About

What

Queer Budget Center (QBC) uses government budget advocacy to strengthen the social, medical, and other material resources that vulnerable communities need to survive and thrive. 

• Marginalized peoples’ health care and social services are under attack.
• QBC is queer-led, but fights for all people–immigrants, people with disabilities, veterans, and others–whose ability to survive is threatened by policies weaponizing and destroying benefits such as Medicaid.

QBC works with advocates, and educates policymakers, in several states and cities across the US, to make sure governments use their funds to support communities in need.

We teach career advocates and community members how to do this work.

Where

We’re based in NYC, but in our first year, QBC has led or supported work in over 10 states, across the US, including the Midwest and Deep South.

We were created after our founder, as a staffer in the NYC Mayor’s Office, started the process to create a transgender health and social services fund—under the Eric Adams Administration.

We worked with Equality Virginia to introduce an appropriation and legislation to fund medical services for every group targeted by health funding cuts.

We have trained many people to do budget advocacy, including, most notably, high schoolers in Vermont.