Anna Kendrick is lucky. She grew up in Maine in an open-minded family, and has been constantly working in theater, film and TV since before she hit puberty. “When I think about it, I am very fortunate that I have a lot of gay men and women in my life,” she says.
Not everyone is so lucky, which is where the Trevor Project comes in. Founded in 1998 by the team behind the Oscar-winning short “Trevor,” Randy Stone, Peggy Rajski and writer-performer James Lecesne, it’s a national organization that provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to Lgbtq teens.
Pamela Littky for Variety
Despite recent breakthroughs for the Lgbtq community, there are still pockets in the country where services offered by the Trevor Project are critical, Kendrick says.
Indeed, with the heated 2016 presidential campaign making gay rights an issue, the Trevor Project’s work is more important than ever. “I...
Not everyone is so lucky, which is where the Trevor Project comes in. Founded in 1998 by the team behind the Oscar-winning short “Trevor,” Randy Stone, Peggy Rajski and writer-performer James Lecesne, it’s a national organization that provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to Lgbtq teens.
Pamela Littky for Variety
Despite recent breakthroughs for the Lgbtq community, there are still pockets in the country where services offered by the Trevor Project are critical, Kendrick says.
Indeed, with the heated 2016 presidential campaign making gay rights an issue, the Trevor Project’s work is more important than ever. “I...
- 10/6/2015
- by Carole Horst
- Variety - Film News
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