# The Trevor Project Founded in **1998** by James Lecesne, Peggy Rajski, and Randy Stone after their 1994 short film *Trevor* — about a 13-year-old boy attempting suicide after being rejected over his sexuality — won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. The founders realized in the lead-up to the film's HBO premiere that no national crisis line existed specifically for LGBTQ youth; they launched the Trevor Lifeline in tandem with the broadcast. ## Core Services The Trevor Project is the **largest LGBTQ youth crisis intervention and suicide prevention organization in the United States**: - **TrevorLifeline** — 24/7 phone crisis counseling staffed by trained counselors - **TrevorChat** — text and online chat counseling - **TrevorSpace** — a moderated international peer-support social network for LGBTQ young people ages 13–24 - **Research** — the annual *National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health*, which is now one of the most-cited LGBTQ-youth research resources in U.S. public-health work - **Education and advocacy** — including training for schools, healthcare providers, and youth-serving organizations ## Why the Research Matters The Trevor Project's annual research has documented the connection between **anti-LGBTQ political environments and LGBTQ-youth suicidality** in unprecedented quantitative detail. Their 2023, 2024, and 2025 reports have shown statistically significant increases in suicidality among LGBTQ youth — particularly trans and nonbinary youth — in states that have passed anti-trans legislation. The research has become a primary source for legislative testimony, litigation expert reports, and journalism on the human costs of the post-2022 anti-trans state-legislative wave. ## Place in the Vault The Trevor Project occupies a distinctive niche in the [[Queer Liberation Ecosystem]] — the **mental-health-and-youth-services front** of contemporary LGBTQ infrastructure. As state-level attacks on LGBTQ youth have intensified since 2022, the organization has become both a primary support resource for affected youth and a primary data source documenting the human toll of the political backlash. --- ## See Also - [[Queer Liberation Ecosystem]] - [[Queer Liberation Timeline]] - [[PFLAG]]