·         Build a broad and diverse leadership base to address issues from multiple perspectives and frameworks.

·         Train a new generation of leaders in the struggle for racial, economic, and gender justice.

·         Hold a public accountability session with the CEO of Chicago Public Schools, Ron Huberman. Over 175 community members witnessed the team of students, parents, and teachers present solutions on ways to make schools safe and solutions on ways to make schools safe and affirming for everyone. This has led to collaboration between CPS and Gender JUST, which in turn will create years of results to come.

·         Work with Chicago Public Schools to ensure that all staff will be trained adequately and accountably around the issues surrounding our multiple identities.

·         Pressure Chicago Public Schools to put funding on the table for the development of “intervention teams” which will work to ensure that schools are safe and affirming for everyone.

·         Build a relationship with the Chicago Department of Public Health to increase the availability and visibility of HIV/AIDS prevention services on the South and West sides of the Chicago, as well as to make the community planning process more inclusive and accessible for working people.

·         Educate and mobilize the community about the inequities in HIV prevention funding and the racial justice issues therein.

·         Raise awareness of racial and economic justice issues within LGBTQA communities, through political education and media work, which has sparked countless other projects and organizing efforts.

·         Launch a pen pal correspondence project between Gender JUST members and queer and trans folks in prisons.

·         Work with a citywide coalition to stop the deportation of Rigo Padilla, a student who was a risk of bearing the brunt of our racist and broken immigration system.

·         Team with the Illinois Caucus on Adolescent Health to educate young people about the oppressive Parental Notice law in Illinois and mobilize around its defeat.

·         Mobilize LGBTQA communities around the foreclosure crisis, raising the visibility of queer folks within economic justice struggles.  Gender JUST played a lead role in the Showdown in Chicago, a series of direct actions on banking institutions demanding accountability for the economic disaster in 2009.

·         Provide trainings for LGBTQA communities around racial justice and white privilege, highlighting rampant racism within mainstream LGBT communities.

·         Raise a call for an intersectional framework in Chicago organizing, holding accountable both LGBT organizations that refuse to acknowledge race, as well as racial and economic justice organizations with heterosexist outlooks.

·         Provide a home for countless queer young people, people of color, and other grassroots folks to organize around issues important to them and their communities.