2024 alone it directly served more than 231,000 crisis contacts through the service.[21] In April 2025 a proposal to defund the service became public. Black said: "Suicide prevention is about risk, not identity."[22] On June 2, 2025, the organization published an open letter signed by more than 100 entertainers in support of the federal funding.[21]

On June 17, 2025, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration notified the organization that the service would close in 30 days. Black called the decision "devastating" and criticized the administration for dropping the "T" from "LGBTQ+" in its announcement.[21] The service closed on July 17, 2025. "It's hard to find the words today," Black said, adding that the organization was "being forced to let go" of crisis counselors and staff.[23] The president of CWA Local 1180 said the union had been notified that about 200 workers would be laid off as of July 17.[24] Time reported that the cut removed $25 million in annual funding, "more than a third of the group's annual budget", together with half of the organization's call volume, and that more than 200 employees were laid off.[8]

Black told Time: "Did I personally panic in private at 3 a.m.? Yes. Did I show that panic as I'm talking to my board and staff? No, I did not. I knew that I needed to stay focused and steady because everybody else was panicking."[8] Black launched an Emergency Lifeline Campaign. The organization said the campaign drew nearly 30,000 individual donors and raised more than $20 million.[25] Time put the total at "some $24 million" in one report and "over $20 million" in another.[8][4] Black also moved the organization into contracts with states and other groups to train hotline counselors to work with LGBTQ+ callers, which let it rehire some counselors.[8] In 2025 it partnered with California on LGBTQ+ training for the state's 988 operators and on printing its hotline number on public school, college and university student identification cards.[4]

Congress passed legislation on February 3, 2026, requiring the "Press 3" service to be restored with $33.1 million in funding. The organization said it was later ruled ineligible to take part, because it had been classed as an "inactive" center since the 2025 shutdown, and that it was formally told of its exclusion on August 3, 2026. The restored service resumed on September 30, 2026. Black welcomed the restoration and said the organization would "monitor the launch and usage of these important services".[26]

Advocacy and public profile

As chief executive, Black has issued statements on federal and court decisions affecting LGBTQ+ young people. In June 2025 they called the Supreme Court's ruling in United States v. Skrmetti, on medical care for transgender youth, "discrimination. Period."[27] After the court's March 31, 2026, decision in Chiles v. Salazar, which treated a Colorado ban on conversion therapy for minors as a regulation of speech, Black called it "a tragic step backward for our country that will put young lives at risk".[28]

Black has also presented the organization's research. In October 2025 they introduced its first longitudinal study, saying that following young people over time allowed the organization to "clearly and unequivocally document" that the treatment of LGBTQ+ youth "harms their health and risks their lives, and it is only getting worse".[29] In October 2026, introducing the two-year results of that study, Project SPARK, Black said that "the decline in self-harm and suicide attempts amid rising anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination is a testament to the life-saving power of community and connection".[30]

Black has interviewed public figures for the organization's blog, including Tommy Dorfman, Tove Lo, Lena Waithe, David Archuleta and Elliot Page.[31] Black has also presented the organization's annual Mental Health Champion of the Year award to Dua Lipa (2024),[32] Megan Thee Stallion (2025) and Zara Larsson (2026).[33][34] On April 14, 2026, after a performance of Every Brilliant Thing at the Hudson Theatre on Broadway, Black took part in a talkback on LGBTQ+ mental health with Daniel Radcliffe and Christine Yu Moutier of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. ABC News correspondent Darien Sutton moderated. Black said afterwards that the play was "a poignant reminder that even in our darkest moments, connection, humor, and hope can all coexist".[35][4]

As of October 2026, Black remains chief executive of The Trevor Project.[30]

Leadership and management style

Black has described their approach as people-centered. "I feel very strongly about leading people and ensuring that I'm showing up as a leader and being as egoless as possible," they said in 2021. They began their Family Equality tenure with a listening tour, saying that hearing from staff, volunteers, partners and donors would "shape our strategy because sometimes that's where some of the best ideas come from".[3] At Family Equality Black stressed collaboration with groups such as PFLAG, Gays with Kids and Men Having Babies: "We don't make a change if we're siloed."[10]

At The Trevor Project Black has relied on operational restructuring and on keeping a calm public face. They framed the January 2025 restructuring as a move to put more staff on crisis lines within "constrained resources", and described the change as "difficult but necessary".[18][7] During the 988 crisis, Black told Time that they "did everything to exude calm" even as "it felt like the world around us was crumbling".[8] Black has often tied their leadership to their own history. "I get to be who I didn't have as a young person," they told Time. "The fact that I'm here today, I owe something back to the youth."[4] Black often uses the line "Suicide prevention is about people, not politics" to appeal across party lines on federal funding.[21]

