To learn more about becoming a sponsor or supporter of the 2025 Queer Youth Leadership Awards, visit the QYLA Sponsorship Options webpage. There are three ways to support the Queer Youth Leadership Awards:
Thank you Co-Sponsors and Supporters!
- Ace’s Flowers
- Aire Software
- Alan Ronay
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
- Angela Firpo and Chris Martorana
- Assemblymember Mark Stone, California State Assembly, 27th District
- Bay Area Municipal Electrons Committee (BAYMEC)
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Santa Cruz County
- Black China Bakery
- Blue Heron Design Group
- Bookshop Santa Cruz
- Boys and Girls Club of Santa Cruz
- Brad Willis & Tony Pusathai
- Bread for the Journey
- California Rural Legal Assistance – CRLA
- Cantú Queer Center at UCSC
- Charles Singer, L Ac.
- Cheryl Rebottaro, Edward Jones
- City Councilmember Felipe Hernandez, District 1, City of Watsonville
- Clare Sheils & Margaret Leonard
- Closet Free Radio Show, KZSC
- Connie Batten
- Coffeetopia
- Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County
- Community Television of Santa Cruz County
- Community Printers
- Cruzio
- County Mental Health Services Act (MHSA)
- Cynthia Druley
- Dharma’s, Bernie Shapiro
- eQuality Scholarship Collaborative
- Eileen S. Hamilton, Attorney at Law
- Emergency Medical Group (Emergency Room Physicians)
- First 5 Santa Cruz County
- Friends of Kathy Goldenkranz
- Friends of Sandra Sandoval
- G. Schulz, Architect
- Gail D. Levine
- Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network (GSA Network)
- Gender Spectrum
- Good Times Community Fund
- Growing Up in Santa Cruz
- Inner Light Ministries
- Iversen Design
- Jerry Solomon, Ph.D
- Jim and Deborah Jacobson
- La Selva Beach Community Church
- Leonard Santos
- Leslie Smith
- Legend Theatrical
- Macaroni Marketing
- Michael Dively
- New Leaf Community Markets
- Our Gente: A Program of The Epicenter
- Out In Our Faith
- Pajaro Valley Pride
- Pajaro Valley Unified School District
- Pájaro Valley High School Queer-Straight Alliance
- Pájaro Valley High School
- Pat Delin
- Patrick LeCuyer & Ysidro Gallardo
- PFLAG Santa Cruz County
- Rainbow Speakers & Friends of Monterey County
- Ralph Alpert
- Ron Indra
- Ross E. Bryan
- Safe Schools Project
- Salinas Valley Pride
- Santa Cruz City Schools (SCCS)
- Santa Cruz County Office of Education (SCCOE)
- Santa Cruz Area Radical Faeries
- Santa Cruz Pride
- Santa Cruz Sentinel
- Saturn Café
- Savitt Family Foundation
- Senator Bill Monning, California State Senate, 17th District
- Sheri and Richard Watson- Riley
- Silver Spur
- STRANGE, Santa Cruz Community Counseling Center
- Supervisor John Leopold, District 1, County of Santa Cruz
- Taqueria La Fuente
- The Bagelry, John Hamstra
- The Diversity Center
- The Dolores Huerta Foundation
- The Ugly Mug
- Temple Beth El
- Teresa Antonia Broccoli, LCSW
- TransFamilies Support Group
- Trans Teen Project
- Transgender Youth, Santa Cruz County
- UCSC Lionel Cantú GLBTI Resource Center
- United Way of Santa Cruz County
- Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Santa Cruz County
- Watsonville Film Festival
- Wiggsy Siversten
