Good Deeds
The Trevor Project
Interactive Male is proud to support The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project began in 1994 with the short film “Trevor.” A funny and touching look at one 13-year-old boy’s struggle to come to terms with his sexuality, it won the Academy Award for Best Short Film. Though it took another four years for the film just to make it onto HBO, the project stayed with the film-makers. “Trevor” became their driving force behind a national suicide helpline for gay and questioning youth, aptly named, The Trevor Project. The Trevor Helpline is the first around-the-clock national toll-free suicide hotline where gay, lesbian, queer and questioning youth can talk to someone who understands. Open 24/7, 365 days a year, teens with nowhere to turn can call (866) 4-U-TREVOR. All calls are free and confidential. With Gay and questioning teens 3 to 4 times as likely to attempt suicide as their straight peers, our community faces an epidemic. There is some good news: 95 percent of all teen suicides are preventable. With over 10,000 calls coming into The Trevor Helpline annually, young lives are saved and new futures are born every day.
GLAAD
Interactive Male is proud to support the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD).
GLAAD is dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of people and events in the media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.
In addition to our work with national media and field media strategy, GLAAD has introduced several new programs, including our National Sports Desk, Religion, Faith and Values, Young Adult Media Program, Ex-Gay Survivors and Be an Ally and a Friend Campaign.
CANFAR
Interactive Male is proud to support the Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research (CANFAR).
It is only through research that a long term, sustainable solution to the AIDS pandemic, now gripping the world, will be found. This is why CANFAR exists. CANFAR’s mission is to raise awareness to generate funds for research into HIV and AIDS. This role is particularly vital, given that Canada is one of a handful of countries with the brain-trust, infrastructure and resources to make a significant difference in the global fight against AIDS.CANFAR was incorporated in 1987 primarily to meet an urgent need for research on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and the conditions related to it, all of which are associated with an epidemic infection with the retrovirus HIV. CANFAR awards research grants in the clinical, biological and social sciences related to: fundamental and applied research; education and prevention; psycho-social; community research; and care. Research projects are selected and evaluated by a voluntary team of internationally renowned physicians and scientists through a rigorous peer review based on the proposal’s scientific merit, promise, and relevance.
The HIV/AIDS epidemic has profound and widespread societal repercussions. Therefore, CANFAR allocates a portion of its resources to the development of awareness programs on top of the investment in research into all aspects of HIV infection and AIDS. Research grants are awarded at two levels: level one up to $80,000 each year for a two year period, and level two up to $25,000 for one year. Since 1987, CANFAR has awarded grants totaling over $14 million to Canadian research projects. <>