Major deals and strategic decisions

  • Helmsley Charitable Trust grant (September 2024): a $5 million grant to fund a rural LGBTQ+ youth mental health awareness campaign and 50 training sessions in nine states.[15]
  • Atwood family gift (January 2025): a $1 million donation from Stack Overflow co-founder Jeff Atwood, one of eight $1 million gifts the Atwood family made to United States nonprofits.[36]
  • Organisational restructuring (January 2025): a reorganization centered on United States crisis services that reduced total headcount from about 600.[7]
  • First union contract (June 2025): the first collective bargaining agreement with the Communications Workers of America, which the organization had voluntarily recognized in 2023.[20]
  • Emergency Lifeline Campaign (2025): a fundraising campaign after the federal cut that the organization says raised more than $20 million from nearly 30,000 donors.[25]
  • State training contracts (2025): a shift towards contracting with states, including California, to train 988 counselors in LGBTQ+-competent care.[8][4]
  • MacKenzie Scott gift (January 2026): a $45 million gift, the largest single donation in the organization's history, following a $6 million gift from Scott in 2020. Black said they "did fall out of my chair, actually, because I thought that I heard them incorrectly".[37][8]

Financial and market performance

The Trevor Project is a nonprofit organization, so it has no share price or market value. When Black arrived it was under financial strain. In January 2025 NBC News reported that expenses had risen 57 percent year over year, outpacing revenue. Black said that apart from one large government grant restricted to 988 work, every fundraising category "came in under the budgeted revenue".[7] Before the cut, the LGBTQ+ youth subnetwork had received up to $50 million in restricted federal funds.[21] The loss of the 988 contract in July 2025 removed about $25 million a year, more than a third of the organization's annual budget according to Time.[8] Headcount was about 600 in January 2025, before that year's restructuring and the layoff of more than 200 staff in July 2025.[7][8] According to the organization, the Emergency Lifeline Campaign raised more than $20 million, and the $45 million Scott gift in January 2026 was earmarked for "long-term sustainability".[25][37]

Controversies

The January 2025 restructuring drew criticism from the staff union. Luis Benítez-Burgos of the Communications Workers of America told NBC News that management had announced the changes without union members present and without saying when layoffs would happen or how many positions were affected. "This should have been addressed in a different way," he said. Black replied that "this needs to be set in motion now" and that the union had been informed "when we had the appropriate level of detail to share with them". Black also denied claims of financial mismanagement.[7] After the 988 layoffs in July 2025, members of CWA Local 1180 at the organization held a rally against the cuts.[24]

Personal life

Black met their wife, Cheralyn Stevenson, on a Wednesday night at Sue Ellen's in Dallas in 2006. The couple married in Victoria, British Columbia, in 2007, eight years before the Supreme Court's Obergefell v. Hodges decision made same-sex marriage legal nationwide.[2] Before adopting, the couple spent eight years on unsuccessful fertility treatments. One adoption agency they used went bankrupt and another refused to work with same-sex couples.[3] Black recalled one agency telling their wife that a birth mother "would never choose lesbians". In 2014 the couple adopted twin boys.[2] The family lives in the Washington, D.C., area.[2] In 2024 Black and their wife appeared in a Family Equality event filmed for The Real Housewives of Orange County.[38]

Black identifies as a nonbinary lesbian and uses they, she and he pronouns.[13] Black has said they rebuilt their relationship with their parents, who did not accept their sexuality at first.[2] Black has written publicly about their history of self-harm and about the mental health of BIPOC LGBTQ+ young people, and has described themselves as "a proud parent, proud wife, and proud leader".[9]

