Portland Outright is a youth-led, membership-based nonprofit founded in 1988 in Portland, Maine that organizes and supports LGBTQ+ young people (ages 14–25). The organization provides direct services, leadership development and mutual aid while running intersectional campaigns for racial, economic and LGBTQ+ justice, including advocacy on youth homelessness, school safety, trans student rights, health access, and ending criminalization and youth incarceration.
Advocacy for LGBTQ+ youth rights and protections in schools and health care, campaigns to reduce policing and criminalization of youth, juvenile justice reform and youth prison abolition, housing and homelessness supports for LGBTQ+ youth, racial and economic justice measures, and community-based youth services and mutual aid
Primarily funded by foundation grants and philanthropic support (e.g., regional health and justice funders), supplemented by individual donations and monthly 'Solidarity Membership' contributions and occasional project grants
New England Youth Organizing Network (NEYON), Disability Rights Maine, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), Homeless Voices for Justice, Maine Center for Juvenile Policy and Law, Maine Youth Justice, Southern Maine Workers' Center, Trans Justice Funding Project, Maine Health Access Foundation, Maine Initiatives
Non-profit (youth-led, membership-based nonprofit / operates as a tax-deductible 501(c) organization)
