TurnOut powers intersectional movements for mutual aid and liberation.

TurnOut began as a project to support queer and trans people. Traditionally queer and trans people have been unable to rely on mainstream institutions or our biological families for support. To fill that gap, our communities built a parallel infrastructure of grassroots organizations to meet our needs. We learned to raise money, we learned to build structures of care, and we learned how to work together effectively to protect the people we love. We launched TurnOut in 2015 to offer a pathway for those who cared about queer and trans people to join in that work and support that infrastructure.

By 2024, the landscape had changed drastically. As wealth and power concentrate in fewer and fewer hands, more and more of us find ourselves on the outside, just as queer and trans people have. Facing urgent crises of all kinds, movements like ours must join together with others fighting the same fight - the fight for survival and liberation. The lessons we have learned as queer and trans people - and those learned by others operating outside the system - are the best blueprint we have for this moment. This blueprint is the map that charts the path to the new world we need, and this is the work that TurnOut drives forward today.