Pittsburgh LGBTQ Charities

Support your neighbors who take care of homeless animals and wildlife. Donations distributed to cat colony caretakers, feeders, TNR volunteers,low-income pet owners,rescuers, rehabbers and others on and near to the Northside’s 18 neighborhoods. Many of these neighbors are not eligible for traditional pet food pantries.

We started in Sept and have tripled our participants. We will definitely need help to distribute food in December especially if we continue to grow.

Where to Donate

Two permanent drop-off spots at

1213 W. North Avenue Pittsburgh 15233 (steps)

1440 Faulsey Way Pittsburgh 15233 (backyard address)

Look for the bins and the yellow #PghCatFolx yard signs

Coordinate drop-off/pick-uo of larger donations via email [email redacted]

Amazon Wishlist /bit.ly/TheRuffList

Financial donations

GoFundMe bit.ly/GivePghCatFolx

Venmo [email redacted]

PayPalCharities bit.ly/PayPalPLC

What to Donate

Small, medium and large bags of all brands and flavors. Special diet foods welcome.

Dry food, cats and dogs

Canned food, cats and dogs

Treats, cats and dogs

Dental treats are high value

Paper plates and bowls, any type or style

Chemical hand warmers to keep food/water from freezing

How to Donate

Pick up items on your next shopping trip

Organize a collection among your neighbors, coworkers, or community group

Add a drop-off to community event or activity

Great small project for kids

As an example, we've cared for Fort Faulsey since 2020. Right now we have five permanent residents, a half dozen visitors. We were as high as 15 cats. Since we took over, there have been no kittens born here - big win. Everyone has clean water, daily feedings, and shelters. It is a small colony, but we go through 35 pounds of dry food , plus a case of canned food weekly.

Investing in neighbors who care for these cats helps the whole community.

We also need to take five colony cats for exams and vaccine updates. Plus we need to hire someone to install a shed at Fort Faulsey.

You can make a difference by donating today to Pittsburgh LGBTQ Charities.

Pittsburgh LGBTQ Charities was established in 2021 to raise community awareness and promote grassroots engagement for neighborhood quality of life, animal welfare, anti-poverty, and LGBTQ+ issues in Western Pennsylvania.

A few weeks ago, Pittsburgh LGBTQ Charities responded to concerns of a LGBTQ family being targeted by a neighbor. The specific focus at that time was targeting their 15-year-old Black trans daughter by hoisting a 9-foot transphobic sign in their backyard facing her bedroom window. Previous encounters included implicit threats to their then 17-year-old Black heterosexual son about calling the police for 'recycling inappropriately' with a reference to the murder of George Floyd and so much more.

One part of the response, crafted with the family and Ke'Juan specifically, was to send a message to the community - PLC partnered with Commonwealth Press to create yard signs reading <em>Protect Trans Kids.</em> We ordered 50 signs and distributed in the neighborhoods near the family so they would see them as they went about their daily business.

Response was great and has continued to grow. There are now requests for close to 300 signs total. Volunteers have been distributing, starting with Northside locations and moving outward. No one is charged, but donations offset the production costs. Each sign is about $12 or 50 signs for $580. These are NOT a fundraiser, but any excess funds left after the signs are done will go to other programming around Ke'Juan's wishes. Right now, donations go to produce more signs. PLC invested the original $580. Donors have invested another $1630. as of today <strong>we need $1300</strong> to meet the signs requested via our project. That's not allowing for a single sign be distributed to other spaces or public thoroughfares, etc.

So we are increasing our expectations and planning to produce a total of 500 signs. That will require $6000 total.

Individual donations are probably not going to keep up with demand for the yard signs. We need to think bigger and broader - who in the community *should* be investing in the message that trans kids need and deserve support? Political candidates? Community groups? Private business? Local governments? Civic groups? Foundations? Affluent neighbors?

So we are establishing a crowdfund at GoFundMe for this particular project and asking you to help with the heavy lifting of requesting donations, both individual and from groups. Share the links with your community groups, your book clubs, your faith community, your political committee, and your neighbor/relative who can write a check for $580 without breaking a sweat, something most of us cannot do. I know a very few folks like that and I've reached out to ask. Can you do the same thing?

You can also donate via Venmo and Paypal or check

Venmo PittsburghLGBTQ

Paypal PittsburghLGBTQ

You can Request a sign at this link

Read more about Ke’Juan and her family at:

North Side family alleges transphobic harassment f rom neighbor – Pgh City Paper, May 24, 2022

No-contact order given in North Side transphobic h arassment case; final ruling to come – Pgh City Paper, June 23, 2022.

Dads Q and A

KeJuan Q and A

Chris Q and A

Message from Ke'Juan via video