Recognition

  • 2022: Out magazine Out100.[5]
  • 2024: Out magazine Out100, Educators category.[39]
  • 2026: TIME100 Philanthropy list.[8]
  • 2026: Time Visionaries list (inaugural edition).[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 <ref>"The Trevor Project Names Jaymes Black as New Chief Executive Officer".The Trevor Project.July 10, 2024.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 <ref>"Trevor Project announces new CEO, Jaymes Black, to helm the LGBTQ suicide prevention nonprofit".July 10, 2024.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 <ref>Dana Rudolph."Family Equality's New ED: "I have been preparing for this role my entire life"".April 6, 2021.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 <ref>Erin McMullen."The Trevor Project Lost Funding. CEO Jaymes Black Kept Fighting for LGBTQ+ Kids".Time.June 16, 2026.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 <ref>"The 2022 Out100: See All the Names From the Full List Here".Out.October 28, 2022.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 <ref>Katherine Fung."LGBTQ+ family group criticizes topless trans activist".June 15, 2023.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 <ref>"The Trevor Project to undergo layoffs and restructuring in major 'transformation'".January 17, 2025.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  8. ↑ 8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 8.10 8.11 <ref>Steve Friess."TIME100 Philanthropy: Jaymes Black".Time.May 14, 2026.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 <ref>Jaymes Black."The journey of an LGBTQ+ rights advocate: Jaymes Black tells their story".The Advocate.July 30, 2024.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 <ref>"America devalues queer families. Jaymes Black is lifting them up.".March 5, 2024.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  11. ↑ <ref>"Hundreds of LGBTQ+ families to gather in Provincetown for Family Week".July 22, 2022.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  12. ↑ <ref>"Celebrating Our Partnership with RENEWPR: Honoring the Past, Embracing the Present, and Dreaming Big for the Future".Family Equality.May 4, 2025.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 <ref>Alex Cooper."The Trevor Project, the LGBTQ+ suicide prevention org, announces Jaymes Black as its new CEO".July 10, 2024.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  14. ↑ <ref>Jaymes Black."Reflecting On My First 100 Days as CEO".The Trevor Project.October 25, 2024.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 <ref>"The Trevor Project and The Helmsley Charitable Trust Team Up to Support LGBTQ+ Youth Mental Health".The Trevor Project.September 3, 2024.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  16. ↑ <ref>"The Trevor Project Launches Public Awareness Campaign to Address LGBTQ+ Youth Mental Health Crisis in Rural Communities".The Trevor Project.March 20, 2025.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  17. ↑ <ref>"The Trevor Project Reports 200% Increase in Election Conversations Across Its Crisis Services".The Trevor Project.November 5, 2024.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 <ref>Jaymes Black."Transforming The Trevor Project".The Trevor Project.January 17, 2025.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  19. ↑ <ref>"The Trevor Project Reported a 33% Increase in Crisis Line Volume on Inauguration Day".The Trevor Project.January 21, 2025.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 <ref>"The Trevor Project and Communications Workers of America Finalize Collective Bargaining Agreement".The Trevor Project.June 4, 2025.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 <ref>"Trump Administration Orders Termination of National LGBTQ+ Youth Suicide Lifeline, Effective July 17th".The Trevor Project.June 18, 2025.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  22. ↑ <ref>"Trump Administration Proposes Defunding Suicide Lifeline for LGBTQ+ Youth Beginning October 2025".The Trevor Project.April 21, 2025.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  23. ↑ <ref>"Closed: Trump Admin Officially Shuts Down the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline's LGBTQ+ Youth Specialized Services".The Trevor Project.July 17, 2025.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 <ref>"Cuts = Death. CWA 1180 Members at the Trevor Project Rally to Protect Life-Saving Services".CWA District 1.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 <ref>"Shaping the Future of Giving: Jaymes Black Joins the 2026 TIME100 Philanthropy List".The Trevor Project.May 14, 2026.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  26. ↑ <ref>"The Trevor Project Applauds the Return of the 988 Lifeline's "Press 3" Specialized Services for LGBTQ+ Youth".The Trevor Project.October 1, 2026.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  27. ↑ <ref>"Supreme Court Greenlights Healthcare Discrimination for Transgender Youth in U.S. v. Skrmetti".The Trevor Project.June 18, 2025.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  28. ↑ <ref>"The Trevor Project Condemns Supreme Court Decision to Treat Debunked Practice of Conversion Therapy as Protected Speech".The Trevor Project.March 31, 2026.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  29. ↑ <ref>"New Study Shows LGBTQ+ Youth Mental Health Crisis is Worsening in the U.S.".The Trevor Project.October 16, 2025.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  30. ↑ 30.0 30.1 <ref>"Two-Year Study on LGBTQ+ Youth: Support Saves Lives, Anti-LGBTQ+ Stigma Drives Suicide Risk".The Trevor Project.October 20, 2026.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  31. ↑ <ref>Jaymes Black."Elliot Page Unearths Nature's Diversity in Groundbreaking Documentary "Second Nature"".The Trevor Project.June 10, 2026.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  32. ↑ <ref>"The Trevor Project Honors Dua Lipa with Mental Health Champion of the Year Award".The Trevor Project.November 19, 2024.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  33. ↑ <ref>"The Trevor Project Honors Megan Thee Stallion with Mental Health Champion of the Year Award".The Trevor Project.October 10, 2025.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  34. ↑ <ref>"The Trevor Project Honors Zara Larsson with 2026 Mental Health Champion of the Year Award".The Trevor Project.October 9, 2026.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  35. ↑ <ref>"'Every Brilliant Thing' hosts LGBTQIA+ Mental Health Night".Broadway News.April 21, 2026.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  36. ↑ <ref>"Stack Overflow Co-Founder Jeff Atwood Donates $1 Million to The Trevor Project".The Trevor Project.January 7, 2025.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  37. ↑ 37.0 37.1 <ref>Jaymes Black."The Trevor Project Receives Historic $45 Million Gift from MacKenzie Scott".The Trevor Project.January 12, 2026.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  38. ↑ <ref>"Family Equality on Bravo's "The Real Housewives of Orange County"".Family Equality.September 4, 2024.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  39. ↑ <ref>"The 2024 Out100: Jaymes Black".Out.October 17, 2024.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
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