Fundraiser for The Trevor Project
For the month of June, Horizon is proud to host an online fundraiser for The Trevor Project.
Founded in 1998, The Trevor Project focuses on suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth. Through their toll-free number, their trained counselors provide crisis intervention and suicide prevention for people under the age of 25.
We chose to fundraise on behalf of The Trevor Project because their mission to foster safe, accepting, and inclusive environments for all LGBTQ youth at home, in schools, and in colleges aligns with our own Thelemic values. Our Prophet, Aleister Crowley, was bisexual and arguably gender fluid, and he faced the threat of unfair discrimination in his own time. Crowley was also adamant that the Law of Thelema justified freedom of gender and sexual expression.
Writing in Magick in Theory and Practice, he said, “Every man has an indefeasible right to be what he is.” In the New Comment on AL I.41, he wrote, “The sexual act is a sacrament of Will. To profane it is the great offence. All true expression of it is lawful; all suppression or distortion is contrary to the Law of Liberty.” Perhaps most famously, in his New Comment on AL I.51, he wrote:
The Beast 666 ordains by His authority that every man, and every woman, and every intermediately-sexed individual, shall be absolutely free to interpret and communicate Self by means of any sexual practices soever, whether direct or indirect, rational or symbolic, physiologically, legally, ethically, or religiously approved or no, provided only that all parties to any act are fully aware of all implications and responsibilities thereof, and heartily agree thereto.
Or as he succinctly put it in Liber Oz: “Man has the right to love as he will”.
Given their close alignment with Thelemic values, The Trevor Project was a natural choice for an organization for us to fundraise on behalf of.
We are conducting our fundraiser through Facebook. The amount you donate through Facebook will automatically be transferred to The Trevor Project, minus Facebook’s transaction fee. If you are not on Facebook but would like to participate, you may also donate via the PayPal link at the bottom of this page. We will transfer the full amount we collect to The Trevor Project at the beginning of July. Donations will be used by The Trevor Project to pay their crisis counselors, to help provide crisis services 24/7 free of cost, and to assist in the expansion of research and advocacy efforts.
Thank you for joining me this year in supporting The Trevor Project in their mission of making the world safer and more inclusive for LGBTQ youth.
And please be sure to share our fundraiser with allied friends and family!