Why Flame Keepers? Why now?
For the last two years, Mama Dragons has been quietly doing something most people never saw. We've been strengthening our foundations - building something more secure, more integrated, built for what we knew was coming. We didn't wait to be caught off guard. We built for strength. Built for this moment. Built for the fight for our children's lives.
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Now, like the dragon she was always meant to be - fierce and protective and finally ready to be seen - Mama Dragons is turning outward. For over a decade, we've poured our love inward, toward the families who found their way to us. Now we're sending that love out, loudly and publicly, at the moment our kids need it most.
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Empowered Parenting Learning: a publicly available library of on-demand courses and webinars, teaching any parent, grandparent, or caregiver of an LGBTQ+ child everything it has taken our community over a decade to learn. No longer only for the families who already found us.
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Advocacy: speaking out, publicly. Writing op-eds. Showing up for media opportunities alongside partner organizations. Investing in reaching parents directly in the states where anti-LGBTQ+ bills are being introduced and passed right now.
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Every one of these is a way of loving our kids out loud, at a time when it's never mattered more. Speaking this publicly, in the states where it's hardest, is a real risk. We're taking it anyway - because our kids don't get to opt out of this moment, so neither do we.
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We can't do this work alone. Loving outward - this loudly, this publicly - takes sustained support behind it.
"We spent two years building the foundation. Now we're breathing fire." — Liz Welch, Mama Dragons
A steady fire, not a one-time spark
What Flame Keepers is
None of this happens without sustained support behind it. Flame Keepers is Mama Dragons' new monthly giving community - not a one-time ask for a one-time crisis, but an invitation to be part of the steady fire that keeps this work burning all year long.
Reliable
Predictable funding we can build programs around.
Rapid
Predictable funding we can build programs around.
Year-round
Predictable funding we can build programs around.
Choose your flame
Every level keeps the fire burning
Spark
$10/month
Every fire starts somewhere. Your monthly gift keeps our educational resources free and accessible to any parent who needs them, right when they need them most.
Ember
$20/month
Sustain our advocacy work between headlines, tracking legislation, briefing lawmakers, and showing up at hearings most people never hear about.
Flame
$50/month
Keep the lights on for everything we do: peer support, advocacy, and education working together, every single day, for families across all 50 states.
Blaze
$75/month
Help us go where the fight is loudest, funding rapid response to harmful legislation and stepping directly into the communities under the most pressure.
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