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Scholarships

Horizons is home to several scholarships:

  • GAPA's George Choy Memorial Scholarship
    Established in 1997 by the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA), this fund provides post-secondary financial assistance to Bay Area gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Asian and Pacific Islander graduating high school students.

  • Markowski-Leach Scholarship Fund
    Established by a bequest from the estates of Jim Leach and Tom Markowski, this fund has been granting scholarships since 1992. It offers awards to juniors, seniors, and graduate students at San Francisco State University, Stanford University, and the University of California at Berkeley who self-identify as lesbian or gay. Awards are granted to students who are considered likely to enhance society's perception of LGBT people as well as increase the LGBT community's self-esteem.

  • Juan Marquez Scholarship
    This scholarship goes to the top Latino or Latina student at Plymouth (Indiana) High School. Although the award is not aimed at LGBT graduates, it stil raises the visibility of LGBT philanthropy: the description in the school's annual listing of available scholarships specifically states that it was established by a gay man to honor his life partner Juan Marquez, who died in a plane crash in 2000.

  • Pride Law Fund's Thomas H. Steel Fellowship Fund
    This fellowship supports a new lawyer each year to work in the United States on an innovative, public interest law project that serves the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community. It is the first fellowship of its kind anywhere in the country.

  • Joseph Towner Fund for Gay and Lesbian Families
    With the support of a bequest from the estate of Joseph Towner, this endowment provides scholarships for post-secondary education of children with at least one gay or lesbian parent residing in the Bay Area.