New York, Jun 2 (EFE) .- More than one hundred celebrities, including Pedro Pascal, Ariana Grande, Sabrina Carpenter and Dua Lipa, today signed a letter in which they ask the US government to maintain the financing of a federal program that provides suicide prevention services to LGTB people.
The Organization The Trevor Project is the one behind this request, in which it requires that the financing of 50 million dollars of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline crisis is protected, which offers support 24 hours a day during the seven days of the week.
The letter takes place after a filtering draft of the Budget of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) revealed that the Government has proposed to eliminate the federal funds of the Services of 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, which gives emergency help to young LGTB with suicidal thoughts.
In the letter, also signed by other names such as Christina Aguilera, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sarah Paulson, Daniel Radcliffe, Troye Sivan or Cara Delevingne, point out that this cut will have “devastating and potentially mortal consequences for LGTB young people throughout the country.”
“These are people, not politics. In a moment of deep division, let’s let this be something that we can all agree on: no young man should run out of help at their darkest moment,” the signatories point out, who are mostly dedicated to the world of entertainment.
Thus, they ask the administration of the US President, Donald Trump, and the Congress, to restore and protect the funds of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline crisis in the budget of the fiscal year 2026.
The executive director of Trevor Project, Jaymes Black, thanked the celebrities involved and stressed that LGTB young people navigate a world that too often tells them that they do not belong to him. ”
In the petition, The Trevor Project states that this program, launched in 2022, has connected about 1.3 million people with advisors “who save lives” and remember that young people from the group are four times more likely to try to commit suicide than heterosexual people.
In this sense, the organization estimates that more than 1.8 million LGTB young people in the United States “seriously” suicide every year, and at least one tries to commit suicide every 45 seconds.
